Amazon.com discounted several Nintendo DS games to the best prices ever available for these titles: Discounted games include Collector's Edition Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force ($24), Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon ($10) and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games ($25).

Spring and love and all that garbage are in the air, and with that kicks off a solid batch of games this week. The obvious blockbuster is Street Fighter IV, the fighting game for pretty much everyone, really, then the fabulous RTS Dawn of War II (the RTS even for people who don't play RTS), and two titles from equally reputable RPG series': Dragon Quest V and Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon.

Bon semaine!

"Today, 5th January 2009, is officially the twelfth day of Christmas. Most of you are probably back into your usual daytime routine by now, and are looking for something to entertain you during those long winter nights. The Twelve Games of Christmas is a feature series that has been run on each of the twelve days of Christmas here at Electronic Theatre, looking at the disc-based European releases of 2008, and selecting the best performers of each month. Today is the final instalment, and so it..."

"Find a sacred sword and use it to save a kingdom as Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon heads to NintendoDS. For the first time in the classic Fire Emblem Strategy Role-Playing Game series, there is the option of Multi-Player action over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, adding a whole new dimension of gameplay and strategic planning that can be shared with friends and fans of the series.

Using skill, tactical battle-planning and no small amount of magic, players must embark on a quest to destroy the resu..."

At Nintendo of America's Press Conference being held right now, Nintendo has confirmed that Fire Emblem will see a US release. It will hit North American store shelves in March 2009.

[Nintendo Fall Press Conference 2008 Official Thread]

The official site for Fire Emblem DS has emerged with tons of stuff for you to look at. There are some videos and Masamune Shirowa has done character illustrations. Shirowa is manga artist and has done manga for tons of video games.

Hi folks, Nintendo just let out the big one.

From Ge-maga via IGN, a live-blog of a live-blog of Nintendo's Japanese Fall Press Conference has let loose the megaton.

Here are the notables (Thanks evilmax17 at CAG for list compiling. Thanks!):
Fire Emblem DS
Mario Baseball Wii - Super Mario Stadium Baseball
7,800,000 VC downloads (JPN? Worldwide?)
Pokemon Ranch: Wii Ware, can upload Pokémon from DS to be raised on the Wii.
Dr. Mario: Wii Ware
Nintendo Wii Ware with three screens
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