Oh hey, one of those giant Nintendo Release lists.

Xenogears of Bore

From XoB no less. Who'd a thunk?

Wii (major stuff)

March 25: Okami from Capcom -- Reconfirmed for March. Now, can we get some screenshots or something?
March: HEAVENLY GUARDIAN from UFO INTERACTIVE GAMES -- Yay, Kiki Kai World lives.
Spring: Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel from Nintendo -- Still no final date, but reconfirmed for Spring.
Summer: Active Life: Outdoor Challenge from Namco Bandai Games America Inc. -- Yes, it's the rebirth of the Power Pad.
Q2: Wii Fit from Nintendo -- Finally gets some kind of nailed-down release window.

Nintendo DS (major stuff)

Feb. 10 (street date): Professor Layton and the Curious Village from Nintendo/LEVEL-5 -- What's that note about "street date" there for? That's not on any other game. So they're actually releasing this on a Sunday? Interesting.
Feb. 12: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney from Capcom -- Then, just two days later...
Feb. 26: Bubble Bobble Double Shot from Ignition Entertainment -- Oh?
May 5: Crosswords DS from Nintendo -- Hm.
Q2: Bangai-O Spirits from D3 Publisher of America -- OH SHIT KIDS
Q2: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time from Nintendo
Q2: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness from Nintendo -- Let me show you them

Okay, now on to the full lists. Deep breath:

Wii

Jan. 7: Kidz Sports Ice Hockey from Destineer
Jan. 8: Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law from Capcom
Jan. 15: SAMURAI WARRIORS: KATANA from KOEI CORPORATION
Jan. 15: Furu Furu Park from Majesco Entertainment
Jan. 21: Endless Ocean from Nintendo
Jan. 22: One Piece: Unlimited Adventure from Namco Bandai Games America Inc.
Jan. 29: Bomberman Land from Hudson
January: No More Heroes from Ubisoft
January: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Hard Evidence from Ubisoft
Feb. 8: Kawasaki Jet Ski from Destineer
Feb. 11: Go Diego Go!: Safari Rescue from 2K Play
Feb. 12: WWII Aces from Destineer
Feb. 12: Dream Pinball 3D from SouthPeak Games
Feb. 18: MX vs. ATV Untamed from THQ
Feb. 25: Agatha Christie And Then There Were None from DreamCatcher Games
Feb. 26: Baroque from Atlus USA
Feb. 26: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors from Square Enix
Feb. 27: Kidz Sports Soccer from Destineer
Feb. 27: London Taxi: Rush Hour from Destineer
February: Garfield Gets Real from DSI Games
February: Yamaha Supercross from DSI Games
February: Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore from Konami
February: Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 from Ubisoft
February: BALLOON POP from UFO INTERACTIVE GAMES
March 3: Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed from THQ
March 9: Super Smash Bros. Brawl from Nintendo
March 10: Worms: A Space Oddity from THQ
March 25: Okami from Capcom
March 25: OPOONA from KOEI CORPORATION
March: MiniCopter: Adventure Flight from Aksys Games
March: Alone in the Dark from Atari
March: Ninja Reflex from Electronic Arts
March: Obscure: The Aftermath from Ignition Entertainment
March: Target: Terror from Konami
March: Nitro Bike from Ubisoft
March: Emergency Heroes from Ubisoft
March: HEAVENLY GUARDIAN from UFO INTERACTIVE GAMES
March: Rebel Raiders from XS Games
April 15: Castle of Shikigami III from Aksys Games
April: Pro Evolution Soccer from Konami
April: Wild Earth: African Safari from Majesco Entertainment
April: THE MONKEY KING-THE LEGEND BEGINS from UFO INTERACTIVE GAMES
April: Super Pick Ups from XS Games
May 6: Speed Racer from Warner Bros. Games
May 13: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian from Disney Interactive Studios
May: BlastWorks: Build, Trade, Destroy from Majesco Entertainment
May: King of Fighters: The Orochi Saga from SNK Playmore
May: THE DOG Island from Ubisoft
June 8: Wonderworld Amusement Park from Majesco Entertainment
June: Catch of the Day from Electronic Arts
June: Ford Racing Off Road from Empire Interactive
June: Cooking Mama Cook Off 2 from Majesco Entertainment
June: Rygar: The Battle of Argus from Tecmo, Inc.
June: DeBlob from THQ
June: Wall-E from THQ
Spring: Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel from Nintendo
Spring: Major League Baseball 2K8 from 2K Sports
Spring: Don King Presents: Prizefighter from 2K Sports
Spring: Top Spin 3 from 2K Sports
Spring: Kung Fu Panda from Activision
Spring: LEGO: Indiana Jones from LucasArts
Summer: Deca Sports from Hudson
Summer: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed from LucasArts
Summer: Active Life: Outdoor Challenge from Namco Bandai Games America Inc.
Q2: Wii Fit from Nintendo

Nintendo DS

Jan. 21: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin from Nintendo/Intelligent Systems
Jan. 21: Mazes of Fate DS from Graffiti Entertainment, LLC
Jan. 22: Mega Brain Boost from Majesco Entertainment
Jan. 24: Aquarium by DS from Bold Games
Jan. 24: Fantasy Aquarium by DS from Bold Games
Jan. 29: Pet Pals: Animal Doctor from Majesco Entertainment
January: N+ from Atari
January: Barnyard Blast from DSI Games
January: Command & Destroy from DSI Games
January: Miami Nights: Singles in the City from Ubisoft
January: Brain Challenge from Ubisoft
Feb. 4: Paws & Claws: Pet Resort from THQ
Feb. 5: Homie Rollerz from Destineer
Feb. 5: Nanostray 2 from Majesco Entertainment
Feb. 10 (street date): Professor Layton and the Curious Village from Nintendo/LEVEL-5
Feb. 12: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney from Capcom
Feb. 12: New Zealand Story Revolution from Ignition Entertainment
Feb. 12: Dream Pinball 3D from SouthPeak Games
Feb. 19: Spitfire Heroes: Tales of the RAF from Destineer
Feb. 19: Zoo Tycoon II from THQ
Feb. 25: Bratz: Super Babyz from THQ
Feb. 26: Bubble Bobble Double Shot from Ignition Entertainment
February: My Horse and Me from Atari
February: M&M'S Kart Racing from DSI Games
February: Garfield Gets Real from DSI Games
February: Yamaha Supercross from DSI Games
February: Insecticide from Gamecock Media Group
February: Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery from Ubisoft
February: Assassin's Creed Altair's Chronicles from Ubisoft
February: Petz Wild Animals: Tigerz from Ubisoft
February: Puppy Palace from Ubisoft
February: Real Soccer 2008 from Ubisoft
March 1: Project Exile from Graffiti Entertainment, LLC
March 3: Let's Ride: Friends Forever from THQ
March 4: Diary Girl from Konami
March 4: Go Pets from Konami
March 4: Disney Friends from Disney Interactive Studios
March 4: Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest from Majesco Entertainment
March 8: Plushees from Destineer
March 8: River King: Mystic Valley from Natsume Inc.
March 8: Harvest Moon DS Cute from Natsume Inc.
March 11: FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: Rings of Fate from Square Enix
March 11: Lost in Blue 3 from Konami
March 11: Pro Evolution Soccer from Konami
March 25: Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword from Tecmo, Inc.
March: Alone in the Dark from Atari
March: Drone Tactics from Atlus USA
March: Double Sequence from DSI Games
March: Ninja Reflex from Electronic Arts
March: Myst from Empire Interactive
March: Naruto: Ninja Destiny from Tomy Corporation
March: Petz Bunnyz from Ubisoft
March: Imagine Figure Skater from Ubisoft
March: Commando from XS Games
April 15: Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys from Ignition Entertainment
April: Super Dodgeball Brawlers from Aksys Games
April: Rondo of Swords from Atlus USA
April: Quick Yoga Training from Ubisoft
May 5: Crosswords DS from Nintendo
May 6: Speed Racer from Warner Bros. Games
May 8: Organize It from Summitsoft Corporation
May 13: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian from Disney Interactive Studios
May: Winx Club: Mission Enchantix from Konami
May: Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles from Aksys Games
May: Garfield Fun Fest from DSI Games
May: 1 vs. 100 from DSI Games
June 8: Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness from Natsume Inc.
June: Shining Stars from DSI Games
June: Catch of the Day from Electronic Arts
June: PipeMania from Empire Interactive
June: Wall-E from THQ
Spring: Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution from 2K Games
Spring: Don King Presents: Prizefighter from 2K Sports
Spring: Top Spin 3 from 2K Sports
Spring: Kung Fu Panda from Activision
Spring: LEGO: Indiana Jones from LucasArts
Spring: The World Ends with You from Square Enix
Summer: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed from LucasArts
Summer: Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 from Namco Bandai Games America Inc.
Q2: Bangai-O Spirits from D3 Publisher of America
Q2: PREY THE STARS from KOEI CORPORATION
Q2: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time from Nintendo
Q2: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness from Nintendo

Got it from those guys over at Wired GameLife.

Mullitt The Wise

Okami and Mario Kart excite me. Looks like the next few months will be pretty good for Wii.
And a new Garfield game comes out in February, so something for hardcore gamers too.

NailbunnyPD

Okami screenshots? O_o How much do you think it will change from the original?

Darlan

Hmm...not anything that looks must get to me, looking forward to the release list for the second half of '08. Brawl might happen if reviews convince me the core gameplay is much better than Melee.

bobmyknob

How is Smash Bros. not a major one?

BTP

Feb. 5: Nanostray 2 from Majesco Entertainment

What the hell? I've been bugging EB Games about this for a the last little while and everything's been pointing to......today actually. I may have to call them again.

And where the hell is the Williams Pinball Collection for Wii? I'm sure it's an incomplete list, but there's two other pinball games listed up there.

AbsoluteZero

Why are some of the games in all caps? Are any of these Wii Ware games?

Magic Pink

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Q2: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time from Nintendo
Q2: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness from Nintendo

YES YES YES

My god these games suck and MY GOD DO I LOVE THEM.

Legacy

Bangai-O Spirits is actually getting a release here?

Fucking sweet.

Woodroez

So the next Worms game is stealing the subtitle from a post-Naked Gun Leslie Nielson movie.

I don't think I'll be pre-ordering that.

NickTheNewbie

advance waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars

Xagarath

bobmyknob wrote: »

How is No More Heroes not a major one?

METAzraeL

bobmyknob wrote: »

How is Smash Bros. not a major one?

yes, the list of major games is somewhat odd.

hadn't heard about it til seeing this list, but Baroque looks like it might an interesting offering from Atlus.

argh, even though it's not online I know I'm gonna end up getting FF:CC for the ds. It better be as cool as the gc one.

Raiden333

Lack of pilotwings makes me cry.

Woodroez

METAzraeL wrote: »

bobmyknob wrote: »

How is Smash Bros. not a major one?

yes, the list of major games is somewhat odd.

hadn't heard about it til seeing this list, but Baroque looks like it might an interesting offering from Atlus.

argh, even though it's not online I know I'm gonna end up getting FF:CC for the ds. It better be as cool as the gc one.

It's such a shameless PSO ripoff, it blows my mind. That said, I'm considering getting it.

Actually, I'm probably getting Ring of Fates too...let's be friends, meta.

h8b1llg8ts

Where is Animal Crossing Wii???

Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?

Anyone?

Henroid

March 8: Harvest Moon DS Cute from Natsume Inc.

Yay

slash000

I'm excited:

January: No More Heroes from Ubisoft
March 9: Super Smash Bros. Brawl from Nintendo
March 25: Okami from Capcom
April 15: Castle of Shikigami III from Aksys Games
May: King of Fighters: The Orochi Saga from SNK Playmore
Spring: Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel from Nintendo

Feb. 5: Nanostray 2 from Majesco Entertainment
February: Assassin's Creed Altair's Chronicles from Ubisoft
March 25: Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword from Tecmo, Inc.
Q2: Bangai-O Spirits from D3 Publisher of America



For those in particular. Yeah there are some other good things coming out, of course, but those are my definite picks.


Also, Orochi Saga for the fucking win. Even though it's KOF 95, 96, and 97. It'll compliment my recent KOF'94 VC purchase quite nicely.

JihadJesus

Wii games I'll try to play at some point:

Okami
No More Heroes
Baroque
OPOONA
DeBlob

Wii games I'd buy for $15 but won't hit that price until their sequels come out in 2014:

Mario Kart
Smash Bros

Sorenson

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Feb. 25: Agatha Christie And Then There Were None from DreamCatcher Games

O_o

First Alvin and the fucking Chipmunks, and now this. Are we supposed to be due for a series of wierd-ass franchise revivals or something?

Couscous

Sorenson wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Feb. 25: Agatha Christie And Then There Were None from DreamCatcher Games

O_o

First Alvin and the fucking Chipmunks, and now this. Are we supposed to be due for a series of wierd-ass franchise revivals or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie:_And_Then_There_Were_None
It is apparently a port of a year old PC game.

Lunker

Hmmm...

Wii:
Feb. 26: (DRAGON QUEST SWORDS) The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors from Square Enix
March 25: Okami from Capcom
Spring: Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel from Nintendo
Q2: Wii Fit from Nintendo

Nintendo DS:
Jan. 21: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin from Nintendo/Intelligent Systems
January: N+ from Atari
Feb. 5: Nanostray 2 from Majesco Entertainment
Feb. 10 (street date): Professor Layton and the Curious Village from Nintendo/LEVEL-5
Feb. 12: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney from Capcom
March 25: Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword from Tecmo, Inc.
Q2: Bangai-O Spirits from D3 Publisher of America

Were the only real things to catch my eye as things I might buy, though I'll be keeping my eye on Shikigami/Blast Works for my next shmup fix and Nitro Bike as a possible "online ExciteTruck" endeavor. Of course, money is in a ridiculously tight, so what I'll actually end up getting is only either DQ Swords or Ninja Gaiden DS.

KVW

Mario Kart will come out in September at the earliest. Anyone thinking otherwise is only fooling themselves. Okami would be wise to delay or push up the release. It's going to get looked over coming so soon after Smash Bros.

LewieP

Word on the street (Nintendo Power) is that Nitro Bike is trash.

Edit: Sadly.

Woodroez

Don King Presents: Prizefighter from 2K Sports

Interesting, especially now that the Fight Night team's been broken up. Having Don King attached to it doesn't particularly excite me. In fact, I don't like it at all. We'll see though.

JihadJesus

Woodroez wrote: »

Don King Presents: Prizefighter from 2K Sports

Interesting, especially now that the Fight Night team's been broken up. Having Don King attached to it doesn't particularly excite me. In fact, I don't like it at all. We'll see though.

Depends - do I get to whale on Don King? Because that'd make it worth playing at least once.

Chen

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Jan. 21: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin from Nintendo/Intelligent Systems

This.

Dr Mario Kart

Mario Kart doesnt need to be in Spring. With Smash being pushed back into March, Mario Kart could safely fill the void later in the year, especially with systems still being short. Launch it near a new Nintendogs in a DS style one-two punch.

Or maybe I'm just paranoid about what the Q3-4 situation looks like.

GimeC

Dr Mario Kart wrote: »

Mario Kart doesnt need to be in Spring. With Smash being pushed back into March, Mario Kart could safely fill the void later in the year, especially with systems still being short. Launch it near a new Nintendogs in a DS style one-two punch.

Or maybe I'm just paranoid about what the Q3-4 situation looks like.

Eh. I'm sure that there's some aces up the sleeve when press conference season rolls around. Nintendo may have had a big 2007-early 2008, but I'll tell you that third parties more than likely looked at the monster sales this past year and started up some projects for next holiday season.

Coincidentally, calling it early (though I'm not claiming insider info or anything): Star Fox and Animal Crossing Wii announced/shown this year, and one of them's released in the holidays.

Rami

I've still yet to see European release dates for Fire Emblem RD and Advance Wars.

This makes me sad, but mostly angry. Very angry.

LewieP

you should import Advance Wars.

Chen

Erm, Advance Wars: Dark Conflict is getting released on the 25th in Europe, 2 to 3 days after Days of Ruin.

LewieP

Wow, we get our own game.

Rami

I am 1/4 less angry now, because I was mostly angry about FE.

Chen

LewieP wrote: »

Wow, we get our own game.

Complete with your very own COs and units, like Ed and O'Brian and the bazooka and the interceptor!

Ergandar

PW4 is in fact, not to be released on feb 12th

from www.court-records.net Capcom speaks, and says that Apollo Justice is being released February 19th. So it's not the 12th after all. Sad, but it's only a week difference.

jeddy lee

What the hell is "the world ends with you" from Square?

Jragghen

Definitely purchasing:

January: No More Heroes from Ubisoft
March 9: Super Smash Bros. Brawl from Nintendo
Spring: Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel from Nintendo (eventually, not at launch)
Jan. 21: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin from Nintendo/Intelligent Systems
Feb. 12: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney from Capcom

Keeping an eye on:

Jan. 22: One Piece: Unlimited Adventure from Namco Bandai Games America Inc.
Feb. 26: Baroque from Atlus USA
Feb. 26: Bubble Bobble Double Shot from Ignition Entertainment
March 11: FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: Rings of Fate from Square Enix
March 11: Lost in Blue 3 from Konami (going to have to have something to really set it apart from the last two)

Seems pretty front-loaded to me.

Jragghen

jack eddy wrote: »

What the hell is "the world ends with you" from Square?

Huh. I forgot about that one. Hadn't heard anything from when it was announced. Remember it having some interesting art or something.

Wiki page

Malkor

Feb. 26: Bubble Bobble Double Shot from Ignition Entertainment -- Oh?

I wish so hard for this to be more than what I expect it will be.

MinionOfCthulhu

Wow, I remember reading about Baroque coming out for the PSX on the Gaming Intelligence Agency. Is this a remake of it? Or, well, re-remake. Or whatever.