This is going to be a very important week for all Wii and Nintendo DS owners, as Konami has announced the release of 5 new games for these platforms, Wing Island and Kororinpa: Marble Mania for the Wii and Lost in Blue 2, Steel Horizon and Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2007 for Nintendo DS.

In Wing Island, the first flying action game on the Wii, you’ll play as Junior, a teenager pilot, fly around Shell Island and take jobs to keep family business running.




Kororinpa: Marble Mania is a puzzle game that allows players to rotate and tilt the Wii remote to roll through a maze and reach there goal.




In Lost in Blue 2 you’ll play as Jack and Amy, two teenagers struggling to survive on a deserted island after their ship went down at sea.





Steel Horizon is both a turn based strategy and a real time strategy game in wich players take control of a naval armada complete with battleships, submarines, airplanes and artillery. As an American captain you’ll fight against the Axis in 20 missions set in the Atlantic and in the Pacific.




Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship makes it’s debut on the Nintendo DS, and gives players the chance to duel worldwide thanks to Nintendo’s WI-FI connection. The game includes 1600 cards and even more will be available for download.

This should keep you busy for a while.

It seems the World of Warcraft franchise is just unstoppable and the public can’t get enough of it. At least that’s what NPD’s latest PC sales chart says.

As it turns out the online RPG came in first place while it’s expansion pack, “The Burning Crusade” came in second. What’s even more amazing is that the Warcraft franchise sold more copies than the next five runners up put together.


The Sim’s 2 expansion pack came in third place with over 50.000 sold copies, while Supreme Commander the successful RTS from Gas Powered Games took fourth place with over 40.000 sold copies in the first eight days.

Sony Computer Entertainment announced that it has joined Stanford University in it’s quest to find the cure of diseases like Parkinson’s, Alhzimer’s, cystic fibrosis and many cancers.

The PlayStation 3 will be able to connect to Stanford’s Folding@Home program, a computer project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding and related diseases. The pocess of protein folding is very complex and computer simulations are needed to study the process, but to simulate this process on a single computer could take up to 30 years, so a computer network is needed to shorten this activity . And since the PlayStation 3 Cell processor is about 10 times faster than a standard PC processor, the researchers could speed things up even more.

With the latest software updates PlayStation 3 users will be able to join the program by clicking the Folding@Home icon or set the application to run automatically while the machine is idle

Sony Computer Entertainment also declared that this is only the beginning as they intend to support other academic fields such as social sciences and environmental studies.