Advance Wars comes to the Nintendo DS! The popular action platformer now expands the battlefront to two screens, making tactical mayhem double the fun. Command air forces above on one screen, engaging in dogfights and leading air strikes, while you fight stunning battles on the ground with the touch screen below. Engage in full-on warfare with the new Survival and Combat modes. Take on the computer or play against your friends using DS' wireless connectivity.
The world awaits its next great ruler. Are you the one? Select one of five peoples - the Britons, Franks, Japanese, Saracens, or Mongols - and guide your civilization from the Dark Ages to the Middle Ages. Your objective? World domination. For the first time in the Age of Empires series, the game uses turn-based strategy. Go at your own pace as you decide how to vanquish your enemy with the 45-plus types of available military units. Gain an advantage by researching over 50 new technologies and making improvements to your cities and towns. A new Combat Advisor offers advice, while wireless play offers battle against up to four foes.
It's time to get your right brain in shape! Based on Makoto Shichida's Right Brain Development Theory, Beta Wave will test your beta waves - most often associated with active concentration and busy thinking. Try out five different kinds of challenges, including Find the Match, Shape Recognition, and Remember Sequence. Each game type has four levels with 20 problems apiece, so there's plenty of exercise to go around. Progress through the training and challenge levels and track your right brain development throughout the game. Score points for correct answers and earn bonus points for time remaining on the clock.
It's time to get your right brain in shape! Based on Makoto Shichida's Right Brain Development Theory, Gamma Wave will test your gamma waves - most often associated with perception and problem-solving. Try out four different kinds of challenges, including Colors, Numbers, Circumstances, and Faces and Images. Each game type has four levels with 20 problems each, so there's plenty of exercise to go around. Progress through the training and challenge levels and track your right brain development throughout the game. Score points for correct answers and earn bonus points for time remaining on the clock.
When it comes to kitchen creativity, here's your chance to take the cake! A culinary crisis becomes a recipe for success in this game that serves up a series of baking-business challenges. Once only a tasty online treat, Cake Mania is new to the Nintendo DS. As the proprietor of Evans Bakery, you'll take orders, bake and decorate cakes, then collect your hard-earned cash in 80 fast-paced baking-based levels. Use your money to improve your kitchen with new ovens, cake decorations, and frosting machines. You'll bake in five exotic locations, serve special seasonal cakes to Santa and Cupid, and more.
These cats are looking for a new friend! Can you help? Adopt and raise your own kitten on your Nintendo DS. Select the pick of the litter from different breeds. Take care of your furry new friend with regular feeding and grooming and hear her purr with contentment. Complete daily tasks and play mini-games. Show your affection by picking up treats, toys, and other accessories from the store. Give your kitty a costume, take some pretty pictures, and enter her into beauty pageants. You can share pictures of your Catz with friends online. When you're done making kitty look pretty, dress up the house by decorating it together.
The Nintendo DS brings yet another innovation, taking video games out of the living room...and into the kitchen! Cooking Mama lets you learn how to cook using your Nintendo DS. As a budding chef, you'll prepare foods and combine ingredients, following actual recipes and creating your own. Master 15 initial recipes to unlock 61 more. Choices include essentials and mouth-watering favorites, from fried eggs to cabbage meat rolls. The stylus will be your do-it-all kitchen tool. In over 200 mini-games, it slices, dices, chops, mashes, mixes, carves, and more! And before you serve your masterpiece, don't forget to cool it down by blowing into the DS microphone!
Make a new best friend and take him everywhere you go with Dogz for Nintendo DS. Pick your favorite out of 49 dogs from 18 of the most popular breeds, then name, raise, and train a pet of your very own. Spend time together in an interactive environment. Play in the house or explore the neighborhood and meet up with neighbors and, of course, their pets! Forge a bond with your puppy by feeding it, grooming it, teaching it tricks, and giving it rewards when it behaves. You can also send your pooch to a friends' DS in Visiting Mode, play mini-games, and more.
Create your own undersea symphony with this innovative experience based on the striking style of Japanese multimedia artist Toshio Iwai. Electroplankton is not so much a game. It's an interactive meld of art and music, and you're in complete control. You'll learn how to use ten different species of Electroplankton, micro-sized creatures capable of producing big music and bigger fun! Each type of Electroplankton, such as Marine-Snow, has distinct musical capabilities. Interact with the Electroplankton, in unique environments for each type, using the DS stylus. Tap Electroplankton on different parts of the screen to produce different sounds, then swirl them all together into a flying flurry of sight and sound!
Feel the magic of the Nintendo DS handheld with Sega's launch title for the system. Our hero meets the girl of his dreams one sunny day and falls head over heels for her. The rest of the game is spent completing a variety of mini-game challenges through the story mode, all in hopes of winning a date, then fighting off a rival that casts a shadow over your new love. Mini-games take full advantage of the DS' new hardware options: You will use the touch screen, microphone voice commands, stylus, and even your breath to win your true love's hand. FTM's stylized look and feel, great sound, and original gameplay elements impressively showcase the magic of Nintendo's hot new handheld.
Take the magic of Las Vegas anywhere with Golden Nugget Casino for Nintendo DS. Start with a $5,000 nest egg and hit the tables! Get lucky and turn your seed money into a small fortune in a full range of casino games, including Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, Caribbean Stud Poker, and The Big Six Wheel. Virtual options abound on the casino floor, including Video Blackjack, eight slot machines with varying themes, paylines, and amounts of reels. Play Video Poker games including traditional Jacks or Better, Multi-Hand, and Bonus Poker with Wild Cards. Share a table with friends via the four-player wireless hookup.
Help a furry friend grow up and live the good life in Hamsterz Life. Adopt your favorite hamster from five different breeds. Raise and train your new pet and watch it create a hamster world that goes well beyond the usual wood chips and cardboard tubes! Your hamster will create its own "Ham-Country," complete with schools, shops, playgrounds, and other goodies that will entice other hamsters to move there. But how good Ham-Country turns out depends on you. Raise your hamster well and he'll turn out bigger and have more energy, allowing him to create the best possible world. Buy additional toys for your pet with rewards earned in mini-games.