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She'll be another member of Shepard's team

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"It's a week of no new releases charting in Japan, another week for New Super Mario Bros. Wii to dominate the competition with another quarter million plus sold. What other Nintendo games are selling like gangbusters in Japan this week? The rest of the chart that isn't New Super Mario Bros. Wii looks like familiar stuff ; Tomodachi Collection, Final Fantasy XIII, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Wii Fit Plus, et al. On a more replica Rolex 116519-WAL Watch exciting note, it looks like FFXIII will cross the 2 million sold mark in Japan before January ends, New Super Mario Bros. Wii passing 3 million, probably within the next five to ten minutes.And look! It's the return of Animal Crossing DS and Wii Play to the top thirty bestselling games in Japan, according to Media Create! Those are some legs.

"Satisfying the unknown need for a thinking-person's Breakout, Trajectile is (psst) a new DSiWare game from the veterans behind the acclaimed PixelJunk series and a brick-breaking breakthrough. It also might be the best non-golf golf game made in some time.Trajectile is the second DSiWare game from Q-Games, the small Kyoto-based company run by original Star Fox programmer Dylan Cuthbert that has been responsible, in recent years, for the stylish, retro PixelJunk Racer/Monsters/Eden/Shooter on the replica watches gift PlayStation 3 and the way-more-fun-than-it-sounds abstract traffic-directing game, Art Style Digidrive, released for download on the Nintendo DSi in the U.S. last month.

Dave Marshall explains that Redemption

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UDON tackles Tatsunoko VS Capcom! [Udon via Japan Time via Capcom]" "Touch Arcade was lucky enough to spot Assassin's Creed II: Discovery, an iPhoned/iTouched version of last year's DS game of the same name on Apple's app store this week. replica Rolex 116519 Men's Watch Too bad the game was taken down.Discovery stars the same Ezio de Auditore featured in the hit Assassin's Creed II, but focuses on telling a new story through side-scrolling gameplay. Readers told me it involves Christopher Columbus.IGN described Discovery as some sort of mix of Assassin's Creed with Sonic The Hedgehog.

All of this sounds too crazy to miss.The good people at Touch Arcade have some video of the game in action, but they report that the Discovery is no longer on the App store. They note that Ubisoft says the build that was briefly available may have been buggy, incomplete and priced wrong.If you happened to snag it, let us know how it is.I'm replica Rolex 116518-BKDL Men's Watch checking with Ubisoft to find out when the game is slated to be released ; and stay released. (Update: I should have mentioned that this game was supposed to be out alongside its big brothers last November.)