Gamasutra's regular round-up of worldwide video game releases, "Release This!", takes a look at every game title we know to be shipping to stores this week, in a custom compiled list.
This week brings
Fight Night Champion and
Beyond Good & Evil HD stateside, while the UK receives
Pokemon Black and
White.
The following list covers all of the game software we know to be available -- across all platforms and regions -- for the week ending March 5th, 2011.
Games Released in the United States:
Nintendo Wii:
- Bit.Trip Flux (online)
- Chuck E. Cheese's Sports Games
- Rango: The Video Game
Xbox 360:
- Beyond Good & Evil HD (online)
- Fight Night Champion
- Rango: The Video Game
PlayStation 3:
- Fight Night Champion
- Rango: The Video Game
Nintendo DS:
- Busy Scissors
- Mahjong Journey: Quest for Tikal
- Minute to Win It
- Puzzle Expedition
- Rango: The Video Game
PC:
- Fate of the World (online)
- The Flying Dutchman
- Perfect World International: Genesis
- Rift
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution
EA's gritty
Fight Night series sequel
Fight Night Champion premieres on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America this week, joining the multiplatform animated film tie-in title
Rango.
A remake of Ubisoft's
Beyond Good & Evil headlines downloadable offerings on the Xbox 360, while Wii owners will soon see the final entry in Gaijin's
Bit.Trip rhythm-action series.
Games Released in Europe:
Nintendo Wii:
- Bit.Trip Flux (online)
- uDraw Pictionary
- uDraw Studio
Xbox 360:
- Beyond Good & Evil HD (online)
- Fight Night Champion
PlayStation 3:
- Fight Night Champion
- Hyperdimension Neptunia
Nintendo DS:
- Hidden Photo
- Hollywood Files: Deadly Intrigues
- Lost Identities
- Pokemon Black Version
- Pokemon White Version
PC:
- Rift
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution
Nintendo's latest
Pokemon series sequels
Pokemon Black Version and
Pokemon White Version make an early English-language debut in the UK this week, arriving two days in advance of their scheduled stateside release date.
Games Released in Japan:
Xbox 360:
- Fight Night Champion
PlayStation 3:
- Fight Night Champion
- Samurai Dou 4
Nintendo 3DS:
- Shanghai 3D Cube
- Super Monkey Ball 3D
Nintendo DS:
- Digimon Story: Super Xros Wars Blue
- Digimon Story: Super Xros Wars Red
- Tobidase! Kagaku-kun Chikyuu Daitanken! Nazo no Chinkai Seibutsu ni Idome!
PlayStation Portable:
- Dissidia 012: Duodecim Final Fantasy
- Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto - Ginga Bishounen Densetsu
The Nintendo 3DS's second week on the market brings the release of Sunsoft's tile-matching puzzler
Shanghai 3D Cube and a 3D-enhanced entry in Sega's
Super Monkey Ball franchise.
PlayStation 3 owners can expect to see
Samurai Dou 4 (Way of the Samurai 4), meanwhile, as Square Enix readies its
Dissidia Final Fantasy sequel
Dissidia 012: Duodecim Final Fantasy for the PSP.
