Release This: Splinter Cell: Conviction Premieres Stateside

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 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction to North America, as Japan gets No More Heroes: Eiyuutachi no Rakuen. The following list covers all of the game software we know to be available -- across all platforms and regions -- for the week ending April 17th, 2010. Games Released in the United States: Nintendo Wii: - Arcade Shooter: Ilvelo - Military Madness: Nectaris (online) Xbox 360: - Final Fight: Double Impact (online) - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction PlayStation 3: - Final Fight: Double Impact (online) - Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Episode 1: The Penal Zone (online) Nintendo DS: - AlphaBounce (DSi online) - Easy Piano PlayStation Portable: - Blood Bowl PC: - Dark Void Zero (online) - Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Episode 1: The Penal Zone (online) - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction Splinter Cell series protagonist Sam Fisher returns in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, debuting this week on the Xbox 360 and PC platforms. The PlayStation 3 and PCs will receive Grand Theft Auto IV's expansion episodes The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, along with the premiere episode of Telltale's third Sam & Max season. Games Released in Europe: Nintendo Wii: - Rugby League 3 Xbox 360: - Samurai Shodown Sen - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction PlayStation 3: - Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition Nintendo DS: - Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2010 Reverse of Arcadia PC: - Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - Men of War: Red Tide - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction Splinter Cell: Conviction will also premiere in the UK this week, arriving on store shelves alongside a localization of SNK's Xbox 360 fighter Samurai Shodown Sen and the DLC-bundled Game of the Year Edition of LittleBigPlanet. Games Released in Japan: Xbox 360: - No More Heroes: Eiyuutachi no Rakuen PlayStation 3: - No More Heroes: Eiyuutachi no Rakuen PlayStation 2: - Clover no Kuni no Alice Nintendo DS: - Dekitayo Mama! Mitsugo no Kuma-San - Onna no Ko - Dekitayo Mama! Mitsugo no Kuma-San - Otoko no Ko - Let's Science with Marie & Gully - Zero Kara Kantan Chuugokugo DS - Zero Kara Kantan Kankokugo DS PlayStation Portable: - Shogi World Champion: Gekisashi Portable - Sokukoku no Kusabi: Hiiro no Kakera 3 Portable An enhanced version of Grasshopper Manufacture's formerly Wii-exclusive No More Heroes hits the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in Japan this week. PlayStation 2 owners get a port of Prototype's visual novel Clover no Kuni no Alice, as the PSP hosts Shogi World Champion: Gekisashi Portable and Sokukoku no Kusabi: Hiiro no Kakera 3 Portable.