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
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and
Major League Baseball 2K10 to the United States, while Japan gets
Pokemon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki.
The following list covers all of the game software we know to be available -- across all platforms and regions -- for the week ending March 6th, 2010.
Games Released in the United States:
Nintendo Wii:
- Alice in Wonderland
- Build-a-Bear Workshop: Friendship Valley
- City Builder
- Major League Baseball 2K10
- Mega Man 10 (online)
- SpongeBob's Boating Bash
Xbox 360:
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Lips Party Classics
- Major League Baseball 2K10
- Toy Soldiers (online)
PlayStation 3:
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Major League Baseball 2K10
- MLB 10
PlayStation 2:
- Major League Baseball 2K10
- MLB 10
Nintendo DS:
- 50 Classic Games
- Alice in Wonderland
- Battle of Giants: Mutant Insects
- Build-a-Bear Workshop: Welcome to Hugsville
- Crazy Garage
- Deca Sports DS
- Major League Baseball 2K10
- Party Designer
- Sonic Classic Collection
- SpongeBob's Boating Bash
- VT Tennis (DSiWare)
PlayStation Portable:
- Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
- Major League Baseball 2K10
- MLB 10
PC:
- Alganon
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Clover: A Curious Tale (online)
- Major League Baseball 2K10
- N.E.O. Online
- Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic
- Supreme Commander 2
The latest entries in Sony's and 2K's baseball sim franchises will debut across multiple platforms in North America this week, arriving alongside EA DICE's FPS sequel
Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
Platform-exclusive releases for this week include Capcom's retro-styled WiiWare title
Mega Man 10, Microsoft's karaoke expansion disc
Lips: Party Classics, and a PSP remake of the classic Sega CD RPG
Lunar: The Silver Star.
Games Released in Europe:
Nintendo Wii:
- Alice in Wonderland
- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Xbox 360:
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Way of the Samurai 3
PlayStation 3:
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Way of the Samurai 3
PlayStation 2:
- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Nintendo DS:
- Alice in Wonderland
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Imagine: Journalist
- Mind, Body & Soul: Spellbound 2
- Picross 3D
PlayStation Portable:
- Rugby League Challenge
- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
PC:
- Assassin's Creed II
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Sacred 2: Gold Edition
- Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic
- Supreme Commander 2
The UK receives a localized version of Nintendo's DS puzzler
Picross 3D this week, with the title arriving two months in advance of its scheduled U.S. release date. Europe will also get a PC version of Ubisoft's
Assassin's Creed II, along with Konami's multiplatform survival horror title
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
Games Released in Japan:
Xbox 360:
- BioShock 2
- Nobunaga no Yabou Tendou
PlayStation 3:
- BioShock 2
- Nobunaga no Yabou Tendou
Nintendo DS:
- Keroro RPG: Kishi to Musha to Densetsu no Kaizoku
- Pokemon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki
PlayStation Portable:
- .hack//LINK
- Armored Core: Last Raven Portable
- The Eye of Judgment: Shintaku no Wizard
- Tegami Bachi: Kokoro Tsumugu Mono e
BioShock 2 gets a Japanese release this week on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Both platforms will also receive a new entry in Koei's long-running
Nobunaga's Ambition franchise in the coming days.
Nintendo DS owners in Japan can look forward to another entry in Nintendo's
Pokemon Ranger series this week, while the PSP hosts a
.hack sequel and a port of From Software's mech combat title
Armored Core: Last Raven.
