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
Puzzle Quest 2 to the Nintendo DS in North America, as the UK gets an early look at
Lego Harry Potter.
The following list covers all of the game software we know to be available -- across all platforms and regions -- for the week ending June 26th, 2010.
Games Released in the United States:
Nintendo Wii:
- 10 Minute Solutions
- Calvin Tucker's Redneck Racing
- Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans
- The Tales of Bearsworth Manor: Chaotic Conflicts (online)
- The Tales of Bearsworth Manor: Puzzling Pages (online)
- Transformers: Cybertron Adventures
- Wipeout: The Game
Xbox 360:
- Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (online)
- Field and Stream: Total Outdoorsman Challenge
- Puzzle Quest 2 (online)
- Risk: Factions (online)
- Transformers: War For Cybertron
PlayStation 3:
- Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain! (online)
- Transformers: War For Cybertron
Nintendo DS:
- Art of Murder: FBI Top Secret
- Discovery Kids: Snake Safari
- Dragon Ball: Origins 2
- Farmtopia
- Just Sing!
- Mean Girls
- My First Dollhouse
- Puzzle Quest 2
- thinkSMART
- Transformers: War For Cybertron - Autobots
- Transformers: War For Cybertron - Decepticons
- Wipeout: The Game
PlayStation Portable:
- TNA Impact! Cross the Line
PC:
- 15 Days
- Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans
- Legendary Wars: T-Rex Rumble (online)
- Need for Speed World (online)
- Puzzle Dimension (online)
- Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain! (online)
- Transformers: War For Cybertron
D3's
Puzzle Quest 2 headlines this week's Nintendo DS offerings in North America. A new
Transformers sequel is set to hit a majority of platforms, as the PS3 and PC get a new chapter of Telltale's
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Games Released in Europe:
Nintendo Wii:
- Ballerina
- Daisy Fuentes Pilates
- International Athletics
- Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Transformers: Cybertron Adventures
Xbox 360:
- Backbreaker
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Naughty Bear
- Singularity
- Transformers: War For Cybertron
PlayStation 3:
- Backbreaker
- Demon's Souls
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Naughty Bear
- Singularity
- Transformers: War For Cybertron
- Trinity Universe
Nintendo DS:
- Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force - Herbert's Revenge
- Dementium 2
- Galaxy Racer
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Mahjong Mysteries: Ancient Egypt
- Sonny with a Chance
- Transformers: War For Cybertron - Autobots
- Transformers: War For Cybertron - Decepticons
PlayStation Portable:
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- TNA Impact! Cross the Line
PC:
- Armada 2526
- Disciples III: Renaissance
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Raven Software's sci-fi FPS
Singularity will make its worldwide debut in the UK this week, as the Xbox 360 and PS3 additionally host the premiere of NaturalMotion's arcade-style football title
Backbreaker.
Gamers in the UK will also get an early look at the multiplatform
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 this week, while PS3 owners get
Demon's Souls and an English-language localization of Gust's strategy-RPG
Trinity Universe.
Games Released in Japan:
Nintendo Wii:
- SD Gundam: Gashapon Wars
Xbox 360:
- Monster Hunter Frontier Online
- Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
- Sengoku Hime 2
PlayStation 3:
- Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
- Totori no Atelier: Arland no Renkinjutsushi 2
- White Album: Tsuzurareru Fuyu no Omoide
PlayStation 2:
- Moujuutsukai to Oujisama
Nintendo DS:
- Ippan Zaidan Houjin: Nippon Kanji Shuujukudo Kentei Kikou Kounen - Tsuutenkaku DS
- Love Plus+
- Maru Goukaku Shikaku Dasshu! Financial Planning Ginou Kentei Shiken 2-Kyuu 3-Kyuu
- Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3rd Story
PlayStation Portable:
- Army of Two: The 40th Day
- Boku no Natsuyasumi Portable 2: Nazo Nazo Shimai to Chinbotsusen no Himitsu
- Chaos;Head Noah
- Clannad: Mitsumi Mamoru Sakamichi de - Gekan
- D.C. Girl's Symphony Pocket
- Daisenryaku Perfect
- The King of Fighters Portable 94-98: Chapter of Orochi
- Narcissus: Moshimo Ashita ga Runara
- Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
- Starry * Sky: In Spring - PSP Edition
- Uta no * Prince-Sama
Capcom's popular Monster Hunter franchise arrives on the Xbox 360 with this week's debut of Monster Hunter Frontier Online. The platform will also host a localization of
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and a port of the PC strategy title
Sengoku Hime 2.
Bandai's
SD Gundam: Gashapon Wars arrives as this week's sole Wii release, as the DS gets Konami's dating sim sequels
Love Plus+ and
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3rd Story.
