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.
