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 an exclusively compiled list.
This week that brings
The Beatles: Rock Band to North America and Europe, while Japan gets
Pocket Monsters HeartGold and
SoulSilver.
The following list covers all of the game software we know to be available -- across all platforms and regions -- for the week ending September 12th, 2009.
Games Released in the United States:
Nintendo Wii:
- Arcade Zone
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- ColorZ (online)
- DIRT 2
- Go Play: City Sports
- Jump Start: Pet Rescue
Xbox 360:
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- Capcom Platinum Hits Triple Pack
- Darkest of Days
- DIRT 2
- Qubed
- Sonic & Knuckles (online)
PlayStation 3:
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- DIRT 2
- LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition
Nintendo DS:
- Ant Nation
- DIRT 2
- Imagine: Detective
- IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
- My Virtual Tutor Reading: Pre K - K
- My Virtual Tutor Reading: K - 1st
- My Virtual Tutor Reading: 1st - 2nd
PlayStation Portable:
- DIRT 2
- Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days
- IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
PC:
- Darkest of Days
- Fallen Earth: Welcome to Apocalypse
- Time of Shadows
- War Leaders: Clash of Nations
- Women's Murder Club: Twice in a Blue Moon
Harmonix's Beatles-themed band simulation title
The Beatles: Rock Band is set to hit the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii in North America this week.
Other standout debuts include Codemasters' rally racing sequel
DIRT 2, the Q Entertainment compilation
Qubed, and a PSP port for NIS America's strategy-RPG
Disgaea 2.
Games Released in Europe:
Nintendo Wii:
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Colin McRae: DIRT 2
- Guitar Hero 5
- Love is...in Bloom
- Mary King's Riding School 2
- Mini Ninjas
Xbox 360:
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Colin McRae: DIRT 2
- Guitar Hero 5
- Mini Ninjas
- Section 8
PlayStation 3:
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Colin McRae: DIRT 2
- Guitar Hero 5
- Mini Ninjas
PlayStation 2:
- Guitar Hero 5
Nintendo DS:
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Colin McRae: DIRT 2
- Diva Girls: Princess on Ice 2
- Jacqueline Wilson's Tracy Beaker: The Game
- Mean Girls
- Mini Ninjas
- My Beauty Salon
PlayStation Portable:
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Colin McRae: DIRT 2
PC:
- Championship Manager 2010
- Dawn of Magic 2
- Mini Ninjas
- Section 8
The Beatles: Rock Band will see a simultaneous release in Europe this week, where it will arrive alongside a debuting
Guitar Hero 5.
Gamers in the UK will also see the worldwide multiplatform premiere of the film tie-in title
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, along with other region-exclusive titles like
Championship Manager 2010 and
Mean Girls.
Games Released in Japan:
PlayStation 3:
- Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
Nintendo DS:
- Arabians Lost
- Pocket Monsters HeartGold
- Pocket Monsters SoulSilver
PlayStation Portable:
- Maplus: Portable Navi 3
It's a quiet week in Japan, with the PlayStation 3 version of
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution amounting to the region's sole console release for the week.
Portable platforms see significantly more action, with the Nintendo DS hosting a pair of new
Pokemon releases.
Pocket Monsters HeartGold and
SoulSilver are remakes of
Pokemon Gold and
Silver, both of which originally debuted for the Game Boy Color platform in 2000.
The Nintendo DS will additionally receive a port of Prototype's visual novel
Arabians Lost this week, while PSP owners get the GPS navigation software
Maplus: Portable Navi 3.
