While developing games, it is incredibly difficult to ensure that the touch screen functionality is utilized well in the game. On top of that, the game has to be engaging; boast of a replay value — a factor which signifies the number of times the game is likely to be played again; provide fun and even thrill sometimes. (more…)

This Game — developed for the DS lite — is based on a popular game show featured on TV and surprisingly, the entire game is based on ‘picking your odds’ and dealing with numbers between 1 to 25. (more…)

Your DS lite features a touch screen and there are few games that really ensure that you use that to your advantage when playing — trauma center: Under the knife is arguably one of the best in this department. The Plot consists of a young surgeon who performs some operations on his patients. Although the operations might be simple in the beginning, they complexity would up-scale with time, so much so that you might want to give up on those levels of profound gaming. (more…)

You heard of the rumors doing the rounds after the chief of Enterbrain, Hirokazy Hamamura made a statement recently about the possibility of a new Nintendo DS lite that is going to be revealed.

However, there was a firm denial from the Nintendo camp about it and has specifically stated that there wouldn’t be any such thing happening. (more…)

Sometimes game developers make games that just don’t fit the bill. It would have been great to declare that Paint for DS lite would have been an amazing addition to the pool of games for DS lite, but somehow, we were not able to place this anywhere.

Totally, clueless as to whom the game targets — the kids? The teenagers? Adults? Surprisingly, It claims to be for teenagers and adults but I don’t think it will fit the bill there. (more…)

There are chances that you might have purchased a DS lite that wasn’t intended for use in your country? What? Did we hear you screaming? You don’t have to panic, but then, the statement still holds its ground. All the units produced have clear demarcations made by the manufacturer or its subsidiaries which states clearly as to where it ought to be sold – be in the European Union or the UK or elsewhere and there is a reason for it. (more…)

Remember the BMW Convertible series? — The actual Automobile series. The thing about it was that the design was like love-it or hate-it types. Diary Girl developed by Konami is like that too — actually, it doesn’t even look like a game. Konami must have done a painstaking analysis on this one before launching the game. It would have thought of what a young girl probably in her teens would be thinking. It looks like a PDA more than a game and reeks of the girly pink color– this might put off some people(who aren’t girls, although girls who don’t like pink aren’t a problem. But do they exist?) (more…)

Magic has always held human imagination for centuries and be it kids or adults, they won’t look away if a magic trick is being done and if you thought magic is kids stuff, The Harry Potter euphoria would be like a slap on the face. (more…)

Disney was always known how to be children’s best friend. They really bring out the best of the stuff for kids - -almost as if they knew what the kids really want.

The High School Musical: making the cut is very similar to many a tapping games — the kinds that release a kind of music for each tap. However, this game comes with enough content to keep the kids busy for like, forever. We feel it is a great value for money and the best your money can buy to keep kids “Musical engaged”. (more…)

Playing games is nothing if there isn’t any emotion in those games. The games are rather incomplete without this — Brothers in arms gets you just that — a modicum of camaraderie splashed with a lot of energy, action and of course adrenaline pumping action. (more…)