If you are still untouched by the craze of playing music games, then Rock Revolution, a new game by Konami, might finally win you over. Konami intends to bring back the rock rhythm games to various consoles including your favourite DS Lite.

A player can create his own melodies by using the stylus to play the instruments while inputting his voice through the DS microphone. To give you the feel and approach a real rock singer, Rock Revolution lets you play with drums, guitars and sing your heart out to match the rhythm. It is actually like getting a complete rock package in a video game. Moreover, an image of a guitar will accompany you onscreen when you are playing the instrument. Using the stylus, you can move the guitar to the inner circle for the guitarist to play it. In the case of a bass, you have to play any one of the four strings that horizontally appear across the screen.

Like a real-life story of a rock star, the game will let you taste success after putting in some hardwork. Your rock band begins in the basement of a friend’s house and slowly proceeds to the main stage. You will follow a list of some great tracks like “Detroit Rock City” and “Spoonman” as you progress through different levels. If you are too lazy to actually play the songs, you can enjoy them on the Rock Revolution Media Player.

A fine variety of songs and engrossing gameplay lets you spend some time in testing your musical skills, or live your own secret ambition.

Boing! Docomodake is an interesting and fun game that will soon be available on your favourite handheld. The Japanese mobile phone company, NTT DOCOMO, INC. has designed Boing! Docomodake DS exclusively for the DS. It will be released on 31st October for the Nintendo DS.

You will play as Papa Docomodake, who has to find his family in order to enjoy the annual festival held in the Docomodake Forest. Papa needs your assistance in getting through all the hurdles that come in his way. Now, what is so interesting here, I mean after all the DS Lite already has plenty of platformers with great games like New Super Mario Bros.? The presence of the magical ‘Minis’ , which can be released by using the stylus, make this game unique and special. So whenever Papa Docomodake is in a trouble, or there is a difficulty in his path, he can seek the help of Minis to carry on his quest.

The colourful graphics and pleasant characters are among the many attractions of the game. Peter Rollinson, the Product Manager of Ignition Entertainment Ltd., also has a very positive vision for the game. He says, “Boing! Docomodake DS has all the elements needed for a great platform game…the game has a wide ranging appeal, and offers more than enough to keep all gamers happy”.

It is just a matter of days and the game will be ready to be played on your console. In the game you will take control of Papa Docomodake, guiding him through the interesting and vibrant forest to reach his family in time.

As an action protagonist, Lara Croft is one people’s favourite gaming characters. Lara is soon coming to DS Lite screens in her latest adventure: Tomb Raider Underworld. Set to be released in November, this game developed by Crystal dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive will feature Lara as an innovator. Dressed in a fitted wetsuit, Lara will use her powers to revel the secret of the Thorn’s Hammer.

Lara’s journey begins on the Mediterranean Sea floor, where she learns about the legendary Thorn’s Hammer. Once familiar with the truth that the enchanted weapon is not a myth, Lara begins her adventure. In order to succeed in Tomb Raider: Underworld, our dear Lara will have to face the tentacles of a kraken. This sea monster is there to shield the secret of the hammer and acts as the greatest obstruction in Lara’s cause. The players have huge spikes as a means to fight the demon. These big chunks of spikes can be dropped on the kraken’s head to drive him away.

Moving onto technicalities, the first thing to be mentioned is the ultimate graphical approach. Lara and other characters look very realistic. This improved vision is a result of the vertex shading and the contextual animation. Background and some new gadgets make the game even more likeable. The sonar map and the speedy motorcycle especially enhance the game’s appeal and assist Lara in her adventure

If you are fond of pleasant graphics and charming gameplay, then you will love Soul Bubbles- a puzzle based game for the DS Lite. Published by Eidos Interactive and developed by Mekensleep, Soul Bubbles is an exciting, role-playing game. Gamers play as a shaman, who is a trainee engaged in the task of transporting souls. The delightful gameplay invites you to collect the souls into sparkling bubbles. The whole purpose of doing this is to send these souls to their original home, and the bubbles are their only means of transportation.

You have to move around, targeting the souls in order to make them moving towards their ultimate destination. But it is not as simple as it sounds, since there are a lot of hurdles to be faced on the way. In Soul Bubbles (Nintendo DS) there are many ferocious creatures, which continuously make attempts to burst the bubbles and swallow the souls. But that’s not the end of troubles for our cute looking spiritualist. He has to remove other hurdles like plants, rocks and animals, which block the way and make it difficult for the bubbles to move ahead. You have to guide the bubbles through the complicated mazes while protecting them from all the environmental dangers. So here you are: controlling the shaman with the stylus while with maintaining his breath, which moves the bubbles.

This simple but fascinating game will definitely grab your attention until you succeed in shipping all the souls. Go for Soul Bubbles and enjoy the job of a trainee shaman.

I know you love to work-out in the gym but are you also interested in going for a brain-exercise tour? I am not talking about any brain-tonics or messy word puzzles, but about a fresh game on the Nintendo DS. Empire Interactive, a well-known publisher of entertainment software has developed and published this new fast-paced puzzle game for your DS screens. Designed to test your mental abilities, the game offers five different modes of play: world, arcade, multiplayer, bonus and classic. These modes will thoroughly test your skills while providing a great and visually pleasant entertainment for your eyes and brain.

The gameplay requires you to put down a set of pipes in a particular order on a grid. The trick here is to maintain the flow of the Flooze, which is a continuously flowing material. It is essential to avoid the having the Flooze overflow, while trying to keep the progressive run going. You’ll end up developing pretty fast thinking accompanied by even faster moving fingers. So, you must be quick and pro-active in performing the plumber’s job, without loosing the essence of coordination. Be ready to solve advanced and more complicated puzzles in the later stages of Pipe Mania (Nintendo DS), which might leave you breathless. The ultimate goal of this entire struggle is to build your own Island World. The players will enjoy the appealing visuals while navigating through the various levels based on seven themes.

Catch up with the craze of organising and managing the pipes, and use the play machines and the army characters to help you in your plumbing job. I can bet that this will be a great way to test your brain’s readiness and strength, while having fun.

Ignition Entertainment Ltd is recognised as a global developer and publisher of video games. This UTV enterprise is in the news nowadays for its latest move in acquiring rights for publishing Blue Dragon Plus for DS. This venture is a combined effort of Ignition Entertainment and AQ Interactive. The Blue Dragon Plus name needs little introduction as Cartoon Network viewers are already familiar with it.

After the success of a TV show in the U.S., Blue Dragon Plus will now entertain gamers with its exciting adventures directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi. It’s definitely not the first Cartoon Network show to see success in the gaming market, considering such hits as Ben 10 - Protector of Earth (Wii). The soundtracks by Nobuo Uematsu and characters designed by Akira Toriyama are also a great attraction. The story of the game centres around a boy called Shu, who has power over the phantom shadows. Dragon Plus features gameplay in which Shu and his friends come back to action a year after defeating Nene. The role-playing game brings a new challenge for our young protagonist: the specter of a dragon with three heads. As conveyed by Ignition, the game will offer a 30-hour solo player campaign and a complete motion video of more than an hour, which will enhance the overall thrill.

It seems like a great achievement for Ignition Entertainment, as well as AQ Interactive, in terms of a business deal. The President of Ignition, Ajay Chadha said, “Out-of-box thinking and effective marketing are the cornerstones of our success….” On the other hand, AQ Interactive is also pleased to work with Ignition. Tomoyuki Takechi, the CEO of the company calls it an “excellent partnership”.

Lock’s Quest on the DS is a stylus driven game, which is fast and easy to play. The interesting and engaging gameplay is good enough to grab your attention for hours. The game features a multiplayer mode and light role-playing elements.

Lock’s Quest focuses on a mysterious resource that is a great source of building defenses for the archineers. Unfortunately, the same source is also used by a wicked character, Lord Agony, for stimulating his minions. Our action hero forms a team with a wounded soldier to fight these minions, when they threaten his villagers. The young boy’s effort becomes more difficult when his sister, Emi is lost. Now, Lock begins his quest to find Emi and for this purpose, he makes use of his archineer abilities.

Although you may find the story to be less speedy in the beginning, it will never bore you with its sudden twists and interesting gameplay. Building and battling are the two main components of each section of the game, which enable you to design and defend structures. You have to build and protect your defenses in Lock’s Quest (Nintendo DS), which is easily done by dragging and organizing sections of the map. The build and battle phases are also quite action oriented. This part of the game offers you a lot of mission objectives to fulfill in a short time span. This is probably the most addictive feature of the game because you have to think, plan and act all at the same time.

The Dinosaur King is a new game developed by Sega for the DS Lite. Featuring the world of dinosaurs, this game offers an exciting RPG gaming experience. The gamers will enter the baffling planet of dinosaurs as either Rex or Max - the two virtuous kids. The game centres on their activities to stop the malicious acts of Dr. Z. With an amazing plot and an exciting series of dino battles, the Dinosaur King is based on an animated series. Players will have more than 100 dinosaurs and five different areas of the earth to explore with this game meant for everyone (E rating).

You play as either Rex or Max; the adventure in the game will let you travel the globe, in order to discover and assemble the earliest artifacts with great powers. Just like every righteous cause, this one also has some hurdles. In Dinosaur King (Nintendo DS), Dr. Z and his Alpha gang are also trying to collect the same supernatural pieces but for an evil cause. Even if the dinosaurs in the form of leftovers are identified and collected, there is a need to reshape them in the lab. By doing so the powerful dinos are ready for entry into the encyclopedia. On reaching the battle field, the players can alter their powers to improve their fighting skills. It is also possible for two players to compete for the position of dino king with a Nintendo Wi-Fi connection.

If you are ready to sit on the throne of the Dinosaur King, load the game on your DS consoles and defeat your enemies in the dino style.

Developed by the D3 Publisher of America and Art Co., Ltd., Shaun the Sheep is a role-playing game for the Nintendo DS. This cute role-playing game features an amiable sheep named Shaun in the starring role. The game is real fun to play with the touch screen DS and microphone. Players in the form of Shaun have to search for the flock before the farmer comes back home.

The adventures of Shaun and his flock are already popular as a TV show and the game is likely to enhance the fame of this lovable sheep. The player will control his moves in trying the find the escaped sheep of his flock, and this will naturally entail many crazy but amusing adventures. In his pursuit to find his mates, Shaun the Sheep will also communicate with some characters like Bitzer, Timmy and Shirley, while exploring areas such as the sheep pole, circus tent and the junk pile. If you are already a fan of Shaun and love his crazy and humorous acts, you will find controlling his activities on your DS Lite an awesome experience.

Shaun the Sheep will engross you with its three gameplay modes: story, minigame and collection. The five micro games are particularly devised for increasing with such really good moments, like distracting the cat called Pidsley or saving Timmy. Give it a try and see if Shaun’s mischief can make you happy.

If you thought that zoo is the only place where you can say ‘hello’ to a variety of animals, then you need to broaden your horizons. Animal Paradise, a new DS game, is accurately designed for animal-lovers. Published by Empire Interactive and developed by Silverstar, the game allows player to be friendly with 18 different animals, including hamsters, pigs, cats and our great companion: dog.

You can clean them, take them for a walk, feed them with their favourite foods and also play with them.  All without the risk of annoying any of these creatures, which is close to impossible in real life. No matter how old you are, you will love to feed a chubby rabbit and enjoy cleaning a fat pig. Animal Paradise (Nintendo DS) takes you to a farm where all these animals are waiting for you to care for them. There is also an option to unlock new animals along with some amazing mini-games like Shampoo- Scrub and Footprint Trail. The ultimate goal of nurturing and curdling these lovely creatures is to attain their love. Other outstanding features of the game include Yoneo Morita’s “big nose” photography and an album of animal photographs. You may also use the game to introduce kids to these animals and their caretaking.

Animal Planet is a game to be liked by people of all ages, provided they have a flair for animals. If you have ever had a desire to look after a horse, chicken, duck or even a squirrel, then you cannot afford to miss the game