Zenses Rainforest is a unique and interesting game which surprisingly offers players with simple and relaxing games. There is a huge difference between the normal puzzle games which are throbbing with excitement and fried nerves and the simple and laid back Zenses Rainforest. Rather than get excited and jump around, these unique games say calm down and chill-out.

There are a total of six puzzle games which are a far cry from the battlefields and cosmic planes. They in fact resemble a relaxation spa. Even the environments in Zenses - Rainforest are filled with waterfalls and enchanting palm tress and there is a soft and lilting music playing in the background. Music includes flutes, keyboards and the delicate sounds of water droplets and chirping of birds. Even the puzzles feature relaxing and soothing flowers, pastel rings and stones in contrast to the bold and coloured squares and gems.

As you play the Treasure Spin, you find a grid filled with flowers and stone blocks scattered. Make the flowers tumble around so they touch each other by rotating the grid. Stack Jack is full of different sized coloured rings which drift down the screen in a slow manner. As a player, you have to match them before they reach the bottom of the screen.

In Twist and Turn, you find large stone rings with coloured gems inside. You have to rotate rings and swap gems with just a limited number of moves at your disposal. The subtle game of Flower Board resembles the scrabble, where flowers are used instead of letters. The Solitaire game is where you play around with a set of stones making them move over floating squares.

For lovers of puzzles, this is a wonderful collection where most of the games are simple in concept. A wonderful experience filled with a subdued and calm experience that is almost a lullaby.

It is not an easy task creating an environment filled with people, items and creatures resembling a real world. It is tougher incorporating an authentic storyline in a role playing game on the Nintendo DS that is both entertaining and fun to play. Doing this requires a lot of love and effort.

There is no doubt plenty of effort and love has gone into Graffiti Entertainment’s upcoming RPG game for DS – Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled. Characters include the vibrant and colourful sprites in two dimensions. As they go around exploring the world map filled with dungeons, towns and kingdoms, they encounter airships, boss fights, monsters and exciting magic.

Bel Lenora is a place where you are respected only if you have magical powers. Here, magic is a way of life. As a player, you play the role of Kairu, who lacks in magical power and is a knight-in-training. Kairu goes to a local temple in search of spirits who may grant him the magic juice to enable him to be like the others. A journey filled with excitement and suspense starts from here. Dialogs are snappy and characters are interesting taking through one of the most fantastic journeys.

Battles are interesting too with turn based fighting. Your skill lies in your ability to place characters in strategic positions across the screen. Position based magic and skills are straightforward. An exciting feature is the multiple-character attacks which is powerful. Programming and designing of the Nintendo DS role play game is excellent and it is all set to make an impact on fans. For those who love adventure, this game offers at least forty to fifty hours of exciting and fun gameplay.

Games of today, even many Nintendo DS games, have taken on a new trend. Look closely and you’ll see that most of them involve a character who can choose the path of either good or evil. Usually, you’re the almost bad guy who decides to become good and save the world.

Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume has taken this trend backwards actually, where the main character, Wylfred, is actually a good guy, who looks strikingly like Sephiroth, except for his hairstyle maybe. Wyl isn’t a bad guy, but wants to kill the Valkyrie, who is the spirit guide for the newly- dead warriors from the battlefield to the afterlife. Wyl blames the Valkyrie for the death of his father, and wants plain and simple revenge in this Square Enix game.

He’ll need all the help he can get, which he DOES get, from a powerful god who gives him his powers, through the plume. The plume is a Valkyrie feather, which is induced with dark energy. You can get energy by sinning, which involves damaging an enemy after he’s dead. Another way is to unleash the plume on one of your allies, which makes them super powerful for a bit, and then they just die, with their grief and sorrow making you more powerful.

You play as a team of four, with each character controlled by one face button. This game is sinister, quite enjoyable and rather similar to the Valkyrie Profile - Lenneth PSP game.  Ever the levels allowed for the preview of Covenant of the Plume weren’t that easy either. They were the exact opposite in fact. The title will be out mid-March, so keep your eyes opened for it.

The Overlord series is back, and this time, it’s thrice as thrilling. That’s right folks. There are three new Overlord games in the works and almost set for release. First of the three games is, that’s right, Overlord II. This game is an immediate sequel to the Overlord I expansion, Raising Hell. In Overlord II, a new, bigger, bad overlord tries to take over the Glorious Empire with better, smarter minions. He has a lot more spells at his disposal, and isn’t as robotic as his predecessor.

A new ‘Corruption System’ has been introduced into the game, where you can choose Domination and make the villagers obey your every command, or you can choose Destruction and just blow up everything in your path. The game is, however, completely about how your minions go about doing things. You still control the Brown, Red, Green and Blue minions, as in Overlord I. This time, however, your Minions are a little brainier, and can ride any magical creature they find, and can bring them into battle as well. The next game in development is Overlord - Dark Legend, which isn’t a port, but a completely new game for the Wii, built with the Wii controls in mind. It is a prequel to Overlord I, and it introduces a new system where you can blow up your minions in the face of the enemies.

Overlord: Minions will be out for the Nintendo DS soon, which will be a puzzle- action game exclusive to the DS. Instead of a horde, you control a minion squad, with one of each type of minion. The game will be entirely touch screen- stylus controlled.

Games made of movies haven’t always done very well on the DS Lite. The Tale of Despereaux is something that goes against that trend and it a real entertainer for all those young gamers who are just looking for a little entertainment. The game is basically an Action-Platformer. The visual style is appealing and great to see, and it’s got superb controls, which are easy to get the hang of, and extremely suitable for young gamers.

The game follows the tale of a young mouse living in the Kingdom of Dor. He isn’t like other mice, nor he is quite like the Biker Mice from Mars; instead he is extremely brave and fears nothing. Inspired by the knights about whom he read in the books, he sets out to have his own adventure.

Gameplay is not too exciting, but the courageous mouse Despereaux still has a whole set of moves at his disposal. Mostly consisting of running and jumping around, the game also includes a lot of wall runs and rope climbing.

Your primary weapon will be a needle that you get early on during the game, and use as a sword. The gameplay isn’t very combat oriented, and fighting isn’t what the game is about, but when you do fight, enemies aren’t too troublesome. Most of them die in one hit.

Levels are designed in the DS perfect 2.5D style, with lots of panning and zooming. The environment is designed extremely well to make you feel the entire room even if you can see only a small part.

With 36 full levels to play, and 6 bonus levels, this game is a perfect entertainer for little kids, and those fans of the Despereaux book and movie.

Nintendo DS has always been a leader in casual puzzle games. USA today puzzle craze is just a compilation of the latest newspaper puzzles on the Nintendo handheld with a touch screen. Collection of puzzles is quite comprehensive and challenging and is as exciting on the DS as in the newspapers.

Variety adds to the spice in the game. There are four levels of challenges that are varied. For example, the chain reaction in the up and down words is interesting with the second word of the first two word phrase is also the first word of the second two word phrase.

Another challenging game is the cross word puzzle called the Quick Cross. Another game similar to Essential Sudoku where you play with numbers is Hidato. Here you are required to arrange numbers in a grid in such a way that the previous and following numbers show up on either side.

The game supports multiplayer allowing for transfer of demo. Players are also offered different challenges of puzzles in single-cartridge competitions. Game presentation is solid and interesting and is matter-of-fact with no frills. As a player, you are awarded a star as you play using lesser number of hints. However, it is not possible to track the hints that you use. You come to know only after completion of the puzzle when you are either given the star award or not.

This game from Destineer is ideal for casual gamers and provides for a lot of fun with solving challenging puzzles. In fact, this is an entertaining game you just can pick up and play.

Bella Sara is an interesting virtual pet game online and a cards game based on collectible horse trading. This game is the favourite of many a little girl. On Nintendo DS, this game offers the right setting for players to get addicted collecting horse trading cards and taking care of ponies.

Bella Sara allows players to customize various things including themselves. They can ride on their favourite horses through beaches and forests. There are various show jumping competitions to take part in and the exciting 3D platform offers a lot of excitement and enjoyment as you take care of your horse’s needs and interact with him. Though most of Bella Sara is quite similar to other horse games, lovers of horses can have immense fun brushing, cleaning, petting and feeding their horses using the touch screen. Comb barbs from your horse’s tail in this interactive game. With easy and simple activities, this game is ideal for small children who actually learn how to take care of their horses in real life too.

Animation and detailing is quite effective. Show jumping and trials are the two modes where you can ride your horse. During leisure time, training sessions offer some fun. Show jumping events feature numbered jumps and the environments are pretty decent.

Odd jobs at the trails and stables will fetch you money as well as the trading cards. Collecting cards will help unlock new, customizable horses. On the whole, this is an interesting enough horse game for those who love horses.

This puzzle thriller comes from a leader in casual games PopCap. Peggle is a puzzle game that is both pinball and pachinko. Field is full of orange and blue pegs and players can pass a level by clearing the oranges. Fire the small balls from the screen top in the puzzle game. As the balls reach the bottom, they come into contact with the pegs and clear them. Players are provided with a certain amount of shots with which they have to try and clear all the pegs.

While the whole process sounds simple, it is not. This game is absolutely addictive and hypnotizes the player in a way reminiscent of Tetris DS. It is very difficult to get away from Peggle: Dual Shot once you start playing. The plunky noise as the ball makes its way through the maze of pegs with the probability of it landing in the free ball bucket is absolutely thrilling. It is possible to make skilled shots with practice.

As you continue playing and hitting the green pegs, you get the chance to unlock the Peggle Masters, a group of animals. Peggle Masters come with different ability to power up. For example, the ability to see where your ball is going to bounce after launch is provided by Bjorn Unicorn’s “guide” display.

Purple pegs add to your points. For instance, if you hit five purple pegs, you are given a chance to bounce and collect gems in a room featured in the bonus zone. D-pad and stylus can be used for moving around and launching the ball. Interesting levels offered include the Q Entertainment level and the Night Expansion level. Duel mode allows you to challenge a friend.

You can enjoy hours of fun with the addictive game of Peggle: Dual Shot.

With the DSi on the way, one of the most noticeable changes is the non-game applications that are being developed for it. We’ve seen the announcements for applications such as calculators, memo pads, audio editors, etc. that are on their way through download for the DSi.

My DoItAll is an application by itself that brings all the functionalities of these DSi exclusive applications to the people who don’t want to spend more money to trade in their old faithful DS for the Nintendo DSi. One would call the DoItAll an all-in-one productivity suite. There are tons of applications available, but none of them have been focused on for quality. They all serve the purpose, but they are not extra-ordinary in what they do.

There are around 15 different applications included in My DoItAll, including a periodic table, a metronome, a calculator, and some more interesting ones such as a voice changer, which can change the selected audio clipping based on the voice recorded through the mic of the DS. There are also a couple of card games included for random entertainment, like Ninety-Eight and Crazy Eights. There is a wireless polling app, and a dice simulation app, which may be among some of the least used.

Then there’s the calendar, which is put into a PDA-style interface, in just what might be the center of My DoItAll. It serves the same purposes as the other available calendar applications, with a nice look to it.

The idea of My DoItAll is quite interesting and a good, but the visuals are not very pleasing and navigation can get a little annoying at times. However, it is worth a look if you are in need of an organizer and do not want the extra hardware.