You must already be familiar with the PC version of the Cradle of Rome, which was released last year. The three-style game has now made its way to your favourite handheld. So get ready to construct your Roman Empire in your own way.

The puzzle game developed by Cerasus Media allows the players to construct over 20 historical sites based on the five areas in the Ancient Rome. It is quite engrossing to collect all the material required for building castles: tools, wood, gold and a lot of creative thought. Choose from the five different eras and match the rows on the puzzle board. Your ability depends highly on the resources you gather. The more you collect; the better the output.

You can knock away one square at a time with the hammer, but to use the tool again you have to rebuilt it. You will get a new tool in every level, but you can carry the hammer to all the levels by saving it. Use a shield to clear the row and a star to clear the entire onscreen resource. If you are able to collect sufficient resources, you can convert the lonely land into a famous historical monument like the Temple of Venus.

No puzzle game is fun to play unless it involves a certain amount of difficulty. Hence, the multiple gameplay modes of Cradle of Rome Nintendo DS are made to test your talent in solving some interesting but tough puzzles. Load the game on your DS and fabricate a whole new empire with a new emperor, which is you!

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.

Time Hollow, A new game by Konami, is an entertaining adventure game based on the point-and-click style of the DS Lite. The game centres around a schoolboy named Ethan Kairos, who has lost his family. The player plays as Ethan, who is desperately looking for his parents who suddenly vanished on his 17th birthday.

Now the only helpful thing this young boy has is his hollow pen, which can actually change everything that happened in the past. Moreover, there are some flashbacks to assist you in identifying missing persons. In his quest to find his lost family, players use the hollow pen to figure out the connection between the past and the present. You will have to talk to other characters, solve puzzles and collect clues, making this game something of an adventure title along the lines of Myst. The most important object in the game remains the hollow pen, which lets Ethan solve the problems of the past. The DS Lite style essentially assumes the role of the all important hollow pen and controls this mysterious truth revealing object.

The gameplay in Time Hollow often involves some clever puzzles, which will truly test your brains. Another outstanding and exciting factor is the role of the pen in “digging” the universe to look into the past. Overall, Time Hollow is an entertaining and engrossing game, with great graphics from the AIC studio along with many interesting characters. So what are you waiting for? Grab the game and use the magical pen to communicate with the past.

Line Rider 2: Unbound is a 2D racing slash puzzle game, where your primary task is to guide an adventurous little boy through a series of progressively intricate courses. It truly is a captivating game, in spite of its 2D format, and your main goal is to solve the puzzle of missing tracks, in order to eventually enable your onscreen character to cross the finish line. It is interesting to note however that, unlike in most racing games such as Diddy Kong Racing, you don’t have any direct control over the character.

The visuals are one reason why you should play thus game. The riders exhibit a great deal of visible emotion that lends this game a genuine feel. They grimace, make faces and display a surprising level of pain when confronted with a lethal accident.

During the course of the race you have to withstand physical and gravitational barriers, and basically advance solely through trial and error. The physics part of the game is especially intriguing and is also ultra sensitive. It makes you to fly wildly the moment you hit a bump on the road. The best way to tackle the puzzle is to draw a basic line, and constantly change it until you have crossed the susceptible part of the terrain. There is no basic rule confining your movements, giving you absolute freedom. This in turn increases the overall level of satisfaction once you have made a death defying jump or just managed to save your life by the thread of a rope. There is a curving tool to assist you in bending straight lines, or you can also opt to manually draw your lines. It is, however, regrettable that bending lines in your DS is a frustrating affair, because control system often fails to register your inputs.

To sum it up, you have to constantly be on your toes in this highly challenging game The challenges are only increased by the game’s open ended nature, but then again so is the fun.