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Nintendo has announced the release of Kirby’s Return to Dream Land for the Nintendo Wii. This version of Kirby goes back to the original versions and challenges players to side-scrolling adventures. Kirby is back to inhaling his enemies to copy their skills and then use those skills against more enemies. Up to four players can play together at one time. Three other friends can join you at any time.

Players have to help Kirby find pieces of a spaceship that has crash landed on Popstar, Kirby’s home planet. Kirby has to locate the pieces while battling his enemies. He can inhale his enemies to steal their abilities or gain super abilities and wipe out a screen full of enemies. Kirby’s inhale move allows him to suck enemies in and spit them back out at other enemies.

“Kirby’s Return to Dream Land is a must-play for new and experienced fans, and it’s only available on the Wii console,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “As friends and family gather together this holiday season, they’ll have a blast discovering Kirby’s new Super Abilities and teaming up to defeat enemies.”

Kirby can be purchased at your local retailer.

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The Game Bakers has announced the release of SQUIDS for the iPhone/iPod Touch. A black ooze is threatening the beautiful home of the Squid. The ooze is turning crustaceans into monsters that are threatening the area. Out of the monsters rises a rag tag band of Squid heroes. The heroes have to protect their home from the onslaught of monsters.

Players can choose their party of four. There are four different classes to choose from all with varying abilities. Once the perfect team has been assembled, players set off to rid their beautiful homeland of the monsters. The battles are turn based and use the abilities of the party members. The controls are all touch based.

“After years of working on best-selling console games, we formed our own studio so we could bring our expertise of AAA games development to iPhone gaming and make the best of the two worlds meet,” says Emeric Thoa, The Game Bakers’ CCO and co-founder. “SQUIDS has the depth hardcore gamers are looking for, along with the accessibility casual gamers expect on the iPhone or iPod touch. From the funny characters to the adventurous story to all of the tactical possibilities, SQUIDS offers something for all types of players.”

If you like adventure games, head over to the Apple App Store and get yourself a copy of SQUIDS. The game costs 99 cents.

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Freebird Games has announced a new adventure game called To the Moon, which revolves around the concept of memory and life. The story revolves about two doctors traversing through the memories of a dying man to fulfill his last wish, in a world where doctors can rework a person’s memory in order to grant them their greatest wish. The catch? It will be the last thing they’ll ever remember.

The game investigates some heady concepts, as the official site asks:

“If you had the chance to relive your life, would you change things? Would you try to achieve some grand goal? Could you find love? Fame? Fortune? Or would you realize that sometimes the past is meant to stay the same?”

The game resembles a 16-bit Nintendo game, but the writing and especially the music, written and performed by Laura Shigihara, who is best known for writing and performing the Plants Vs. Zombies song “There’s a Zombie On Your Lawn”.

If that weren’t enough, check out one of the most tearjerking trailers since the Dead Island video early this year.

German developer Turmoil Games has announced the release of their scary horror adventure game Alpha Polaris, which is set in the Arctic tundra of Greenland at an American oil research station.

According to Turmoil Games project leader Teemu Vilén:

 “The heart of the game is its restrained horror setting. It allows us to explore a wide range of human themes in a realistic way: paranoia, isolation, friendship, love and so on. To us, that is the core of a good horror adventure.”

The game is available in both English and German language versions from the official site here, as well as a demo in each language as well.

Alawar has announced the release of Snowy: The Bear’s Adventure on the iPhone and iPad. Snowy: The Bear’s Adventure is an platformer game where players have to guide a cute polar bear through eighty eight different levels.

Players have to guide the polar bear through the levels and fight off the monsters that appear. Players can throw snowballs at the monsters to keep them at bay. Levels are completed by killing all of the monsters on the level. It seems easy, but it is not an easy task. There are four different boss battles and three different difficulties.

If Snowy: The Bear’s Adventure sounds like a game you would enjoy, head over to the Apple App Store and pick it up.

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