One of the best trivia games ever released, You Don’t Know Jack, finally returns, and will be released this holiday season on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and WiiWare, as well as the Nintendo DS.

The pioneer of the interactive game show format, YOU DON’T KNOW JACK combines the social dynamics of classic board games with the entertaining story arcs of great television game shows. Returning with all-new questions and classic features such as Screw Your NeighborTM and commercial parodies, the homecoming of YOU DON’T KNOW JACK is sure to thrill excited fans as well as launch a new generation of devoted players.

You Don’t Know Jack was best known for taking a dry game genre – trivia – and infusing with off-the-wall attitude and television production values. Let us know how amped you are for the return of this classic.

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Atari has announced the up coming release of Atari’s Greatest Hits: Volume 1 for the Nintendo DS. The compilation will contain fifty Atari games all on one Nintendo DS cartridge. The fifty games are from the Arcade days and the Atari 2600 days. They include games such as Asteroids, Pong, Centipede, Missile Command, Tempest, Lunar Lander, Space Duel, Battlezone and Adventure.

“The 50 games featured in Atari’s Greatest Hits: Volume 1 have defined a generation of casual gamers” said Jim Wilson, President of Atari, Inc. “By adding a new single cartridge multiplayer mode to such games as Pong, Space Duel and Outlaw, we continue to find new ways to expand our brands to a new generation of gamers.”

The complete Atari’s Greatest Hits:  Volume 1 line-up is as follows:

Atari Arcade Hits
Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Gravitar, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Pong, Space Duel, Tempest.

Atari 2600 Favorites
3D Tic-Tac-Toe, Adventure, Air-Sea Battle, Asteroids, Atari Video Cube, Basketball, Battlezone, Bowling, Centipede, Championship Soccer, Dodge ’Em, Flag Capture, Football, Fun with Numbers, Gravitar, Hangman, Haunted House, Home Run, Human Cannonball, Math Gran Prix, Miniature Golf, Missile Command, Outlaw, Realsports Baseball, Realsports Boxing, Realsports Football, Realsports Tennis, Realsports Volleyball, Sky Diver, Slot Maching, Slot Racers, Sprintmasters, Starship, Stella Track, Submarine Commander, Surround, Swordquest Earthworld, Swordquest Fireworld, Swordquest Waterworld,Tempest and Video Checkers.

If you are looking for some retro games or to introduce young gamers to retro games, check out Atari’s Greatest Hits: Volume 1 for the Nintendo DS when it is released this fall.

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Avanquest Software has announced the upcoming release of Witches Curse for the Nintendo DS. The game was originally released on the PC and has been adapted for the Nintendo DS. Nintendo DS owners will have to complete 40 different puzzles and 15 mini-games all set in magical backgrounds.

Princess Isabella has returned from a trip to find out an evil curse has been put on the castle. The curse has turned everyone in the castle into mirrors. The players take on the role of Isabella and fight the evil witch that has cursed the castle. The player does have a fairy that will be helping them battle the witch. Players have to search the castle for broken mirror pieces. The pieces have to be put back together to release the people from the curse.

If you are looking for a hidden object game/puzzle game for the Nintendo DS, check out Witches Curse.

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It’s fairly inevitable that Popcap’s biggest seller, Plants Vs. Zombies, would be heading to the Nintendo DS. After all, it’s already been released on Windows, Mac, Apple mobiles, and will be heading to Xbox Live Arcade on September 8.

The question is, what will the Nintendo DS version have? According to Escapist Magazine:

The DS version of Plants vs Zombies will include the Adventure, Survival, and Puzzle modes already available in other versions, along with their mini-games, but PopCap also promises “new and exclusive” game content. Depending on what this means, it could make Nintendo’s handheld the platform with the most complete edition of the game. Or it could just be a couple of exclusive zombies.

Let us know if you’ll be picking up this iteration of the popular Plants Vs. Zombies. You can check out Casual Gamer Chick’s original review here.

Avanquest Software has announced the upcoming release of Junior Brain Trainer 2 for the Nintendo DS. The brain games are designed to help young learners improve memory, spelling, reading, logic and problem solving skills. The game is aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 11 years old. They can learn while having fun, which is always the best way to learn.

The activities in Junior Brain Trainer 2 are designed to help support the skills children learn in the classroom. There are two different game play modes that players can choose from. The levels are based on the age and the academic level of the child. Progressive mode is intended for younger players to start out easy and work their way up to the harder skills. Pot Luck mode is for older children that are comfortable with all of the skills. The questions are randomly generated.

Junior Brain Trainer 2 offers games such as Greedy Frog where players must help the frog catch 10 dragonflies by jumping over lily pads before they sink into the pond, Find the Kennel where players have to guide a puppy through a maze and back to its kennel before time runs out or Catch the Sheep where players have to round the sheep up and get them back in their pen.

Junior Brain Trainer 2 is set to be released on Sept 17th.

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