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Create a family tree that stands on four legs by breeding generations of horses on your very own horse farm! In Petz: Horseshoe Ranch, you'll adopt a horse and watch it grow from a baby into an adult. As your horse grows, you'll fill your stable with an entire equestrian family. Create unique breeds as your horse family grows and grows. Dress your animal in 75 different customizable outfits and accessories as you move through the game. Your horse will play with other horses in environments like the stable, challenge park, or rodeo barrel race course. You can even send your horse on a WiFi playdate to your friend's DS.
What could be better than getting to go work and play with animals all day? Experience all the fun of your own virtual pet shop in My Pet Shop for DS. You'll help run a pet store in the friendly little town of Green Town. Take care of over 40 different animals, including favorite dog and cat breeds like Golden Retrievers and Calicos. You'll also encounter some rare breeds, plus harder-to-find animals like penguins and pandas. Use the Stylus to interact with your animals and form a bond. Earn new accessories in mini-games you'll play with your pets and use your allowance to buy them new outfits.
It's time to get your math on! Professor Kageyama (of Brain Age fame) is back, and this time, he's going to have you bending your brain around basic math skills like addition, subtraction, and multiplication. You'll use the original grid-based system to learn how to do math in your head, or just to get a refresher course on skills you already have. Different tests will keep you working on building up your capabilities, and you can compete with up to 16 different opponents on a single cartridge. You can even try to beat their best scores and keep your name at the top of the leaderboard. There are over 45 different tests to challenge you at your leisure!
OMG! Chelsea totally stole my BF. But did you hear? Hayden's totally crushing on me! The drama is out of control and the gossip is OTT in this competition to be the biggest Drama Queen. See if you have what it takes to out-diva your friends at work, in fashion, and with guys. Spin the wheel and move your Drama Queen around the 3D board. Juggle boyfriends, best friends, and promotions around Drama Spaces as you move through four environments, from the shopping mall to the fashion runway. Once you've earned the Drama Queen crown, show three friends that you're the most popular in two multiplayer modes.
Get ready for the most realistic pool simulation ever to hit your living room! Learn and perfect different games, each with full tournament rules. Choose from 8-Ball, 9-Ball, Snooker, and Bar Pool. The cue is completely in your hands with the motion-sensitive Wii Remote. Real-life physics bring the complex game right to your screen, where the slightest moves make all the difference. It's as close as you can get to actually being there. Plus, stunning graphics will make you feel like you've really walked right into your favorite pool hall. Now pick your cue, chalk up, and break!
It's time to make your dreams come true! Teach your students everything you know as you take over the classroom. You'll instruct your students in how to play an instrument. You'll also help them learn how to dance. You can even show them how much fun art class can be as you help them learn to draw, paint, and sketch. Teach them good behavior in the cafeteria when they start to throw food. You'll even get to comfort them if they hurt themselves on the playground by making sure they're okay. Learns lots of real-world skills as you learn how to be the best teacher you can be.
It's medicine gone mad in this game that challenges you to bring order to an emergency room gone wild! Hysteria Hospital: Emergency Ward sends a flood of patients careening into your emergency room. They all need care. And they all want it now! Keep calm and try to keep your patients happy as you get them healthy. Take charge of seven different hospitals in over 60 pressure-packed levels of insanity. Design your emergency room layout for maximum effectiveness, then treat each patient and try to cure their bizarre sickness. If you survive the madness, you'll earn mad money on your way to becoming America's most successful nurse.
Epic naval combat rages on in this sequel to the 2003 action hit! In 100 missions, spanning a whopping 60 stages, players will command some of history's most powerful warships. Engage in ultra-tactical sub-to-sub stealth warfare and assemble a fleet of destroyers, submarines, and battlecruisers, custom-created to demolish enemies. But battles aren't just won at sea. Invest in new technologies and use them to improve your fleet with innovations in artillery, propulsion, electronics, and more. There are over 1,000 component upgrades available, extending the game's strategy element beyond the battlefront. The conditions are just as unforgiving as your enemy: stay on target through darkness, rough seas, and brutal weather conditions.
Command an entire fleet in this World War II naval combat saga that combines turn-based strategy, real-time combat, and a twist on history. In Steel Horizon, you're in charge of an entire WWII naval fleet, including subs, battleships, aircraft carriers, and more. But you're not just up against the Axis powers. You'll fight against a sinister organization operating between the shadows that lurk on the war's edges. Customize your flagship and hit the open seas for 20 high-stakes missions in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. Strategically position your fleet, then open fire in real-time 3D combat. You can also challenge friends to wireless multiplayer battles.
Enter the world of championship-caliber pool with this billiards game that has it covered from every angle. Power Play Pool's ultra-realistic 3D views effortlessly rotate any way you'd like, allowing you to study every shot with pocket-finding precision. Intuitive controls let you put just the right English on every shot. Choose from 16 different characters - each brings different skills to the table, but all have a steady hand and lethal aim. Target a variety of favorite games, including 9-ball, 8-ball, Killer, two-player, and U.K. or American rules pool. You can even test your skills in cup and league tourneys. What are you waiting for? Rack 'em up!
Are you left-handed or right-handed? How would you like to be able to use both equally? Learn to be ambidextrous, smarter, more coordinated, and more creative by playing 15 different mini-games for your Nintendo DS. The games have you switching sides and hands to train both sides of your brain. Games like Pop the Balloon, Feel the Music, Hit the Monsters, and Save the World help you improve speed, accuracy, recognition, memory, and strategy. Four different single-player game modes, including Hand Exercises and Balance Check will keep both sides of your brain humming, and you can even take on a friend in a two-game Challenge Mode with DS Download Play.
No habla español? No problem! Get by with a little help from some new friends waiting for you in this interactive Spanish language tutor. Spanish for Everyone brings would-be Spanish speakers on a virtual trip to Mexico. There, you'll meet an entertaining bunch of characters who are ready to introduce you to the Spanish language. Master the basics in three modes: La Piñata (hangman), Match Tarjetas (cards), and Find Palabras (word find). Each game is designed to foster word recognition through hearing and reading. Once you feel like you know what you're talking about (literally), increase the difficulty levels to keep your Spanish skills sharp.
Take a civilization of people and guide them from the dawn of their history all the way through the space age. Help them avoid war, discover necessary technologies, take on mighty world leaders, and build the most powerful empire ever seen! The classic PC game has been rebuilt completely for consoles, making a beautiful, engaging, and accessible game for veterans of the series and for newcomers. Choose from 16 different civilizations as you lead your people through intense battles and constant action. You can even compete with friends for world domination!
Jill Evans the baker is back, and she's faced with her toughest task yet - planning her dream wedding. She'll have to keep all her wits about her as she nervously plans for her big wedding day - with the perfect cake, of course. However, when a Time Bender strikes, she finds herself thrown back into various periods in history, including Ancient Egypt and Revolutionary France! Using all of her baking skills - and all the features you know and love from the Cake Mania series - she must work frantically to get back before the ceremony begins! Be careful, because you may even have to help her brave a completely unknown future!
Just when you were ready to sit back down, Wii Fit Plus gives you another reason to stay off that couch! Re-energize your workout and re-energize yourself with 15 new balance games and six new strength training and yoga activities. Crunched for time? Pick a preset 20-, 30-, or 40-minute workout designed to maximize the time you have. Have a specific goal or a certain part of your body you'd like to blast? Wii Fit Plus serves up ways to make it happen. Varied activities and the ability to seamlessly blend strength and flexibility exercises keep workouts fresh and exciting enough to keep you coming back every day.
Set that controller down and get ready to tap, tap, tap your way to fun! Up to four players can compete in five different game modes, all with easy pick-up-and-play controls and innovative, addictive gameplay. You can sprint for the finish line in over 16 different courses in Tap Runner. Make sure to avoid the obstacles! Master more than 15 songs in Rhythm Tap. Move blocks from the middle of a stack using hard and soft taps in Silent Blocks. As a Bubble Voyager, you'll have to protect your space suit in an environment filled with danger. And Visualizer lets your creativity shine as you create pictures, a fireworks display, and more!
Making serious impressions at E3 2004, Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, is an exquisitely designed air combat battle game that is more than worthy of past installments in this classic franchise. The Unsung War features gorgeous graphics, unbeatable air combat gameplay and controls, a 30 mission campaign, and over 50 real-world fighter jets! Also new to Ace Combat are animated cutscenes, modeled characters and controllable wingmen for squad-based dogfights and tactics.
After witnessing the rise of the Shadow Nation, a terrorist outfit bent on world domination, the Allied Nations create the ATLAS, an independent organization with one mission: obliterating the terrorist enemies. As an ATLAS Field Commander, you have authority over 15 Army divisions capable of attacking on land, sea, or through the air. Take charge in over 30 single-player missions, each with a new chance to become a hero. The game's turn-based strategy challenges you to create battle plans that outwit your enemies, who grow increasingly skilled through advanced AI. Create and upload your own missions or challenge yourself in multi-commander play with the PSP's WiFi capabilities.
Clear space over the fireplace. Don't have a fireplace? Better get one. You'll need it to display the trophy catch you land in this Rapala fishing extravaganza! Gear up with over 30 authentic Rapala brand lures, 5 Rapala rods, and 6 new Ranger and Lund licensed boats. Cast a line on over half-a-million acres of the world's finest trophy-fishing waters. The game's 16 levels include locations from Upstate New York to Mongolia! Reel in 27 different types of fish, including bass, bike, salmon, and more, with 6 new species added. You'll enjoy sharp graphics (with both above- and below-water views) and revolutionary levels of realism thanks to the Wii's controls.
When it comes to kitchen creativity, here's your chance to take the cake! A culinary crisis becomes a recipe for success in this game that serves up a series of baking-business challenges. Once only a tasty online treat, Cake Mania is new to the Nintendo DS. As the proprietor of Evans Bakery, you'll take orders, bake and decorate cakes, then collect your hard-earned cash in 80 fast-paced baking-based levels. Use your money to improve your kitchen with new ovens, cake decorations, and frosting machines. You'll bake in five exotic locations, serve special seasonal cakes to Santa and Cupid, and more.
TamaTown is always in need of new businesses, and once again, you're up to the challenge! After greeting one of your old Tamagotchi friends and setting them up in the clock tower, head off to town to start up your businesses and entice customers. Thirteen new shops await, each with all-new mini-games, including a greeting-card store, a day spa, a decoration store, a party-planning business, a gardening center, an ice cream shop, a bakery, a treasure-hunting outfit, a piano studio, a recycling center, and a day care for the TamaTown tots! As your businesses succeed, you can take a break in the park, which you can upgrade and decorate as you like!
This best-selling chess video game has finally gone portable! Get schooled on the go by acclaimed coach Bruce Pandolfini in the comprehensive tutorial, take on the sophisticated AI in dynamic play environments, or play with friends online. Along with an unrivaled grandmaster-level engine, the game is also easily accessible to beginners with fun features like 3-D Battlefield play, where animated elves, knights, orcs and monsters skirmish across specially designed fantasy boards. Other play modes include Handicap, Rated Play, Quick Game, Puzzle and more.
Fly some of history's greatest aircraft - and shoot down others - in this authentic World War II flight sim. Embark on 13 nonlinear combat campaigns filled with a whopping 240 individual missions. Survive dogfights, execute patrols, provide air support, pull off bombing runs, intercept enemy fighters, insert paratroopers, and more. Choose to fly for the U.S. Air Force, Royal Air Force, Red Army Air Force, or the German Luftwaffe. You'll pilot 16 authentic aircraft, including the Spitfire, P-47 Thunderbolt, B-17 Flying Fortress, Avro Lancaster, Gloster Meteor, and other WWII-era warbirds. Your performance earns you authentic military medals and ranks. Up to eight flyers can engage in multiplayer missions.
DS owners can welcome a new best friend with this Dogz sequel! Petz: Dogz 2 lets you pick your favorite pup from 11 different breeds, including two new additions: Dalmatians and Boxers! The two of you will form an unforgettable bond as you train your new pal to respond to 14 voice commands that you'll speak into the DS mic. Build a puppy paradise by customizing your virtual house and backyard with more than 250 dogtastic items. You'll also find 18 new fun-filled mini-games, including 7 card games you can play against up to three friends.
