Weekly Games/Toys update: Tourist Trophy, Eyeshield 21: Max Devil Power, Hippatte! Puzzle Bobble, GBA™ Value Selection Series, Arcadia & Famitsu Wave March 2006 issues, Final Fantasy XI & Dragon Quest toys & more
Welcome to this week's Games & Toys update, our Thursday summary, where we are reviewing all related items released during the last 7 days.
This week has been characterized by the Chinese New Year holidays in Hong Kong. While Play-Asia's shipping center has reopened again yesterday after the public holidays, several suppliers and distributors are still taking holidays until end of this week. Arrival of a number of new releases might therefore be delayed for a few days, our apology in advance to any customer affected by this situation.
Nevertheless, naming the hottest releases in this week, which has been Sony's PlayStation2™ motorbike racer Tourist Trophy as well as the handheld releases Eyeshield 21: Max Devil Power and Hippatte! Puzzle Bobble for Nintendo DS™ Further interesting is Nintendo's GBA™ Value Selection series, featuring 15 titles re-published at lower cost (including popular releases such as Mother 1+2, Magical Vacation and more).
As usually, check out our summary of this week's new items below:
A separate Video/Music update containing Japanese releases from this week, including new Anime, J-Pop and Movie releases will follow tomorrow.
Looking forward to next week, around 15 new titles will be published in Japan, plus we are expecting a few interesting US as well as Asian version games. The biggest highlights from coming week are pre-summarized below: