With an all-new multiplayer mode, players can now team up and hunt down monsters to get rare items. Also new to the PSP version is a data installment feature, Jump Start, which installs part of the game onto the memory stick to make the game load quicker.

As a spiritual successor, Mana Khemia is different from the previous Atelier Iris games. Mana Khemia is a campus sim-style RPG, where you can interact with classmates and professors to complete academic quests. You play as Vayne Aurelius, a novice alchemist who was invited to attend Al-Revis Academy. At the academy, Vayne will meet human and not so human(?) alchemists, and together you will solve the mysteries of alchemy.

Key Features

• Multi-player-A co-op mode were you can battle monsters together to get rare items.
• New Additional items, monsters, equipment, and recipes exclusive to the PSP version. Jump Start-Install part of the game on to the memory stick to make loads faster.
• Academic Quests – Players will take on quests that the professor assigns. you fail your mission, you may have to stay after school. Also depending on who you work with for your assignments, the outcome of the story will change.
• Avatar Crafting - Personalize your characters by “crafting” skills and stats instead of just leveling up through combat. Crafting skills and stats allows the player to create unique characters, like a warrior that excels in summoning magic or a magician that’s an expert at sniping.
• Item Crafting – A comprehensive item/weapon crafting system. Create anything, from healing potions to swords, through alchemy.
• Team Crafting - Craft items using your team’s recipe.
• Symbol Encounters – No more random encounters. Visually confirm and engage enemies.

Avalon Code (NDS)

Time is dwindling down and the world is on a path headed towards a fiery destruction. As ‘the chosen one,’ players must hold on to everything worth saving in this dying place, and take it into the new world, to begin anew. Guided by the Spirits, players embark on a journey to fill the pages of the mysterious tome, the Book of Prophecy, with items worthy of being saved.

Developed by Matrix Software, Avalon Code extends the creative capabilities of the Nintendo DS to a new limit with highly detailed characters, landscapes and monsters, all modeled in beautiful 3D. Experience the game world come to life as almost any object in Avalon Code can be recorded and manipulated within the Book of Prophecy, making the possibilities endless. In addition, Avalon Code features extensive voiceovers and a dynamic animated opening sequence.

Avalon Code boasts incredible graphics, a deep and engrossing storyline and innovative game play mechanics. Using the main character’s Book of Prophecy, players can modify the rules of engagement during battle, as well as weapon and monster attributes. Choose to play as male or female, affecting which characters you may be able to develop a romantic relationship with.

Avalon Code, rated “E10+” for Everyone 10 and over, is available exclusively on the NDS for $34.99.

Zubo (NDS)

Aimed at kids ages seven and up, Zubo is a quirky, rhythm-based battling adventure game packed with more than 50 crazy characters, more than 100 different battle moves, and ten lands to explore - all within the fantastic world of Zubalon.

"We're very excited to unleash our colorful creations, the Zubo characters, this Spring," said Rob O'Farrell, Executive Producer. "The game's quirky characters, magical worlds and rhythm-based battling game play make Zubo incredibly engaging and fun for both girls and boys. It's an immersive, laugh-out-loud, explore and battle adventure on the Nintendo DS."

Zubo is set in Zubalon, a land comprised of a series of ten themed, 3-D worlds, such as Wild West, Pop and Horror, each home to five unique Zubo characters. But Zubalon is under attack by a villain named Big Head and his army of Zombos. To stand up against and defeat Big Head and his crew, players must explore Zubalon and recruit the help of 55 wacky characters ranging from Drakool, a vampire, to Pinky, a pop star, to Roswell, a cow-loving alien. Players befriend the Zubo characters they meet along the way, feed them and restore their health, track down missing items, and bring them into comical, over-the-top battles against the evil Zombos.

To defeat the Zombos during battle, players must use the innovative rhythm-action mechanic where they choose from more than 100 hysterical animated battle moves, played against the game's distinctive musical themes. Strategy is critical, as players must choose the right Zubo characters to bring into battle, and then perform the best moves to take down the enemy Zombos. Music also plays a key role as players must drive the battle forward by synchronizing their stylus action and tapping in time with the musical beats to win!

With rhythm-based battling action, a vast world to explore, numerous characters to befriend and assist, plus a wealth of discovery-filled interactions, Zubo is packed with fun. Blow into the mic to clear cobwebs, shout out loud to wake a sleeping Zubo character, use the stylus to pop balloons, and much more. Multiplayer capability also allows friends to compete against each other to see who has the best team of Zubo characters in battle, and to unlock a secret team of Zubo characters.

Created by EA's Bright Light Studio in Guildford, UK, Zubo has a MSRP of $29.99 and is rated "E10+" by the ESRB.