The people behind Professor Layton - which I played through earlier this year and thoroughly enjoyed - are working with legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli on a DS game, due out next year. Joy! Rapture! Hopes for an early English translation!

Right, that's that downloaded. Now to play with it. Well, a bit later maybe.

Everyone wanted the Korg DS-10 even though they're not Japanese, and the good news is there'll be an international release. Hurrah! No dates or prices yet though.

After Electroplankton: Korg! In a DS! Only 4,800 yen (about twenty five quid)! But: *FOR JAPAN ONLY. Boo.

Looks like they've learnt lessons from the awful, buggy Lego Star Wars II for the DS, and have rewritten it completely. Hurrah! Looking forward to seeing it.

Despite Dan Hon's declaration that the fact you "snuff out candles by blowing into the mic" gives this Instant Fail, I think I'll be tempted to get this when it comes out in English in October.

Fits into the front slot without protruding, using a salvaged Nokia motor. Smart.

Odd, this. At some baseball games you can get TV feeds (interesting), play games and order food from your DS (via a temporary upload). Not that anybody's publicising it much.

Well, this guy seems to like it.

Could be a horrible waste of time. But fun. Or maybe just a horrible waste of money. Waiting for a Eurogamer review.

Cheap, micro-SD using DS shaped cart. Homebrew finally goes mainstream-ish?

"Cooking Mama picked up one or two awards at E3, which is entirely understandable as it makes an excellent first impression."

Handy. Shame game state isn't transferrable like this, though.

"You'll want to avoid the DS version; it's broken and rather ugly" boooo

DS version apparently very buggy indeed. Damn it.

Rather insane sounding Japanese DS game. Only on import. Possibly for ever.

I'm still a bit dubious about the stylus control but I'll give this a go, I reckon

Joystiq coverage of the DS cookbook (links to Wired coverage also)

"Talk! DS Cuisine Navigator" a cookbook with voice navigation for the DS. Big in Japan.

I wish I'd had a better DS game case. Any DS game case, really...

Ning app for storing friends codes. Could be useful

It looks fine. European release in October, apparently.

I really like Eurogamer. Nice writing style and they don't spit interstitials and popups all over you. Anyway, review of Another Code.

Mainly so I can connect the Japanese and English titles, and also because the Wikipedia "adventure game" article was handy.

"a 'no sticking out' solution for DS Lite consoles which also allows the use of MicroSD cards."