In Professor Layton and the Curious Village you'll tackle over 130 puzzles, ranging from mazes and riddles to logic and sliding puzzles, as you unravel the mysteries of the village, with weekly downloadable content via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Well here is a nice rumor to start off the new year! A forum poster on the Altgn blog was recently taking a Universe at War survey through Microsoft Retail Zone, a website interface to educate employees of electronic retail stores, for the upcoming X360 version. One of the questions about the game's defining features compared it to Blizzard's upcoming StarCraft 2. Is this a mere marketing stunt to appeal to fans of SC2, or might Microsoft be courting Activision/Blizzard for an Xbox 360 version?

The journey in The Sims 2 Castaway begins when your Sims are washed ashore on an uncharted tropical island, and must overcome the forces of nature, craft tools for survival, and explore their surroundings to unravel the island's mysteries.

On Monday Nintendo added yet another 3 classic games to the Wii's Shop Channel. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet access can redeem Wii Points to download the following titles: Bubble Bobble, Light Crusader, and Top Hunter.

Rock Band allows you to perform famous rock music with your friends as a virtual band using drum, bass/lead guitar and vocals, as well as online. Harmonix has released three new songs for Rock Band, downloadable through Xbox Live (next week on PlayStation Network). Lynyrd Skynyrd's Three Steps, a cover of Black Crowes' Hard to Handle and Rush's Limelight, also covered, for 160 Microsoft Points each.

Grey Dog Software announces its latest sports management simulation title, Total Extreme Wrestling 2008, allowing you to take on the role of a wrestling promoter, where it is up to you to try and steer your chosen company to the top of the industry.

Conflict: Denied Ops, previously called Crossfire, is a new paramilitary themed co-op FPS from Pivotal Games, putting you in control of two of these merciless operatives, each of them highly specialized in both weapons and military tactics.

The entire Worthplaying team wishes everybody a Happy New Year! We hope everybody had a safe transition from old into new and may 2008 be even better than last year. We here at Worthplaying have some exciting new stuff lined up to better serve you all. Behind the scenes, we are working very hard to expand the website in various ways which will hopefully start showing in the months ahead. Until then, party on & stay safe!

In SimCity DS 2, based on Sim City 3000, you will be in charge of evolving your city through 8 periods of time, from the stone ages, until modern times, visiting locations like Paris, or ancient Japan.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• Battle Rage - Trailer #2
• Exit [NDS] - Trailer
• Arkanoid DS [NDS] - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...