New Releases 11/15-11/21: In Another Castle Edition

Traditionally, the third week of November is one of the busiest weeks in gaming, with publishers releasing a deluge of new titles just in time for Black Friday sales. Thankfully, this year is no different, with 57 SKUs hitting store shelves, waiting to entice holiday shoppers. Last year brought gamers a bit of innovation (Mirror’s Edge) along with some sloppy deviation (Rock Revolution), will this season prove to be any better?

360

Assassin’s Creed II
Gyromancer
Left 4 Dead 2
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
NCAA Basketball 10
Planet 51
Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen!
Stoked: Big Air Edition
Tony Hawk: Ride

PS3
Assassin’s Creed II
God of War Collection
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
NCAA Basketball 10
Planet 51
Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen!
SingStar Latino
Tony Hawk: Ride

Wii
Bermuda Triangle: Saving the Coral
EA Sports Active: More Workouts
F1 2009
Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5
Jambo! Safari Animal Rescue
Just Dance
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Planet 51
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen!
The Princess and the Frog
Tony Hawk: Ride

PS2
SingStar Latino

DS
Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery
Bermuda Triangle: Saving the Coral
Discovery Kids: Spider Quest
Foto Frenzy
Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5
Imagine: Artist
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
My Hero: Doctor
My Hero: Firefighter
Petz Dogz Talent Show
Petz Hamsterz Superstarz
Planet 51
The Princess and the Frog

PSP
Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines
F1 2009
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
LittleBigPlanet
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Tag Force 4

PC
Elven Legacy: Siege
Gyromancer
Left 4 Dead 2
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
The Princess and the Frog
The Sims 3 World Adventures


DesertEagle’s Pick: I must be in a hop-and-bop mood, as both New Super Mario Bros. Wii and LittleBigPlanet look to scratch my platforming itch. Hopefully, I can pull myself away from Left 4 Dead 2 long enough to see the credits of both games.  

SeanNOLA’s Pick: Two full God of War games for $40 is probably the easiest pick-of-the-week decision ever, even against the steep competition of Assassins Creed 2 and New Super Mario Brothers Wii. A thrifty gamer is definitely a happy gamer this week!

TideGear’s Pick: Now we’re back in action!
I enjoyed Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords more than I expected, so Gyromancer seems like a safe bet to me. Though LittleBigPlanet is lacking multiplayer, I enjoyed the PS3 version enough to go solo. Luckily, New Super Mario Bros. Wii has got the co-op platforming covered! As a stealth fan, it’s a bit shameful that I only recently started the first Assassin’s Creed. Maybe I’ll go from the first, right into Assassin’s Creed II!

About Robert Allen

Since being a toddler, Robert Allen has been immersed in video games, anime, and tokusatsu. Currently, his days are spent teaching at two southern California colleges. But his evenings and weekends are filled with STGs, RPGs, and action titles and well at writing for Tech-Gaming since 2007.

65 comments

  1. New Super Mario Bros Wii for sure.

  2. SeanNOLA, so did you give the nod to AC2 or not?

  3. that AC2 pic can’t be from in-game, can it?

    BTW- Whats up with no trivia this week?

  4. I loove the lego game, so LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues it is.

  5. Desert’s pick were right on the money this week. I’ll be getting the same hopefully.

  6. L4D2 maybe.

  7. I got the Super Mario reference in the title- and that’s going to be my pickup.

  8. Tony Hawk: Ride is this year’s Rock Revolution.

  9. Desert, I thought you were a sports fan. Why no NCAA Basketball 10 pick?

  10. Left4Dead2 here. Zombies will be punished.

  11. is Stoked: Big Air Edition a new game or an add-on? Reviews seem mixed.

  12. Man, the DS releases are one big pile of crap.

  13. What will you guys be reviewing?

  14. Agreed.

    Useless peripheral? Check.

    Gameplay not as good as similar games? Check.

    Way overpriced? Check.

    Still, I’ll probably pick it up for the collection when they are at Target for $20 in March.

  15. Plz review Petz Hamsterz Superstarz thx!

  16. Assassin’s Creed II

  17. I always like the Scene It games, so I might get that.

  18. please don’t! thk 😉

  19. I want NCAA, just need the cash. Maybe I’ll trade some junk in.

  20. New Super Mario Bros. Wii

  21. So after this week, the new games trickle out? Here’s hoping, cuz I’m broke!

  22. Little Big Planet. BTW- isn’t it all one word?

  23. God of War Collection. I sold my PS2 copies on ebay for $30.00. woohoo!

  24. I hope New Super Mario Bros. Wii lives up to the hype I have for it.

  25. I think the general agreement is that no one is buying TH. It’s a shame that the series went this way- I used to love the old games.

  26. Do you guys realize there’s a site called “The tech Game” that is run by a guy named DesertEagle?

    http://www.thetechgame.com/Forums/file=viewtopic/p=129235.html

  27. Ha! it looks like they’re calling it quits.

    At first, I thought Deagle had another site.

  28. Do you need the special controller to play those, or can you use the 360 ones?

  29. I gotta ask- where’s TideGear?

    That said, NSMBW for me.

  30. Left 4 Dead 2

  31. Mario Bros, I’m going to pick it up right now!

  32. No takers for SingStar Latino?!?

  33. Tide, wheres your pick?

    Mine is ACII.

  34. Just got Super Mario Bros at 9:00 AM, Loving the game so far, but it gets hard real quick!

  35. L4D2 Monday at midnight.

  36. I always thought it was three words.

  37. Assassins Creed 2

  38. God of War Collection looks good.

  39. Yeah, this is the big week for gaming. After this week, there’s the Saboteur and not a whole lot else.

  40. Thanks for the info! I’m gonna get L4D2.

  41. I’m currently on NSMBW World Six suckers.

  42. I’m currently playing the God of War Collection and Left 4 Dead 2. We’ll have have some more obscure titles for your reading pleasure 😉

  43. NCAA Basketball 10, go Jayhawks!

  44. Is Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines going to be any good?

  45. I still need to get MW2!!

  46. Interesting similarity.

    No, they’ll be no other site, until I learn how to clone myself 😉

  47. Nothing I really need this week.

  48. Reviews of Mario Bros are coming in and it’s only good, not great.

  49. Adam Milecki - TideGear

    Up now!

  50. Adam Milecki - TideGear

    It’s up now!

  51. I hope the critics are wrong about this one.

  52. There’s only about 5 or 6 really good games. NCAA, NSMB, AC2, L4D2, and Little Big.

    The rest are throwaway titles.

  53. I saw this on the other site you write for Adam:

    “She now believes herself to be a vampire, her new boyfriend is a demon, and she wanted to drink my four year old daughters blood. I shit you not, I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.”

    Wow, I can see why you write for T-G, unless Deagle holds a Wiiblaster to your head and forces you to write reviews.

    What happened to the site? It looks like they update every month 🙁

  54. Hopefully, you’ll review it. I might get it also.

  55. Here’s my review of NSMBW

    it’s fun like the old 2D games, at time it gets hard, maybe too hard for 4 people. Before you know it it’s over and you’re left searching for the gold coins. Good but not quite excellent 4/5.

  56. AC2 is out I hear. Going to get it!

  57. Adam Milecki - TideGear

    Haha, yeah, I have no idea what’s going on with them. I haven’t written for them in quite some time.

    I wrote for that site when it had first started. Soon after it was sold to another party, I was no longer with the site, and things quickly went down hill.

    Thanks for being a fan!

  58. L4d2 and maybe ac2.

  59. well it looks like theres 2 assassin creed games for me to get. damn and even LBP on PSP…L4D2….im going broke

  60. I will definitely pick up Assassin’s Creed.

  61. Left 4 dead 2 and Assassins creed 2. Both great games, the only good games released on the 17th, and both which i cant afford, just great…

  62. I want Assassin’s Creed 2 and Left 4 Dead 2!

  63. I got Assassins Creed 2 day one.

  64. I’m hoping you do a review on Assassin’s Creed 2 and New Super Mario Brothers Wii.