By sea, land, and air… we shall race!

The absolute highlight of this week’s worldwide videogame release list is the launch of Mario Kart 7 for 3DS, Nintendo’s latest awesome kart racing game featuring all of your favourite characters from the Mushroom Kingdom!

There are a few other nice surprises available this week, too, so find out what else you can expect to find on retail and digital store shelves around the world over the next seven days:

Releasing in North America: November 29th

• Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (PC)

• Mario Kart 7 (3DS – Releasing December 5th)

Releasing in Europe, the UK and South Africa: December 1st and December 2nd

• Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy (3DS)

• Assassin’s Creed: Revelationss (PC)

• Mario Kart 7 (3DS)

• Power Rangers Samurai (Wii, DS)

• Puss in Boots (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, 3DS)

• Super Pokemon Rumble (3DS)

• World of Tanks (PC)

Downloadable Games

iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)

• December 1st: Infinity Blade II

PlayStation Network (PlayStation 3 and PSP)

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Return to today’s war front with the second chapter in the Modern Warfare series. Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.

• De Blob 2 – In de Blob 2, Comrade Black is back and so is his war on color. Disguised as Papa Blanc, Comrade Black rigs the city’s election in order to win and take control of Prisma City with his brainwashing new cult. That is, until de Blob bounces back in full color-spreading force with his revolution to restore color and life back to the city and its residents.

• Scene It? Movie Night – Scene It? Movie Night! offers a wide variety of media-rich trivia that provides movie fans and social gamers with a lively, competitive group gaming experience. Trivia content in the game includes recent hit movies as well as fan favorite Hollywood hits from four decades of films. Single-player mode challenges player speed and entertainment trivia know-how, while multi-player mode creates a challenging social gameplay experience.

• Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus – Only one thing can make a thieving raccoon better at his job, and that’s the long-lost Thievious Racoonus, a collected work of thieving knowledge. Split into ten pieces, the writings are spread across the world, and it’s up to one young raccoon, Sly Cooper, to track them all down.

• Sly 2: Band of Thieves – The sequel to Sly Cooper delivers the same crime detective style of presentation, borrowing heavily from movies, novels and comic books to create a beautiful, highly animated game. The story takes place two years after Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. In the first game, Sly was becoming a professional thief, but in Band of Thieves, he is a professional thief — so he retains all of the moves from the first game.

• Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves – The third edition of the innovative platformer series from Sucker Punch and SCE America. This time around, the cast of playable characters has been expanded even further to include Carmelita, a shaman from Australia who speaks in tongues, Dimitri, and some other characters that have yet to be revealed. Once again, the setup for each mission is with a series of events that need to be done within each large environment.

• Voltron: Defender of the Universe (Demo Available) – Voltron is returning to defend the universe in this video game based on the revival of the classic 1980s anime series. Voltron: Defender of the Universe combines classic Voltron animation and style with high definition graphics and audio that deliver high-impact, real-time single and multi-player gameplay with up to five players.

• DARKSTALKERS: The Night Warriors (PSone Classics)– Choose from 10 horror-themed characters, including a Bigfoot, a vampire, and a werewolf. Every character has unique combinations and super moves, but be warned, as the arenas can have positive and negative effects on the fighters. Over 15,000 frames of gorgeous, hand-drawn animation bring the action to life.

• Tak 2: Staff of Dreams (PS2 Classics) – Join Tak in an epic adventure, as he must learn all new Juju magic to recover the Staff of Dreams and defeat Tlaloc once and for all. Tak’s role in the great Prophecy of the Pupanunu people isn’t over. Rather, it’s just begun! It’s not easy being Jibolba’s apprentice, and Tak’s got the bruises to prove it. Now dabbling with new abilities, Tak is creating a little Juju magic of his own! He’s even working on mastering the ancient Juju magic of animal-morphing.

Xbox LIVE Arcade (Xbox 360)

• November 30th - Voltron: Defender of the Universe

What can we look forward to for the rest of 2011?

• Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC – December 20th Worldwide)