Kotaku recently posted a hands on preview of the upcoming Advance Wars game from Nintendo, having played three chapters of the game.

It seems like it’s going to be a worthy successor to one of the best DS games, and this time Intelligent Systems and Nintendo seem to have acknowledged the game’s much bigger Western audience relative to its Japanese one and made the war plot more serious and realistic. The art style, while still cartoony is darker and a little more in keeping with a game about blowing your enemies up.

Of special interest to this game is the new Wi-fi Connection features: yes, online battles are in, including voice chat! An even more interesting feature, for my money, is the map sharing component in which you can upload your map designs, and rate and download others.

Game Watch have posted a whole bunch of new screenshots which were released at Nintendo conference today in Japan.

Included among them is some shots of Kirby Superstar DS, which may or may not be a straight remake of the SNES game. Also particularly exciting are shots of the newly announced Fire Emblem DS which looks to be a remake of an early Fire Emblem game from the NES/SNES era. Square Enix’s games are looking beautiful as always (except for the DS Kingdom Hearts with the odd name). Anyhow, this is one amazing batch of games - check them out if you love gaming.

Why do I single out Kirby you may ask? Kirby is awesome, that’s why.

Here are the names of the games shown on that page in English and in order so you at least know what you’re looking at:

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