Previously known as White Knight Story, White Knight Chronicles is probably one of the reasons PlayStation 3 owners are, indeed, PlayStation 3 owners. If you’ve never heard of the game before and you happen to own a PS3, then you’re in for a treat.

White Knight Chronicles, currently still in development at Level-5 (Dark Cloud, Professor Layton, select Dragon Quest games) is an RPG using a real-time combat system in which you can freely choose to control any character in your party during a battle. Sequences shown so far reveal that the main character can transform into the ‘White Knight’ to inflict more damage on opponents. Other than that, not much is known about the game itself, except that it looks truly amazing. Check out an old video from the Tokyo Game Show last year to see if you agree.

Hopefully there’ll be more to see at TGS this year. White Knight Chronicles is reported to be releasing in Japan on the 25th of December, exclusively on the PlayStation 3.

Level 5’s puzzle adventure game Professor Layton & the Curious Village will be available on the Nintendo DS across Europe on the 7th of November.

Puzzle fans will delight with over 130 puzzles as well as additional puzzles available every week via Nintendo WiFi.

Set in a village called St. Mystere, the game tasks players to solve puzzles as Professor Layton and his apprentice Luke. Players will only reveal the mystery surrounding the village once they have discovered everything, solved all the mysteries and recovered the Golden Apple.

Uncover information from conversations and the environment but also keep a weary eye out for some characters who will try to confuse the issue with riddles and may even try and prevent you from discovering the truth.

The game features fully animated cut scenes and a unique hand drawn art style. Players can also look forward to various side missions as well as mini-games.

For a closer look at this quirky game head over to the game’s website.

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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