DS Fanboy Lite

Our excitement for the nintendo DS was overshadowed this week by the real news: Alisha's son Jack arrived late Friday night, immediately after last week's roundup. Early reports indicate that he is "adorable." But somehow, even though a totally cute baby was born, video game stuff happened too.

Community

• DS Fanswag: Win a Cobalt DS Lite
  You! Win this.
• DS Daily: Collection check-in
  What's better than stuff? Having stuff.
• DS Daily: Is color enough to justify a second DS?
  If you don't win ours, that is.
• No need to imagine: baby Jack is here!
  We will never get tired of this picture.

Features

• Metareview: Assassin's Creed
  More like Assassin's Crap, amirite? (No, I'm not.)
• The DS Life: Handheld Happenstance
  Luggage Hina.
• Promotional Consideration: Return of the Reused Assets
  Who has time to render two pictures of Mario? Not Nintendo.
• Metareview: Professor Layton and the Curious Village
  Averaging review scores is kind of like a math puzzle.
• DS Fanboy Review: Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
  Did it win a medal?

News of note

• Spore gets dated for September as DS details emerge
  It's like a spore of Spore.
• Nintendo turns to U.S. government to fight piracy
  Strongly-worded letter imminent.
• Guard your grill: Super Dodgeball Brawlers trailer
  This is the Brawl we want.
• DS Fit: Ubisoft announces My Weight Loss Coach
  Will probably work better than My Weight Loss Couch.
• Huge discounts and prizes at Play Asia's Year of the Rat Lucky Sale
  The rat: nature's thriftiest import game shopper.
• The Wait Ends With this release date
  Square Enix's bizarre Shibuya-style RPG in April.