Most of us are heating up with the impending release of Grand Theft Auto 4, but there's no need to lose your cool. Just like last week, a modest batch of titles will hit shelves as prelude to April's main act. Square Enix is ready to make some noise in The World Ends With You, while Nintendo is letting the Pokemon loose with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Explorers of Time. The rest are waiting at the full article.

* Article originally posted Apr 21, 2008 at 12:48AM

Southpeak Games is releasing a new pinball game for the PC, Wii, and Nintendo DS this Spring. The game is called Dream Pinball 3D and boasts of a realistic physics engine and stunning visuals. Details and screenshots for each platform lie in the full article.

If you're like us, who are guilty of hogging the pachinko machine at the local arcade, you'd probably enjoy this new game from casual games developer PopCap Games: Peggle. It's an old story to think that pachinko is just a trend, so stop smirking - you may think it's silly but believe us, these sort of games can be very addicting.

Peggle combines the elements of pool, pinball and pachinko to interest players of any age or gender. In this game, you fire a metallic silver ball from the top of the screen to clear all the orange pegs from the screen. There are power up pegs to hit, too, and different modes to play in the game. But PopCap creative director Jason Kapalka puts it best by saying, "you just have to play the game yourself."

Peggle has just launched with a retail price of US$ 19.95. You can check out the official trial of the game, for free at PopCap's official site and other gaming portals. In any case, here are some screenshots of the game.

The rest of the screens await after the jump!