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This week gamers get six (6!) new titles to download. Starting today Nintendo fans can pick up Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord (1,000 Wii Points), Battle Poker (800pts), and 5 Sports Party (500pts) on WiiWare, and ArtStyle: ZENAGE on DSiWare (500 DSi Points). What's missing? No Virtual Console title this week.

On Wednesday Xbox 360 gamers get the first Summer of Arcade Part Deux release, Splosion Man (800MS Points/$10) and on Thursday PS3 owners can download brick breaker Shatter ($7.99). I saw both of these games at E3 this year and they looked great.

I also interviewed Twisted Pixel's Mike Wilford last week and we talked all things Splosion Man. Look for my short discussion with Mike on Wednesday. 

In the meantime, hit the jump for all the fine print on this week's releases.

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One of the best things about WiiWare titles is that they are almost always built for family fun. The recently released “Heracles Chariot Racing” is no exception. This easy to pick up and play, cartoony racer is sure to assist parents in providing some good old fashioned family “quality time”, even if it’s a bit rough around the edges.

Yesterday, we had a troubling development on GamePro Arcade that was brought to our attention by members of the NeoGAF forums. You can see the original NeoGAF thread here as well as our initial response to the situation. The long and short of it is that we had to let one of our contributing writers, Andrew Ramsey, go due to an issue with plagiarism. After some careful investigation, we’ve come to the unfortunate realization that Andrew's transgressions are wider in scope than we first thought. After much deliberation, we have made the decision to erase all of Andrew’s posts from GamePro Arcade.

It wasn’t an easy decision to make but in the end, we feel that it is the right thing to do. We take our journalistic integrity very seriously and we felt that the only fair thing to do for everyone involved was to delete Andrew’s entire body of work. We cannot fully express the regret that we feel over this situation and we apologize to you, our readers. We cannot erase what happened but we can take proactive steps to ensure that something like this will never occur again.

This situation will now serve as a powerful reminder to every member of our network that we have a responsibility to do our jobs in a professional and ethical manner. We will also use this as an opportunity to take a closer look at our editorial process to ensure that this never occurs again.

Again, we apologize for the trouble this ordeal has caused. If you have any thoughts or questions on this matter, please do not hesitate to send me a note.

This week gamers can download nine (9!) new titles. Starting today Nintendo fanboys can pick up three WiiWare games (Water Warfare, Reel Fishing Challenge, Silver Star Reversi), one Virtual Console game (Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa) and one DSiWare game (Sudoku Master). 

On Wednesday Xbox 360 owners get three titles, Worms 2: Armageddon, King of Fighters 98: Ultimate Match, and the last game of the Hasbro Family Game Night Collection, Sorry Sliders (all selling for 800MS Points/$10). On Thursday PS3 owners can pick up The Punisher: No Mercy.

Aren't you proud of me? I didn't even make a PSN joke this week, not even in the title of this post. See, I can grow. 

While a little bit of downloadable love for every console is great, its possible this week could get even better. Battlefield 1943 is due out on XBLA and PSN very soon, and while I've fruitlessly scoured the net trying to get a solid release date, I wouldn't be surprised if it came out this Wednesday and Thursday, bringing this week's total to 10.

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For DS owners Neves isn’t a new game, it hit about a year ago but unfortunately due to its high price tag didn’t sell well on the casual market. Now thanks to Nintendo’s WiiWare gamers can get this great game at a more basic price. Neves Plus is basically the same as the DS game, players are given a mix of shapes and have to assort them to make some sort of picture, but with tons of new puzzles and an added multiplayer mode, which is always a plus. But does this live up to the greatness of its DS brethren?

Final Fantasy downloadable goodness strikes again, this time in the form of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. This is not another new title it’s actually a sequel to the ever popular Final Fantasy IV or FFII on the SNES. 

Hit the jump to learn more about it.

Fans of downloadable games get 7 new offerings this week, including a hefty three (3!) WiiWare games.

Starting today Nintendo fanboys can pick up WiiWare titles Drill Sargeant Mindstrong (800 Wii Points), NEVES Plus (600pts), Family Mini Golf (500pts), DSiWare game ArtStyle: BOXLIFE (500 DSi pts), and Sim Earth: The Living Plant (800 Wii Points) on the Virtual Console. 

On Wednesday XBLA gamers can pick up Neo-Geo/Dreamcast fighter Fatal Fury: Garou-Mark of the Wolves and Droplitz, both for 800 MS Points ($10). What do PS3 owners get? You were lucky to be able to download Metal Gear Solid last week, so you should be happy with that, but you guys get Droplitz as well. Congrats.

Hit the jump for the official press releases on this week's downloadable offerings.

Find out after the jump!

Just when you thought Nintendo got its act together, along comes a title with the name of “Fish ‘em All!”. Yeah, as you might have guessed, WiiWare is back to its old ways with bad to mediocre titles. “Fish ‘em All!” falls under the mediocre category with its simple design, simple game play and…well, if you haven’t gotten the point it’s all very simple. You choose between one of two characters, Jack (the tall one with the beard) or Walter (the short one with the mustache), and then choose whether you're right- or left-handed. From there you basically catch fish with a net doing a very odd motion, which might require a kitchen utensil to help you out a bit.