Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

Because today’s Nintendo Summit just laid down some big name releases for the summer.

The big surprise is that both Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M are booked for May 23 and June 27, respectively. That’s some serious momentum for the summer! Galaxy in particular could have been a holiday 2010 tentpole release… so what do you suppose is on the docket for Christmas? Will Nintendo make with that new Zelda? Or will it go all 2008 and field Wii Music 2? Or can we expect something as-yet-unannounced, like a new Starfox or Pikmin or Paper Mario?

The physically big announcement is that the DSi XL will be available March 28 for the XL price of $190. You’d think we would be immune to DS-pricing sticker shock by this point, but… wow. The XL will come preloaded with some Brain Age games and have two color options: burgundy and bronze. The stat that the screens are 93% larger than the DSi is mind-blowing, although as we have noted before, that just means the pixels are bigger and therefore potentially uglier. Still, we’re not exactly the target audience for this device.

Sin and Punishment has a subtitle, Star Successor, and is due June 7, smack between the two higher profile Wii games. Cave Story, long delayed on WiiWare (Nintendo Power had it in their 2009 awards nominations because it was expected to come out last year!), finally sees release March 22. Here’s the full list of the games and products mentioned today, in chronoawesomical order:

March 1 – Mega Man 10 (WiiWare)
March 8 – Max & the Magic Marker (WiiWare)
March 22 – Cave Story (WiiWare)
March 28 – DSi XL
March 29 – WarioWare: DIY Showcase (WiiWare) (is the DS version same date?)
April 20 – Monster Hunter Tri (Wii)
May 3 – Picross 3D (DS)
May 18 – Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Wii)
May 23 – Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
Spring 2010 – Art Style: light trax (WiiWare)
Spring 2010 – Art Style: Rotozoa (WiiWare)
Spring 2010 – Rage of the Gladiator (WiiWare)
Spring 2010 – And Yet It Moves (WiiWare)
Spring 2010 – Photo Dojo (DSiWare)
Spring 2010 – Metal Torrent (DSiWare)
Spring 2010 – X-Scape (DSiWare)
June 7 – Sin and Punishment: Star Successor (Wii)
June 14 – 100 Classic Books (DS)
June 27 – Metroid: Other M (Wii)
Summer 2010 – Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (DS)
Summer 2010 – FlingSmash (Wii)
Summer 2010 – Super Meat Boy (WiiWare)
October 2010 – Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal (DSi)
Fall/Winter 2010 – Disney Guilty Party (Wii)

I’m kinda bummed that Disney Guilty Party doesn’t actually have Disney characters in it.