Nintendo releases full Japanese DS publisher list

TOKYO--Today, Nintendo released an updated list of Japanese game publishers and their announced titles for the Nintendo DS. The list includes 64 titles from 32 third-party publishers, as well as eight titles from Nintendo itself.

Among the more interesting developments, Konami Japan will release a Bokutai game, while Konami Tokyo will release a Castlevania game for the DS. Namco will release a new Mr. Driller game and an unnamed role-playing game. The latter might be an original intellectual property or possibly a Tales game, considering that the series is making its way to Sony’s handheld, the PSP.

Def Jam Vendetta’s developer Aki will release a game named Mikke!, which is the Japanese title for the I Spy picture-book series by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick. Square Enix, which just recently began to recruit for a new Seiken Densetsu project, revealed that it will release a new game in the series for the DS.

Absent from the list was Konami's Frogger 2005 game, which was announced at the last E3. Also missing in action was From Software, which Nintendo mentioned as a third-party publisher as recently as last month.

For those interested in North American publishers for the DS, Nintendo announced that it will release a full list on its official English site around August 10. The full list of Japanese publishers and games is as follows:

Idea Factory
Spectral Force

Aki
Mikke! (I Spy)

Atlus
Jinsei Game DS
Shin Megami Tensei DS
Snowboards Kids DS
Caduceus
Choro-Q DS

Aruze
Zunou ni Ase Kaku game series Vol.1: Cool 104 Joker & Setline

Epoch
Unnamed action game

MTO
Minna no mahjong
Unnamed racing game

Capcom
Megaman Battle Network series*
Viewtiful Joe series*
Gyakuten Saiban series* (AKA Reversal of Judgment)

Game Arts
Unnamed new RPG

Genki
Kebukawa Tantei Jiken-bo
Living High Killing Low
Kaidou Racing Battle

Koei
Dynasty Warriors*
Unnamed historical simulation game
Unnamed mahjong game

Konami
Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour*
Ganbare Goemon
Survival Kids
Vandal Hearts

Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
Boktai

Konami Computer Entertainment Studio
Powerful Pro-Baseball series

Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
Castlevania
Winning Eleven series

Sammy
Jissen Pachi-slot Hisshouhou! Fist of the North Star

Sunrise Interactive
Unnamed simulation game

Jamsworks
Unnamed new board game

Square Enix
Egg Monster Heroes*
New Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles title*
New Dragon Quest Monsters title*
New Seiken Densetsu title
New Slime MoriMori Dragon Quest title

Spike
Kenshuu-i Tendou Dokuta

Sega
Sonic DS
Project Rub

Taito
Rakugaki Oukoku series
Bubble Bobble series

Chunsoft
Fushigi no Dungeon

D3
Unnamed action game

Tecmo
New Monster Rancher title
Unnamed game by Team Ninja

Tomy
Naruto
Zoids

Namco
New Mr. Driller
Unnamed RPG
Pac-Pix
Pac 'n Roll

Hudson
Bomberman*
Far East of Eden series

Nintendo
Super Mario 64x4*
Metroid Prime: Hunters*
WarioWare Inc. DS*
Mario Kart DS*
Animal Crossing DS*
Super Mario Brothers DS*
PictoChat*
Nintendogs*

Bandai
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED*
One Piece*
Meteors

Banpresto
Dragonball Z*

Marvelous Interactive
Urusei Yatsura
Harvest Moon for DS
Legend of the River King series
Unnamed original RPG

Yukes
Unnamed sports game

Rocket Company
Doubutsu-jima no Chobi Gurumi 3

* denotes game was previously announced at E3.