From the eternal compiler they rise/creating shelf clutter on either shore/ turning man against his gamepad/until he trades them in for $7-$24.

Here are the games arriving in stores over the course of this week. Mostly today.

PC

• Battlefield 2: Deluxe Edition (EA/Dice) - Now with more luxurious loading screens. ($50)
• City Life (CDV) - SimStadt. City manager game. ($40)
• Flight Deck 4 (Abacus) - SimFlugzeugträgerlandung. A simulation of landing jets on a carrier. Also makes The Movies seem much more like a game. ($30)
• The Movies: Stunts And Effects (Activision/Lionhead) - And boozed up director management game. ($30)
• Jaws Unleashed (Majesco/Appaloosa Int.) - Head attachments not included. ($20)
• Rush For Berlin (Atari/Stormregion) - Hey, guess what the winning tactic in this RTS might be? ($20)
• Cars (THQ) - Here in my license/I feel lamest of all/I can cash that pay check/It’s a low way to dev/For Cars ($20)

PS2

• And 1 Streetball (Ubi Soft) - ($40)
• Cars (THQ) - ($40)
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Rockstar Games) - The port from PSP drops the multiplayer but also drops $20 off the pricetag. ($20)
• MLB Slugfest 2006 (Midway) - A celebration of all things slug. ($20)
• AMF Xtreme Bowling (Bethesda) - Did you know that modern bowling balls are techincally just one molecule? That’s pretty Xtreme, I guess. ($20)
• IHRA Drag Racing: Sportsman Edition (Bethesda) - Good, the Inveterate Couch Potato Edition was way too condescending and didn’t really capture the sportsmanly drama of drag racing. ($20)

XBox

• And 1 Streetball (Ubi Soft) - ($40)
• Cars (THQ) - ($40)
• MLB Slugfest 2006 (Midway) - ($20)

GameCube

• Cars (THQ) - ($40)

DS

• Magnetica (Nintendo) - ($35)
• Big Brain Academy (Nintendo) - The dean is famous for his ability to infer the reasons behind the naming of fast food in France. ($20)
• Scurge: Hive (Orbital Media) - This might be a wackier marketing misspell than Xtreme Bowling. It also reminds me of Surge, which gave me hives when I drank it. ($30)
• Cars (THQ) - ($30)

PSP

• Gradius Collection (Konami) - Gradiuses I-IV plus PlayStation classic Gradius Gaiden in one ($40) package.
• Astonishia Story (Ubi Soft) - A throwback to the era of PS1 throwbacks to the SNES era— a tile-based RPG. And it’s ($40).
• Cars (THQ) - Wheeled vehicles on a PSP, who would have thought of such a thing? ($40)
• Race Driver 2006 (Codemasters) - Ooh, and this one’s all about racing! What a coup for the platform. ($40)

GBA

• Cars (THQ) - Cross-platform champion of the week! ($30)
• Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure (Atari/Webfoot) - Scaled back to GBA when they realized that if it was on DS it would have to be Dual-Screened Doings($30)
• Juka and the Monophonic Menace (Orbital Media) - Wait, the most significant attribute of the menace is that it’s not in stereo? This ought to be good. ($30)

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