Puyo pops onto DS

Puzzle games keep arriving for those newfangled handheld wireless game systems. Today, Atlus U.S.A. announced that Puyo Pop Fever has shipped for the Nintendo DS. The game will sell for $29.99 and is rated E for "Everyone."

Puyo Pop Fever is a continuation of Sega's popular puzzle gaming franchise. Gameplay owes a great deal to Dr. Mario, Puzzle Fighter, and Tetris. Players must group like-colored eyeball blobs and compete head-to-head with cartoonish poppers seeking to outdo gamers' color-coordinated combos.

The DS edition of Puyo Pop allows up to eight DS owners to play against each other wirelessly with only one cartridge between them.

Atlus is the American publisher of many Japanese games, such as Stella Deus, Samurai Western, and Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.