New video game releases week 18, 2008

Buy Mario Kart Wii for WiiHere’s a list of this weeks U.S. game releases. The most popular games are Mario Kart Wii on Wii, Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360 & PS3, and Iron Man on all platforms. On the downloadable games front we’ve got today’s Double Dragon on the Wii Virtual Console, as well as the RIP Trilogy on GameTap for PC (updates Thursday). No word yet on any PlayStation Store games (updates Thursday). Microsoft already confirmed there will be no Xbox Live Arcade release this week, since they assumed everyone would be playing GTA IV.

Monday:
Corvette Evolution GT (DS)
Double Dragon – $5 (Wii Virtual Console)
Mario Kart (Wii) — Read our Mario Kart Wii review!

Buy Grand Theft Auto IV for Xbox 360Tuesday:
Baseball Mogul 2009 (PC)
Brain Voyage (DS)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360, PS3) — Watch GTA IV video reviews!
Great War Nations: The Spartans (PC)
Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor (PC)
Let’s Yoga (DS)
Let’s Pilates (DS)
Polar Games 2 (PC)
River King: Mystic Valley (DS)
Buy Iron Man for Xbox 360Roogoo (Xbox 360, PC, Wii, DS)
SNK Arcade Classics Volume 1 (PSP, PS2)
Toy Shop (DS)

Thursday:
RIP Trilogy (GameTap)

Friday:
Great War Nations: The Spartans (PC)
Iron Man (Xbox 360, PC, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS)