Pokemon Rumble, one of Nintendo’s latest WiiWare offerings, both capitalizes on an established series and already existing graphics. It uses the pokemon designs from My Pokemon Ranch and relies on the Pokemon namesake to lure people in to a surprisingly enjoyable, and often addictive action game. It offers a more casual and effortless experience than most Pokemon fans expect from the series, which may help lure in less experienced and casual gamers.

Pokemon Rumble starts with a single wind-up toy Rattata. You see it sneak its way through a crack into the rank C battle royale battle, and then attempt to help him win. Sadly, he’s only a level 26 toy pokemon and the other participants are much, much stronger. He gets beaten, and dropped outside into the preparation area. The battle royale doors shut behind him as he’s tossed out…

Is all your holiday shopping is done? There are some people out there still procrastinating, believe it or not. If you have a PS3 owner on your gift list that you still haven’t bought something for, then stop by Amazon. There’s a special $59.99 bundle that includes Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and a Dualshock 3 controller for sale.

It’s great, because you’re not only giving the gift of a fantastic game, you’re also providing the recipient with a much needed, official Sony Dualshock 3 controller. Normally, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune costs $29.99 and a Dualshock 3 controller is $54.99, so getting the game and a controller for $59.99 is a fantastic deal. It’s like you’re only paying for the controller, and getting the game for free.

Amazon has the item in stock, so if you order it you should have no trouble getting it. One-day shipping is available, to make sure it arrives by December 22, 2009…

If there’s a Wii owner on your gift list this holiday season, a WiiWare or Virtual Console game could be the perfect gift. If you don’t own a Wii as well, you’ll have to pick up a Nintendo Points card and a nice card as a gift. If you also own a Wii, then you can pick out a WiiWare or Virtual Console game for him or her and Gamertellgift it. It takes the fuss out of shopping, especially if you have spare Nintendo Points on your account.

A lot of great WiiWare and Virtual Console games were released in 2009, so there’s a lot to choose from. (Not to mention games released in 2008 or earlier on WiiWare or Virtual Console.) To help make your buying decisions a little easier, Gamertell has created a Wii Shop Channel gift guide. 12 of the best WiiWare and Virtual Console releases have been highlighted and detailed as possible gifts.

Take a look at our guide and see if there’s something on the Wii Shop Channel you’d like to send as a gift to your special someone…

When I heard about MySims Agents, I was skeptical. While both prior MySims games were straightforward simulation and adventure games, where you’d need to create building and furniture on request, MySims Agents breaks away from the simulation elements and is strictly an adventure game. After playing, I’m pleasantly surprised and would consider MySims Agents my favorite entry in the series.

MySims Agents starts out simple. You’re a local detective who’s hoping to one day become a special agent. Until then, you’re stuck performing minor tasks. The one at hand is proving a young girl named Poppy’s dog is hers, and doesn’t belong to a nefarious looking individual named Morcubus. After doing some rudimentary work to prove that Dogwood is Poppy’s pouch, beyond any reasonable doubt, you realize someone’s been watching you!

You’ve proven yourself to be a great detective, so you’re given the opportunity to be a special agent for your hometown…

If you buy your Sunday paper a day early, you were likely greeted by a wonderful Target ad. Target’s sale circular for December 13-19, 2009 not only promises $25 DS games, but also gift cards with DS or Wii purchases and some major game bundle deals. These deals are worth lining up for, as the add states there will be no rainchecks for these sale games and that quantities are limited.

The DS games are a huge highlight, since almost all of the games displayed on the front page of the ad regularly cost $34. The ad states that over 20 DS games will be part of the sale, but specifically shows The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Style Savvy, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, Jonas and Imagine Sweet 16. Above the games, the ad also shows that every $169.99 DSi will come with a $10 Target gift card.

Journey a few pages further in and you’ll see $88 game bundles. The ad says nothing about limited quantities or rainchecks next to these four items, so you may have a better chance of getting one of them than one of the sale DS games. The four $88 discounted bundles are…

If you’re interested in Q-Games’ PixelJunk series, then there’s good news for you this holiday season. Not only is a new PixelJunk game being released, but old PixelJunk games are going on sale. Q-Games’ President and Executive Producer Dylan Cuthbert made the PixelJunk Shooter release PixelJunk bundle announcements on the PlayStation.Blog.

First, PixelJunk Shooter debuts today, December 10, 2009, on the PlayStation Store. It’s an action/shooting game that takes place underground…

It’s the holiday season, which means its prime time for shopping for gifts. Online shopping always makes things easier, and choosing an option where the place you’re buying from automatically sends the recipient your gift is even better. Its even easier if you decide to buy your favorite Wii owner a Virtual Console or WiiWare game from the Wii Shop Channel.

Nintendo created the Wii Shop channel so there are two options when browsing a game’s listing. You can either buy the game you’re looking at for yourself, or for your friend. The past few weeks have seen an extraordinary number of WiiWare and Virtual Console games added to the Wii Shop Channel, so there’s a great chance you can do some of your Hanukkah and Christmas shopping online.

If you both have Wiis, then the gift giving procedure is much easier. Now, since you two are already friends, you’ll likely have registered your Wiis with your friend codes. If you haven’t click the bottom right envelope icon on the Wii home screen, bring up the address book and enter your friend’s code

We all know and love Strapya World for stocking those ellusive and exotic video game cell phone charms and keychains that those of us living outside of Japan would never normally be able to acquire. The shop’s little novelties often make the perfect stocking stuffers and gifts. So, it’s great to hear that the Strapya 2010 fukubukuro Lucky Bags are now in stock.

In Japan, stores celebrate New Years with fukubukuro, lucky bags filled with a wide variety of stock from the previous year at a subtantially discounted price. The bags are typically 50-70% off of the normal price of all the items inside. Along with old, popular stock, the stores will also put in expensive, incentive items to try and get people to purchase them. Strapya’s bags for this year are no different.

One Strapya lucky bag will cost you $29.40, which may seem a bit pricey, but you have to figure that you’re going to get 15-16 items in there that would normally cost over $130. The catch is, you don’t know what 14 of the items are going to be. Every bag is guaranteed to have a simple, one stone cubic zirconia necklace, but you could also get a diamond chip cell phone strap or champaign diamond necklace.

Strapya stocks plenty of other video game related novelties that could make great stocking stuffers, if you don’t feel like taking a chance on a lucky bag…

The holidays are fast approaching. No matter what you celebrate, whether its Christmas, Hannukah, Festivus or some other winter holiday, there’s a good chance you may be considering purchasing a video game gift for someone on your list. Or, perhaps you’re putting together a wishlist to give to other people, and you’re not sure what you should include on it yet.

Gamertell wants to make shopping for PSP owners easier, so it’s time to present the 2009 PSP game gift guide. There are 15 of the best PSP releases of 2009 listed below, separated by ESRB rating, to look through. There’s also a link to the Gamertell review of each game, if one of our writers has played it. You may just find a game that could make a great gift.

To make things easier on prospective buyers, Gamertell’s gift guide only includes PSP games you can purchase UMDs of. Most are also available on the PlayStation Store…

Black Friday and Cyber Monday may have passed, but there’s a good chance you haven’t found all of the perfect gifts yet. If there’s a PSP owner on your list, perhaps a 2009 Japanese PSP release would make the perfect stocking stuffer. Important Importables is here to help out, with a 10 game gift guide filled with titles that could make someone very happy.

As with the DS gift guide, I’ve visited all of the import game sites I’ve discussed in the column in the past and trust to check for a price range. So when you check a game, you’ll also be able to see the highest and lowest prices out there. This also reaffirms the valuable, “Don’t buy JBox import games without checking other sites first” advice. ($80 for Persona 3 Portable and $88 for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva? That’s about $20 more than any other import site!)