June 28^th, 2005 (1:58am) - Nintendo has announced that Bandai and Q Entertainment’s highly anticipated Meteos is now available for the Nintendo DS.

Publishing by Nintendo in North America, Meteos is an innovative new puzzle game for the Nintendo DS in which players use the styles and touch screen of the DS to move multicolored meteor blocks up and down the columns. When three blocks of the same color line up, they launch into the air with dramatic sound effects to help clear the board. Players will defend more than 30 different planets. Each one has its own aliens, theme music, meteor style and gravitational laws that affect game play.

"Meteos is great to play whether you’re heading to the beach for the day, or you have only a few minutes to spare," said George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. "If you’re hanging out with friends, its wireless functions let friends link together and play, even if only one of them has a Meteos game card."