[We round up the top console digital download news of the last week from GamerBytes, including brand-new game announcements and scoops from the world of Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, WiiWare, PSP Minis and DSiWare.]

Well, this week we'll be seeing the hardcore card battle game Panzer Generals and the incredibly casual game Tower Bloxx Deluxe for Xbox Live Arcade, and finally, finally, Trine is making its way to the United States on the PlayStation Network.

But over the past few days, there's been a bunch of other neat news in the console/handheld digital download space, including our regular monthly XBLA and PSN sales round-ups, new info on Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth for WiiWare, and Globulous coming to DSiWare.

Here's the top stories in the digital download space over the last seven days:

GamerBytes Originals

In-Depth: Xbox Live Arcade Sales Analysis, September 2009
"GamerBytes editor Ryan Langley examines September 2009's Xbox Live Arcade debuts and continuing successes, with charts and leaderboard data -- to find out what digital XBLA titles are flourishing into the Autumn."

In-Depth: North American PlayStation Network Sales Analysis, September 2009
"Following our look at Xbox Live Arcade, we now look at the top 10 digitally downloaded PlayStation 3 games for PlayStation Network."

Store Updates

XBLA Update - Axel & Pixel, Sam & Max: Beyond Time And Space, Hasbro Bargains
NA PSN Store Update - Mushroom Wars, Buzz Jr. Monster Rally, Topatoi, Detuned, Tomb Raider: TLR
EU PSN Store Update - Mushroom Wars, Wipeout HD Bundle, Detuned, UNO, Yeti Sports
NA Nintendo Update - Pulse Pinball DSi, Gravitronix, Final Fight 2
EU Nintendo Update - Little Tournament Over Younder, Heron: Steam Machine, Viking Invasion, Wakugumi, Return Of The Jedi

The two-man team at Alientrap Software have announced their next project Capsized will be coming to the Xbox 360 in 2010.

This side scrolling platformer has a unique artstyle and setting, and will including numerous shooting and physics based puzzles along the ride. The game reminds me of the old Metroid games with a bit of Xbox Live Indie Games' Weapon Of Choice
with a dash of Halloween Harry / Alien Carnage.

Currently the game is being developed on the XNA platform, so it will likely appear on the XBL Indie Games, but the developer is currently looking to get through the Xbox Live approval process before turning to it.

Tower Bloxx Deluxe

"Discover all 6 massive game modes of this addictive smash-hit! The action-puzzle phenomenon is played by millions on the web, but Xbox Live players get the full HD experience with revolutionary social scoring, avatar support, power ups, and even multiplayer. Get ready for edge of your seat action that'll have you creating swaying, tipping and tumbling towers sky-high."

Tower Bloxx Deluxe will be available this Wednesday for 800 Microsoft Points

Click here for the official trailer for the game.

Panzer General: Allied Assault

"Panzer General is back with an all-new turn-based strategy game in Panzer General: Allied Assault! For the first time on Xbox LIVE Arcade, recreate actual battles during the last phase of World War II and experience the dramatic events of D-Day as they unfold in your hands. Build, customize, and fight with your personalized deck of 60 cards. Play with a friend in multiplayer mode, gain access to special units and cards, and become a Panzer General."

Panzer General: Allied Assault will be available this Wednesday for 800 Microsoft Points

Click here for a look at Panzer General in action.

Magic The Gathering: Dual The Dragon Expansion

Duel Magic’s iconic dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas with the brand new downloadable content featuring: Three new playable decks, including Tezzeret’s “Relics of Doom” Planeswalker deck, Three new unlockable cards for each of the eight original decks, New Two-Headed Giant co-op levels and Three new puzzling challenge levels.

The DLC will be available this Wednesday for 400 Microsoft Points.

A new update to Calling All Cars reveals that the online mode will be taken down early next year.

The game, created by David Jaffe's Incognito Entertainment, was one of the first PSN games to become available. It sported some simple-yet-challenging gameplay where you captured crooks and brought them back to the station without losing them. It was also one of the few PSN games to take full advantage of the online abilities on the console.

On the 14th of January 2010 the servers will come down. The game has probably not seen a lot of online action in the past year which is a little dissapointing, but it will still be available and still be playable with local multiplayer.

Now to figure out just what Jaffe's team are actually working on now. Perhaps they'll have a new game out by that time? I'm dreaming, I know.

Source: DJ Crimson via NeoGAF.

Lost Winds - Winter of the Melodias

Nintendo Points:1,000
Game Type: Platformer
Control Type: Wii Remote, Nunchuk
Players: 1
Publisher: Frontier

"LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias is the follow up to 2008’s best-selling, award-winning WiiWare launch title ‘LostWinds’. In this new adventure players are able to instantly transform Mistralis between Summer and Winter, harnessing the brilliance of nature: frozen Winter ponds and waterfalls become deep, teeming Summer pools and chambers in which to dive and unlock secrets, enemies can be frozen or doused, and the very air itself used to form snowballs or moisture-laden clouds. Other amazing new abilities include the cyclone, which can be used to transport Toku, smash powerful enemies and even drill through the rocks of the Mistralis’ diverse, richly interactive Chilling Peaks and Melodia City areas"

View the teaser for Lost Winds - Winter of the Melodias here.

Shootanto: Evolutionary Mayhem

Nintendo Points:500
Game Type: Shooter
Control Type: Wii Remote, Nunchuk
Players: 1-2
Publisher: Hudson Entertainment

"Battle for the future in a world governed by the law of the jungle. As you move through the stages, your character evolves and your weapons and shooting abilities change. First, throw weapons by hand, then proceed to use tools and different types of projectiles. A cooperative two-player mode is also available. The controls are simple: Move the character with the control stick, adjust the crosshairs with the Wii Remote controller and shoot down targets while dodging enemy attacks. Getting hit by an enemy bullet or touching an enemy close to you will count as a miss. With each miss, you'll lose one heart; losing all hearts will end the game."

Click here for some footage of Shootanto in action.

RYGAR

Format: Arcade
Nintendo Points: 600
Game Type: Action
Players: 1-2
Publisher: Tecmo

?The year is 19XX A.D. and the human race has been brought to its knees by the resurrected ancient Beast Lord. The people have brought legendary warrior Rygar back to life in order to save the human race. Armed with Diskarmor, a weapon that extends, you'll also make full use of your jumping abilities to venture through and clear all 27 stages. Appearing at arcades in 1986 as a side-scrolling action game, RYGAR received high acclaim for its beautifully rendered graphics, including waterfalls and a setting sun. As extra features, players can collect the five Powers of Indra to obtain special bonuses or gain 1,000,000 bonus points for finding hidden items. Also, the number of lives and the level of difficulty can be altered."

Click here for a video of Rygar Arcade in action.

Crash-Course Domo

Nintendo Points: 200
Game Type: Sports
Players: 1
Publisher: Nintendo

"In Crash-Course Domo, you'll guide Domo across the finish line in six increasingly difficult bicycle races. Steer Domo around other racers and patches of rough terrain, pedaling as fast as his stubby legs will allow."

For a quick look at all the Domo DSiWare games, watch this trailer.

Tower Bloxx Deluxe

Developer: Digital Chocolate
Publisher: Digital Chocolate
Genre: Big Button-Enabled Games
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Availability: Worldwide
File Size: 70 MB

Click here for the official Xbox.com splash page.

Click here to add the game to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.

Panzer General Allied Assault

Developer: Petroglyph Games, Inc.
Publisher: Ubisoft Entertainment
Genre: Strategy and Sims
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Availability: Worldwide
File Size: 237 MB

Click here for the official Xbox.com splash page.

Click here to add the game to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.

Magic The Gathering: Dual The Dragon Expansion

"Duel Magic’s iconic dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas with the brand new downloadable content featuring: Three new playable decks, including Tezzeret’s “Relics of Doom” Planeswalker deck, Three new unlockable cards for each of the eight original decks, New Two-Headed Giant co-op levels and Three new puzzling challenge levels."

Price: 400 Microsoft Points
File Size: 664 KB

Click here to add the game to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.

Fluffy Logic, via the PlayStation Blog, have revealed that their PSN title Savage Moon will be getting its own new campaign on the PSP.

Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign will include 20 brand new levels with two new species of Insectocyte to deal with, and a Vengeance variant mode of each level.

This PSP specific version of the game will likely be a PlayStation Network exclusive title, and for the most part looks pretty good. Hopefully we'll see some video of it in action soon.

Source: PlayStation Blog

The German USK rating system has updated, and it included a welcome surprise - the reveal that Muscle March is coming to the West!

What's Muscle March? It's beyond description, just watch this and be amazed. Namco Bandai are publishing it, much like the Japanese version, and while there's no official confirmation of it coming to the States, it almost certainly will.

The organizers of the 2010 Independent Games Festival are reminding entrants that there's one week left before the Nov. 1st main deadline, revealing over 100 entries and new specifics on the Nuovo prize.

Entries to the 12th Annual IGF's Main Competition are due by 11.59pm PST on November 1st, with submissions accepted for easy digital submission from game creators worldwide, in multiple PC, computer and console formats.

Games selected as finalists for the world's leading independent games competition will be available in playable form on the GDC 2010 show floor and will compete for nearly $50,000 in prizes, including awards for Excellence in Design, Art, the Audience Award and the coveted $20,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize. Winners will be announced on stage at the prestigious Independent Games Festival Awards on Thursday, March 11, 2010.

As well as the Main Competition entry deadline on the 1st, organizers are reminding that games are due for submission in the free to enter Student Showcase category by November 15th, 2009, and entries to the IGF Mobile competition -- encompassing iPhone, mobile phone, PSP, DS, Android and other handheld games -- are due by December 1st, 2009.

Over the past couple of months a Japanese Indie developer going by Alpha Secret Base has been releasing their PC games onto the Xbox Live Indie Games platform. There are now 5 games available, so we thought we'd give you a quick rundown of each. Some of them are side scrolling platformers with a twist, or top-down block pushers, but all of them are 80MSP ($1) and all quite worth their money.

Green Island
Price: 80MSP ($1)

Green Island is a quick puzzle platforming game where you have to collect all of the objects on the screen, difference here being that you collect them by jumping on bubbles that you shoot.

Click here to add the game to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.

Kaiten Patissier
Price: 80MSP ($1)

You control a girl who much collect all the candy in each level - but you also can rotate the world around, so every surface becomes a platform. There are 50 different levels to complete in here.

Click here to add the game to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.

Golgoth Studios have taken it upon themselves to recreate Toki, a classic 1989 arcade game and one nobody expected to make a return.

The original game, made by the now-defunct TAD Corporation, followed Toki, a man-turned-ape with the ability to spit a variety of Flem at enemies - a mixture of platforming and shmup gameplay which was not very relevant back in that decade.

The game hasn't particularly aged well graphics wise, so Golgoth Studios have upped the ante by giving the game a complete makeover, which looks spectacular. I'm not quite convinced that a straight remake is the answer, but we'll see if the developer decided to change things up a bit and improve on the original.

The game is currently looking to come to the PC and the Xbox Live Arcade, however the game has not been given the green light for XBLA just yet, so if it doesn't get the go-ahead it may appear on other platforms. We'll hopefully hear the official word soon.

Red Bull X-Fighters

Category: Racing
Publisher: Xendex Holding GMBH
Players: 1
Price: £3.99 / €4.99 / $8.45AUD

"Experience spectacular and gravity-defying FMX stunt action in Red Bull X-Fighters. Pull off jaw-dropping tricks and wow the crows in your attempts to finish the World Tour as Champion! The Red Bull X-Fighters freestyle motorcross series has established itself as the world's leading FMX event which sees the best riders of the world pull off breathtaking tricks at heights of up to 40ft in the air."

Special Offers

Riff Everyday Shooter (PS3) (£3.99 / €4.99 / $8.45AUD)
Future Cop: LAPD 2100AD (PSone Classic) (£2.39 / €2.99 / $4.95AUD)
Syndicate Wars (PSone Classic) (£2.39 / €2.99 / $4.95AUD)
Hi-Octane (PSone Classic) (£2.39 / €2.99 / $4.95AUD)
Championship Bass (PSone Classic) (£2.39 / €2.99 / $4.95AUD)
Street Skater (PSone Classic) (£2.39 / €2.99 / $4.95AUD)
Street Skater 2 (PSone Classic) (£2.39 / €2.99 / $4.95AUD)

PictureBook Games™: Pop-Up Pursuit

Nintendo Points: 800
Game Type: Board Game
Control Type: Wii Remote
Players: 1-4
Publisher: Nintendo

"Enter the world of PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit and enjoy a family board game set in a pop-up picture book. Instead of simply rolling dice to move along the map, you'll use cards (which can help or hinder progress) and coins (useful for buying more cards, but don't forget about your Coin Bonus at the end of the game). Spaces on the map play an important role in the game's outcome, and your computer-controlled opponents exhibit different personalities and behavior. Occasionally, the mysterious Book of Magick will be opened, causing an event that may change according to how you play. This mixture of exciting game play and charming, artistic atmosphere give Pop-Up Pursuit high replay value and unique depth—even if its characters are flat."

Protöthea

Nintendo Points: 1,000
Game Type: Shooter
Control Type: Wii Remote, Nunchuk
Players: 1
Publisher: UbiSoft

"Protöthea is a top-down scrolling shooter game with free movement that puts players in complete control of a last-generation spaceship. The mission is to destroy the asteroid called Maqno 01 and finish with the plans of The Core. UbiSoft's Protöthea introduces new concepts to a beloved, classic game style while mixing genres and utilizing the full capabilities of the Wii console, from graphics to controls. Players of all ages and experience levels will enjoy taking command of their ship, blasting through four different worlds in 10 challenging missions. Use your weapons arsenal and the special bonus items to help you accomplish your mission, and don't forget to slow down time and take an edge over the enemy."

Shinobi

Original platform:Arcade
Publisher: Sega
Wii Points 800

"As the ninja Shinobi (Joe Musashi) you must stop the criminal organization known as Zeed, who have kidnapped the children of the Oboro clan. Test your ninja skills through five missions of increasing difficulty, and make your way to Zeed's headquarters to free all the hostages. The Ring of Five, the leaders of Zeed, are determined to stop you as you face off against one of them at the end of each stage."

Combat Of Giants: Dragons: Bronze Edition

Nintendo Points: 800
Game Type: Adventure
Players: 1-4
Publisher: Ubisoft

"After centuries of war, humans have defeated dragons. To prevent dragons from gathering their hidden fortune and strength, they have divided their land into four different elements: Fire, Ice, Earth and Wind. Rogue dragons without gems have seized their opportunity to attack and kill the noble dragons. As the last heir of the noble dragons, you have to defeat the rogue dragons. Find all the gems and reunite the dragons’ kingdom!

"Exclusively designed for Nintendo DSiWare, you take control of one of these mythical creatures and, as a noble dragon, seek revenge against the rogue dragons of the land. Customise your dragon to your taste and then explore the land, searching for gems and ready to take on enemies with a real-time combat system. Then get together with up to three of your friends and organise duels and tournaments to see whose dragon on the king of the beasts."

A Little Bit of... Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training™: Arts Edition

Nintendo Points: 800
Game Type: Edutainment
Players: 1
Publisher: Nintendo

"Dr Kawashima brings his popular brain exercise software to Nintendo DSi, with fun, new features and the return of many Brain Training favourites! Choose between two disciplines, Arts or Maths, to train your brain in different ways with your Nintendo DSi.

"A Little Bit of... Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training: Arts Edition features various challenges based on words, pictures and music that you can use regularly to keep your brain sharp in just a few minutes a day. As well as training, you can also relax with a game of Germ Buster. Or try the new Themes Mode, where you can practise your acting and drawing skills using the Nintendo DSi Camera, Touch Screen and microphone!"

Trine

Category: Action Platformer
Publisher: Nobilis
Players: 1
Price: $19.99

"Trine is a fantasy action / platform game where the player can create and use physics-based objects to beat hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies. Three heroes are bound to a mysterious device called the Trine in a quest to save the kingdom from evil and the player can at any time freely choose whoever is best suited for the upcoming challenge or puzzle."

Click here for a trailer of Trine in action.

Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee

Category: Action Platformer
Publisher: SCEA
Players: 1
Price: $9.99

"In a world filled with danger, carnivores, meat-packing plants, and guards with guns…you’re the skinny guy with no weapons. Download this PSone classic game today to run, jump, hide, and talk your way to safety and try to save your race!"

Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus

Category: Action Platformer
Publisher: SCEA
Players: 1
Price: $9.99

"SoulStorm brewery is using Mudokon tears as a key ingredient in their latest best-selling beverage. Download this PSone classic game now to help Abe save them before they cry themselves into extinction!"

Critter Crunch Demo

"Critter Crunch is an award winning, arcade-style puzzle game, starring the loveable Biggs. Using his long, sticky tongue to grab critters from vines, he feeds them to each other until they burst, dropping tasty jewels. Players will eat their way through a smorgasbord of levels and gorge on a feast of modes, including Co-op and Versus multiplayer."


Lumines Supernova Holiday Pack

Price: $2.49

"This LUMINES Supernova download pack contains 20 special holiday-themed skins! Seasons greetings from Q Entertainment!"

Lumines Supernova Bundle Pack (contains the Classic Pack and Holiday Pack)

Price: $4.99

Mahjongg Artifacts: Chapter 2

Publisher: G5 Entertainment
Price: $3.99

"Mahjongg Artifacts: Chapter 2 is a highly addictive tile-matching game that takes mahjong games in an exciting new direction! Pair up tiles to dismantle hundreds of layouts. Utilize a selection of ground-breaking powerups, earn trophies, and enjoy the game's beautiful graphics and rich audio. There's more than enough tile-matching action in Mahjongg Artifacts 2 to have fun for months!"

Vempire

Publisher: Impressionware
Price: $4.99

"Vempire (Vampire + Empire) is a casual puzzle game with added strategy. It is more than a classic "match three" type of game. In your quest to become the kind of the monsters you will be able to collect artefacts, powers and summon creatures to help you. Strategy will be required to tackle the various different levels and the monsters you will encounter."

Lumines Supernova Permanent Price Drop

Price: Was $14.99 now $9.99

Burnout Paradise Temporary Price Drop

Price: Was $19.99 now $14.99

Siren Halloween Sale!

Price: Full game now $29.99, originally $39.99 – three bundles now $11.99, originally $14.99

On this week's episode of GameTrailers TV, aside from the BioShock 2 coverage, they showed off the first footage of Matt Hazard's XBLA and PSN game - and it looks a lot like Shadow Complex.

It's your side scrolling run-and-gun gameplay, but more levels based than Shadow Complex's giant map. Each level is set to draw 'inspiration' from games like Mario and Mirror's Edge, while at the same time have you mow down legions of Canadian Mounties and Sailors in Short Shorts.

Sounds good.

In our latest employment-specific round-up, we highlight some of the notable jobs posted in big sister site Gamasutra's industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Bungie, Harmonix and more.

Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site's daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly.

It will also be cross-posted for free across its network of submarket sites, which includes content sites focused on online worlds, cellphone games, 'serious games', independent games and more.

Some of the notable jobs posted this week include:

Harmonix Music Systems: Senior Technical Artist
"Harmonix is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to research and develop techniques that will increase the efficiency of our artists and allow us to continually advance the bold artistic style of our games. Located in Cambridge, MA, Harmonix is the developer of award-winning and widely-acclaimed music and rhythm games like the recently-released The Beatles: Rock Band."

Bungie: Senior Network Engineer
"Bungie requires the skills and services of a ruthlessly competent Senior Network Engineer to help us build on our already-dizzying heights of netcode excellence. Do you obsess over the number of bits required to replicate a unit vector?... Have you ever estimated the upstream and downstream bandwidth requirements for a socket into the Matrix? Bring us your brilliance, bring us your fire! Together we will conquer the speed of light and distill order from chaos."

Arkedo have released their second Xbox Live Indie Game - SWAP! A puzzle game with a simple and fun art direction.

The game plays similarly to XBLA's own Poker Smash or Nintendo's Puzzle League series where you swap colored blocks to connect 4 in a row, but in SWAP! you can swap blocks horizontally and vertically to create elaborate combos and remove everything from the screen.

It has a very colorful art style and includes a "Castle" story mode, a regular arcade mode and plenty of challenges to complete, all for 240MSP, of $3.

Click here to add the trial game to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.

As of today, the 200MSP price point no longer exists on the Xbox Live Indie Games. Hence, any game that was still sitting at that price is now only 80MSP - a single dollar. Now is the time to get some bargains, and we're here to help. All the games below are now going for cheap, so give them a shot.

Miner Dig Deep

Developer: Robir
Genre: Action & Adventure
File Size: 10 MB

"Dig and expand your mine to find greater treasures from the depths. Build the deepest mine so you can make your fortune in rare gems and metals from the earth below."

Click here to add to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.

Dock'em

Developer: QuantumSquid
Genre: Strategy & Simulation
File Size: 11 MB

"Dock'em is an addictively simple game that will tap every ounce of your multi-tasking ability. You will be responsible for safely navigating multiple ships into their correct ports while avoiding collisions with land and other boats. Share your times online over Xbox LIVE and compete for ship docking supremacy."

Click here to add to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.

Halfbrick Echoes

Developer: Halfbrick
Genre: Action & Adventure
File Size: 50 MB

"Pac-man meets Braid in this surreal arcade game where every step counts! Race to grab crystals while dodging the deadly Echoes stalking your footsteps. A part of the Halfbrick Fridays program."

Click here to add to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.

Fruit Attack

Developer: ScrumThorax
Genre: Puzzle & Trivia
File Size: 19 MB

"Match falling pieces of fruit to make combinations in this arcade puzzle game. Four 1-player game modes are available, including Quest Mode, which presents a series of interesting gameplay challenges. Battle Mode allows you to play against a computer opponent. Two split-screen 2-player game modes are also available."

Click here to add to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.

ZP2K9

Developer: Jamezila
Genre: Platformer
File Size: 19 MB

"ZP2K9 is a super-crazy multiplayer sidescroller. Play Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and King of the Hill with 13 devastating weapons and 6 grenade types including Akimbo SMGs, the freeze gun, gas grenades, and the enemy-splattering MIRV."

Click here to add to your queue via Xbox web marketplace.