Fossil Fighters has been added to the "Intend to Buy" section of the Nintendo Club. You can tell Nintendo that you intend to buy this game between July 10th and August 3rd. Doing this will earn you extra points when you register the game with Club Nintendo.

	System:	Nintendo DS
No. of Players:	2 players simultaneous
Release Date:	August 10, 2009
Publisher:	Nintendo
Developer:	RED Entertainment
Genre:	RPG, Collecting
ESRB Rating:

For those who don't know, Club Nintendo is part of Nintendo's offical website. Members of Club Nintendo can sign up for email alerts for new games, register their consoles to extend the warrenty, register their games to earn points, and spend their points for Nintendo products. These are nice bonuses for stuff you are buying anyway, so I recommend signing up if you don't already have an account.

Game Overview

Finding, Cleaning, Collecting and Fighting Dinosaurs

Fossil Fighters™ blends the timeless human fascination with dinosaurs with the fun of building a collection. The game lets players build a collection of more than 100 fantastical dinosaurs known as “vivosaurs.” This new game incorporates elements of discovery, tactics and strategy as players try to get the best vivosaurs on their teams to battle it out on the field.

• Players dig for fossils and use the touch screen of the Nintendo DS™ system to hammer, chip, drill and brush away the bits of rock around the fossil. When their efforts result in the buildup of dust, players blow into the Nintendo DS microphone to blow the dust away.
• The game rates players on how well they handle the fossils during the cleaning process. The more carefully and completely a player cleans a fossil, the more powerful the vivosaur will be in battle. Vivosaurs can also gain more power through battles.
• Players must collect various parts of each vivosaur. The head must be found first to bring a vivosaur to life while the body, arms and legs can be added to increase its power on the battlefield and imbue it with special powers.
• The game features an engrossing role-playing storyline and vast environments for players to explore.
• Players can connect wirelessly with friends to battle or trade their fossils.

I'm always willing to give weird stuff like this a try on the DS, but this seems eerily similiar to Pokemon, and that happens to not really be my cup of tea. I'll try it out though.

I might get this if I hear good things about it, I have a lot of stuff to get for my DS though so it won't be for a long while.... so I guess I don't intend to buy it in the timeframe they have :)

I may need to reword my post.  You don't need to buy the game in the timeframe I gave, just tell Nintendo that you plan to buy it.  It doesn't release until after that timeframe is over.

Fossil Fighters released yesterday in case anyone is interested.

I want it! Its the next DS game I'm going to get I'm only getting it because its made by nintnedo and is publish by them

I can't wait to get this game, its gonna be great!

Its RPG and you collect monsters sure its has the same basic idea though its diffrent way to do
things and I think its a great game