Dragons, Greek Mythology, Art and a bit of Racing and Arcade Action

This week’s Nintendo Download offers Greek mythology, grid-based strategy, high-speed racing, classic arcade action and a hand-held art course.

New to the DSiWare, Art Academy, a portable art course that anyone can enjoy offers up its second installment with Art Academy: Second Semester providing new and returning students with a larger set of tools and in-depth lessons designed to encourage the creation of more complex artwork. Next, DRAGON QUEST WARS is a grid-based strategy game featuring all of your favorite quirky DRAGON QUEST monsters, strategy is the key to victory here. RAWR!

For the WiiWare downloads we have ARKANOID Plus!, which is an updated version of the original arcade game along with Konami’s Wii-centric DRiiFT Mania the ultimate top-down multiplayer racing challenge.

Over on the Virtual Console we have a classic from Sega: “Rise from your grave!” When legendary Greek god Zeus brings you back to life with those famous words, you set forth on a mission to rescue his daughter, Athena, from the wicked God of the Underworld, Neff in Altered Beast,