Nintendo announce its second quarter line up - but where is Zelda...

The software line-up for DS is set to growth in the coming months, according to the latest release schedule from Nintendo with no less than 23 titles confirmed for the second quarter of 2006 - between April and the end of June. Games such as Metroid Prime Hunters, Trauma Centre: Under the Knife, and NEW Super Mario Bros are all set to make an appearance by the beginning of the summer, and are sure to continue pushing sales of the system.

Looking rather sad in comparison is the list of titles set for a Q2 release on GameCube with a measly four titles: Harvest Moon: Magical Melody, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, ChibiRobo!, and Super Monkey Ball Adventure. One glaring omission however, and that's Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess...

Following the disappointment of millions of gamers with their announcement that the highly anticipated Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess had been delayed from a Winter 2005 release to 2006, Nintendo is continuing to tease and torture fans of the franchise and the more it's delayed the more it seems that the game may only be released when Revolution hits the stores at the end of the year.

The full list of second quarter titles are:

• Nintendo DS
• Prof. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? (Nintendo) - Q2
• Game Fortune Bag (Nintendo) (tentative title) - Q2
• Top Spin 2 (2K Sports) - April 7th
• Megaman Battle Network 5 Double Team DS (Capcom/Nintendo) - April 13th
• Electroplankton (Nintendo) - April 21st
• Tetris DS (Nintendo) - April 21st
• Tamagotchi (Bandai / ATARI) (Exclusive) - April 21st
• Pokémon Link! - April 28th
• Trauma Centre: Under the Knife (Nintendo) - April 28th
• Mini R/C Racing (Game Factory/K.E. Media) - April
• Harvest Moon DS (Marvelous/Rising Star Games/Nintendo) - Spring
• Beetle King (D3DB) - May 1st
• Gugu Gugu Naget (Digital Bros) - May 1st
• Metroid Prime Hunters (Nintendo) - May 5th
• Super Princess Peach (Nintendo) (tentative title) - May 26th
• Cameltry (Digital Bros) - May 30th
• Miss Spider (Game Factory/K.E. Media) - May
• Metroid Prime Pinball (Nintendo) - June
• Puzzloop (Nintendo) (tentative title) - June
• Brick'em all DS (D3DB) - June 30th
• Dragon Booster (Konami) - Q2
• New SUPER MARIO BROS. (Nintendo) - TBC
• Big Brain Academy (Nintendo) - TBC
• GameCube
• Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (Marvelous/Rising Star Games/Nintendo) - Spring
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Disney/Buena Vista Games) - April
• ChibiRobo! (tentative title) - May 26th
• Super Monkey Ball Adventure (SEGA) - June 2nd

So the question on everybody's lips is: When is Twilight Princess going to be released? At the moment Nintendo aren't ready to tell us so it's a return to the waiting game; might as well play some of the piles of games coming to the DS to pass the time...