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With all the chatter about Nintendo's 3DS press release, there's a few smaller announcements today that might just be overlooked. Why not take a quick look at today's NewsBit in order to catch up?

In addition to their 3DS announcement, Nintendo also announced America's Test Kitchen: Let's Get Cooking will be released next Sunday, March 28th, alongside the DSi XL and Wario Ware: DIY. The title will act as an interactive cookbook, with videos, prompts, and audio instructions to help prepare many of the 300 included recipes. In addition, tidy chefs can utilize the DS microphone to navigate menus and keep their handheld clean, while more ambitious ones can even record their own notes into the software.

SwitchGames.com launched their peer-to-peer videogame buying and selling today with the guarantee that gamers will receive payment for every sale, or will reimbursed if the seller never sends the game, no questions asked. In addition, industry enthusiasts will actually have the option to donate a percentage of the cash from a sale directly to game publishers, an opportunity that seems to be the first in the used games business.

Today, several games were released in North America, ranging many genres, from Puzzle to FPS: Puzzle fans might want to look for Hudson's Rooms: The Main Building, released simultaneously for the Wii and DS, a title in which players navigate sliding puzzles utilizing various items in order to escape a series of mansions.

Activision has released How To Train Your Dragon on the Xbox360, PS3, Wii, and DS, an adaptation of DreamWorks Animation's upcoming movie. How To Train Your Dragon offers the player the opportunity to explore the Island of Berk and even customize his or her own dragon through upgrades found through the title.

Just Cause 2, the Square-Enix action-based sandbox title for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, saw it's debut, as well. Just Cause 2 features action-oriented gameplay, with a dual-headed grappling hook, capable of tethering to just about everything in the game, and a reloadable parachute, allowing for fast travel all over the game's map. In the title, Rico Rodriguez aims to thwart an evil dictator on a tropical island in Southeast Asia.

Also on the PS3 and Xbox 360 is Capcom's MotoGP 09/10. The title combines tracks and racers from the MotoGP '09 season with the promise of free DLC updates for the '10 season as it unfolds. In addition to racing, players can manage a team of engineers and press officers to build a better reputation and secure sponsorships for their rider.

Rounding out today's more interesting releases is Ubisoft's Red Steel 2, the first person shooter-sword fighting hybrid game, by Ubisoft, for the Wii. The game utilizes the Wii Motion+ for more realistic and responsive swordfighting, and features a setting that could be described as the hybridization of the Wild West and the Far East, with stylistic cel-shaded graphics.