On Shelves This Month: holy crap that’s a lot!

In a rather interesting turn of events, publishers have seemingly decided to turn March into the melting pot of major releases. We’ve already covered it a while back, but the surge of announcements since then have added much in the bunch. March has rolled in and if you have any plans of keeping up with the latest, your wallet is going to hurt real bad. For this special ed of On Shelves, we’ll be skipping the shovelware to get right down to the big guns firing this month.

In a rather interesting turn of events, publishers have seemingly decided to turn March into the melting pot of major releases. We’ve already covered it a while back, but the surge of announcements since then have added much in the bunch. March has rolled in and if you have any plans of keeping up with the latest, your wallet is going to hurt real bad. For this special ed of On Shelves, we’ll be skipping the shovelware to get right down to the big guns firing this month.

Whether it’s a game, new hardware, or even DLC, scroll through the list and pick your poison.

March 1

• Mega Man 10 (Capcom) – Wii
• Rayman 2: The Great Escape (Gameloft) – iPhone

March 2

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (EA) – PS3, Xbox 360, PC
• Blur (Bizarre Creations) – beta keys handed out for PS3, Xbox 360, PC
• Dante’s Inferno (EA) – PSP
• Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (GameArts, XSeed) – PSP
• MLB 10 The Show (SCEA) – PS3
• MLB 2K10 (2K Sports) – Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, DS, Wii, PC, PS2
• Resident Evil 5 “Desperate Escape” and second costume pack DLC (Capcom) – Xbox 360
• Sonic Classic Collection (Sega) – DS
• Supreme Commander 2 (Square Enix) – PC

March 4

• Just Cause 2 demo (Eidos) – PS3, Xbox 360, PC
• MLB 2K10 demo (2K Sports) – PS3
• Resident Evil 5 “Desperate Escape” and second costume pack DLC (Capcom) – PS3

March 8

• Blur (Bizarre Creations) – multiplayer beta for PS3, Xbox 360, PC
• Monster Hunter Tri demo disc (Capcom) – Wii

March 9

• Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix) – PS3, Xbox 360
• Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (Capcom) – PS3 (disc), Xbox 360 (vouchers)
• Yakuza 3 (Sega) – PS3 (North America)

March 11

• Mega Man 10 (Capcom) – PS3
• Warhammer: 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising (THQ) – PC

March 12

• Yakuza 3 (Sega) – PS3 (Europe)

March 14

• Pokémon HeartGold, SoulSilver (Nintendo) – DS (North America)

March 16

• God of War III (SCEA) – PS3 (North America)
• Resonance of Fate (Sega, tri-Ace) – PS3, Xbox 360 (North America)

March 17

• Perfect Dark – Xbox 360

March 18

• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Kojima Productions) – PSP (Japan)
• Torne PS3 DVR (Japan)

March 19

• God of War III – PS3 (Europe)

March 23

• Just Cause 2 (Eidos) – PS3, Xbox 360, PC
• Red Steel 2 (Ubisoft) – Wii (North America)

March 24

• Xbox Game Room (Microsoft) – Xbox 360

March 25

• God of War III (SCEA) – PS3 (Japan)
• Pokémon HeartGold, SoulSilver (Nintendo) – DS (Australia)

March 26

• Pokémon HeartGold, SoulSilver (Nintendo) – DS (Europe)
• Red Steel 2 (Ubisoft) – Wii (Europe)
• Resonance of Fate (Sega, tri-Ace) – PS3, Xbox 360 (Europe)

March 28

• DSi XL (North America)

March 30

• Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City (Rockstar Games) – PS3, PC

March 31

• Mega Man 10 (Capcom) – Xbox 360

Still unspecified

• BioShock 2 “Sinclair Solutions Test Pack” DLC (2K Games) – PS3, Xbox 360, PC
• Dead or Alive: Paradise (Tecmo) – PSP (Japan, North America)
• Mass Effect 2 “Firewalker” and “Hammerhead” DLC (BioWare) – Xbox 360
• Street Fighter IV (Capcom) – iPhone