We announce the games you'll be playing with people around the world on your DS from the end of this year.

Cube-Europe reported earlier that DS versions of Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and Tony Hawk games were all planned by the year's end. These will indeed be the first to utilise the "Nintendo� Wi-Fi Connection", which is described as "a groundbreaking portable, wireless gaming network".

"Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection has an immediate user base of more than 5 million Nintendo DS owners worldwide, and it's growing every day," says George Harrison of , Nintendo of America, who commented on the strong points of the service today in the E3 Conference, explaining the service would use very easy setup procedures and would not need added service fees.

Nintendo and it's Wi-Fi Connection partner IGN Entertainment's new network will mean any gamer can connect wirelessly at any Wi-Fi hub, find their friends and begin racing, battling or chatting as easily as if they were sitting in the same room. You'll also be able to post high scores and even have some online storage space to save game data.

More than 25 publishers worldwide are working on titles that will use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, and currently here is the known list of who is working on what. Although many companies have yet to announce the names of their projects, the list of prolific companies alone who are definitely working on Wi-fi games should please any DS owner.

• Activision - Tony Hawk (working title)
• Atari - TBA
• Bandai - Mobile Suit Gundam (working title), Digimon World (working title)
• Banpresto - TBA
• Buena Vista - TBA
• Capcom - TBA
• Electronic Arts - TBA
• FromSoftware - Tenchu DS (working title)
• Hudson - Bomberman (working title)
• Momotaro - Dentetsu World (working title)
• Koei - Dynasty Warriors DS (working title)
• Konami � World Soccer Winning Eleven Series, Jikkyo Powerful Proyakyu (working title), Castlevania Series (working title)
• Majesco - TBA
• Marvelous Interactive Inc. - Bokujou Monogatari (working title), Rune Factory (working title), Contact (working title), RealTimeStrategy (working title)
• Mastiff - TBA
• Namco - New RPG (working title)
• Nintendo - Animal Crossing DS, Mario Kart DS, and many more TBA.
• Sega � TBA
• Spike - Professional Wrestling (working title)
• Square Enix - Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (working title)
• Taito - TBA
• Take 2 (2K Games) - TBA
• Telegames - TBA
• THQ - TBA
• Ubisoft - TBA
• Vivendi - TBA