Nintendo's new media player, "Play Yan", launched yesterday in Japan, and a cool feature was also revealed.

The Play Yan media player, which allows music and movie playback on the GBA and DS, launched in Japan yesterday. Along with it, Nintendo opened a new section of their Play Yan site.

For your pleasure and amusement "Garage Games" are downloadable for the device, which can be saved to a Panasonic SD card via your PC. The first game available is Insect, and a new game will be unveiled each week until the twelve games are available. Upcoming games include BAT, which is a baseball-based game. A thirteenth game is available to Japanese Club Nintendo members only.

The download is around 650kb, and plays in a thumbnail sized area of your screen, where files are normally displayed.