Hotel Dusk: Room 215 Brings a New Genre to the Nintendo DS

Hotel Dusk: Room 215, which will be available for the Nintendo DS in the U.S., on January 24, is a film noir-style detective story where players choose how the story unfolds by deciding how to react to plot elements within the game.

When you play Hotel Dusk, you hold your DS sideways, like a novel, to add to the experience of interacting with what Nintendo calls a "videogame book."