It's a great day for Nintendo fans as the first Need for Speed game developed-specifically for the Wii and DS finally reaches the stores. After a long development schedule the team at EA Montreal are able to experience the pleasure of heading down to their local game store and seeing their endeavours proudly sitting on the shelves.

Need for Speed Nitro puts the gamer firmly back into street racing as you visit five of the most interesting cities in the world - Dubai, Singapore, Cairo, Madrid and Rio - to take on the local racers and find out if you're good enough to take their pink slips. As if racing against these guys wasn't tough enough you'll have to contend against the local police forces as they bid to clean their streets of illegal racers. When they were developing the game the team were keen to make this stand apart from other Need for Speed games so used their car list as one way to distinguish themselves as the game features a debut for the Telsa Roadster and some very unusual NFS cars from Renault and VW to name just a couple.

Last week we sat down with the producers of the game and quizzed them about Nitro. You can listen to the podcast on iTunes or check out our RSS feed here

The game is out now for all North American gamers. If you're reading this from Europe the game will be released in a couple of days on November 6th. Until then here are some new screens direct from the game team.