A new news report has revealed that following the success of The Settlers on Nintendo DS over in Germany, a new version of the strategy series is heading to the portable in the form of The Settlers of Catan, which is based upon the original strategy board game.
Apparently this DS edition will actually be a port of the mobile phone title 'Catan: The First Island' that hit the airwaves earlier in 2008, although no details have been revealed about how the DS game will be updated. The mobile game has Bluetooth multiplayer, so local wireless on the DS has to be a given, although Wi-Fi play would obviously be ideal. The basic aim of the game is to develop settlements and collect resources, as well as conduct trading over time.
A video of the mobile edition can be seen above...