Disney continues to stand behind their answer to the Pokémon, releasing a series of junior novels based in the Spectrobes universe.

Staff at Disney Interactive Japan & Jupiter Corp hand picked their 'favourite' new creatures for the wholly un-Pokemon-like monster egg archaeology game Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals. Each of the eggs will be available for download at a cost of one point each. Interestingly (to me, anyway - feel free to form your own…

Last year's Spectrobes on DS sold around a million copies, but I have heard tell that critics found it lacking in substance a bit. From what I saw at Disney Interactive's E3 booth, though, they've fleshed things out.