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FAMILY karaoke will never be the same again.
Get the earplugs in and prepare for a winter blast of Lady Gaga, Coldplay and Amy Winehouse numbers to batter the eardrums.
An all-new Wii adventure for the popular Spore franchise and not before time.
My three-year-old girl is so obsessed with Peppa Pig she even calls me Daddy Pig.
That may have something to do with my love of crisps though I guess.
If you have young children and you have a Wii it's a fair bet that this game is on your radar anyway already.
I LOVE the daft but fun BBC show Total Wipepout, so was more than a little excited to receive The Ultimate Red Ball Challenge for the Wii.
Most film to game adaptations are firmly in the category marked 'If you have a bargepole don't touch this'.
When legendary gaming figure Archer McLean and Fallout 3 producer Bethesda have their names attached to a game you quite rightly get excited.
In this case the excitement was fairly short-lived.
Once again Disney are sending us back to Radiator Springs and this time it's for some high octane racing.
I love the fact that this game strives to do something a bit different from the norm.
I also love the fact that it is set in medieval times and is based around a series of minigames totaly befitting of the era. Such delights await you
as Jousting, sword fighting etc.
The Wii is widely regarded as THE family console and quite rightly the games companies do their level best to deliver games that fit the bill.
Last year EA released a compendium of classic Hasbro games in Wii format.
This year they have added some more games in the mix for a new bout of family fun.
The offerings this time around are Operation, Bop It, Jenga, Connect 4 and Connect 4x4, and Pictureka.
Using the Wii-mote to extract things from the body is perfect and using it for Bop It feels almost as good as the real thing.
All of the games play reasonably well with good graphics good invention.
The family game show round at the end hosted by Mr Potato Head is inspired and a nice touch to an already solid format.
One of the biggest surprises to land on my doorstep in recent weeks, and you should have seen my daughter's mobile phone bill!
I hadn't seen this game on the release schedule but rarely have I seen the kids happier playing a game.
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Steve Wollaston - Sunday Mercury games reviewer Steve has been writing about video games for donkey's years. In fact he is probably far too old for it now which is why you will see a lot of reviews been done by kids... He was recently nominated for Regional Games Journalist Of The Year at the Games Media Awards which he believes was a fluke. His major love is sports games and rates Sensible World of Soccer circa 90's as the greatest game ever made - closely followed by Championship Manager 2.
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