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Game: 'Crayon Physics Deluxe'

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2009
Games: 'Maboshi's Arcade'
Here are three very simple -- perhaps too simple -- games based on geometric shapes.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009
Games: 'Art Style: Orbient'
There are three "Art Style" games on WiiWare, all featuring minimalist graphics and mellow soundtracks. "Orbient" is the most addictive of the three.

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2009
Games: 'Battlefield: Bad Company'
The fellows in B Company are a bunch of misfits who are essentially doomed to be cannon fodder in a war they don't even understand.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2009
Game: 'Singstar ABBA'

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2009
Games: 'You're in the Movies'
The gimmick in this game: the Xbox Live Vision Camera, which lets you insert video of yourself into the game.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2009
Game: 'Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party'
The "Rabbids" titles are collections of minigames, but they bring welcome doses of character and chaos to the increasingly stale genre.

MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009
Games: 'Popstar Guitar'
This game comes with a doohickey that connects to the Wiimote, giving it four large, colored buttons. You choose notes by pressing the buttons and strum by flicking the Nunchuk controller. It works fairly well.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 2009
Game: 'Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst'

FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2009
Games: 'Lips'
"SingStar" has found a niche of karaoke-loving PlayStation owners. "Lips" has a long way to go to catch up, but it's a worthy alternative for Xbox owners.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2009
Games: 'Rise of the Argonauts'
Who wouldn't want to step into the sandals of Jason, Hercules, Achilles and all those other Greek legends? It's a great idea for an RPG -- and one that Codemasters has completely botched.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2008
Games: 'Tetris Party'
Start playing this party game with your pals and you may never get them to walk away from your Wii again.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2008
Game: 'Mercenaries 2: World in Flames'
The satirical "Mercenaries" series eschews the heroic approach entirely: Its psychopathic protagonists care far less about duty or honor than they do about money.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2008
Game: 'Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood'
In this DS adventure, Knuckles the Echidna has been kidnapped, and Sonic and his friends uncover a millennia-old conspiracy when they set out to rescue him.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2008
Play this: 'The Last Remnant'

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