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Just Dance Kids takes all the best features from the older Just Dance games and wraps them up a younger demographic. Keeping the classic Just Dance play style by choosing songs that suit the younger player make this ideal for young families... read now

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Just Dance Juniors takes all the best features from the older Just Dance games and wraps them up in both Nursery Rhythm and Classic Children's Pop. You have the option to see how age appropriate each song is and the dancers are all of the younger variety... read now

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Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 improve over the predecessor in seemingly every way, creating a good that looks - at first glance - like a retread of the same ground, but instead provides a far more compulsive journey... read now

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Skulls of the Shogun is a mash-up of strategy and action as well as sorcery and warfare. Featuring four-player local multiplayer and a seamless progress saving feature across Microsoft devices, this promises to be a unique title... read now

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Gears of War: Judgement is a return to the exciting and ultra-violent shooter series that earned a place alongside HALO in defining the Xbox 360 experience. A bigger co-op opportunity and improved replayablity could make this an instant classic... read now

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Pokemon X and Pokemon Y is the exciting new Pokemon adventure, the first made in 3D for the 3DS. Details hint at a whole new generation of Pokemon to capture, breed and train, potentially taking the new total to over 800!.. read now

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Street Fighter X Tekken marks the coming together of the fighting genre's two biggest names. Capcom's blend of styles creates a dynamic new experience to master, but the online elite are already dauntingly good... read now

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Elite: Dangerous is an update and sequel to the classic series of space trading and combat simulators which inspired a generation and a genre... read now

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Just Dance 4 comes to the Wii U with traditional Wii controls, bolstered by some new modes which use the Wii U control pad. In this FamilyGamerTV, we play this with our children and look at just why Just Dance 4 is the pick of the crop for families... watch now

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F1 Race Stars is a new cartoon-style interpretation of Formula One. FamilyGamerTV put the game into the hands of a family of F1 enthusiasts and see how they get on... watch now

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Nintendo Land is a flagship title for the new Wii U console, expected to demonstrate the variety and promise of the new controller. In these episodes of FamilyGamerTV, our whole family puts the game through its paces and we find a surprising level of longevity... watch now

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Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed is a launch day title for the WiiU. Although it is coming out on other platforms, FamilyGamerTV sat down to look at the amazing WiiU features which this game is exploiting... watch now

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With WiiU's release upon us, this edition of FamilyGamerTV reveals when we talked David Yarnton, former General Manager at Nintendo UK. We look at the intentions behind the console, some of the opportunities for new play and some hopes for the new platform... watch now

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Uncharted: Fight for Fortune is a card-game spin-off of the brilliant Uncharted series, for the PS Vita. It seems a world away from the gunplay and exploration of the main series, so how exactly will it work?.. read now

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Forza Horizon is an open-world take on the Xbox 360-only racing series and features an incredible amount of cars, terrain and detail... read now

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We all love Mario in our house. And on a rare occasion, we dig out the old Monopoly board for a round of tears and tantrums (and that's just me.) So the chance to play a game that's a mixture of the two was greeted with whoops of excitement... read now

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Need For Speed: Most Wanted is a recreation of a former Need For Speed classic, updated with modern features and the latest Need For Speed technology... read now

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Trials Evolution is the follow-up to the hugely popular and successful Trails HD, allowing you to fulfil your wildest Motorcross fantasies... read now

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Just Dance 4 has been around for a while, just getting into its stride with the inevitable Gangnam Style DLC hitting downloads now. Now it's available for the Wii U and comes with a few extras... read now

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while Kinect Sports: Season Two ultimately awaits, this week i thought i would take a trip back and contexualize next week's review by first revisiting the original Kinect Sports. cast your mind back then, if you will, to the winter of 2010: wooo-wavyflashbacklines-wooo... read now

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