Princess Bride Game
Windows PC

Water-fetching, cliffs that'll drive you insane, unusually large rodents, blathe, land wars in Asia, omitting a wheelbarrow from a list of assets... sound familiar? Princess Bride Game brings it all back.

Blast Works
Wii

As the likes of RPG Maker and Fighter Maker date back to the mid-90's, Majesco's Blast Works is not the first game of game design, but is it the first to bust out of the swamp of casual mediocrity on Wii to offer something that is still expectedly "casual" yet elaborately interactive, too.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
PlayStation 3

If you're old enough to remember the incept of the Metal Gear chronicles, dude, u r old. But Snake's right there with you in the new, epic finale, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, which is so not a whimper.

Ninja Gaiden II
Xbox 360

If you like your decapitations with a fountainous blood-spurt chaser, your severed limbs to do a little death-throe wiggle, your dismembered torsos to work as projectiles in a pinch, then oh boy, is Ninja Gaiden II for you.

Kung Fu Panda
PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360

There's nothing quite like gathering the family together on the couch, firing up the oh-so wholesome Wii and then beating the crap out of all creatures great and small. And cuddly.

SingStar
PlayStation 3

While several SingStar karaoke games for PlayStation2 have allowed Sony's previous-generation console to enjoy significant, reinvented success as a party-game machine, bringing the franchise to the high-powered, new-generation PlayStation3 isn't all that. Simply put, SingStar on PlayStation3 is a devout underachiever.