Battlefield: Bad Company
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Battlefield: Bad Company has you and three military misfit buddies getting tossed to the wolves as disposable manpower. Thankfully, said buddies don't die... but they don't shut up much either. Top Spin 3
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 If you're a tennis fan, the lack of Rafael Nadal in the Xbox 360 version of Top Spin 3 is probably not enough to make you swap allegiances and become a PlayStation3 loyalist, but it is a stinger. If you're not a tennis fan, Top Spin 3 on either system (and excluding Wii) might make you one. Top Spin 3
Wii Not to be confused with a great tennis simulation, Top Spin 3 is a great tennis simulation... that is, unless you're talking this here Wii version of the game, which is not a great tennis simulation, it's just based on one. Wall-E
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Though based on a film from Pixar, the production company that wrote the book on computer generated pathos, Wall-E as a game just can't muster much semblance of similitude, particularly with the "enduring" thing, though it tries admirably. Wacky Races: Crash & Dash
Wii If you're old enough to remember watching 60s-era Hanna-Barbara cartoons on Saturday mornings, take off the rose-colored spectacles o' nostalgia for a minute and recall how crappy they really were. Wacky Races on Wii is like that, only you have to pay for it. So don't.

I Can Play Guitar
General Use, TV Plug-n-Play Though the likes of Activision's Guitar Hero and EA's Rock Band feature itty bitty guitar-shaped controllers so you can air-guitar without the air bit, the Fisher-Price I Can Play Guitar is likewise a guitar controller-based game except it actually teaches guitar. Piano Wizard
General Use, Hardware, Macintosh, Software, Windows PC Hmmm... walks like a duck, quacks like a clavier. Turns out, the Piano Wizard is no toy, it just looks that way -- and only if you put cute little stickers on it. Otherwise, it's a bang-on computerized piano teacher. 2.1 Stereo Orb
Audio, General Use, Hardware, Videogame If you're a sucker for over-sized Christmas baubles worthy of year-round display, check out mStation's 2.1 Stereo Orb, a whimsical little sound systems that also happens to be perfectly simpatico with the stark white Nintendo Wii. VQM-9350 Upconverting DVD Player
DVD, High-Def, Television So you broke down and bucked up for an HDTV and high-def cable or high-def satellite, but have little left to spend on a dedicated high def movie player which, these days, comes only in Blu-ray flavor, with prices starting at some $250 up to $1,500. Yikes. LoSt-CaUzE Gaming Headphones
Audio, General Use This is what happens when smart people realize that the videogame industry is now the largest entertainment sector: They hop on board the gravy train. Nice when they bring something useful to the party, like these here Able Planet headphones.

Cloverfield
DVD An innovative flick about a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people, even better if you consider it a horror movie rather than sci-fi. 27 Dresses
Blu-ray, DVD After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with. Never saw that coming, did you? Juno
Blu-ray, DVD Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. Well, unusual in that whoever wrote that synopsis thinks teenage mothers are a rarity, anyway. Shrek the Third
DVD, HD DVD The kind of movie you can watch twice and still confuse it with the first movie; same jokes, same gags, same malevolent diatribe... actually, more with the malevolence, but the two-year-olds will enjoy the experience, which may or may not have anything to do with the movie. Follow? Ocean's Thirteen
Blu-ray, DVD, HD DVD Suave, smooth, cool, wry, ironic, sardonic, charming, affable, jovial, gregarious, convivial, stylish, fetching: 13 reasons to watch the new Ocean's movie, even though the movie is not one of them.