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SESAME STREET: ONCE UPON A MONSTER

Elmo, Cookie Monster, Oscar, Grover and a bevvy of new monsters combine in this game for Xbox’s Kinect motion capture system. The game allows players to participate in six different stories, waving their arms to turn pages, jumping and using their hands to catch fireflies or to pet the creatures they meet along the way. The stories revolve around themes of friendship, sharing and teamwork. Kids can play alone or with others.

For Xbox 360 with Kinect. Releasing this fall.

JEWEL MATCH

A classic and dazzling match game in which players exchange diamonds and create a horizontal or vertical row of at least three diamonds of the same colour. A level is won if a certain number of matches are complete. You can play on both screens of the Nintendo DS in three different game modes: Time-Attack, Relaxed-Mode and Hot Seat. Nintendo DS.

Releasing in September.