Best New Games This Week 6-25-08

You know how you can wait all day for a bus, and then three come along at once? So it is with this week and video games: the shelves of your local games emporium groan with a glut of new, top-quality releases. It's doubly unusual when you consider that summer is usually a quiet time in the games world -- but we're not complaining. With all these delights on offer this week, you're bound to find something that'll tickle your fancy. Read on for our picks.

Top Three:

The Princess Bride Game

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Just a few short months ago, it would have been inconceivable that anyone would try to make a game from this classic movie. But here it is -- a multi-genre, casual-friendly, budget-priced offering that packs all the production values (and a significant fraction of the cast members) of the cult Hollywood original. Get more over at our Launch Central, and watch out for the R.O.U.S.s.

Guitar Hero On Tour

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Ever wanted to take your favorite rhythm game on the road? Guitar Hero comes to the Nintendo DS this week, complete with a custom-designed peripheral that turns the DS into essentially a tiny guitar. Instead of strumming a bar, though, you'll stroke the stylus across the touch-screen, and press the fret buttons, mounted on the custom device, with the fingers of your left hand. Twisted Sister, Nirvana and The Doobie Brothers headline the track selection.

Battlefield: Bad Company

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It's a fact that nine out of ten gamers like breaking things -- and it's also a fact that Bad Company is one of the breaking-thingiest games around. Imagine what would happen if the plot from Three Kings smashed headfirst into the gameplay from the Battlefield series of multiplayer shooters. And one of them was driving a jeep packed with landmines. And they happened to be in the middle of a pretty Hungarian mountain village. Imagine the destruction. Imagine the fun! Imagine Bad Company.

Best of the Rest

• Alone In The Dark:
  Scare yourself out of your skin with this update of a classic series.
• Hell's Kitchen:
  Ever wanted to be called a "****ing donkey" by Gordon Ramsey? Here's your chance.
• Top Spin 3:
  Summer's the time for tennis, but here's your chance to spare yourself the effort of actually going outside.
• Supreme Commander Xbox:
  Last year's PC sci-fi strategy hit hits the Xbox 360.
• Wall-E:
  Liked this new Pixar movie? Check out the game.
• Wedding Dash 2:
  Being a wedding planner isn't all fun and games, you know. But fortunately for us, it is all fun and games in Wedding Dash 2.
• Hellboy: Science of Evil:
  Tackle nutty Nazis as comic book hero Hellboy.
• Overlord (PS3):
  Find out why it's good to be bad with the PS3 version of this hit.
• Hail to the Chimp:
  Depicting a contest for the throne of the animal kingdom, this indie-developed party game is surely set to be a hit.
• Rock Band Wii:
  Fed up with your Xbox and PlayStation-owning friends having all the Rock Band fun? This week it comes to the Wii.
• Sally's Spa:
  Tackle ten worldwide spas in this time-management hit.