Best New Games This Week

As we count the days until the long weekend that marks the unofficial beginning of summer, it's no surprise to find this week crammed with more treats than the most amply provisioned grill party on the block. It promises to be a busy three-day weekend for gamers of all stripes, whether you're a super-lithe fitness freak or a daylight-fearing, basement-dwelling online RPG fan (we kid, we kid). Check out our pick of the week's plentiful release selection.

Top Three:

Wii Fit

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Packing a custom-built "Balance Board" controller to measure your weight, Wii Fit's excellent gameplay is explored in our review, and it's a great way to encourage yourself to get off the couch and break a sweat. Your only problem is a familiar one to Wii owners: actually buying the damn thing. Most online retailers stopped pre-orders weeks ago owing to huge demand, so it's likely you're going to have your work cut out tracking down a store with any in stock. Still, you managed to find a Wii, so you're obviously already familiar with that process - and you can think of all that legwork trekking from mall to mall as a warm-up for Fit's fitness program.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

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Bored with Warcraft? Fed up with Runescape? Give Age of Conan a whirl. Although it's based on the 1930s stories that inspired the classic Arnie movie rather than the movie itself, this brand-new massively-multiplayer online role-playing game promises to be quite a hit. Its biggest selling point is its action-packed combat system - it's a world of difference from the usual press-button-and-wait fights of most online games. Plus you can ride a rhino. How many of this week's other new releases will let you ride rhinos?

Haze

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PlayStation 3-exclusive shooter Haze hits this week, accompanied by a new Korn song of the same name. It's from British developer Free Radical Design, the group of Rare alums that also developed the Timesplitters first-person shooter series, so it's blessed with impeccable credentials. In the video game world, though, you're only as good as your last game, and if the first wave of Haze reviews are anything to go by, Free Radical struck out on this one. Take a long, hard look before you open your wallet.

Best of the Rest

• Eye for Design
  Brush up your interior decorating skills without spilling a drop of paint.
• Airport Mania
  Ever thought you'd make a good air traffic controller? Find out right here.
• UEFA Euro 2008
  Soccer's second biggest tournament comes to most platforms this week.
• Natalie Brooks
  Secrets of the Treasure House: Word to the wise: the secret of Treasure House is really...ah, no, that'd be telling. Play this hidden object hit and find out for yourself.
• Charm Tale 2
  Match gems in this mermaid-crammed underwater quest.
• Singstar
  YouTube-style community features accompany Singstar's PS3 debut.
• Escape the Museum
  Can you escape the museum before being eaten by a re-animated T-Rex skeleton? That's not a question you'll be answering in Escape The Museum, but this awesome (and, to be honest, rather more sensible) hidden object adventure is a great game nevertheless.