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Alan Wake

Coming simultaneously on Xbox 360 and PC, Alan Wake brings survival horror into the world of free roaming exploration. Featuring a psychological horror writer whose nasty creations start bleeding into the real world following the freak disappearance of his wife and muse, Alan Wake represents a new direction in horror video games.

LittleBigPlanet

No killer application for PS3? Not if LittleBigPlanet has anything to do with it, and to that end it supplies frenetic multi-player entertainment with you and your friends controlling funky-looking avatars, solving a series of physics-based puzzles. With a strong community feel, creating your own brainteasers is a big part of what could be the PS3's first reason to buy that isn't Blu-Ray.

Super Mario Galaxy takes the franchise into space

Super Mario Galaxy

Truly new Mario instalments arrive with a considerably lower frequency than blue moons. Galaxy uses the Wii's controller to give Mario a couple of new tricks, as well as taking the franchise into space. It's also benefited from games design maestro Shigeru Miyamoto's input, a factor that is likely to make this an astoundingly good game.

GTA4

Another year, another Grand Theft Auto, and this year unlike the 'Stories' instalments that are more iterations than new games, this is completely fresh property to pillage. Set in Liberty City, Rocktsar's take on New York, you play an Eastern European immigrant working your way to gangland supremacy.