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The ultimate head-to-head brawler! Capcom Fighting Evolution includes popular characters from five classic titles in the Street Fighter and other Capcom series: Street Fighter II, Darkstalkers, Street Fighter III, Red Earth and Street Fighter Alpha. Players must strategically use their combat systems to defeat their opponents as they square off in battle. The character-change system allows players to choose a combatant for each round of the battle. Choosing the right fighter based on the strengths of the fighting systems will be the key to victory.

Snood is a fun puzzle game that will test your intellect rather than your reflexes. Your goal is to free all of the trapped Snoods by launching other Snoods at them. If you connect three or more Snoods, they transport away. If that leaves any Snoods not connected to the top of the playfield, they will fall to safety. Don't take too long, though. Every Snood you launch increases the Danger Level. When the gauge fills up, the Snoods will shift downward. If the Snoods reach you, the game is over.

One of Japan's longest-running role-playing game series takes its adventures onto Game Boy Advance in an enhanced remake of 1994's Tales of Phantasia, originally released in Japan on Super Famicom. As in previous games in the Phantasia series, combat takes place in real time as both sides fight each other from a horizontal viewpoint. The main character is swordsman Cress Albane, who begins a quest to find those responsible for the death of his parents and the destruction of his village. Cress is joined by neighbor Chester Barklight and friend Mint Adnade, who both bring talents such as archery and healing to the party. The structure will be familiar to most console role-playing game fans, as players explore their surroundings on a overhead-view world map, with random encounters appearing at various points along the way. Once a battle commences, players initiate attacks using the directional pad instead of navigating through menus. Other features include a monster dictionary, allowing players to track each creature encountered during their journey, and a cooking system that encourages players to create health- and magic-restoring recipes from ingredients found throughout the land. For its handheld debut, the game includes new dialogue, events, and other surprises.

Competition means so much more when you can dance circles around live opponents. Dance Dance Revolution: Ultramix 2 connects players via Xbox Live to deliver the ultimate in interactive dancing. Go online and setup tournaments, compete in dance competitions, and download new songs and characters. Dance mat controller not included.

The video game sports season kicks off with NCAA Football 2005, the best-selling college football game - and this year it's all about the home field advantage. For the first time in a football video game, the game day atmosphere directly affects players' on-field performances. Track the crowd's impact on your players to see if they can withstand the pressure, and find key personnel mismatches with the new Match-Up Stick. Then celebrate big plays with new fan celebrations like the Gator Chomp and Texas Hook 'Em Horns. Only NCAA Football 2005 puts you inside the stadium to deliver the real emotion, collegiate atmosphere and traditional game play of college football.

The green flag has dropped with NASCAR Thunder 2004. From 200-mph super-speedways to hairpin turns on 12-road courses, tuning your car and finding the line is no longer enough. Now you're running to the edge against 42 other unique NASCAR personalities. Be careful -- these drivers remember your every move and won't think twice about paying you back. Outsmart and outdrive them as you battle three-wide from green to checkers. Never before has racing been such an intense contact sport. Online or on your own, racing just became a contact sport. Note: Online play requires Xbox Live, sold separately.

Experience the thrilling moments of the movie and put your magic to the ultimate test in co-operative play with up to two friends. In the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire video game, licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Harry is mysteriously selected as the fourth contestant in the dangerous Triwizard Tournament. Each competitor in the international competition must confront a fire-breathing dragon, rescue friends from the icy depths of the Black Lake, and navigate the twisting mysteries of a vast, dangerous maze. Players can experience the thrills of the movie-from the Quidditch World Cup campsite to a heart-stopping duel with Lord Voldemort himself! Harry, Ron, and Hermione are all playable characters, modeled after their big-screen counterparts. An all-new spell-casting system allows players to really feel the magic for the first time as the controller shakes and reacts with every flick of the wand. Gamers can team up with friends in co-operative play to combine magic and produce more powerful spells than ever before!

Players choose from two up-and-coming hustlers, Jack Stone or Kat Hudson, and lead their character up the underground ranks by winning games in some of the most "exclusive" clubs the city has to offer. Players can impress fellow hustlers with trick shots, but it's all about the green at the end of the day. By betting on themselves (and then actually winning, of course), Stone and Hudson can earn money for the professional equipment and stylish attire they'll need to hold their own against Motown's biggest players.

Mr. Driller Drill Spirits offers the ultimate in drilling action, where players utilize the stylus and innovative dual-screen interface to avoid falling blocks and scramble for air capsules, in order to rescue their fellow Drillers. Or collect power capsules to destroy the menacing Destroyer Drill. Players can get in on the gaming action anytime, anywhere with various quick play modes or battle head-to-head with up to four other players through the Nintendo DS wireless capabilities.

Explore a world of black destruction--and unimaginable beauty. Wander through dripping sewers, abandoned towns, ancient forests. Bustling cities stand high above the slums they have created on a plate supported by pillars, forever shunning the poverty and ruination from view. Playing primarily as Cloud, you have the starring role in an epic saga that spans 3 CDs of gameplay--and will call on both your physical and mental powers. Prepare for terrorism, cross-dressing, a train graveyard, a city-sized amusement park, fortune-telling, animal racing, stealing, snowboarding, and the fight of Cloud's life, which will take you deep inside the planet. You will travel to the bitterest frozen tundra, an exotic island resort, an ancient forest, a village made of giant bones, numerous caves, and Cloud's hometown. Oh, and if you start to hear voices in your head, don't fret--you're right on course. Suffering from partial amnesia as a result of a horrible event in his past, Cloud is also searching for his childhood hero, the legendary Sephiroth, who seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet.