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The party is back! Ubisoft's Just Dance 2014--the sequel to Just Dance 4, the world's number-one selling dance game--is bringing all-new moves with breakthrough features and more than 40 of the hottest tracks. Dance to current pop hits, such as "Roar" by Katy Perry and "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell Williams or celebrate with legendary classics like Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters" or Gloria Gaynoes "I Will Survive." This latest version offers several new options, including World Dance Floor, Just Dance's first-ever online multiplayer mode, which lets you dance with anyone anywhere in the world. Players join a virtual crew--made up of real-life friends or other Just Dance fans--and compote based on different themes, tracking their standing on global leader-boards. In On Stage mode, one player can dance, lead two back up dancers, and even sing. Party Master mode lets the player controlling the GamePad choose the next dance move, pick new songs, and even dish out silly challenges to up to four other players. Custom Sweat mode lets players personalize their Just Sweat workouts by creating playlists and tracking calories. There's also an option to track calories in all gameplay, even outside of the dedicated Just Sweat mode. Available on Wii, Wii U, Kinect for Xbox 360, and PS3, Just Dance 2014 is rated E10+.

In Skylanders SWAP Force by Activision, Portal Masters embark on an adventure on the mysterious Cloudbreak Islands, home to a mystical volcano that erupts every hundred years to replenish the magic in Skylands. During an epic battle, a brave group of Skylanders were caught in the volcano's eruption, which blasted them apart and sent them to earth. The magic of the volcano gave these heroes a remarkable new power--the ability to swap halves--turning them into a special team known as the SWAP Force. Meanwhile, Kaos is back with a new evil plan, and Portal Masters everywhere must reassemble the SWAP Force--in their original form or in new combinations--and send them back to Cloudbreak to save Skylands. The 16 SWAP Force interaction figures can be transformed into more than 250 unique characters by swapping the top and bottom halves of the toys. Players can mix and match characters' powers and moves to experience an unprecedented level of choice--plus the entire collection of characters from Spyro's Adventure and Giants works in SWAP Force. New abilities, such as flying, climbing, digging, bouncing, or teleporting, can be...