Have we all gotten over the fact that Mario and Sonic are in the same game yet? Then we can begin. The chillier of the two Olympics might get short shrift in the national media, but historically it tends to produce the better videogames, and so it proves here again. Sega have done an admirable job of making loads of sports involving falling down a mountain at high-speed feel different from one another. ...

There’s something undeniably impressive going on at the heart of Spore Hero; some kind of alien technology that means if you stick a third leg on the creature you create and put its eyes on its belly, it will walk around looking as pitiful as it sounds. The first thing we did was give it a mouth so it didn’t starve to death. See how the sorry thing uses its bellyeyes to look for food. Horrible. ...

Remember this cheeky chappy? It was an 800-point WiiWare download, but now we get a beefed-up retail version with extra songs and graphical effects. Don’t get too excited, though, because while Groovin’ Blocks is far from the worst game on the service, the concept isn’t strong enough to justify the extra cost. ...

If the bland title doesn’t put you off, the first five minutes will. Hurled into an unfamiliar puzzle game after a slim tutorial, it’s up to you to work out Spaceball’s advanced elements. But once you do, everything falls into place. Basically, you fire balls at a grid. When a ball hits a panel, it lights up. Keep lighting panels until the grid matches a pattern in the corner of the screen. ...

The title may sound like a fight about to kick off (“you, me and the cubes, aaht-side NAOW!”), but the truth is more elegant. Somewhere, perhaps in the depths of developer Kenji Eno’s mind, a dreamy landscape of smoky cubes has fallen out of whack. The universe needs rebalancing. Barack Obama’s busy; you’ll have to do. ...

So, the latest MySims game. It’s part adventure, part platformer, part puzzler and part Sim-tastic create-’em-up. There’s variety in spades, a great story with an amusing script and snazzy visuals to boot.

Of the three main MySims games, this is easily the most story-orientated. Although you can potter about the levels as you please, providing you’ve unlocked them, the story itself is fairly linear. ...

Everybody loves the Toy Story movies, and we’re no exception. Woody, Buzz, and the gang bring smiles to our faces just by showing up, and the first few minutes of Toy Story Mania did nothing to change that. A lovely opening cinema and a bright, bubbly menu screen based around Andy’s room had us feeling happy and hoping we’d stay that way.

Then the game started ...

We enjoyed the lovely Nyxquest, which offered a platforming take on an ancient Greek myth. Now we’ve got this, which takes a bunch of characters from Greek myths, shoves them in chariots and lets you race them around locations taken from, yes, Greek myths. What’s next, a Capcom Vs Homer Allstars brawler? ...

There’s no two ways about it: Wii usually gets the shaft when it comes to top shelf third party support. What system generally has the weakest version of a multiplatform title? Wii. What system gets a weird spin-off like Soulcalibur Legends, Castlevania Judgment or Dragon Quest Swords instead of a genuine sequel? That’d be Wii as well. ...

Shout it out loud: after the relative comedown of Guitar Hero: World Tour, the series is back with an installment set to keep you glued to your instruments ’til at least two minutes to midnight, six days a week. Neversoft2 and Vicarious Visions haven’t just taken one big holiday since the last Guitar Hero and tried to sneak out an update low on new features as expected. ...