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This Week's Top Games Are...

GamePro gives top marks to latest Tony Hawk and Avatar

By Chip Bayers, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 16, 2007 12:05 AM CDT

(Newser) – Want great games for your console? Here are this week's winners, as awarded by GamePro.com:

Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, the skateboard legend's latest for all major platforms except PC
Avatar: the Last Airbender—The Burning Earth, a multiplatformer sequel to the Nickolodeon-inspired original

Beautiful Katamari - a brightly colored comic puzzler and XBox 360 exclusive.
Rockstar Game's Table Tennis for Nintendo Wii, where you become a real pro player
Spider-Man 3 for Playstation Portable, an action-adventure game based on the movie
Seven Kingdoms: Conquest, real-time strategy for PC that mixes fantasy with 6,000 years of civilization

Skateboarder Tony Hawk makes an appearance on MTV's Total Request Live in Times Square at MTV Studios, Monday, Oct. 15, 2007, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) (Associated Press)

Screenshot from Seven Kingdoms: Conquest. (enlight.com)

Rockstar Games Table Tennis screenshot. (Rockstar Games)

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