Peggle Nights
Windows PC
Phoop, thonk, ping, wap, boink, boink, tink, tink, tink, TINK, bonk, piddle, piddle, piddle, sploosh. Sure, it's no Call of Duty 4, Halo 3 or Rock Band 2, but Peggle Nights pretty much dares you to call it a "casual game" Go on, try. Thing is, there's no such thing as a "casual crack" either.

Lumosity
Windows PC
If you've any sort of penchant for "brain games," be they the Touch Generation titles found abundantly on Nintendo DS, or just the classics like the New York Times Crossword and 100,000 piece jigsaw puzzles, you'll likely take a shine to Lumosity.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
PlayStation 3
Some people play golf, some people watch golf on TV, some people play golf on their TV, and some people do all of the above. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 for PlayStation3 lets you and others across the interweb do all that at the same, together.

Mario Super Sluggers
Wii
Typical of Nintendo, Mario and Co. have gathered yet again to play in some real-world sport but brought their magical mushroom trappings, fantastical power-up razzle-dazzle, and hallucinogenic sense of decor along with them.

Mercenaries 2: World In Flames
PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
EA's new go-anywhere, over-the-top sandbox combat game, brimming with Hollywood-grade, oft-comedic violence, is very aptly named. "World in Flames" indeed. It's all good.

Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
PlayStation 3
Like electronics-as-fetishism, artfully-overpackaged snacks, the practice of Cute-bordering-on-Creepy and Little-Ghost-Girls that Freak-You-Right-The-Hell-Out, the Japanese invented -- and have continued to perfect -- the art/science of "fan service."

Too Human
Xbox 360
Ten years coming, plagued with delays, a terabyte of hate and hype on interweb message boards, one very public lawsuit and two opposing executive windbags postulating on the wherefore of it all, Too Human for Xbox 360 is finally here. If only they'd waited a bit more.

Carnival Games
Nintendo DS
No way! A minigame collection? How novel. But wait, a minigame collection based on a previously released minigame collection with a couple of new minigames thrown in for good measure? This is gonna be good! Or not.