If you have a child, and that child liked 'Skylanders', they will also like 'Skylanders Giants', as it's virtually the same game with some minor improvements. As the adult buying all the 'Skylanders' figures, you might be less than thrilled that there are now even more expensive toys to buy.

One of the most innovative games of 2011 is back with Skylanders Giants ! The idea of the original Skylanders was ingenious, combine action figures with a video game via a special "Portal of Power" and voila... you had a true interactive gaming experience with the real world.

Last year, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventures burst onto the scene and created an addictive beat 'em up series that parents could enjoy with their kids and young gamers could appreciate more than anyone.

There is a good chance you have heard of Skylanders . There is a decent chance you have seen the huge Skylanders display in the electronics section of a retail store. Given how successful the first game was, there is an equally good chance you already have a small army of these plastic fantasy...

You wanted more? You got it. Everyone with a child knows the pervasive mixture of love and pain that is Skylanders . Love meaning it can bring a parent and child together into the same universe, working alongside one another to conquer challenges and reap the thrills of cooperation and...

Last year, the world was introduced to the amazingly creative and wonderful creatures called Skylanders. From the moment I first heard about it, I knew that this game and the toys associated with it would be a huge hit and I was right.

Activision ditches the Spyro moniker but keeps the fun intact Skylanders was one of the biggest surprises of 2011. Pretty much everyone expected it to be a cheap cash-in of 90s nostalgia to sell toys to unsuspecting kids -- and boy, were we wrong.

The greatest trick Activision ever pulled was convincing the world that on-disc downloadable content wasn't such a bad idea after all. It turns out the act of locking away characters and levels is perfectly acceptable as long as you bung in a free toy.

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Spyro has some new (very big) friends, and they're all stepping up onto the power portal and onto your..