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If LEGO games had voiceovers, we’d be too afraid of hearing Schwarzenegger’s brutally awful dialogue to actually play LEGO Batman after seeing these new screens.

And if it were any other game, we’d be complaining about the lack of real-time lighting and bump-mapped textures, but the LEGO games are so charming that it doesn’t matter.

LEGO Indiana Jones is the game everyone’s talking about at the moment because it’s hitting the shelves on June 3 (June 6 in the UK). LEGO Batman is a little further off (no official date yet), but Travellers Tales looks to be working the same comical flair into the Batman universe, so it’ll be worth the wait.

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Majesco has revealed that a companion game to upcoming Wii title Wonder World Amusement Park will be released next year on DS.

The handheld version lets players indulge in more than two dozen mini-games that you’re likely to find at a fairground. Using the touch screen, players will toss, drive, shoot, whack, fish and spin until they feel violently sick or dizzy.

To give you an idea of how the title will play, check out the Wii screenshots. While we don’t think the images are representative of the graphical prowess we’ll see in the DS version, we do think they highlight exactly what you can expect in terms of gameplay.

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