Hobbies are wonderful things. So are hobbits. Hobbes (a la Fable II), not so much. There are so many hobbies around, that it’s almost impossible for there to be a video game about each and every one (don’t worry fellow philatelists — our time will come). Thankfully, Microsoft have boldly endeavored to keep fans of pleasurable pastimes satiated, with a dazzling collection of ‘games about hobbies’ set to make their way onto the Games on Demand section of the New New Xbox Experience.

Rather than simply list the soon-to-be-released titles in a highly mundane manner, we’ve, instead, decided to list the hobbies that said games replicate. See if you can guess which game each hobby relates to.

• Jumping off tall buildings and into carts full of hay.
• Battling the Dark Side with bricks.
• Firstly, storming casinos.
• Exploring sublime, submerged environs.
• Passing through trees (of dialogue!) in a science-fiction environment.
• Nearing ridges and other geological formations whilst driving at break-neck speeds.
• Zooming around paradisaical locations.
• Meeting the Robinsons
• Knocking brightly hued spheres back and forth across a table-like surface.
• Disobeying gravity whilst upon vehicles of varying wheels numbers.
• Running very fast while dressed as a prickly character.
• Tending to very sweet creatures for the second time.
• Racing down canyons. Incidentally: C.
• Providing quality assurance to Oahu-based garage owners.
• Boxing in the third round.
• Escaping the rozzers in automobiles.
• Closing gates to oblivion.
• Saving your girlfriend on a spaceship.
• Tending to very sweet creatures for the first time.
• Singing revolutionary karaoke on American Idol. Encore!
• Transmorph… osising into various elemental based forms.
• Rarely shooting folks. Well, not that rarely.
• Revolutionary dancing.

Oh, and Call of Duty 2. There wasn’t really a hobby for that one.

The full not-very-interesting-but-certainly-more-informative-than-this-list list is on the next page.

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