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We've only seen a bit of Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol, but in those few seconds we witnessed the promise of all this motion capture stuff. Still haven't perfected the eyes, and I have a feeling they never will. But this looks much better than Beowulf and Polar Express.

But being an annual holiday tradition like Polar Express isn't enough. There's actually going to be a Christmas Carol video game. Game Focus describes it as "an innovative puzzle-adventure game celebrating the spirit of the holidays with a Scrooge twist."

I remember when I was a kid and my parents sprung for an Atari 2600. It cost about as much as a Wii does today, oddly enough. Even though we got the Atari and it came with Combat and we had a copy of Space Invaders, the entire family was a little depressed that there wasn't a Charles Dickens video game. I would have preferred Bleak House, but A Christmas Carol would have done in a pinch.

Oh, to be a kid today.

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