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Ubisoft's two-year-old gaming service, Uplay, recently received a major website refresh just in time for the  new year.  Along with a brand new look and feel, the website now has the ability for each member to design their very own custom Avatar to personalize your Uplay profile.

If there's one place on Earth where imagination truly does meet reality, it would be at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California.  There's nothing quite like your first trip to Disneyland, with its captivating assembly of characters, lively themed attractions and its sheer splendor to behold.  For those of us living outside the state, Disney Interactive Studios has given us the closest thing to owning a Disneyland annual pass: Kinect Disneyland Adventures.

Video games! On touch screen devices. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, eh? Here's the latest round up, with some that work, some that... don't.

 The Future Shop team heads off to Las Vegas next week to see and hear the bold proclomations for Tech at CES 2012.

Let's have a look back at the 2011 predicitions and forth at the announcements for 2012:

Roku is known for making very compelling and affordable set-top boxes and has now redefined the genre by squeezing everything into a convenient device the size of a USB stick.

Got a fun idea for a meme?  (like celebrities that look like Darth Vader without his helmet). 

Get a Tumblog.

Want to know how you can get on board with the simplest and quickest way to start a blog for your kids, your meme or your work.

Like Boy George says "I'll tumbl for ya!"

If Santa brought some new hardware down the chimney this year, you'll wantto get rid of the old tower properly.

That means e-cycling the electronics and properly wiping your data from the device.

Here's how:

in terms of features, image quality and versatility, Samsung's NX line can go toe-to-toe with most of the competition and in this range of compact ILC's but its higher price and relative newness to the camera market has kept consumers going for cheaper, more recognizable and more developed systems. Will the new NX200 with its new styling and 20.3 megapixel sensor and 7 frame per second shooting capability change some minds, we think so.

Why are so many people ready to trash the Blackberry Playbook?  

After all, tablets come in all shapes, sizes and fruits.  

Time to stop all the bashing and defend a great device.

A new year means our vows to get physically fit are back atop of the goal-setting lists. 

No matter the exercise undertaken to trim the holiday pounds, music is a huge part of getting fit. If you're like me and selective on what beats you need to get moving, I highly recommend using a quality pair of headphones.

According to a new survey, the top resolution (again) is get fit.  Unfortunately the survey also found that 3 of 4 people making the resolution won't follow through.

Statistically, if you can make it past January 13, you've got a better chance of sticking to your goals.  So why not get an app to help?  Here's 16 to push you through the next 2 weeks:

While the PlayStation Move is technically a more precise controller than the technology that inspired it, truth be told I haven't been too enthusiastic about it thus far. It's great to have the improved motion sensing, offering a wider range of gestural possibilities, however it seems as though the games haven't kept pace with the refinement in controls.  That is except for Zindagi Games and SCE San Diego Studio, who clearly have shown to be at the forefront of PlayStation Move development with their innovative Sports Champions game last year.  Those teams are back, delivering Medieval Moves: Deadmund's Quest, a spiritual successor of sorts, proving that if you take what worked well in Sports Champions and throw it into an on-rails adventure, the results are even more impressive. 

A soothsayer I am not, but I do like to think of myself as a reasonable trend watcher/spotter.

So let's get 5 things down on digital paper to revisit on January 1, 2013:

1. Infographics.

2. Voice.

3. TV Apps.

4. RIP RIM.

5. IPO.