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When they were less than fab

Jennifer Wilson-Speedy December 17, 2009

The popularity of multi-player, interactive music games, such as Rock Band , has turned the family TV into Party Central. As yourhome.ca editor Jennifer Wilson-Speedy discovers, a night of good friends, spiced eggnog and off-key singing can be ear-wrenchingly fun.

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