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That’s right. If you’re the sort of person who considers traditional pets as staid and uninteresting and you want a pet that is playful and terrifying in equal measure, then My Pet Dinosaur is absolutely bob-on for you.

My Pet Dino gives you the chance to have the ultimate pet – forget Battlecat or Dogmeat – a Dinosaur! Raise it from an egg to an adult, keep it fed, washed and happy to help it thrive.

There are tons of things to do with your pet dino, there are toys to play with, fellow dino chums to meet and compete with in one of the challenge modes. You can hunt for treasure and turnips (obviously), stomp buildings, trees and other animals (next to them, not on them naturally, we’re not monsters), race against your buddies in the Dino speedway, compete to catch the most butterflies (again, obviously). There are twelve locations for your dino to discover.

Best of all, your dino can hunt for buried treasure and, as they become more skillful, catch the presents floating by on balloons! These prezzies will allow you to dress up your dinos in all sorts of ace gear, and there’s tons to collect!

You still want more? Well there are a load of achievements to, umm achieve including the rather intriguing challenge of doing 100 poos (in the game, naturally, we’re not advocating evacuating your bowels 100 times to unlock something in the game, we certainly wouldn’t have got a 3+ PEGI rating then).

My Pet Dinosaur is out today for PC, and stuffed with things to do for the bargain price of £4.99, making it an ideal christmas stocking filler if you are looking for a vitrual pet game with a bit of a unique slant to it. You can purchase it from Game and other major retailers or online at here.