Disney has announced two new High School Musical games for console, due for release around Christmas.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year DANCE! for Wii, Xbox 360, PS2 and PC allows players to ‘dance’ along with favourite characters to familiar ‘High School Musical’ songs from all three movies.

Players move to the rhythm of the hit songs using the controllers unique to each console,

High School Musical 3: Senior Year for DS features all new songs from the upcoming movie High School Musical 3: Senior Year, and lets fans play through the game as the Wildcat whose personality is most like theirs.

“We’re building on the success of last year’s line up of ‘High School Musical’ video games with new immersive extensions to the hit property,” said Craig Relyea, senior vice president of global marketing, Disney Interactive Studios.

“We’ll continue to bring exciting and fresh interactive experiences to ‘High School Musical’ fans everywhere, delivering new storylines, characters and songs.”

High School Musical 3: Senior Year for Nintendo DS also features DGamer integration, a new online community designed exclusively for Disney gamers, which allows players to interact with other Nintendo DS gamers via a Wi-Fi connection and online at www.DGamer.com.

DGamer allows players to log into either their DS or online accounts to create and customize a unique 3-D avatar and persistent profile.