Spec Ops: The Line

Title: Spec Ops: The Line
Publisher: 2K Games
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 6/25/2012
Overview: You may have played military shooters where you explored a sandbox world, but you’ve never seen one like this. Lead your team on a search for survivors in a city buried by sand in this tactical third-person shooter. A sandstorm of epic proportions has wiped Dubai clean off the map. Six months later, a radio signal blips on the radar. Delta Recon Team is sent to investigate. Expecting a routine mission and an easy evac, they instead find themselves caught in a war sparked by an out-of-control madman. Make hard choices as you try to survive a dizzying combat zone where out-of-nowhere sandstorms and avalanches can shift the battlefield in an instant.

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

Title: LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/18/2012
Overview: When it’s sequel time, you’d expect the caped crusader to upgrade his gadgets. This time, he’s also upgraded his entourage! LEGO Batman invites some new friends to the party in this crime-fighting saga featuring some of the greatest heroes in the DC Universe. Notorious Super Villains Lex Luthor and the Joker have teamed up on an extra-evil plot to destroy Gotham City. Batman and Robin will join forces with legendary heroes like Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern to fight them. Explore new areas of Gotham in new bat vehicles, using some new bat gadgets and those handy powers of your superfriends to put the bad guys back behind bars.

Disney/Pixar Brave: The Video Game

Title: Disney/Pixar Brave: The Video Game
Publisher: Disney Interactive
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/18/2012
Overview: Summon the courage to fight fate and change your destiny in this game based on the Disney/Pixar film. Bravely battle to lift a magical curse as you follow the story from the movie or go beyond in storylines sprung from Scottish mythology. Use PlayStation Move’s motion controls to run, jump, climb, and fight across the rugged Scottish landscape. Fearlessly face enemies with your sword or bow and arrow. Play as other characters from the film and use their skills to overcome specific challenges as you uncover mysteries and break the curse. Compete in archery mini-games, have a friend join as a Will ‘o the Wisp in co-op play, and more.

DiRT Showdown

Title: DiRT Showdown
Publisher: Codemasters
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 6/15/2012
Overview: NOTE: This game requires an Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

You won’t win if you aren’t willing to lose some paint in this driving challenge where the most impressive engine might be the damage engine. From demolition derbies to stunt challenges to high-velocity racing, DiRT Showdown has it all. Push your engine to its limits on courses filled with jumps, obstacles, and multiple routes to the finish. Put the damage engine to the test in a demolition derby. Tear through free-roaming stunt parks in trick competitions, and more. In each contest, you’ll trade paint and smash up vehicles in truly spectacular fashion. With easy-to-master controls that let anyone dive in and drive, DiRT Showdown is racing at its no-holds-barred best.

Lollipop Chainsaw

Title: Lollipop Chainsaw
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/11/2012
Overview: Juliet is your average high school sweetheart. Her favorite food: strawberry lollipops. Her favorite pastimes: cheerleading, karaoke, and carving up zombies! Become a chainsaw-wielding cheerleader and shred the undead in this sweet, little innocent gore-fest. San Romero High School is the epicenter for a massive zombie outbreak. It’s also home to the sworn zombie hunter Juliet. Carve up hordes of zombies as you romp through the high school halls doing your best to keep blood off your cheerleader skirt. You’ll soon realize that the zombie outbreak is just an appetizer, the opening act to a festival of zombie rock lords where you are meant to be the main course.

Madagascar 3

Title: Madagascar 3
Publisher: D3P
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/4/2012
Overview: Go undercover under the big top in this Madagascar adventure where you’ll join the circus in a mad dash to stay out of animal jail! In Madagascar 3, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, and Gloria the Hippo are Europe’s most wanted. In this game, it’s up to you to help them escape! Play as all four of your favorite Madagascar characters as you try to outrun and outwit animal control Captain Chantal Dubois and make it back to New York. Visit locations around Europe, performing show-stopping stunts, completing missions, and wowing the crowd in circus performances that play out as mini-games.

Inversion

Title: Inversion
Publisher: Namco
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 6/4/2012
Overview: Inversion takes aim at first-person shooter conventions by taking aim at gravity itself. Battle through environments where gravity is as unpredictable as your enemy. Explore a city where the buildings – and gravitational pull – have been ravaged by an alien invasion in a third-person co-op (local or online) quest to find your missing daughter. Use weapons that have the power to disrupt gravity, sending enemies floating into weightlessness or causing objects – even really big ones – to plummet to the ground. Blast through enemy cover in fully-destructible environments where whatever is up one moment might not be up the next, assuming there’s anything to hold you down at all.

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland

Title: Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland
Publisher: Koei
Platform: PS3
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 5/30/2012
Overview: A princess yearns for a life beyond the castle walls in this third Atelier RPG set in the Arland Republic. From the moment she first saw alchemy, Princess Meruru knew what she wanted to do with her life. Help her find the adventure she seeks as she uses her growing alchemy skills to develop her home kingdom of Aris. Your choices will shape the environment around you, altering not just what you see but how the story progresses. Confront your enemies in classic-turn based battles that hinge on a strategic Time Card system. You’ll encounter favorite characters from the Atelier world who’ll bring new mysteries for you to pursue.

Sorcery

Title: Sorcery
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 5/21/2012
Overview: If you’ve ever wanted to wield the wand of a wizard, Sorcery and PlayStation Move are about to give you that chance! Use motion-controlled magic to battle a Nightmare Queen who threatens to cover the realm forever in darkness. Use your Move controller like a wand and hurl magical attacks. Target enemies by smartly aiming your wand and deliver more punishing blows by combining spells into even bigger attacks. Find hidden items that can help in your fight, use alchemy to create potions, use your wits to solve puzzles, and more. Your journey will take you through five realms, each with distinct enemies waiting to test your growing magical powers.

Dragon’s Dogma

Title: Dragon’s Dogma
Publisher: Capcom
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 5/21/2012
Overview: NOTE: The Resident Evil 6 demo code is available with purchase of this title, but not with rental.

Embark on an epic quest to destroy a powerful dragon in this RPG that offers no shortage of mighty beasts to slay to no shortage of ways to slay them. Explore an open world and battle against menacing mythological creatures using any quick-thinking strategy you can cook up: grab and use nearby objects, climb on your giant enemies, and more. Small details can have big impact: when and where you strike, how much your weapon weighs, even how tall your character is can determine the success of your attacks. Add different members to your party as you move through the story, customizing their behavior to produce better teamwork during battle.

Men in Black: Alien Crisis

Title: Men in Black: Alien Crisis
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 5/21/2012
Overview: The suits: unmistakable. The weapons: the most advanced in the galaxy. The job: protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe, though technically you and the agency you work for don’t actually exist. Become one of the Men in Black in this stand-alone MIB storyline. Work to uncover a secret alien plot as part of the intergalactic peacekeeping force, using the technology and tactics the Men in Black are known for. Use scanners to uncover aliens in disguise. Blast enemies with the biggest firepower in the galaxy in over-the-top shooter sequences. Then use your neuralizer to wipe the memory of any witnesses who might’ve seen something they shouldn’t.

Battleship

Title: Battleship
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 5/14/2012
Overview: The battle for Earth begins at sea. Where it ends is in your hands! Battleship sets up a stand-alone story that puts you on the front lines of the fight for our planet’s survival. Lead the charge against an alien force in a combination of first-person shooter action and naval tactical command. The battle rages on the ocean waves, on the nearby shores, and in the skies above. Strategically direct your warships to launch airstrikes, battle enemy ships, and generate intel with radar sweeps. Upgrade your weapons with a full elite-grade military arsenal as you battle a foe that just keeps coming.

Game of Thrones

Title: Game of Thrones
Publisher: Atlus
Platform: PS3
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 5/14/2012
Overview: Are you ready to serve the realm? Shape the fate of the Seven Kingdoms in this original Game of Thrones RPG story developed in conjunction with series author George R.R. Martin. Join the struggle to control the Iron Throne and play as two game-exclusive characters, each of whom helped win the crown for Robert Baratheon. Walk the streets of King’s Landing, look over the world from atop The Wall, and more as you visit locations across Westeros. Intense combat is built on a tactical engine that lets you slow the action and strike strategically. Interact with pivotal characters as you experience the world of the mega-popular saga like never before.

Starhawk

Title: Starhawk
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 5/7/2012
Overview: Note: This game requires an Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

Enter a battle between men and mutants in this third-person shooter that combines furious on-the-ground action and overhead tactical strategy. On the lawless edge of deep space, groups of humans clash over Rift Energy. Those who have it control a resource beyond value. Those exposed to it mutate into hideous creatures. Part mutation, part human, gunslinger Emmett Graves is stranded somewhere in-between, and he might be the only one who can save mankind. Simultaneously shape the battle as both general and foot soldier in an innovative take on combat. Issue commands from a drop ship in orbit while you unleash a storm of fury at your enemy on the ground.

Max Payne 3

Title: Max Payne 3
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 5/14/2012
Overview: Max Payne has left New York City behind in hopes of starting a new life as a private security guard for a wealthy family in Brazil. Still haunted by a past he cannot shake, Max soon becomes a one-man wrecking crew when a gang sets its sights on the family he’s been hired to protect. Gameplay is built on a powerful and incredibly realistic physics engine/animation system. The gritty result scraps the smooth Hollywood landings and makes sure you, Max, and his enemies feel the sting of every bullet and the impact of every blow. You’ll also find expanded maps and enhanced character level progression in the franchise’s first-ever multiplayer modes.

Sniper Elite V2

Title: Sniper Elite V2
Publisher: 505 Games
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 5/3/2012
Overview: The chance to shape history is in your crosshairs in this World War II stealth-action saga. Slip silently into Berlin and alter the battle between Russian and German forces from the rooftops, windows, and shadows of the war-ravaged city. Think, move, and and act like a sniper, mastering the patience, observation, and ballistic skill required to make precision rifle shots. Risk taking easier shots that leave you exposed to counterattacks, or take harder shots from deep within cover. Slo-mo Bullet Cam animations let you follow your shot all the way to – and through – its target so you can fully appreciate your work.

Prototype 2

Title: Prototype 2
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 4/23/2012
Overview: Prepare to meet your maker and…unmake him in this return to an infected New York City world where you are the ultimate biological weapon. Harness all-new shape-shifting abilities as Sgt. James Heller. Go on a rampage through the city, brutally wielding your biological weaponry to destroy your targets and ruthlessly consuming people to replenish your powers. Trigger a new sonar blast to locate enemies and disappear into the body of anyone you encounter. The sandbox world has been divided into three zones, the militarized Green Zone, the infected Yellow Zone, and the nightmarish Red Zone, where the man who made you – none other than Alex Mercer – awaits.

Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat

Title: Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat
Publisher: 345 Games
Platform: PS3
Genre: Fighting
Release Date: 4/16/2012
Overview: The battle to crown history’s greatest tough guy comes to the PS3! Each episode of Deadliest Warrior pits legendary heroes, soldiers, leaders, and villains against each other to determine who would win if the two met in battle. Join the fight with this game based on the TV series. Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat combines two Deadliest Warrior downloadable games – DW: The Game and DW: Legends – with six fulls episodes of the show and new gameplay features. Fight the most epic battles imaginable, pitting history’s greatest warriors like Sun Tzu, Shaka Zulu, and William Wallace against one another. Use 30 new weapons, fight in a new Graveyard arena, and more.

Ridge Racer Unbounded

Title: Ridge Racer Unbounded
Publisher: Namco
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 4/2/2012
Overview: Wage a battle of drift and destruction as Ridge Racer adds a new smash-and-crash element to its finely-tuned drift-racing style. Unbounded takes off the training wheels for a high-speed rampage through the city of Shatter Bay. Become a member of the Unbounded street racing gang and take on your rivals on courses throughout the streets of the city, expanding your turf with each win. Drive new machines built for destruction, follow the signs to see what you can smash through in Demolition Mode, and smash speed records in Drift Attack Mode. You can design your own racing cities, compete in 12-driver online multiplayer, and much more.

Devil May Cry HD Collection

Title: Devil May Cry HD Collection
Publisher: Capcom
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 3/30/2012
Overview: Three Devil May Cry classics have been remade in HD, and your demon sword has never been sharper! Experience the birth of the demon-hunting saga as you relive Devil May Cry, DMC 2, and the DMC 3: Dante’s Awakening Special Edition. Play as the iconic hero Dante and join a war against a demon king on a quest fueled by vengeance. Stop a raging madman from taking power with help from your partner Lucia in DMC 2. Choose from multiple combat styles in the series prequel DMC 3. Activate the Devil Trigger and battle enemies with demonic powers in stylized action with new bonus content and added PlayStation Trophy support.