LEGO Lord of the Rings

Title: LEGO Lord of the Rings
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/29/2012
Overview: Experience the incredible Lord of the Rings Trilogy as told by little LEGO figures in this saga that captures The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King in one epic journey. Join the fellowship and travel across Middle-earth with Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Aragon, Merry, Pippin, Gimli, Legolas and other favorites, with 60 total playable characters in all! Use magical items, battle Orcs, and experience unforgettable scenes with dialog straight out of the films. Use the magic of the Seeing Stone to jump between multiple storylines in play where friends can drop in or out at any time.

Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward

Title: Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward
Publisher: Aksys
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/25/2012
Overview: Virtue’s Last Reward sets out to create an experience so immersive, once you start playing, there is simply no escape. Picking up where the mesmerizing 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors left off, VLR challenges you to make a life-or-death decision to escape the grip of a deadly video game. Solve puzzles in a steadily-deepening mystery that unfolds like a visual novel. The story plays out in fully-voiced Novel sections, followed by Escape stages where you’ll solve dizzying puzzles. Pan rooms with a camera that rotates 360 degrees and manipulate objects in 3D environments. The twisting saga is designed to keep you constantly guessing, with 24 distinct endings waiting.

Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz

Title: Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz
Publisher: Sega
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/22/2012
Overview: The madcap Monkey Ball adventure gets a boost from a new trick – time travel – in Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz! Join AiAi, MeeMee, GonGon, and Baby, and help them roll through over 100 stages of freewheeling fun. Pick your favorite control set-up – Touch Screen or Dual Analog Sticks – and guide your monkey through five worlds, each with their own set of challenges: Jungle, Wood, Metal, Clay, and Cardboard. Snap pictures with your PS Vita camera and use them to create your own stages you can share with friends. The mayhem continues in eight mini-games, including Monkey Target, Number Ball, and Monkey Bingo.

Street Fighter X Tekken

Title: Street Fighter X Tekken
Publisher: Capcom
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Fighting
Release Date: 10/22/2012
Overview: Fight an unforgettable crossover battle as the worlds of Street Fighter and Tekken collide in the ultimate melee mashup! Street Fighter X Tekken is built on the explosive, battle-tested Street Fighter IV engine and art style. Favorite Tekken characters slide into Street Fighter visuals but bring their trademark moves and elegant Tekken style. Choose from 55 total playable characters, including 12 added just for the PS Vita. Fight anyone, anywhere, anytime in one-on-one battles, co-op Pair Play showdowns, or frantic four-player rumbles on WiFi, 3G, or ad-hoc networks. Use Touch Screen controls and experience cross-platform play for the first time, as players with a PS Vita and a PS 3 can battle online!

Silent Hill: Book of Memories

Title: Silent Hill: Book of Memories
Publisher: Konami
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/15/2012
Overview: Silent Hill opens a new chapter with the franchise’s first-ever co-op storyline. Silent Hill: Book of Memories plays up action over horror for a gameplay experience that’s more thrill than chill. As the story begins, you receive a book containing your life story. When you alter the words on the pages, you alter your past. Explore classically-styled Silent Hill Otherworlds as you solve the mystery behind the book and its powers. Create your own character and immerse yourself in a quest through the supernatural. You’ll solve puzzles and battle nightmarish creatures, including some Silent Hill classics, with weapons that – unfortunately – may not hold up for long.

Spy Hunter

Title: Spy Hunter
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 10/6/2012
Overview: The classic road-cruising spy saga returns on the PS Vita! Experience the franchise’s most thrilling espionage adventure yet with exactly what you’d expect in new spy saga: new toys! Play as the infamous Agent and take control of the souped-up G-6155 sports car. Your ride has been upgraded with new gadgets and more powerful weapons. You’ll need every ounce of that new firepower to take on a global terrorist network that’s out to conquer the world. Battle at top speed with your vehicle in sports car mode, or switch over and take the fight to other terrain as a speed boat or high-powered off-roader.

FIFA Soccer 13

Title: FIFA Soccer 13
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 9/24/2012
Overview: There is no more thrilling outcome than the one that no one saw coming. FIFA 2013 takes the all-world football experience you expect and adds intrigue by amping up the unexpected, making each match play out with the anything-can-happen feel of real life football. Key refinements improve first-touch capabilities with more realistic physics and intensify battles for ball control with a new Player Impact Engine. The sharpened AI attack is more versatile and relentless, while a tweaked dribbling mechanic with true 360-degree mobility lets you chart a path through the defense with more precision. You’ll also find more free-kick options on both sides of the ball, and much more.

Little Big Planet

Title: Little Big Planet
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 9/15/2012
Overview: The PS Vita becomes part of the Little Big Planet universe and brings more ways to experience to the wide-open LBP world of imagination! Play LBP games with Touch, Tilt, and Rear-Touch controls. Experience new multiplayer modes, including party-style Pass ‘n’ Play, head-to-head Multi-touch, and online play. You’ll get all the creation tools from LBP2 plus new ones designed especially for the PS Vita. Blend your real world with your LBP world by snapping photos and incorporating them into your creations. Share your character costumes with your PS 3 and use WiFi access to stay connected to the LBP community whenever you’re on the go.

Madden NFL 13

Title: Madden NFL 13
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 8/27/2012
Overview: Madden NFL 13 is designed to maximize the interactive potential of the PS Vita. Draw hot routes right on the field, strip ball-carriers, or swat passes with Touch-Screen controls, and coax field goals through the uprights by tilting your hands. Top play-by-play tandem Jim Nance and Phil Simms calls the action in a presentation geared to match what you see on Sunday. Go from rookie to Hall of Famer as you create a superstar with help from new coordinator audio geared specifically to your player’s position. The new Franchise Mode redefines what’s possible on a handheld, expanding rosters, adding preseason cut dates, updating scouting, allowing bids on free agents, adjusting for hot-and-cold streaks, and more.

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

Title: LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS Vita
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.

Gravity Rush

Title: Gravity Rush
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/11/2012
Overview: Wield power over gravity in this stylized platformer where you’ll literally turn the world on its head. Play as a heroine journeying through a world that threatens to crumble around her in this innovative experience from the creators of Silent Hill. You’ll use your power to control gravity to solve challenges and battle enemies. Ceilings become floors, walls become walkways, and more. Use the gyro sensor to shift gravity’s pull with motion control. Tap the Touch Screens to trigger lightning-quick reactions to the rotating world or dodge oncoming attacks. The story unfolds with the edgy visuals of a graphic novel, with eye-popping cel-shaded graphics that leap off the PS Vita’s HD screen.

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection

Title: Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
Publisher: Konami
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/11/2012
Overview: If the conclusion of the Solid Snake saga left you thirsting for more, consider your problem solved. Get two epic Metal Gear games, all presented in stunning HD. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty sends Solid Snake to stop a powerful high-tech weapon from falling into the wrong hands. Infiltrate the jungles of 1964 Russia – alone – on a critical intel mission in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. New Touch Screen controls let you trigger subtle movements as you master Snake’s infiltration techniques. Each title boasts unforgettable stealth-action play, and both were among the most talked-about, highest-rated games at the time of their release.

Resistance: Burning Skies

Title: Resistance: Burning Skies
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 5/29/2012
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.

Saving lives is all in a day’s work for a firefighter. Saving the planet goes above and beyond. But Tom Riley, an unassuming New Jersey firefighter, steps up when mankind is desperate for someone to answer the call. In August, 1951 the alien Chimeran invaders took over most of the planet. Now, they’ve set their sights on one of the last remaining free zones on Earth: the East Coast of the United States. Play as an unlikely hero thrust to the forefront of man’s struggle to survive. Fight the Chimeran enemy with dual-analog controls in first-person shooter action designed to bring the FPS console experience to a handheld.

Mortal Kombat

Title: Mortal Kombat
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Fighting
Release Date: 4/30/2012
Overview: Mortal Kombat is unleashed on PS Vita with this feature-rich edition that optimizes play for a mobile experience while adding creative ways to use Touch Screen controls. Play as iconic characters in classic one-on-one Mortal Kombat fights to the finish. Travel back in time to undo a future ruled by Emperor Shao Kahn in Story Mode. Choose from 450 quick-hit challenges made for on-the-go-play in Tower Mode, or team up in Tag Team Mode. You won’t just use the Touch Screen to trigger moves – if one of your blows sends your opponent’s blood splattering, you might have to wipe it off the screen with a swipe of your fingers!

Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention

Title: Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention
Publisher: Atlus
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 4/16/2012
Overview: If Disgaea 3 was a deep experience, Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention is practically bottomless. The RPG franchise’s debut on PS Vita features all the content from Disgaea 3 and adds new characters, new features, and hours of bonus DLC updates! Journey into the Netherworld where you’ll join Mao, who’s taken up a quest to defeat the Overlord in order to become a true hero. The DLC content piles on 20 additional characters, three gameplay systems, and an extra storyline. You’ll also find four new scenarios that may lead to the birth of a different hero, revamped cutscenes, two mysterious new characters, and other features added just for PS Vita.

Supremacy MMA: Unrestricted

Title: Supremacy MMA: Unrestricted
Publisher: 505 Games
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Fighting
Release Date: 3/28/2012
Overview: If you thought mixed martial arts was intense inside the octagon, wait ’til you see what happens when you take the sport outside the guidelines. Supremacy MMA is mixed martial arts action at its fiercest level: unlicensed, unsanctioned, and totally raw. Fight unregulated brawls wherever there’s a ring, leaving a trail of bruised and bloodied opponents in your wake. Play as real MMA fighters schooled in a variety of styles including Muay Thay, kickboxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, wrestling, and more. Use classic or Touch Screen controls and jump right in to arcade-style action. Customize your game with images from the PS Vita camera, battle other fighters online, and more.

Reality Fighters

Title: Reality Fighters
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Fighting
Release Date: 3/12/2012
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.

Put yourself in the fight then stage the fight anywhere you want with this brawler that provides the framework and lets you fill in the rest! Reality Fighters is all about customization. Snap a picture of yourself and start building your fighter. The 12 available fighting styles include traditional options like Wrestling or Muay Thai and less conventional combat strategies like ballet or rock n’ roll. Add on your choice of over 300 costume pieces and 200 weapons, then choose where to fight. The game uses augmented reality to bring in whatever backdrop your PS Vita has in its sights.

Ridge Racer

Title: Ridge Racer
Publisher: Namco
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 3/14/2012
Overview: Hi-def, edge-of-your-seat racing comes to the palm of your hand with Ridge Racer for PS Vita! Hit the accelerator for a customizable all-out driving experience. Tune the settings of the Custom Drift System to suit your driving style. Use the Machine Upgrade Map to swap in higher-performance parts. Join one of four racing teams and compete in the online Planetary League, where you can race anyone whether or not they’re online. If they’re logged in, link up for a race in real time. If they’re offline, you can still beat their top speed in a race against their ghost. Up to seven drivers can compete in ad-hoc multiplayer races.

MLB 12: The Show

Title: MLB 12: The Show
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 3/5/2012
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.

If you’re going to be a champion, you have to be able to play well on the road. MLB 12: The Show for PS Vita lets you do just that! Experience The Show’s unrivaled attention to detail on the go with authentic gameplay that delivers a full Major League experience. Choose from a variety of modes: Exhibition, Season, Franchise, or follow a player through the ranks on the Road to the Show. Glide through menu selections and pinpoint pitch selections with Touch Screen controls. Cross-platform compatibility with the Playstation 3 lets you sync your Season, Franchise, or Road to the Show and work on your home game as well.

LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7

Title: LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 3/5/2012
Overview: Summon your magical side for the thrilling conclusion of the Harry Potter saga. The story that was told in three books and four movies is one unforgettable LEGO adventure! Play through the story’s biggest events and encounter your favorite Harry Potter characters. Visit the Ministry of Magic and Diagon Alley, journey to Godric’s Hollow, and more. Use powerful new magic, including the Unforgivable Curses, and Touch Screen controls to battle the Dark Lord’s army and his Death Eaters. Master your charms and spells. You’ll need them all for the showdown that’s been building for seven years – the final battle with Lord Voldemort!