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Games

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Title: Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Publisher: Sega
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 12/18/2012
Overview: The rules of the road no longer apply in this Sonic racing challenge where you’ll leave the track, soar into the air, and rocket across the water! Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed puts you in control of vehicles that convert from racers to fliers to boats and back. Switch between vehicle modes to conquer terrain that could shift at any moment. Earn All-Star moves and use them to crush your opponents. The more guts you show on the track, the more powerful the moves you earn! The 20 playable characters include favorites from Sonic games and other characters from the Sega universe. Up to eight racers can compete online.

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

Title: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Fighting
Release Date: 11/20/2012
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.

PlayStation’s most recognizable names and most powerful heroes face off in a battle to be the biggest brawl star! Settle the question of who’s the best once and for all by creating never-before-seen battles between legendary PlayStation characters. Kratos. Sweet Tooth. Dante. Drake. Sly Cooper. PaRappa. Jak. Daxter. Rachet. Clank. Even Sackboy is ready to rumble in this ultimate match-up of all-time PlayStation greats. Compete in a variety of environments that mash together elements of two different games. Take your favorite character online and show off your skills or go head-to-head against up to four friends locally. Who will win the ultimate Battle Royale?

Persona 4 Golden

Title: Persona 4 Golden
Publisher: Atlus
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 11/19/2012
Overview: One of the most acclaimed RPGs of all-time gets recharged for PS Vita! Persona 4 Golden expands the enthralling story of Persona 4 with new features, revamped visuals, new cutscenes, and 50 percent more voiced dialogue. Solve the mystery behind a string of murders that seem to be linked to midnight television. Shape the storyline by forging special social links with other characters, spending your days in the activities of your choosing, and summoning the inner power of your Persona. Use a new Dungeon Rescue feature get help from other players when you’re about to die and play the game with other improvements suggested by fans of the franchise.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified

Title: Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/12/2012
Overview: These are the missions that never really happened, the only proof of their existence the sudden disappearance of their intended target. Strike fast and disappear into the shadows of history in this Call of Duty Special Ops challenge optimized for mobile play. Black Ops Declassified returns to the COD: Black Ops universe with a new single-player campaign and favorite COD multiplayer modes. Complete single-player missions in Time Trial, Survival, and Objective Modes. Up to eight players can compete in four-on-four multiplayer modes including Team Deathmatch, Dropzone, Kill Confirmed, and Free-for-All. Use Touch controls to cook grenades and unleash melee attacks in play specially engineered for PS Vita.

Smart As

Title: Smart As
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 11/6/2012
Overview: Who are you as Smart As? Find out in this brain-testing challenge for PS Vita! Prove your smarts in 15 activities designed to use the Touch Screen and motion controls of the PS Vita. Test your dexterity in Chain Reaction, practice problem solving in Cube Mania, and show off your knack for analysis in Roller Blocks. The more puzzles you solve, the harder the next challenge gets. See how you stack up on sortable leaderboards designed to show you who you’re as smart as…and who you’ve still got to work to catch up to. Measure your rankings against against friends, nearby players, and players in different regions across the world.

Ragnarok Odyssey

Title: Ragnarok Odyssey
Publisher: Xseed Games
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 11/2/2012
Overview: Fight an epic war in this game where everything happens on an epic scale, from the massive customization options to the battles that spill across the entire stage. Ragnarok Odyssey spans the worlds of humans and giants in a saga inspired by the towering figures of Norse mythology. Create your character from 20,000 possible combos then pick one of six job classes.  Fight ferocious battles in real-time as you dish out punishment with the power of a god, sending enemies flying into the sky. Follow them upward to apply the finishing touches that send them skidding all the way across the horizon.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Title: Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 10/29/2012
Overview: To be the Most Wanted, it doesn’t matter if you put the most distance between you and the law – you only need enough room to escape. Outrun the law and outsmart your rivals in this high-speed race to become the most skilled, most ruthless, most wanted wheelman on the road! Need for Speed delivers another completely fluid, open, street-racing world where you can take on missions, challenge friends, and compete against rivals with seamless transitions between single and multiplayer. Choose a vehicle to match your driving style and hit jumps, blast nitrous, and more in play where the action never stops. Discover hiding spots and hidden shortcuts and share your inside knowledge, or keep it to yourself to gain an advantage.

Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation

Title: Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/29/2012
Overview: In the southern tip of the American colonies, a battle will be fought – and a nation’s destiny will be shaped – by a warrior no one will see coming. Assassins Creed III: Liberation delivers a standalone PS Vita-exclusive storyline set in the years leading up to the events of Assassins Creed III. In 1765, as the attention of the Colonies is focused on the British, Spain hatches a plot to take over Louisiana. Play as Aveline, a highly-skilled assassin, and fight to stop the Spanish plot, one silent strike at a time. Use a control scheme custom built for PS Vita to take out enemies with slo-motion precision, lure them into traps, and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.