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LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes

Title: LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: Xbox One
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/25/2013
Overview: With great power comes great responsibility. So grab those powers by the horns as your favorite superhero and smash them LEGO style! With close to 150 characters to choose from, take control of the Marvel Universe using the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Iron Man, and many more. Band together to stop Doctor Doom, the trickster god Loki, and the rest of their villainous friends from destroying the world brick by brick. Explore LEGO Manhattan and geek out as you venture into famous Marvel locations like the X-Mansion and Stark Tower. Side missions are narrated by the mercenary antihero Deadpool. With LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes, the power to save the world is in your hands!

Pokemon X

Title: Pokemon X
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Strategy/Sim
Release Date: 10/12/2013
Overview: Your Pokemon are about to evolve! The legendary monsters can grow stronger than ever with the power of Mega Evolution! Up till now, Pokemon have been limited to a certain number of evolutions. Not anymore! The “evolution beyond all evolution” gives your Pokemon a huge boost in strength and may have some mysterious effects. Your Pokemon may gain new abilities, or change to an entirely different type of Pokemon. Not every Pokemon has this ability, so you’ll need to find Mega Stones and give them to the right Pokemon to trigger Mega Evolution. Go on an adventure-filled journey across the star-shaped Kalos region, which is full of places to explore and Pokemon to catch, trade, and battle.

Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate

Title: Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/24/2013
Overview: Experience the origin of a legend on PS Vita as the Batman Arkham series makes its handheld debut. Batman: Arkham Origins follows the Caped Crusader’s rise from raw crime-fighter to unstoppable hero. This companion Blackgate storyline gives you a chance to dive even deeper into the Dark Knight’s beginnings. Set just after the events of the console saga, Blackgate begins with an explosion at Gotham’s highest-security prison. Blackgate Prison is home to Gotham’s most twisted, fiendish, criminal masterminds – many of them put there by Batman himself. With the inmates running wild, it’s up to the Bat to restore order. Experience an action-packed, crime-fighting brawler with stylized 2.5D visuals and voiced cut scenes that propel the story forward.

Battlefield 4

Title: Battlefield 4
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/28/2013
Overview: On this battlefield, the combat experience is as real as it gets. Adjust tactics to suit your strengths, alter the environment, and create a path to victory that’s all your own in a riveting theater of war. Battlefield 4 begins with a group of American VIPs being evacuated from Shanghai. Plunge into a story where chaos swirls all around you, and every decision is critical in the battle to survive as you guide your squad safely home. Alter the landscape in real time as you obliterate cover, bring down buildings to expose enemies, and more. Experience sounds and visuals powered by the hyperadvanced Frostbite 3 engine as you fight land, air, and now sea battles with the franchise’s first-ever water-based vehicle combat.

Just Dance 2014

Title: Just Dance 2014
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Wii
Genre: Music/Dance
Release Date: 10/7/2013
Overview: The stage is bigger than ever in Just Dance 2014! The best-selling dance game brings 40 new tracks, gives you a singing option, and delivers the franchise’s first-ever online multiplayer party. Take your performance to the next level in On Stage Mode, where you’ll dance, lead backup dancers, and even sing. Create your own virtual crew and share the stage with anyone, anywhere on the World Dance Floor, where you’ll compete in a variety of theme-based challenges. Track the calories you burn while you burn up the dance floor in every mode, including Just Sweat workouts now driven by custom playlists. You’ll have the chance to show off more moves than ever with alternate choreography options across all modes.

Beyond: Two Souls

Title: Beyond: Two Souls
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/7/2013
Overview: Motion-capture technology blends with Hollywood storytelling to create a revolutionary new experience from the makers of Heavy Rain. Beyond: Two Souls follows the life of Jodie Holmes, a young woman gifted with incredible powers through a psychic link to an invisible entity. Experience gut-wrenching decisions and life-altering events in a branching, evolving story that spans 15 years of Jodie’s life. Solve puzzles with innovative control sequences and survive cinematic action scenes as you control Jodie and the mysterious force to which she is bound. The game takes realistic visuals to a new level, using “performance capture” technology that allows Oscar-nominated actors Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe to bring the characters to life like never before.

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

Title: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/28/2013
Overview: NOTE: This is a two disc game, but it only counts as one disc against your rental plan. Rental of this title does not include the Uplay Passport required by Ubisoft for access to online features and game modes beyond level ten. The single-use code is included with purchase and is also available for purchase separately via Xbox LIVE. 

Some pirates sail the seven seas. In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, you’ll slay them. Enter an 18th-century world where pirates rule the Caribbean. Play as Edward Kenway, a ruthless pirate captain, and explore the most expansive Assassin’s Creed world ever created. Loot shipwrecks, assassinate enemies, plunder lost ruins for treasure, battle enemy ships, board galleons, and more in 50 unique locations. Choose your tactics as you switch seamlessly between the Hidden Blade of the Assassin’s Order and the flintlock pistols and cutlasses of the pirates. Take your place alongside legends like Blackbeard, and live history’s golden age of pirates as you become the most feared outlaw in a lawless republic that’s full of them. 

Batman: Arkham Origins

Title: Batman: Arkham Origins
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/24/2013
Overview: NOTE: This is a two disc game, but it only counts as one disc against your rental plan.

Before he became the Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne had to learn how to become a hero. Experience the Caped Crusader’s rise from raw crime-fighter to unstoppable superhero in this Batman prequel. Years before the events of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, a young Batman patrols the streets of Gotham. A ruthless, masked criminal has put a price on his head, and eight of the world’s deadliest assassins have come to claim the bounty. It triggers an all-out battle for survival in a Gotham that’s double the size of the Gotham in Arkham City. Form pivotal alliances, prove new gadgets in battle, and hone your heroic skills to justice-dispensing perfection as you experience the rise of a legend.

Killzone: Mercenary

Title: Killzone: Mercenary
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 9/9/2013
Overview: Get a new perspective on the Killzone trilogy in this PS Vita-exclusive story where you won’t take a side in the war between the ISA and Helghast, you’ll only take the next job. Play as a ruthless soldier for hire, taking contracts from the ISA and Helghast alike. Gear up for nine intense single-player missions that the regular soldiers can’t – or won’t – touch. The only good is fulfilling your contract – the only evil is anything that stops you from padding that bankroll. Completing missions will unlock replay challenges with added objectives. Use your cash to boost your stats or load out with new gear and weapons to use in the single-player campaign or in multiplayer.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist

Title: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 8/19/2013
Overview: America is on notice. A radical group called The Engineers has issued a blacklist: a series of deadly attacks that will be carried out unless America meets its demands. Sam Fisher has been given one rule in this sweeping Splinter Cell saga: do whatever it takes to stop the attacks. Operate without limits in three play styles. Panthers strike quickly, then slip into the the shadows. Assault players rely on instincts and firepower. Ghosts go totally undetected. Use new black ops gadgets, including the Sticky Noisemaker, which can distract enemies or lure them, and the Tri-Rotor, a dart-shooting scout drone. Use the Strategic Mission Interface for co-op play, go team vs. team in Spies vs. Mercs, and more.

Saints Row IV

Title: Saints Row IV
Publisher: Deep Silver
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 8/19/2013
Overview: NOTE: This game requires an Online Pass code to access online multiplayer content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

In Saints Row IV you’ll save the world, Saints style! The Saints’ head honcho has been elected President of the United States, but the Saints are just getting started. The larger-than-life insanity of the Saints series gets a new twist with a catastrophic alien invasion, and the aliens have transported the Saints to a bizarre simulation of Steelport. Use an arsenal of alien weapons and technology that will turn each Saint into an ultimate entity of destruction. Wield gargantuan superpowers and fight to free humanity from alien Zinyak’s mental control. Leap over buildings, outrun sports cars, and send enemies flying with telekinesis in the most insane installment of Saints Row yet. Escape the simulation that’s trapped the Saints crew, or die trying.

Diablo III

Title: Diablo III
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 8/31/2013
Overview: The end of the world is just the beginning in this underworld adventure where you’ll play as one of humanity’s last defenders. As Diablo III begins, a dark omen has risen: a fallen star signals that the End Times have come. Battle hordes of demonic creatures to stop the coming apocalypse in hack-and-slash RPG-style action. Fight as a barbarian, wizard, monk, witch doctor, or demon hunter and level up your character to unlock new powers as you face a seemingly never-ending parade of horrors. Make your stand solo or form a party with three friends, on or offline. The dynamic 3D battlefield environments are full of swarming enemies, hidden quests, and loads of valuable loot.

Grand Theft Auto V

Title: Grand Theft Auto V
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 9/16/2013
Overview: NOTE: This is a two disc game, but it only counts as one disc against your rental plan. Game installation requires an Xbox 360 Hard Drive or a 16GB USB flash drive (USB 2.0 with 15mb/s).

GTA V unleashes a saga so big you’ll need three main characters to experience it. Switch between the lives of three criminals chasing success in a city that was once great, but now finds itself awash in economic doubt and cheap reality TV. Explore the massive (even by GTA standards) city of Los Santos and the surrounding Blaine County, a world of fading celebrities, wannabe starlets, self-help gurus, fitness freaks, and other sun-soaked weirdos. Here, street crime will only get you so far. To score big, you need to create a blockbuster. Work together on epic heists, multi-part missions that require precision planning and execution, and risk it all in a city built on big dreams…and littered with spectacular failures.

Tomb Raider

Title: Tomb Raider
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 3/5/2013
Overview: A legendary franchise reboots as Tomb Raider flashes back to the time before Lara Croft was a gun-wielding, butt-kicking, tomb-raiding hero. When the young researcher washes up on an uncharted island after a shipwreck, she believes she’s alone – until strange noises start coming from the shadows. Travel across the open island wilderness and through the tombs underground as ruthless predators stalk your every move. Adapt to your surroundings in a gritty battle to survive using your wits, brute strength, and whatever weapons you can find. Fight unflinching melee battles as the hunted becomes the hunter in a cinematic story tailor-made for Lara Croft.

MUD – FIM Motocross World Championship

Title: MUD – FIM Motocross World Championship
Publisher: Namco
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 2/26/2013
Overview: Get the only authentic motocross experience with this game that lets you compete for the Monster Energy Motocross World Championship. Tear up the track on three Monster Energy Motocross circuits: The MX1, MX2, and MXoN championships. Choose from 84 of the sport’s best riders from 32 teams and race in 12 real-life motocross locations. Compete to be the world’s best among 16 national teams as you chase global bragging rights in the Motocross of Nations. Show off your speed on the track then show off your skills in post-race freestyle Trick Battle Mode. Rise up the ranks as you master your riding skills in gameplay featuring authentic racing physics and real-time track deformation.

Crysis 3

Title: Crysis 3
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/19/2013
Overview: In the aftermath of an alien invasion, New York City has been covered by a giant nanodome. A rain forest has sprouted inside, engulfing the once-great city and providing the perfect staging ground for a secret military organization. That organization is your target and the rainforest is your hunting ground in this sandbox FPS. Stalk your enemies with the power of your Nanosuit, the futuristic armor that holds the mysterious symbiotic memory of a hero who once wore it. Use futuristic weaponry, including alien weapons you can scavenge and the powerful new predator bow. Customize your Nanosuit to suit your combat style in the single-player campaign or in expanded multiplayer modes.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Title: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Publisher: Konami
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 2/19/2013
Overview: Metal Gear returns with a new mission, one that trades the shadows of stealth for the white-hot blaze of over-the-top battle. Instead of covert ops and stealth infiltration, in Revengeance you’ll barrel into battle, where you’ll slice through cyborg enemies in furious stylized combat. Your character, Raiden, spent his early years as a legendary child soldier known as “Jack the Ripper.” Raiden has graduated to the combat big leagues and is now a full-on mercenary for hire, performing missions for PMSCs (Private Military and Security Companies) in a world recovering from a brutal Civil War. The fragile world is ripe for the taking, and Raiden and his blade will be the last line of defense against a coming cyborg invasion.

Aliens: Colonial Marines

Title: Aliens: Colonial Marines
Publisher: Sega
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/11/2013
Overview: Enlist in the Colonial Marines and journey to the planet LV-426 in this story that plays as a true sequel to James Cameron’s hit Aliens. Face one of the deadliest beings in the universe as you battle the classic creature in all of its forms: the Facehugger, Chestburster, Warrior, Drone (seen in Alien 3), and Queen. You’ll also have to survive a new Crusher alien created just for this game. Customize weapon load-outs and explore environments from the movies. Need backup? Call in up to three friends to join your squad in drop-in/drop-out co-op play that spans the entire storyline. It may be just another day in the corps, but one day in the corps brings action unlike anywhere else!

Dead Space 3

Title: Dead Space 3
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/4/2013
Overview: NOTE: This game requires an EA Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

If you want the gear to survive Dead Space 3, you’ll have to build it yourself! Battle enemies with your own custom weapons on a mission to destroy the Necromorphs once and for all. Hero Isaac Clarke and soldier John Carver have crashed on a frozen planet. Your engineering skills will be stretched to their limit as you scavenge the icy world for parts to build weapons and the other gear you need to survive. If you can survive the wilderness, you’ll meet a Necromorph enemy that’s gained terrifying new powers in a battle to save humanity from extinction. The epic story spans the entire planet and can be played in single player or in drop-in/drop-out online co-op.

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

Title: Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 2/4/2013
Overview: Sly Cooper and his gang of thieves are in for a job so big, they’ll have to travel through time to pull it off! The crafty raccoon is living a low-key life of leisure. His buddy Bentley has been trusted with guarding the Thievus Raccoonus, the volume that holds the marauding exploits and skills of the Cooper gang. When Bentley begins traveling through time, pages from the Thievus Raccoonus start disappearing, and Sly is called back into action to track them down. Go on a time-traveling stealth-action platform adventure with Sly and his band of merry misfits. Solve puzzles and wear new costumes that unlock new moves in battle in a hilarious story that’s cross-compatible with PSVita.