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Risen 2: Dark Waters

Title: Risen 2: Dark Waters
Publisher: Deep Silver
Platform: PS3
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 7/30/2012
Overview: NOTE: This game requires a Risen 2: Dark Waters Air Temple Mission Pack code to access bonus content. The Risen 2: Dark Waters Air Temple Mission Pack code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

Return to a world ravaged by the gods where hulking beasts have risen from the sea in this challenging RPG sequel. With ships forced to risk destruction on the open waters or remain trapped in port, rumors swirl about pirates who may know a way to defeat the aquatic horrors. If you can find the pirates, maybe you can find the answers. And then there’s the matter of actually defeating the menacing new enemy. Explore a string of islands in an open world full of options where you are left to your own devices. It’s entirely up to you to decide what to go after and how to get it!

Adidas miCoach

Title: Adidas miCoach
Publisher: 505 Games
Platform: PS3
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 7/26/2012
Overview: The world’s greatest athletes help you raise your game in Adidas miCoach! Sharpen your skills as you learn from the Adidas roster of stars in workouts and training programs geared toward specific sports. Tailor your routine to multiple sports, including basketball, football, soccer, tennis, and running. Work out with guidance from NBA All-Star Dwight Howard, legendary footballer Kaka, world-class sprinter Tyson Gay, heptathalon world champ Jessica Enis, tennis star Ana Ivanovic, and NFL defensive back Eric Berry. PlayStation Move monitors your movements as miCoach analyzes your performance and helps you reach your goals. Combine with the miCoach mobile app and sync data from your workouts outside the game.

Summer Stars 2012

Title: Summer Stars 2012
Publisher: Maximum Family Games
Platform: PS3
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 7/14/2012
Overview: Travel all around the world to prove you’re the world’s best all-around athlete in this fully loaded collection of summer sports! Compete in over 18 challenges in stadiums and arenas across the globe as you prove your athletic prowess in track and field events, swimming showdowns, outdoor contests, and more. Experience a story-driven Career Mode, challenge up to three friends in split-screen multiplayer, or have the family join in party play that levels the field by balancing everyone’s skill level. Compete in events like diving, sprinting, mountain biking, and more as you control your on-screen athlete with classic arcade-style controls or go all-in with full PlayStation Move motion support.

NCAA Football 13

Title: NCAA Football 13
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 7/9/2012
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. A 2-day online trial is available via your PSN ID while renting this title.

NCAA Football 13 puts the game on your quarterback’s shoulders and puts control of it squarely in your hands! Use new Total Control Passing to hit receivers in stride or float perfect passes between defensive backs. Your opponent counters with a new Read & React defense that makes pump fakes and play action more important than ever. Mid-game updates from new studio analyst Rece Davis and the addition of the ESPN Bottom line ticker help make an upgraded Dynasty Mode even more addictive. See the game through the eyes of a superstar in Road to Glory, try to repeat the glory of Heisman winners in the Heisman Challenge, and more.

Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends

Title: Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends
Publisher: Atari
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 7/3/2012
Overview: Odds are good that you’ve always wanted to drive one of Ferrari’s dream machines. Here’s your chance to get behind the wheel of 52 of them! Test Drive: Ferrari Legends fills your garage with premier automobiles from one of the world’s most prominent car makers and gives you plenty of ways to see what they can do. Choose from 52 modern and vintage Ferrari sports cars, all rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Pick from a variety of racing challenges, including F1, GT, and Rally style, and compete on 36 racing circuits or in 8-driver online multiplayer. The only thing more ferocious than than the competition is the Ferrari engine under that hood.

Record of Agarest War 2

Title: Record of Agarest War 2
Publisher: Aksys
Platform: PS3
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 6/28/2012
Overview: A day of unparalleled beauty brings untold destruction in this RPG where a man must pay for his crime against the gods. After a beautiful light unleashes destruction across the world, demons ravage those who survive. In the chaos, a man without a memory meets Eva, an Agent of the Divine. She tells him he has taken the life of a god. To pay for his sins, he will become the Vessel through which the fallen god will be reborn. Explore a redesigned HD world where you’ll meet your enemies on new grid-based battlegrounds. Interact with Agarest characters in new ways with three bonus PS Move-compatible mini-games: Bathtub, Shiatsu, and Massage.

London 2012 Olympics

Title: London 2012 Olympics
Publisher: Sega
Platform: PS3
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 6/25/2012
Overview: In the world’s greatest sporting event, the true finish line is at the top of the medal stand! Compete to be the best of the best in over 45 events that let you experience what it’s like to compete in the 2012 London Olympics. Single-player focuses on bringing home the drama of the competition. Multiplayer Modes riff on tradition by adding party-style elements to classic events. Choose from a mix of controller-based and motion-control events accompanied by new commentary and beyond-broadcast-quality Olympian visuals. Online play is built to capture the spirit of the Games, with your wins adding to the overall medal count of the country you’re playing for.

The Amazing Spider-Man

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/25/2012
Overview: Wield the powers of the Amazing Spider-Man in this free-roaming game that picks up where the hit film leaves off! Experience the rush of web-slinging across Manhattan in a story that takes you up to the heights above the city streets and into the darkness of the subway tunnels below. Battle to save Manhattan from classic and new Spider-Man villains, including Rhino and Iguana. Activate the new Web Rush feature to target end-points and get there by pulling off amazing acrobatic moves. Follow the storyline or veer off to complete Peter Parker photo missions and Super Hero challenges that show up as you explore the city.

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.