Playstation 3 games The first entry in a fantasy franchise from ex-pitcher Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is an open-world action/role-playing game crafted by developer Big Huge Games and the talents of artist Todd McFarlane, author R.A. Salvatore, and former Elder Scrolls designer Ken Rolston. Choose from nine melee weapon classes ...

BioWare's award-winning sci-fi trilogy is bundled together for the first time in this compilation from Electronic Arts. Equal parts role-playing and third-person shooter, the series features squad-based combat as protagonist Commander Shepard travels across multiple galaxies in a starship while making a name for the human race. In each game player's ...

Heavy Rain is a high-def psychological thriller; an adventure game with action-oriented elements and a dark storyline that is as disturbing as it is compelling. The noir plot follows the lives of four largely unrelated individuals, all of which have been affected by a serial murderer on the loose. Each with ...

Bethesda's flagship fantasy role-playing series returns to PS3 with a new storyline and more detailed, open-world environment. Taking place centuries after the events chronicled in 2006's Oblivion, the game finds the continent of Tamriel in chaos after the High King of Skyrim is found murdered. Yet political turmoil is only the ...

Dark Arisen is a re-release of Capcom's 2012 RPG Dragon's Dogma, offering the full original game as well as a completely new island full of quests and mythical creatures. The game puts players in an open-world environment, mixing traditional fantasy RPG mechanics with hack-and-slash combat, and letting gamers enlist the help ...

The surreal yet successful melding of the plastic LEGO universe and the fantastic Star Wars universe continues in LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Combining the stories of Episode I through III from the original LEGO Star Wars with the classic tales from LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, The ...

Dragon's Dogma is an action-driven role-playing game with an optional element of online sharing. It is played in an original but familiar fantasy setting, where the focus is on magic and melee combat. Players choose a class and customize their characters' appearance. The hero adventures with one or more computer-controlled party ...

The development team behind Dragon Quest, Dark Cloud, and Professor Layton joins forces with the renowned Japanese animators at Studio Ghibli to produce Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, a classically styled RPG designed to look like an animated movie. Players take on the role of Oliver, a young ...

Save the weakened kingdom of Boletaria from hordes of nightmarish creatures in this exclusive action role-playing game for *. Designed in the spirit of the Diablo series, Demon's Souls features a dark, open-ended world with multiple ways to build your character, through the acquisition of skills, weapons, armor, and experience....

Final Fantasy XIII is a role-playing game for high-def consoles, set in an original realm that blends futuristic technology and ancient mysticism. Players follow the epic adventure of a group of gifted youngsters, informally led by an orphan girl called Lightning. The game uses an original variation on the "Active Time ...

Set in a political landscape designed to resemble 1930s Europe, Valkyria Chronicles finds gamers using a mix of tactical role-playing and real-time action sequences to successfully guide their small, peaceful nation though a massive conflict between two neighboring superpowers. The conflict takes place between the Imperial Alliance, whose unification under an ...

From Software's follow-up to 2009's Demon's Souls features an all-new storyline and setting. The action role-playing game will still retain its predecessor's challenging gameplay, which relies heavily on trial-and-error exploration across regions filled with traps, dungeons, monsters, and other dangers that can kill the unprepared adventurer in an instant. New features include ...

Set far in the future, in a smoggy steampunk world of towering steel structure, Resonance of Fate is a role-playing game for high-def consoles, with tactical firearm combat and a cinematically driven style of storytelling. Players guide a paramilitary squad of young, disaffected adventurers, against the monolithic Cardinal organization, which now ...

Continuum Shift Extend is a 2D fighting game that serves as an enhanced update to 2010's BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, offering new game types, characters, and tweaks. Twenty-three storylines are available, each following an individual fighter and offering multiple endings to enhance the game's replay value. By completing each character's scenario, players ...

EA DICE's flagship military combat series continues with Battlefield 3, a first-person shooter with destructible environments, large-scale maps, controllable vehicles, and online support for up to 24 simultaneous players. The single-player campaign, which the publisher estimates to be 12 hours in length, features multiple playable characters in a structure similar to ...

The second release in a planned trilogy from BioWare, but the first entry on the *, Mass Effect 2 is a role-playing game with an outer space, science fiction setting and action-oriented, third-person shooter play. Players resume the role of Commander Shepard, the customizable protagonist of the first game, choosing...

The afterlife adventures of reluctant Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki make their high-def video game debut in the *-exclusive Bleach: Soul Resurrección. Gamers can role-play through re-creations of their favorite plotlines from the Bleach comics and cartoon series, or seek out new side-adventures in the freely roamed game world, stocked with...

Disgaea 4 continues Nippon Ichi's peculiar strategy role-playing series that combines anime-styled characters and tactical battles. The setting is the Netherworld, home to a prison called Hades, where human souls are converted into penguin-like minions called Prinnies. The story revolves around the trainer of the Prinnies, vampire Valvatorez, who is upset ...

Written by U.S. Tier 1 Operators while deployed overseas and inspired by real world threats Medal of Honor: Warfighter delivers an aggressive gritty and authentic experience that puts gamers in the boots of todays most precise and disciplined warrior. Medal of Honor Warfighter takes players out of Afghanistan to continue the ...

Disgaea 4 continues Nippon Ichi's peculiar strategy role-playing series that combines anime-styled characters and tactical battles. The setting is the Netherworld, home to a prison called Hades, where human souls are converted into penguin-like minions called Prinnies. The story revolves around the trainer of the Prinnies, vampire Valvatorez, who is upset ...

NIS America and Gust team up to once again offer North American gamers alchemy-based RPG action in Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk. Set in a world that no longer values alchemy, The Alchemist of Dusk stars a lonely girl named Ayesha Altugle who struggles to keep her herbalist workshop open ...

Like earlier games in the Elder Scrolls line, Oblivion is designed to present a living fantasy world that gamers experience on their own terms. The game is populated with over 1,000 NPCs, each leading a fully realized life, following regular schedules according to their individual wants, needs, and positions. Players are ...

Nippon Ichi's strategy RPG full of elaborate combat mechanics and oddball humor makes its first appearance on the * in Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice. The game returns once again to the demon-infested Netherworld, but instead of beginning in a castle it starts at a school known as the The...

Vault 101 - Jewel of the Wastes. For 200 years Vault 101 has faithfully served the surviving residents of Washington D.C. and its environs now known as the Capitol Wasteland. Though the global atomic war of 2077 left the U.S. all but destroyed the residents of Vault 101 enjoy a life free from the constant stress of the outside world. Giant Insects Raiders Slavers and yes even Super Mutants are all no match for superior Vault-Tec engineering. Yet one fateful morning you awake to find that your father has defied the Overseer and left the comfort and security afforded by Vault 101 for reasons unknown. Leaving the ...