Gamasutra's regular round-up of worldwide video game releases, "Release This!", takes a look at every game title we know to be shipping to stores this week, in a custom compiled list.
This week brings
The Amazing Spider-Man and
Spec Ops: The Line to North America, while Europe gets
Project Zero 2: Wii Edition and
The Ratchet & Clank Trilogy.
The following list covers all of the game software we know to be available -- across all platforms and regions -- for the week ending June 30th, 2012.
Games Released in the United States:
Yager Development's squad-based shooter
Spec Ops: The Line ships this week in North America for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC platforms. Featuring a story inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness,
The Line boasts a unique sandstorm mechanic that dynamically alters terrain during gameplay.
Also arriving on store shelves this week are Beenox's superhero film tie-in title
The Amazing Spider-Man, Ubisoft's dancing sim track pack
Just Dance: Greatest Hits, and Capcom's
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection, which includes upgraded, PlayStation Move-compatible versions of
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and
The Darkside Chronicles.
Nintendo Wii:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Just Dance: Greatest Hits
Xbox 360:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Just Dance: Greatest Hits
- London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games
- Mini Ninjas Adventures (Xbox Live Arcade)
- Sledge Hammer
- Spec Ops: The Line
PlayStation 3:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games
- Record of Agarest War 2
- Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection
- Spec Ops: The Line
Nintendo 3DS:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Bomb Monkey (3DSWare)
- Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome 2
Nintendo DS:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Escape the Virus: Swarm Survival (DSiWare)
- Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome 2
PlayStation Portable:
- Unchained Blades
PC:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Dungeons & Dragons Online: Menace of the Underdark
- London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games
- Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
- The Race for the White House
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Games Released in Europe:
Europe hosts a number of region-exclusive debuts this week, including the multiplatform biking sim
Tour De France 2012, the animated film-based
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift - Arctic Games, and
The Ratchet & Clank Trilogy: Classics HD, which collects the PlayStation 2 platformers
Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, and
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal.
Also arriving this week is
Project Zero 2, a Wii remake of
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly that accompanies the European launch of the 3DS
Fatal Frame spinoff
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir.
Nintendo Wii:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Brave
- Country Dance 2
- Ice Age 4: Continental Drift - Arctic Games
- Project Zero 2: Wii Edition
Xbox 360:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Brave
- Ice Age 4: Continental Drift - Arctic Games
- London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Tour De France 2012
PlayStation 3:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Brave
- Ice Age 4: Continental Drift - Arctic Games
- London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games
- The Ratchet & Clank Trilogy: Classics HD
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Tour De France 2012
Nintendo 3DS:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Harvest Moon: The Tale Of Two Towns
- Ice Age 4: Continental Drift - Arctic Games
- Jewel Quest IV
- Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir
Nintendo DS:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Brave
- Driver Dan's Story Train
- Girls Only
- Harvest Moon: The Tale Of Two Towns
- Ice Age 4: Continental Drift - Arctic Games
PlayStation Vita:
- Jonah Lomo Rugby Challenge
- Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
PC:
- Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Deponia
- Distant Worlds
- Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece
- Ice Age 4: Continental Drift - Arctic Games
- London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games
- Pro Cycling Manager Tour De France 2012
- Sol: Exodus
- Spec Ops: The Line
Games Released in Japan:
5pb's
Steins;Gate spiritual successor
Robotics;Notes launches for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in Japan this week, arriving alongside other visual novel releases like
Hakuouki: Reimeiroku Nagorigusa, Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun Re:Therapy, Arabians Lost ~The engagement on desert~, and
Ouka Sengoku Portable.
Other standout titles premiering this week include Nippon Ichi's PlayStation 3 action-RPG
Majo to Hyakkihei, new 3DS entries in the
Culdcept and
Tantei Jinguuji Saburo series, and
.hack Sekai No Mukou Ni + Versus Hybrid Pack, which includes an animated film and a new one-on-one fighting game developed by Namco Bandai.
Nintendo Wii:
- Zero: Shinku no Chou
Xbox 360:
- Robotics;Notes
PlayStation 3:
- .hack Sekai No Mukou Ni + Versus Hybrid Pack
- Atelier Ayesha ~Koukon No Daichi No Renkinjutsu~
- Biohazard Chronicles HD Selection
- Hakuouki: Reimeiroku Nagorigusa
- Majo to Hyakkihei
- Robotics;Notes
- The IdolM@ster: Gravure For You! Vol. 9
Nintendo 3DS:
- Culdcept
- Tantei Jinguuji Saburo: Fukushuu No Rinbu
PlayStation Vita:
- Metal Gear Solid HD Edition
- Next Revolution: IT Passport Shiken
- Next Revolution: Kihon Jouhougijutsusha Shiken
- Next Revolution: Ouyou Jouhougijutsusha Shiken
PlayStation Portable:
- Arabians Lost ~The engagement on desert~
- Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~
- Generation of Chaos 6
- Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun Re:Therapy
- Koisentai Love & Peace The P.S.P.
- Ouka Sengoku Portable
- Strike Witches: Shirogane no Tsubasa
- unENDing Bloody Call
