Out This Week: June 9, 2014

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Few games are daring to launch this week (with E3 going on), but Liam Neeson and Neil deGrasse Tyson keep the momentum rolling on Blu-ray and DVD.

By Lucas M. Thomas

With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.

Enemy Front

Release Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Enemy Front brings World War II devotees a gripping FPS experience with advanced visuals and a richly interactive combat sandbox gameplay experience. The game gives the player full freedom to own their playing style: run & gun, stealth, subterfuge — all are viable approaches to win this battle.
Against the visceral backdrop of breathtaking European locales, the player takes on the role of American war correspondent Robert Hawkins, as he fights — and covers — iconic missions from anti-Nazi Resistance operations in France, Nazi Germany, Norway, and Warsaw throughout WW2.

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1001 Spikes – Xbox One Version

Release Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
This insanely difficult adventure already made its debut on most platforms last week, but it’s also rolling out to Xbox One tomorrow.
From our Review: Are you impatient? Easily frustrated? 1001 Spikes is not for you. An uncompromisingly difficult throwback to 8-bit platformers, 1001 Spikes looks like an NES game and feels like being repeatedly kicked in the teeth. As Indiana Jones-alike Aban Hawkins, you’ve got 1,001 lives to spend delving through an ancient, trap-filled temple – and you’ll likely need every last one of them (and more) if you plan to make it to the end. It’s a trip worth taking, as the retro aesthetic hides a huge assortment of inventive challenges made more fun and interesting by the precision it takes to overcome them – but it’s a brutal one.

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How to Train Your Dragon 2

Release Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Inspired by the sequel to the wildly popular 3-D animated feature film from DreamWorks Animation, How to Train Your Dragon 2 features all of the high-flying fire-breathing action and epic adventure that comes along with becoming the ultimate dragon hero!

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Pulstar

Release Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Pulstar is a fast paced arcade game that brings back the basic of its genre. No nonsense, just kill as long as you can to gain the highest score as possible! This concept gives Pulstar the challenge and high replay value real fans of this genre need! Pulstar also has a local co-op multiplayer where you can team up with your buddy to dominate the world rankings!

Space Run

Release Date: Friday, June 13, 2014
Space Run is a nod to ’80s science fiction and pays homage to many of its tropes and references. The year is 2525. You are captain Buck Mann, the most fearless, the most daredevil and the most broke of all the pilots in the galaxy! Your new job: you are a Space Runner, one of the space haulage contractors whose job is to transport valuable cargo from one end of the galaxy to the other… and one thing’s for sure: it’s going to be a bumpy ride. Not only do the cosmic highways regularly pass through asteroid belts of all sizes, but they are also used by dangerous and unscrupulous pirates armed to the teeth, whose fighters and battle cruisers will make short work of your transport vessel if you’re totally unprepared. And finally, you will also encounter other galactic “drivers” with whom you are fiercely competitive, so take this opportunity to give them a friendly blast from your turbo lasers when you overtake them!

Non-Stop

Release Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
From our Review: Thanks to the demand for TV procedurals, a good ol’ fashioned movie mystery is hard to come by. But that doesn’t mean people in Hollywood aren’t trying; Non-Stop is what might happen if Agatha Christie was forced to pen her own version of Taken (which, in itself, would be a fun movie).

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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Release Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
From our Review of the First Episode: Seth MacFarlane and Neil deGrasse Tyson present a unique and riveting glimpse at our universe in Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey. Embracing science and all it has to offer, the docu-series is unapologetic in its somewhat controversial depiction of organized religion, but it extends an olive branch for creative thinking and plays with concepts of faith in its whimsical view of the macrocosm.

Be sure to check back at the beginning of every week for a round-up of the week’s hottest game and movie releases.

You can follow Lucas M. Thomas on Twitter, @lucasmthomas.