Out This Week: May 12, 2014

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Minecraft hits PS3 (again) with a new retail disc release, Borderlands 2 comes to Vita and Super T.I.M.E. Force finally blasts onto Xbox platforms, all this week.

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.

Chronology

Release Date: Monday, May 12, 2014
The week of new releases kick off today with the excellent looking Chronology, a puzzler/platformer that gives you command over the flow of time – you can seemlessly shift the environment around you to how it appeared in either the past or the future, and even stop time entirely as needed to progress. Take a look at its trailer right here:

The Last Tinker: City of Colors

Release Date: Monday, May 12, 2014
From our Preview: The vibrant world in The Last Tinker: City of Colors’ demo easily drew me in at first glance. From start to finish the entire thing looks like one big, bright pinata, with wide-eyed animal characters wandering through a colorful world and props made out of cardboard, paper, and glue. In this platforming adventure, you play as a young monkey named Koru.

Borderlands 2 – Vita Version

Release Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
From our Preview: Borderlands 2 was a bona fide hit for developer Gearbox Software, selling millions of copies on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. In fact, it was so popular that Gearbox and publisher 2K agreed to let Sony help bring it over to PlayStation Vita, a great sign for a struggling handheld with only one good first-person shooter to its name (Guerrilla Cambridge’s Killzone: Mercenary).
It came as a surprise to find Borderlands 2’s PS Vita iteration at the PlayStation GDC booth, especially because Sony, 2K, and Gearbox have been so mum about it. Running on debug Vita hardware, Borderlands 2 looks the part – and is reportedly content complete with some DLC added in — but it’s definitely not on the same level as its console and PC counterparts.

Soul Sacrifice Delta

Release Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
From our Preview: Soul Sacrifice Delta improves on the original with an optimised graphics engine and better AI, making for a more challenging adventure. Character customisation promises to be more in-depth too, plus – according to the game’s producer Oliver Banal – there will be “a lot of new content as well, with new Archfiends inspired by dark retellings of classic fairy tales, new sorcerers, arenas, spells and even more quests.” You can also carry over your save if you’ve already finished the original Soul Sacrifice.

Her

Release Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
From our Review: The not-too-distant future of Spike Jonze’s her is both utopian and dystopian — a mesmerizing, provocative, and romantic world to soak up. Artificial intelligence acts as the human conscience, interaction is made entirely through electronic middlemen, romance brews between people and their operating systems, and… it might all be OK, as long as it makes folks happy.

I, Frankenstein

Release Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
From our Review: To answer your question, yes, Aaron Eckhart does punch a gargoyle in the face in his latest movie I, Frankenstein, and… yeah, it’s pretty badass. Interested? Read on…
In Lionsgate’s spinoff of Mary Shelley’s classic horror story, 200 years have passed since the abominable creation of Victor Frankenstein’s creature, who in this movie is simply called “Adam.” A lot’s changed in that time, and any knowledge of Frankenstein or his work has all but vanished from human history. However, behind the scenes, a centuries-old war wages between gargoyles and demons, and Adam finds himself caught in the middle, as he discovers that he holds the key to immortality, and thus the fate of humankind.

That Awkward Moment

Release Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
From our Review: We’re long overdue a great romantic comedy told from the male perspective – unfortunately That Awkward Moment isn’t that movie, the characters lacking in likeability, too many of the jokes falling flat, and the film missing the spark that should make hearts flutter.

Super T.I.M.E. Force

Release Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
From our Preview: Super T.I.M.E. Force a 2D side-scrolling action game similar to, say, Contra or Gunstar Heroes. You get 30 lives (without even entering the Konami code!), each of which can be ended with one bullet.Or one piranha bite. Or one dinosaur stomp.
But the trick is, every time you die you rewind time and start over from the beginning of the level or checkpoint, and each of your previous attempts run through the level alongside you. Remember when you completed a level in Super Meat Boy and all of your attempts were replayed at once? Super T.I.M.E. Force looks like that, except all of your ghost runs are fully-functioning team mates helping you shoot down the bad guys. So the more you die, the easier the game gets.

Moon Chronicles

Release Date: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Experience Renegade Kid’s award-winning first-person shooter remastered in glorious 3D. Rebuilt from the ground up to take advantage of the Nintendo 3DS and delivered in episodic chunks of action (with all the segments of the original campaign as well as all-new areas of terror,) Moon Chronicles delivers an atmospheric first-person sci-fi adventure with enhanced graphics and intuitive touch screen controls for a truly immersive experience. Join Major Kane on a mysterious mission to Earth’s moon to investigate a unique hatch of unknown origin. With each new episode you are brought one step closer to understanding the secrets that lie beneath the surface of the moon.

Minecraft – PS3 Retail Version

Release Date: Friday, May 16, 2014
Minecraft’s been available to PlayStation 3 owners as a download since December, but starting this week it’ll also be on sale on a good old physical disc.
From our Review: We’ve all spent a lot of time playing games where the goal is to kill things and break stuff down. It’s nice to finally play a game about building something up. Turning a pristine landscape into grand palaces and irrigation systems using your own two hands while things try to kill you isn’t just an amazingly rewarding gaming experience, it’s a clever retelling of human history. In a way, this is what we’re all instinctively driven to do, and Minecraft captures it brilliantly.

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

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