The weather may be heating up, but with another stellar week of game releases, calling over a bunch of your buddies for some friendly console competition isn't out of the cards. (Your girlfriend? She can watch.)

This week's games selection gets you primed for pigskin season, offers up some crazy Japanese anime fighting, and brings you into The Shit twice, but in two different historical eras. Sounds like a party if we've ever heard of one!

NCAA Football 10 (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP)
Release Date: July 14, 2009
It's baaaaaaaaack! EA developers have promised that this year's iteration feels so real, you'll be scoring with the head cheerleader after the game. The little things, like sack evasion, adaptive AI, and tackling, have been ratcheted up once again, and some nifty additions—a Create-A-School mode and authentic marching bands—will let you customize your experience on the gridiron. And, when all of that gets boring, you can set down your controller and let ESPN's Erin Andrews tell you about your player's torn medial collateral ligament all night long.

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (PS3, Xbox 360)
Release Date: June 30, 2009
As if your illicit drug-infused, alcohol-fueled Saturday night needed another catalyst to slowly kill your bodily organs, Aksys Games—the minds behind the Guilty Gear series—has released its frenzied Japanese anime fighting masterpiece upon unsuspecting American citizens. The 2D arcade game features 12 unique pugilists in a long-winded and complicated plot for control of the world.

Battlefield 1943 (Xbox Live, PSN)
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Advance into enemy lines or dig into the trenches with EA's World War II-themed online multiplayer first-person shooter. Play on the American or Japanese side as you fight for control of Wake Island, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima with authentic historical weaponry and vehicles. (Or, hop into a Zero or Corsair and provide aerial support from above.) A word of advice: Playing this in the company of gramps may cause him to begin retelling old war stories to no end.

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Having lost everything in the Civil War, the three McCall brothers—two gunslinging badasses and a priest—go rogue from army life in search of a mysterious treasure hidden somewhere in the wild, wild, west. With law enforcement looking to drag them back for justice and the prospect of riches and a lascivious minx slowly driving a wedge between them, you take control and decide the fate of the wanted McCalls.