Summer video game preview 2009

From 'Ghostbusters' to 'The Sims 3,' 12 games that'll keep you indoors this summer

It used to be that summertime was the winter of the gaming world, ushering in three months of no new games. It was actually kind of nice—you got a chance to catch up on everything you missed around the holidays, and to replay all those games you wanted to beat again.

Not this summer. Between June and August there are more than a dozen new—and potentially non-sucky—games getting released, from the much-anticipated "Ghostbusters: The Video Game" to "Sims 3" to the new Batman title, "Arkham Asylum." Game on!—By Paul Semel, Special to Metromix