Ross McGrath has detailed this month’s PlayStation Plus update for Europe over on the official blog, which is suffering from a slightly silly five posts per page design that – during E3 at least – pushes stuff off the home page after just a matter of hours.
Regardless, here’s what you’re getting, after all the hype and rumours have died down.
- Game of the month: Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown. This’ll be rotated out at the end of the month.
- Games catalogue: Warhammer 40,000, Chime Super Deluxe, Darksiders, Renegade Ops, Outland, Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath HD. Warhammer and Chime will vanish mid July, Darksiders and Renegade Ops the month after and the last two in September. Each time two games go, another two will appear.
- Always available: inFamous 2, MotorStorm Apocalypse, LittleBigPlanet 2. These will remain constant over the year.
You’ll have no doubt noticed that Europeans will get ten games as opposed to twelve over in the States. However, because SCEE will cycle the games more often (every 3 months rather than every 4) in effect we’ll actually get more after a year.
That said, some of the games that’ll appear in rotation might well have already been featured in a previous Plus promotion…
Finally, to ease any confusion from this morning – you won’t lose the ability to play a game once it’s been cycled out – as long as you activated the download (and are still a paying Plus subscriber) you’ll be able to re-download and play any such game whenever you wish.
cam the man
I think this is a great addition to Plus, just a pity I have already played or don’t want any of the games above. Hope there’s one or two in the next update that will interest me.
Dlaf42
Can anyone help me…i just had a look through the full game trials section and saints row 2 is for free and not an hour trail then unlock…has it always been like this..its 7 gig and i am downloading now.
skibadee
did you buy Saints Row 3?
Dlaf42
yeah i bought Saints Row 3 but never got any code for the game in the box….did it just unlock once i played Saints Row 3..if so bonus for me..lol
skibadee
yep SR3 unlocked it.
threelions_66
Only games I have are inFamous 2 and LBP2, so i’m well chuffed with this offer. Am I right in thinking they’ll be on the store today?
Foxhound_Solid
Great move this ^_^ … I predict Vita titles joining these around november time…
Unterred
Only got warhammer, chime and lpb2 among these games. This ps+ update is brilliant hasn’t know where I’ll get the time to play them all!
psychobudgie
Already got Darksiders and Infamous 2 but who cares. What an awesome change for once. Looking forward to playing all the other games I don’t have.
IAmJacksMedullaOblongata
One can only assume the games available in one region will eventually become available in another.
I reckon they have a massive pile and they’re engaging with publishers. Some games are going to get passed earlier for different regions.
It would be madness to assume that they talked with Eidos about Just Cause 2 and the publisher said “Sure, but only in NA.” I reckon it’ll just take some time to get it approved for Europe, at which point it will become one of the switched in games later on in the process.
(At least I hope!)
SteveShd
I’m happy with this! I’m getting Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, Outland and inFamous 2
Omac_brother
Free to a good home : 1 social life. Used heavily in the past but due to a lot of free games that I havnt played in the past coming free with PS+, it will no longer be needed.
OneDown
Yeah this is cool but still not enough in my opinion to be worth the subscription. They’re getting there though, slowly but surely.
Omac_brother
What more could you want?