PlayStation Plus is the gift that keeps on giving. Except it’s not a gift. Unless you got your subscription as a gift. Oh, this analogy is falling apart, let’s move on and pretend we just started this story at the next paragraph, shall we?
Sony has just posted the confirmed contents for April’s PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection. PlayStation 4 will be getting Mercenary Kings, which looks excellent in its own quirky way (trailer below) while the PS3 will see Pro Evolution Soccer 14 punting its way to a free kick (FREE! get it?!). The Vita will get MotoGP 13 too, if you’re more of a petrol-and-rubber type than someone who likes to play with balls.
Hotline Miami and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time are both cross buy, cross play titles so you should be able to download them for free on PS3 and Vita and enjoy them on either – or both.
It’s all switching around on the 2nd of April so make sure you’ve grabbed this month’s before then and prepare your broadband provider for the bandwidth-related ordeal they’ll be facing.
Here’s what’s coming:
- Mercenary Kings (PS4)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 (PS3)
- Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (Cross Buy)
- Hotline Miami (Cross buy)
- MotoGP 13
And here’s what we’re losing from the collection – so be quick if you want to grab any of these:
- Dead Nation Apocalypse Edition
- Tomb Raider
- Borderlands 2
- Smart As
- Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate HD
Source: EU PS Blog
Avenger
I look forward to the moto gp 13 online coming alive again. It’ll give me a chance to get the last MP trophy. PES 14 should be some good fun as well.
Andrewww
Not much there for me, a collection of not my type of games. But maybe I find something that surprises me. And the last months were so good, I still got more than enough to play. I don’t expect them to give us AAA titles for the PS4, but this one really looks like a bad joke to me.
PoorPaddy89
Not a great update considering what we’ve been treated to recently. Bought Hotline Miami a couple of weeks ago in a sale, so there’s £2.50-odd I’ll never see again. Don’t care much for sports games. I quite enjoyed playing the first HD Sly game so Thieves in Time is my favourite on that list. Might even pick up 2 and 3 if they’re a decent price somewhere.
Surely they’ll be releasing Skyrim on PS+ soon?
Tuffcub
Why? Everyone in the world already owns a copy!
fattyuk
A) I don’t own skyrim
B) Skyrim wouldn’t ever come to PS+ as its not available to download on psn.
wonkey-willy
oh fu**ing brilliant my £350.00 powerhouse being pushed to its limits by a fu**ing 8bit monster of a game.
.NOT!!!!!!!
cmon sony lets have something worthy of my ps+ admission price.
on the upside the ps3 content is pretty good all over pes and moto gp.
freezebug2
Like taking your Ferrari Supercar for a Sunday jolly in a farmers field! :P
Actually that is a superb update for PS3/Vita, although I already have Sly TiT it does stand out as a cracking April update to Plus!
Kennykazey
You already have a sly tit? I don’t know if I’m supposed to be jealous…
(yes, that’s how I read it)
freezebug2
Let’s not milk the situation…No! wait :O
TSBonyman
Let’s hope that mammary doesn’t come back to haunt you..
Eldur
You ungrateful wretch. Since launch you’ve had FOUR free games for the PS4 alone which more than cover the frankly ridiculously low asking price already. That’s before we even start on the PS3 / Vita content, which is even more incredible.
PS+ is the single best thing to happen to gamers since the launch of the NES and provides incredible value for money in an industry that currently is doing everything it can to erode the concept.
SpikeyMikey23
PS+ Creator alert!……… haha
Ungrateful Wretch? Bit harsh if you ask me. Good value yes but they’ll never be able to please everyone. I don’t like scrolling shootem ups or survival horror and quite frankly , don’t starve bored the shit out of me. So 4 games that I will never play? Then again, I don’t buy PS+ for free games, I didn’t have plus on the PS3 and if Online wasn’t behind the plus paywall, I wouldn’t have it now either.
Don’t lump us all in your ‘best thing to happen to gamers’ category fella, cos it just ain’t true…..and bollocks to the NES, Atari 2600 is where it’s at!
wonkey-willy
“wretch”!!!!
kiss your mum with that mouth do ya?
i was merely pointing out that so far the ps plus side of things on ps4 has been a bit weak.
i’m not being ungrateful because the ps3 and vita content is none too shabby.
moto gp,pro evo and sly for me in april!
bunimomike
TSA: A Better Class of Name Calling
Eldur
Meh. It’s all relative. Xbox gamers have been paying for online play since 2002 and have gotten roundly sweet FA for their troubles in terms of free games (excepting Games for Gold which is frankly a joke by comparison). And I say again it’s been 4-5 months since the launch of the system, and I bet in 8 months time you’ll have at least one game that you’d be happy to download and play, a ratio that gets even better if you have a PS3 or a Vita.
If you’d started PS+ since it launched in 2010, and owned the relevant consoles, you’d have over 240 games for £140 (127 of which are on PS3 and include massive hits like Bioshock Infinite, Mass Effect 3, Red Dead Redemption, Deus Ex etc etc), working out at a little over 58p a game! That’s incredible value by anybody’s standard, and to bemoan Sony for not supplying games you’re specifically interested in seems more than a little unfair.
This is especially true seeing as the industry at large is increasing it’s attempts to ream gamers with on-disc DLC, season passes, microtransations, hilariously constricted F2P offerings etc. it seems like Sony should be praised constantly for it’s committment to rewarding people that choose to subscribe.
After all, you could have an Xbox One and be getting absolutely nothing for your online fee beyond being able to play with your friends…
fattyuk
@wonkey-Wiley
so what would you like from playstation plus? the ps4 library is non existent ATM which is understandable and justified!
You sound like your wanting blood from a stone.
wonkey-willy
blood from a stone would be a good start!
Eldur
Mercenary Kings does look like a more crudely drawn Metal Slug however.
tonycawley
Hmm, mercenary kings should prove interesting for the plus points challenge considering nobody seems in the slightest bit interested in it.
On that note, don’t forget to get your entries in for dead nation!
Kennykazey
Is it wrong that I’m pleased by this mediocre update? My backlog is killing me, so I mainly use Plus for online and it’s added features.
DividSmythe
I’ve got the ps3 games but don’t mind I’ve got 3 new ones. I nearly bought hotline the other week but decided against it B-) also I’ve never tried moto gp so I’ll give that a work too.
lambchop
A good month I think. I might even give PES a go!!
FrusciantesGhost
I bought (& since traded in) PES2014, the game was abysmal at launch but I’ll be giving that a try with the patches it’s had.. Surely now it’s got to have been improved.