We’re excited to announce a new program called “Only On PSN,” which features brand new games that are exclusively available on PlayStation Network throughout October. Every week starting tomorrow, October 4, you will find new titles, unique to PSN that are part of this program – games that you’ve likely read about here on the PlayStation Blog, or seen during our showing at E3 2011. You may recall our announcement a few months ago about our Pub Fund – a $20 million investment in exclusive PSN titles, and the Only On PlayStation Network program showcases two titles spawning from this investment: Eufloria and Okabu.
We can’t wait for you to get your hands on the Only On PSN games yourselves, so we’re giving you a few special offers throughout the course of the program. First, to sweeten the deal, we’ll be offering PlayStation Plus subscribers a 20% discount on each game during the first week of its availability.
Additionally, users who spend $60 or more out of their PlayStation Network/Sony Entertainment Network wallet through the month of October will get $10 back in November. This includes any of the Only On PSN games, purchases of games, add-ons, movies and TV shows in both the game and video sections of the PlayStation Store, your paid subscriptions for PlayStation Plus or Music Unlimited, movie rentals or purchases through Video Unlimited and any games or virtual items you buy in PlayStation Home.
Be sure to keep an eye on the PlayStation Twitter feed, as we’ll be giving away download codes for each game in the line-up every week. Don’t miss your chance to get this week’s Only On PSN games for free!
Now, let’s check out the games:
October 4:
- Eufloria – An addictive ambient game of space exploration and conquest, plant growth and bio-mechanical evolution. Explore a beautifully realized universe rendered in a style that is unique and compelling. Conquer asteroids in deep space and use their resources to literally grow and nurture semi-organic plants and creatures to do your bidding.
- Rochard – A fun and original space adventure game that features a resourceful hero, ominous villains, rugged machinery, big explosions, even bigger stunts and sharp one-liners. The game tests players’ coordination and wits as they use gravity to their advantage, changing it at will to solve environmental puzzles and advance through each level.
October 11:
- Sideway: New York – Help defeat Spray, a sinister tagger who wants to dominate both Sideway and the real world in this unique sidescroller that offers you the chance to leave your mark on the city.
October 13:
- Sodium Collection – A more than $35 value available for $9.99, this PlayStation Home value pack includes the SodiumOne Pilot’s Jacket, which unlocks the full 50-level tank combat Salt Shooter game, and weapon upgrades for your SodiumOne tank. Also included is a variety of upgrades for Sodium 2: Project Velocity, a high-speed, free-to-play, futuristic multiplayer racing game exclusive to PlayStation Home, and the wildly-popular Blaster’s Paradise personal space, which hosts a tabletop version of Salt Shooter. Buy from the PlayStation Store and play in PlayStation Home.
October 18:
- Okabu – An action-puzzler, where players will guide Kumulo, Nimbe and four cloud-flying heroes as they battle to save their people and their world from the industrialized threat of the Doza. Dive into a hyper-tactile toybox world filled with a huge number of puzzles, playthings, adorable creatures and devious machines spread across an epic co-op campaign.
- RocketBirds: Hardboiled Chicken – Annihilate an evil penguin regime in this cinematic platform adventure game offering full solo and co-op campaigns with stereoscopic 3D support. Destroy enemies with a slew of weapons and illuminate the secrets to his past while uncovering the real enemies of Albatropolis.
October 25:
- inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood – Vampires swarm New Marais, and revered superhero Cole MacGrath has been bitten. To save his soul and city, he has just one night to find and kill the head vampire. Featuring hours of new gameplay, themed environment settings and new characters/enemies, Festival of Blood explores the darker side of the inFAMOUS universe.
- PixelJunk Sidescroller – Q-Games goes old-school with a completely retro side-scrolling shooter that reinvents the genre from the ground up while maintaining that nostalgic feeling. Dodge flurries of alien bullets and strategically upgrade weapons while battling through sweeping stages full of hazardous fluid and endless shooting mayhem.
Also starting tomorrow as part of Only On PSN, we’ll also be offering a selection of rare classic games in the PlayStation Store: God Hand, GrimGrimoire, Maximo: Ghosts to Glory, Odin Sphere and Ring of Red.
So head into the PlayStation Store tomorrow afternoon to check out Eufloria and Okabu, and don’t forget: If you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber, be sure to take advantage of the 20% discounts for the new games each week before we move onto the next week of Only On PSN titles. We hope you enjoy the month of October gaming with these exclusive titles on PSN!
So basically, these ps2 games are going to play in HD and, presumably, be proper ports? Since there is no software emulator, i’m kinda scared that there’s going to be slowdown.
One question guess this PS2 titles are kind of PS2 classics section as PsOne Classics are right? well in that case it mean the backward compatibility is back to PS3 becuase it was taken out when the guys of SONY said it was expensive to do it and people would not buy a PS3 to play PS2 titles, so how it is suposssed we play that titles in a PS3 that doesn’t have backwards ??? and if we play them why we can’t play games of PS2 on disc? you get the point here ??? what the hell ??
I’d like to see the first three SSX titles on PSN, considering that the reboot will come out next year
But…Eufloria’s on PC.
Anyway, nice Sodium bundle, though it’d’ve been nice to have the bartender uniforms and stomp boots worked in, too (part of another pack that includes the Sodium One racer jackets, which unlock the game). May be picking it up, though.
And– Wait, WHAT? PS2 games? On mah PSN? Without “HD” tacked on to the end?!
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, Sony! Of those, I recognize and can get giddy about God Hand, GrimGrimoire, and Odin Sphere. Y;know, games my friends have been blowing through as a matter of course since whenever. I’m slow… Slow, but enthusiastic!
Now, if we could just do more for PSP support…
PlayStation 2 games?! What!? No way!! I REALLY hope to see some great PS2 games soon, like:
– Mortal Kombat games
– Need For Speed games
– Grand Theft Auto games
– Midnight Club Games
– Syphon Filter games
– Grand Turismo games
….and more!!
Oh, and Resident evil games, like RE: Dead Aim and the Outbreak series, please!
Oh, right, it’s been so long I’ve forgotten: REINSTATE PS2 BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY!!
PS2 backwards compatibility should be on every PS3. But as long as their are decent PS2 games on PSN I may have to buy a few
Especially Kingdom of Hearts
Original Playstation 2 version of Final Fantasy X anyone? Of course, I am aware that “REMAKE” (Isn’t it supposed to be considered AS “REMASTERED”?) Final Fantasy X will head in our way in 2012… But come on! – Give us original version of Final Fantasy X part of “On Only PSN” Program!!! :-D
God Hand and Odin Sphere. ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is awesome, I still remember when the PS3 launch and the PS Store was next to nothing, but now look at it!
There are cheaper ways to play PS2 games… try again Sony, you’re ALMOST original… almost.
so wait what about ps vita can i play it on there
Since these PS2 releases are being just emulated, does that mean that those games can also be played with the PS2 disc? or is sony being extremely greedy and spitting their loyal consumers in the face by not enabling that option?
this is my second time being screwed of out deals cause i was a 1 week early adopter to rochard. i think its wrong that sony wont include it into this month and dont give me that crap that it shouldn’t be. especially since they now just talked about this deal today. when the game came out last freaking week.
If you purchase content in October that would have been a total of $60 and it included your purchase of Rochard in September, we’ll take care of you. You’ll need to contact Customer Service once you’ve made the appropriate purchases. Contact me on the PS Forums if you have questions on this (user ID: mochuuu)