Morgan Haro
Community Manager, PlayStation Digital Platforms
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With Thanksgiving over and the holiday season upon us, our friends over at Sony Online Entertainment and Farsight Studios are offering up some amazing deals on games that everyone in the family can enjoy. Cash Guns Chaos might be a bit much for the kids, but the rest are great for all. So let’s wrap up an amazing November with these great deals!
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November 27th PlayStation Plus Update
Bejeweled 2 (PS3 PSP)
50% off for Plus members (Regular price: $4.99, PS Plus Price: $2.50)
Match sparkling gems three at a time to make them burst in showers of color and points. Match four or more to create flashy power gems that boost your score and your mood with brilliant cascades and combos. For even more dazzling fun, bump up your brainwaves with multi-faceted Puzzles, or enter the Zen state of Endless play.
Cash Guns Chaos (PS3)
50% off for Plus members (Regular price: $2.49, PS Plus Price: $1.25)
A fast-paced top-down shooter featuring intense run and gun arcade-action across more than 15 levels as you battle a never-ending onslaught of relentless enemies.
Peggle (PS3 and PSP versions)
50% off for Plus members (Regular price: $4.99, PS Plus Price: $2.50)
Peggle features everything you’ll need for the ultimate pinballesque adventure! Take aim and shoot metal balls from the cannon to clear mazes of brightly colored pegs. Indulge your love for bouncing balls and amazing firework effects by becoming a Peggle Master through 55 levels and 75 challenges.
Sideway NY (PS3)
50% off for Plus members (Regular price: $4.99, PS Plus Price: $2.50)
Battle your way through a twisted graffiti world where your prowess in puzzle solving makes the difference between life and death! Jump into one of the most unique and visually compelling 3D game worlds ever created. Follow the twisted journey of Nox, through a fast-paced 2D adventure set in a 3D world.
Slam Bolt Scrappers (PS3)
50% off for Plus members (Regular price: $4.99, PS Plus Price: $2.50)
Build and brawl in this fast and frantic mash-up! Race your opponents to build the most powerful towers in Slam Bolt City while defending against deceptively adorable baddies and hugely epic bosses. Create weapons that shoot lasers, drills, missiles, and more to annihilate your adversary. Battle in four-player co-op campaign mode, or go head-to-head for more brawling and block-building awesomeness.
Swords & Soldiers (PS3)
50% off for Plus members (Regular price: $4.99, PS Plus Price: $2.50)
Blend ninja monkeys, attacking Aztecs and brutal Vikings with everything you love about real time strategy games and you’ve got Swords and Soldiers! Acquire resources, assemble your army, thwart enemies and dominate your opponents in single and multiplayer local and online modes. Choose from the Aztec, Viking and Chinese factions, each with their own missions, campaigns and abilities.
TerRover (PS3)
50% off for Plus members (Regular price: $4.99, PS Plus Price: $2.50)
Launch yourself into the surreal mash-up of unique cartoon graphics and 2-D physics universe that is TerRover. Navigate through over forty stages of puzzling arcade levels in five different vivid art styles including the icy vistas of Congelata, all-tech surfaces of Mechanica, strange vegetation and terrains of Acor and Aura, and the treacherous volcanoes and lava of Volcanus!
Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade (PS3PSP)
50% off for Plus members (Regular price: $7.49, PS Plus Price: $3.75)
Choose from among four unique character classes and journey to the fantasy world of Aven. Experience on-the-go hack ‘n slash combat or join cooperative multi-player battles via wireless gameplay. Venture through dynamic 3D environments, discover rich treasures and unravel the mystery of an ancient planet.
Untold Legends: The Warriors Code (PSP)
50% off for Plus members (Regular price: $7.49, PS Plus Price: $3.75)
Untold Legends: The Warrior’s Code features an epic storyline brought to life through dramatic in-game cinematics, along with a completely new combat experience and enhanced 3D graphics. Players can now experience this action-RPG genre through an upgraded combat engine designed for strategic combat, a wider variety of combat moves and special abilities, and interactive boss battles with unique AI.
Pinball Arcade (PS3 and PS Vita)
50% off for Plus members (Regular price: $9.99, PS Plus Price: $5.00)
Pick up the core game at a great price, and watch for the monthly updates to get even more tables to play online tournaments and additional modes on.
We’ll be back next week with an all new free game to play. Until then, we hope you’ve enjoyed the content this month. To give us a good look back on November, let us know what you felt was the best update this month. As always, thanks for your feedback and we’ll see you next week!
I already have most of the games I want in this list but the best part about PSn+ heck the only part that really matters as far as I’m concerned are the discounts. Regularly you guys have killer discounts and I love PSN+ for that. This week the discounts are on point. I’m just pretty sure I already got Sideway on the PSN+ free (aka unlimited rental).
My only request from the service is a way to remove the free(aka unlimited rental) games. Because my sub of Sideway will expire with my PSN+ subscription. I would totally throw down $2.50 to permanently own the game I’m renting.
Gezz guys, if your upset about geting Uncharted Golden abyss,Gravty rush, Wipeout 2048. Jet set radio, Final fantash TWoL, and Mutant Blob, & Resident Evil 5. which right there alone would cost you over $50. then nothing wil make you happy. Well maybe you want RE6 and Borderlands2 and Black ops2? yeah because thats what we thought we were geting when we signed up For plus! riiiiggghhht? You all need to come down -_- You should know from Now that the 1st Week of each month is where the bes Free game comes out, this week is week 4 of november. you should know by now that week 4 for Plus is the discount week -_-
You should have had Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals. You’re likely the only retailer that didn’t. Steam, once again, ate your lunch and continues to do so today.
Gotta say i was very pleased with the content this month for Plus especially with the Vita Plus and i am looking forward to what December holds for Plus
and Morgan if you could perhaps drop any info for Ratchet Deadlock HD since last i heard it is supposed to be up in December
@Omii132
That’s how it’s worked from Day 1 of PS+. Once your subscription runs out (assuming you don’t auto-renew) you can purchase games you got for ‘free’ with the +.
@ m haro is a co op moded added to cash gun chaos or it the same game as before.. that game is way to hard with 1 man also the vodoo boss is impossible to beat
Guys, seriously? And when I say “guys”, I mean the commenters.
It’s the last week of the month. That’s usually what I call the “Crap Week”, because that has a lot of the stuff that very few people are interested in. But that’s not a bad thing! I mean, we have a bunch of older games that people enjoyed at a discount. Sure, when OTHER certain online services do this, everyone’s like “Shut up and take my money!” but when Sony does it’s like “RUINED FOREVER” here. And then the majority of you will be happy again during the first couple weeks because we get our free games.
I think we’re all just complaining for nothing. XD I haven’t had any complaints about Plus this year and I definitely intend to renew. So cut these guys some slack, not everything they offer is going to be a winner.
@153 because eu blog is different than the usa blog not all of them are going to offer the same thing, different teams, different plans, different ambitions for the gamers likes.
in usa gamers like thing that make the hardware better more than games they do love game dont get that twisted everyonje does, over ther in eu they like games more than other stuff like hardware, japan like psn mini games and software apps. canada i dont know i havent tlk to my good friend up there in a while hes to busy play ac37 skyrim .LOl
in small differnt regions, get different stuff at different times.
@158 well it doesnt work that way .its a few games id like to pick as well, but its there plan and offer to us. if you have the game then why say i dont want that game. stop wasting money and just let your plan work for you .
If came down ps plau s free and the a few weeks later is 2.50$ the one who dont ahve or want psn plus deserve a discount too and crack at the game as well. i think its a fair shake.
if game is not up your alley..ok no harm or foul, if you have the game already then theyre on the right track with good taste.:)
as someone who will never buy a vita, I picked dungeon defenders free, I never heard of the game but I love it.
I don’t like horror games, but RE5 gold is awesome for us as well, but I will probably never play it.
the vita deals are awesome, dear sony, let me play vita games on my ps3 without a vita, some vita games I would even consider buying for ps3, I really wish it was possible to play vita games from ps3, because I will probably never buy a vita, too much money and I have to save for the eventual next console cycle.
in order of awesome : 1 vita games free,2 RE5 gold, 3dungeon defenders
in order I like 1dungeon defenders, 2RE5 gold, 3 vita games free
hey morgan, just a friendly suggestion; i would like to see a discount on ‘I Am Alive’. its been 15 bucks for awhile now, seems like a good time for a nice plus discount, wouldnt u agree? btw i really appreciate that you take the time to read the comments and actually reply to ppl past the 1st page, that shows youre listening!
Any word on when they will fix the Alice: Madness Returns pricing issue? The ultimate deals have been heavily advertised and the store even shows you in big bold yellow letter how the PS+ price is $15.99 but when you are going to actually buy it it tries to charge you $19.99. I hope this is fixed soon, I don’t want to miss out on this deal and c’mon, it even says ON THE STORE that the price is $15.99, and still tries to charge you $19.99. I understand many of us want to get this game and the issue has even been admitted on the PS Support forums ( http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Plus-Support/Wrong-Price-on-Alice-Madness-Returns/m-p/38920099 ) , so any word on a timeframe? I hope it is fixed before tomorrow, as tomorrow I will arrive late and the store will probably have updated by then. =(
The price should be fixed. We are reviewing how to take care of those Plus users who may have already purchased it at the wrong price. So if you’ve been holding off on the purchase, you should be able to buy it at the correct price.
Are we going to ever see PSOne (maybe even PS2 games) and themes in PS+ offers again?
While I’m here, I think it would be nice to have a permanent 30% to 40% discount on ALL PSOne and PS2 games for Plus members. I’m sure you would make a lot more sells that way.
Just wanted to say thank you to Morgan and whoever else fixed the problem with the Alice: Madness Returns bundle. The Plus discount to $15.99 finally came back after about 5 days of being coded wrong in the store and the DLC for the original game does appear to be downloadable now, I just purchased it.. It was just under the wire for being within the limit for the get $10 if you spend $60 promo too. Just… try not to do let this sort of thing happen again, it severely frustrated me and a whole lot of people in the meanwhile, and several will still be feeling gypped.
@ #36 Your $60 in purchases HAVE TO HAVE BEEN between November 20th and November 26th!
“Purchase anything on PSN from November 20th through November 26th that collectively reaches or exceeds $60
and we’ll give you a $10 PSN Wallet voucher in December!
This voucher will be delivered via an XMB message on December 6th, and will need to be redeemed by January 6th, 2013.”
They only give you a 6 day window to spend $60?..
That’s $10 a day for you non-math wizards!
I personally think they should give you a month to spend $60. If you’re averaging $10 a day on PSN you might have a problem that needs to be addressed.
SpooNManX on November 26th, 2012 at 2:34 pm said: “If you’re averaging $10 a day on PSN you might have a problem that needs to be addressed.”
Or you could just buy one game, one time, for $59.99 (plus an avatar to surpass $60) and get the $10 back. Then it’s like you got the game for $49.99 which is pretty good especially if it’s a brand new Day 1 Digital game…
Glad to see you found out about the promotion though… :)
Although I must say, Black Friday deals at retail stores definitely outshined the PSN deals, even though the PSN deals were quite good. I picked up the Most Wanted Limited Edition for $29.99 brand new, and I’m loving it so far.
ok so i am really happy with ps+ the addition of the vita and cool other games and sales the only problem is that i can’t purchase any thing i keep getting a error massage when i try to purchase any thing is there any thing i can do cause i want to take advange of the spend sixty get ten back but i cant
LAME CHOICES seriously you give us 2nd rate games free,,, then 3 months later give me a deal on buying them…i hope you heve more than this JUNK your pushing at us,,, i always praise plus service when you make things right .. charge more money than 50 a year if you need to,,, Id give 100 a year if its good.. loyal to the brand
May get Bejeweled now that it’s only $2.50 and a couple others.
But this month hasn’t been all that great for me (owned 2 of the free games already [RE and Defender] and the other freebie wasn’t really my type of game [it was okay!])
Crossing my fingers for a better month next month!
– Next week is going to be awesome!
*disappointment*
– No, no, I mean NEXT week is gonna be amazing.
*mediocre games*
– Some people like this game, but next week you are gonna see!
*pff, no one expected nothing decent anymore, but anyway… it got even worse*
– Next month, my dear friends, I swear for my mom, you’ll see. We will get much better and be like only 70% worse than EU PSN+! You’ll see. We will raise our status to “kind of crap”.
haha No one believes it anymore.
Next june/july, one year from the instant game collection start, you’ll see, Morgan, lots of us helping Sony to keep at the present “junk” status and not renewing subscriptions. And you’ll have deserved it with the lack of honesty and compromise with your ex-fans.
thanks for the feedback, but to best make sure your voice is heard; let us know, what specifically you didn’t like about these, and other updates. Is it the content type? level of discount? type of game? specificity will help us in getting the best picture for those that may not have the highest opinion of Plus. thanks!
I love the PS Plus Vita stuff, but I have to say Quantum Conundrum is such an amazing game. You really have been adding a great variety of games across all genres. Can’t wait to see what’s next for plus.
hey Morgan if i bought all stars on november 19 at like 11:30 pm isnt there a way to make it count for the thanksgiving voucher? since i bought 50$ but havent reached 60… but it would be 110$ with all stars if i knew that deal existed :(
I wish you guys would offer 3D Dot Game Heroes as a plus game. Also, any plans on changing the weekly schedule to a monthly + weekly reminder? Or are you still not sure?
we’re looking at some things with the communication schedule now, but nothing to announce. for now, they’re still at weekly, but the data from the polls is being considered when we make our plans. thanks for voting!
I know it’s not related to this post but I just bought CoD Vita Bundle and I was shocked to see that the game box wasn’t even included in the package (there is only the game). Is there anyway I could get the box with the boxart because I’m a collector and I would love to have it sitting on my shelf (besides, it would be useful to store the game when it’s not in my Vita)
Thank you for these sales! Despite all of the complaints this actually makes me quite happy! I was never quite willing to buy Peggle for $10, but for $2.50 that is an easy decision. Are there differences in the two versions? I might just buy both if there are differences. Also, if you didn’t get it for free with Plus, Swords & Soldiers is a great game for people who love the tower defense genre. Very fun game.
And Morgan, since I know you are often helpful in such things, could you pass along to the music unlimited people that a great feature would be the ability to shuffle songs in a specific playlist you built. I know you can edit the order one song at a time but shuffle would obviously be far more useful.
And, someone correct me if I’m wrong, but is it impossible for music unlimited to adapt your specific tastes within a preloaded station, such as “the 90s”? I’d like to occasionally use the preloaded stations, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any smarter at choosing what songs I would want to hear — so I’m starting to think that only the stations you build yourself actually adapt to your tastes. Is that true?
PrimeroIncognito:
I agree. Some great deals this BF and CM!
I picked up Little Big Karting brand new for $15! This was from Target ($25 – $10 off coupon).
It’s hard to be excited about PSN deals when you get steals like this.
I also dove into the world of Vita. It took a $179 Assassin’s Creed III bundle + PlayStation All*Stars, and
3 free months of PSN Plus. That that + the new Vita additions to Plus made me feel it’s time. :)
Here’s my question. Can I stack those 3 months on top of the 2 years I bought or will that mess anything up?
I also have a 4th month with the Journey Collection I bought.
Long-time reader first-time poster. I’ve been involved heavily with the Xbox 360 here in Canada (helped develop the new dashboard, kinect, marketplace layout). I was doing it pro-bono for free flights to Seattle and games. I haven’t kept up with them as I don’t have that much free time anymore. I also recently bought a Wii U deluxe.
I just wanted to give you a synopsis of where I’m coming from (not an Xbox fanboy or anything fanboy).
My constructive feedback: How about getting newer titles under contract for shorter amounts of time? For example: Max Payne 3 can only be leased for 1 month. After that, plus members can have an option to purchase the game at a dicounted price. It would make multi-console gamers like myself play my PS3 more often.
It’s hard for me to give some more info as I don’t know how the whole Plus program works. Thanks go out to the team for their efforts but I hope someone reads this post.I’m in Canada and close to the main office. I’m not sure if Sony has a program like how Xbox does (to get community members inputing on future consoles/products/services). But if you do, feel free to contact me.
Best of luck and hopefully December blows me out of the water! \(^0^)/
I love the weekly Plus & store updates posts because then I have funny things to read during down time @ work. I can always count on Primero & Blakseed shaking their heads @ all the whiners.
I voted for the Vita IGC which was too amazing as it now sets up a greater avalanche of weekly complaints because future offerings can’t measure up to that, at least not weekly. I love the Cloud saves for Vita. I not only backed up all my game saves but used it to transfer a save to my second Vita so I can continue the same game. Very convenient.
Hello Morgan. I’d like to ask you about the Spend $60 or more get $10 back offer. Last week, Kristine said: “Purchase anything on PSN from November 20th through November 26th that collectively reaches or exceeds $60, including our new Ultimate Editions, and we’ll give you a $10 PSN Wallet voucher in December!”. But on the PS Store there is a small advertisement stating that the offer is valid through November 20-27 (http://www.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/store-credit), so I’d like to know when does the offer really ends.
I have been very happy with the PS+ updates, I might be the only one too :P Other than the Alice: Madness Returns thing but that’s fixed this morning so I’m good!
Will definitely pick up Peggle this week!
I already have most of the games I want in this list but the best part about PSn+ heck the only part that really matters as far as I’m concerned are the discounts. Regularly you guys have killer discounts and I love PSN+ for that. This week the discounts are on point. I’m just pretty sure I already got Sideway on the PSN+ free (aka unlimited rental).
My only request from the service is a way to remove the free(aka unlimited rental) games. Because my sub of Sideway will expire with my PSN+ subscription. I would totally throw down $2.50 to permanently own the game I’m renting.
How about getting ps one classics Grand Theft Auto 1&2 in the store? Free for plus members of course.
Europe has Crisys 2 in the Game Instant Collection, Why we dont?
Gezz guys, if your upset about geting Uncharted Golden abyss,Gravty rush, Wipeout 2048. Jet set radio, Final fantash TWoL, and Mutant Blob, & Resident Evil 5. which right there alone would cost you over $50. then nothing wil make you happy. Well maybe you want RE6 and Borderlands2 and Black ops2? yeah because thats what we thought we were geting when we signed up For plus! riiiiggghhht? You all need to come down -_- You should know from Now that the 1st Week of each month is where the bes Free game comes out, this week is week 4 of november. you should know by now that week 4 for Plus is the discount week -_-
You should have had Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals. You’re likely the only retailer that didn’t. Steam, once again, ate your lunch and continues to do so today.
Gotta say i was very pleased with the content this month for Plus especially with the Vita Plus and i am looking forward to what December holds for Plus
and Morgan if you could perhaps drop any info for Ratchet Deadlock HD since last i heard it is supposed to be up in December
Hi Ramdomwolf!,
So we can´t buy discounted games that we already got with plus?
Wowww! :(
In that case i won´t get free games that i would like to own…but that shouldn´t be the way of this service.
Do you know if any of the DLC for Pinball Arcade is due to be discounted too on tomorrow’s update?
@Omii132
That’s how it’s worked from Day 1 of PS+. Once your subscription runs out (assuming you don’t auto-renew) you can purchase games you got for ‘free’ with the +.
@ m haro is a co op moded added to cash gun chaos or it the same game as before.. that game is way to hard with 1 man also the vodoo boss is impossible to beat
mcbuttz78
vp psn legionairee group
Guys, seriously? And when I say “guys”, I mean the commenters.
It’s the last week of the month. That’s usually what I call the “Crap Week”, because that has a lot of the stuff that very few people are interested in. But that’s not a bad thing! I mean, we have a bunch of older games that people enjoyed at a discount. Sure, when OTHER certain online services do this, everyone’s like “Shut up and take my money!” but when Sony does it’s like “RUINED FOREVER” here. And then the majority of you will be happy again during the first couple weeks because we get our free games.
I think we’re all just complaining for nothing. XD I haven’t had any complaints about Plus this year and I definitely intend to renew. So cut these guys some slack, not everything they offer is going to be a winner.
@153 because eu blog is different than the usa blog not all of them are going to offer the same thing, different teams, different plans, different ambitions for the gamers likes.
in usa gamers like thing that make the hardware better more than games they do love game dont get that twisted everyonje does, over ther in eu they like games more than other stuff like hardware, japan like psn mini games and software apps. canada i dont know i havent tlk to my good friend up there in a while hes to busy play ac37 skyrim .LOl
in small differnt regions, get different stuff at different times.
mcbuttz78p psn legionairre group
@158 well it doesnt work that way .its a few games id like to pick as well, but its there plan and offer to us. if you have the game then why say i dont want that game. stop wasting money and just let your plan work for you .
If came down ps plau s free and the a few weeks later is 2.50$ the one who dont ahve or want psn plus deserve a discount too and crack at the game as well. i think its a fair shake.
if game is not up your alley..ok no harm or foul, if you have the game already then theyre on the right track with good taste.:)
mcbuttz78
vp psn legioniaree group
as someone who will never buy a vita, I picked dungeon defenders free, I never heard of the game but I love it.
I don’t like horror games, but RE5 gold is awesome for us as well, but I will probably never play it.
the vita deals are awesome, dear sony, let me play vita games on my ps3 without a vita, some vita games I would even consider buying for ps3, I really wish it was possible to play vita games from ps3, because I will probably never buy a vita, too much money and I have to save for the eventual next console cycle.
in order of awesome : 1 vita games free,2 RE5 gold, 3dungeon defenders
in order I like 1dungeon defenders, 2RE5 gold, 3 vita games free
hey morgan, just a friendly suggestion; i would like to see a discount on ‘I Am Alive’. its been 15 bucks for awhile now, seems like a good time for a nice plus discount, wouldnt u agree? btw i really appreciate that you take the time to read the comments and actually reply to ppl past the 1st page, that shows youre listening!
@ Megamixer
Thank you for the answer.
They should let people buy a game whenever they want.
Any word on when they will fix the Alice: Madness Returns pricing issue? The ultimate deals have been heavily advertised and the store even shows you in big bold yellow letter how the PS+ price is $15.99 but when you are going to actually buy it it tries to charge you $19.99. I hope this is fixed soon, I don’t want to miss out on this deal and c’mon, it even says ON THE STORE that the price is $15.99, and still tries to charge you $19.99. I understand many of us want to get this game and the issue has even been admitted on the PS Support forums ( http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Plus-Support/Wrong-Price-on-Alice-Madness-Returns/m-p/38920099 ) , so any word on a timeframe? I hope it is fixed before tomorrow, as tomorrow I will arrive late and the store will probably have updated by then. =(
The price should be fixed. We are reviewing how to take care of those Plus users who may have already purchased it at the wrong price. So if you’ve been holding off on the purchase, you should be able to buy it at the correct price.