There’s a lot to love with PlayStation Plus in December. Perhaps you’ve already thought of what a great gift a PS Plus membership makes for your fellow PS3 gamer. Or maybe you’ve been diving into the games in the Instant Game Collection with new additions like BioShock 2, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, and Rochard. Either way, you’ve got more great content on the way with this week’s addition: Anomaly Warzone Earth! You’ll also find some amazing holiday deals on games that you might have missed. Read on to find out more.
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December 18th PlayStation Plus Update
Anomaly Warzone Earth (PS3)
Free for Plus members
Holiday Essentials Sale
Various discounts for Plus members
You may have seen the announcement already, but this week marks the first week of the PSN Holiday Sale! You can check out the full announcement here, but here’s the breakdown of all the games that you’ll be able to get an amazing sale price on for this week:
| Game | Normal Price | PSN Sale Price | Plus Sale Price |
| Catherine | $39.99 | $27.99 | $19.60 |
| Counter Strike Global Offensive | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.35 |
| Dyad | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.35 |
| Escape Plan | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.35 |
| I am Alive | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.35 |
| LittleBigPlanet 2 | $19.99 | $13.99 | $0.00 |
| LittleBigPlanet PS Vita | $35.99 | $24.99 | $17.49 |
| M:tG Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 | $9.99 | $6.99 | $4.90 |
| NHL 13 | $59.99 | $41.99 | $29.40 |
| Rayman Origins | $19.99 | $13.99 | $9.80 |
| Rayman Origins PS Vita | $29.99 | $20.99 | $14.70 |
| Resident Evil 4 | $19.99 | $13.99 | $9.80 |
| Retro/Grade | $9.99 | $6.99 | $4.90 |
| Street Fighter: Third Strike Online Edition | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.35 |
SEGA Holiday Sale
Various discounts for Plus members
Our friends at SEGA are also bringing more great games to all of PSN at some truly great prices to celebrate the holidays as well. Just like the PSN Holiday Sale, all PSN gamers get to enjoy some price breaks here, but Plus members get the best deals on the following content:
| Game | Normal Price | PSN Sale Price | Plus Sale Price |
| Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown (Game Only) | $14.99 | $9.99 | $6.99 |
| SEGA HERITAGE COLLECTION (BUNDLE) | $36.95 | $19.99 | $14.99 |
| Sonic 4: Ep1 & 2 Full game Bundle | $24.98 | $14.99 | $11.99 |
| Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 | $14.99 | $9.99 | $7.49 |
| Hell Yeah Full game | $14.99 | $9.99 | $5.99 |
| Hell Yeah DLC Pimp My Rabbit Pack | $2.99 | $1.99 | $1.00 |
| Hell Yeah DLC The Virtual Rabbit Mission | $4.99 | $2.99 | $1.50 |
| After Burner Climax | $9.99 | $4.99 | $2.50 |
| Crazy Taxi | $9.99 | $4.99 | $2.50 |
| Daytona USA | $9.99 | $4.99 | $2.50 |
| Crush, PSP | $9.99 | $4.99 | $2.50 |
| Sonic Rivals, PSP | $9.99 | $6.99 | $4.89 |
| Sonic Rivals 2, PSP | $9.99 | $6.99 | $4.89 |
That’s it for this week’s update, and remember that the above updates will be in effect once the PlayStation Store updates tomorrow. See you next week for more on PlayStation Plus!
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While we definitely want you to let us know your thoughts in the comments below, make sure you’re digging in to the PlayStation Community Forums in the Plus space where you’ll find great new information and perspectives from your fellow gamer. Enjoy the update, and see you in the comments.
Escape Plan* Also, I would love to see more variety with the PS3 games that was what made the initial line up so great. We now have 2 fighting games, 2 beat’em up and 2 strategy games. Would also love to see some Plus discounts on DLC.
PS+ has definitely been worth it since I’ve bought it, but the last month has been an utter embarrassment. EU gets Arkham City, Limbo, Vanquish AND a Vita game in Mortal Kombat. All we get is Bioshock 2, which is an okay game in it’s own right, Street Fighter: AE, and some crappy tower defense game?
Earlier this month the community manager said we’d be on level with Europe PS+ on terms of quality, but from what I’ve seen that’s just not going to happen.
Definitely going to take advantage of the “Holiday Sale”. Mr. Morgan Haro! I just downloaded GTAIII and GTA: Vice City on my Sony Xperia Play. Sure would love to play them on my Vita with (or without!) trophies … you know you want to grease up your bosses to make that happen!
I feel like the Christmas sales need to be stated outright. I won’t buy a thing until the sales are over, unless the game is on sale, as I don’t want to spend extra money because we didn’t know about the sales.
Just sayin’ Morgan, it would make everyone a lot happier if we knew what all was to be on sale now, for planning purposes and what not.
lol, I guess you are that dumb. carry on!
Another week, another dissapointing update. No Vanquish, no Motorstorm Apocalypse, no Sleeping Dogs discount, seriously, Sony should put the SCEE guys in charge of the US side so we could get some decent content. As someone already said, Nothing for me this week, Like the many weeks before. Thanks SCEA.
Wow. Y’all never cease to amaze me with the amount of outstanding support and benefits you give to, not only PS+, but the entire Playstation community as a whole. I’ve given up Xbox and use Steam on PC a lot less because of how much incentive is given by being a PS3/PS Vita gamer.
Keep up the great work, Sony.
And Merry Christmas to you and yours!
hmmm anomaly… own it on xbox…blah
Breakfuss: “Customers have the right to voice their opinions.”
Whining incessantly about imaginary mistreatment does NOT qualify as “voicing your opinion”.
Making demands and threats does NOT qualify as “voicing your opinion”.
Why would I just “move along”? I was gaming before most of these people were born. You move along. All of you who can’t seem to find anything you like here, move along. Go find a hobby you might actually enjoy, because you clearly aren’t into gaming that much. Stop ruining it for those of us who actually are.
@ PrimeroIncognito
Stop trolling
@bamahollis88
Stop projecting yourself onto me.
Meh, this game its really not for me, tower defense its not my thing. Can you please at least give the same games of EU, como on they already have darksiders, deus ex, red dead redenption and i think a motorstorm. Please at least put one of those.
Sure, plus is better than what other consoles offer. Last week my plus expired, I will NOT renew plus until I see things change for the better.
As far as Morgan I quit reading his posts awhile ago. It’s basically the same “Wait till next week”.
People still play handhelds???
Bad enough everywhere you turn you hear the media going on and on about the shootings, but on here too..!
I’m sure us “NA” consumers spend more money then anyone else. So why do we get the garbage? All the games EU got I already bought anyway, because I didn’t feel like waiting a few years to get it in NA’s plus.
Monthly updates would be better so we don’t get ripped off as much. IMO
Thanks for making it easier, now I know what to spend my money on this holiday and it ain’t plus.
“Whining incessantly about imaginary mistreatment does NOT qualify as “voicing your opinion”.
Making demands and threats does NOT qualify as “voicing your opinion”.”
Weather or not that qualifies as voicing an opinion is also a matter of opinion…!
^^^ @PrimeroIncognito ^^^
“Sure, plus is BETTER than what other consoles offer. Last week my plus expired, I will NOT renew plus until I see things change for the BETTER.”
Huh? What’s the problem?
“People still play handhelds???”
Do you live in a cave?
“Bad enough everywhere you turn you hear the media going on and on about the shootings, but on here too..!”
I bring up things like that to give whiners some perspective. It’s not that I want to. I wish I didn’t have to. It’s sad that I even need to go that far, but these brats need to have some sense knocked into their heads.
“Monthly updates would be better so we don’t get RIPPED OFF as much”
You can’t get “ripped off” when the program is entirely VOLUNTARY.
well i really dont know what to say but yes there was a few good games and sales for 2013 and for the 50 bucks a month youd expect good games and sales instead of junk games no ones heard about or cares . as for the butt kissers saying stop complaining about plus users complaining about the horrible plus updates we are getting compared to eu i want bang for my buck just as the next guy i dont want handme downs i wish they had a premium plus subscription i would gladly pay a 100 a year for that where it gave you A titles no junk lame games. and i think morgan does try to do a good job thank you but its time to stop analyzing and remember majority rules there are more complaints of unhappy plus members what you are doing is failing its time to do something about it enough is enough as american plus is concerned it blows maggotts and it seems we are the suckers paying for a service that does not care about what we want but just our money its sad but all i can say is untill all are one thanks sony for taking my money and giving me what you want i thank you
@172 & 186
Kingdom hearts 1.5 reMIX is said to be Japan only. It will be on festa 2013 which takes place on the 22nd – 24th if i’m correct. Maybe then we will know if the rest of us can get it. Can only keep our fingers crossed. The game is said to be 80-90% completed so shouldn’t be long to go
It’s odd how one week we hear that they have trouble with advance notice and sometimes even things posted on monday end up being changed for the next day.
And yet another week we hear that plus is planned weeks/months in advance.
so which is it?
And if it’s the later, then please give us a better heads up, your customers are getting tired of buying something one week, and then having it go on sale/free the next week.
Although at least some people have had success getting refunds calling customer service in these cases, it would be easier to avoid the problem to begin with.
Planned weeks/months in advance (there’s a fair amount of work that goes into securing various deals. We’re not able to just pick anything from the PS Store and put it in Plus); but the announcements themselves are weekly. There are other factors that we need to consider before monthly however; but we’re reviewing possibilities for monthly outlooks; but it will take a bit of time, if it does happen.