PlayStation Plus Update: Join the God of War: Ascension Multiplayer Beta

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PlayStation Plus Update: Join the God of War: Ascension Multiplayer Beta

2013 is already shaping up to be a fantastic year for PlayStation Plus members with another strong offering in the month of January. Hopefully, you’ve been enjoying NBA Jam: On Fire Edition on your PS3 and playing Chronovolt on your PS Vita, both free to PlayStation Plus members.

This week, we’ve got some epic multiplayer action with the God of War: Ascension Multiplayer Beta, as well as Mega Man 9 and 10 joining PlayStation Plus. Read on to find out more.

Don’t have PlayStation Plus? Go to the PlayStation Store on your PS3 or PS Vita or click here to get access.

January 8th PlayStation Plus Update



PlayStation Plus Update: Join the God of War: Ascension Multiplayer Beta

God of War: Ascension Multiplayer Beta (PS3)

Access for Plus members

PlayStation Plus members get to be one of the first to delve in to what’s sure to be one of the most epic multiplayer experiences of the year. God of War: Ascension’s Multiplayer beta is offering up the signature Team Favor of the Gods mode and the yet-to-be-seen Favor of the Gods mode. In both modes, you’ll fight to reach the requisite number of favor points from the Gods, earning points via kills, bonus brutal kills, opening chests, capturing domination points and, if you’re skillful enough, performing executions using the Spear of Olympus. Check out the Beta page for tips, scoring details and more. Make sure you also click the link below to leave your feedback with the rest of the God of War community. Note: you must be a PS Plus member, or have been selected to be in the Beta previously in order to get access to this forum space.

God of War Ascension Beta

Click here to visit the God of War: Ascension Beta Community Forum

Oh, and make sure you snag a free God of War “Eye of Kratos” avatar as well; it’s free and exclusive for PS Plus members. If you’re reading this on Monday morning, you may also want to tune in to IGN.com’s livestream from 12:00pm to 2:00pm PST. Click here to check out the action!

PlayStation Plus Update 1-7-2013

Mega Man 9 and 10 Combo Pack

Free for PS Plus members

Mega Man 9 and 10 were new and bold steps for a series that’s as beloved as Mega Man. Many gamers grew up on classic Mega Man games and yearned for a new 2D adventure but with the rock solid mechanics of the originals. Capcom delivered by going back to its 8-bit roots to deliver a classic Mega Man experience with all-new levels, weapons and bosses. IGN calls Mega Man 9 alone a “… mastery of 2D platforming.” Check out both Mega Man 9 and 10 for yourself; free for PS Plus members.

Eufloria

50% Discount for PS Plus members (Original price: $5.00; PS Plus Price: $2.50)

Eufloria takes the hook of controlling massive armies in real time strategy games and applies it to a massively-micro scope that asks you to take over new territories (dubbed Asteroids) all for the sake of a mythic group of beings called The Growers. If you’ve ever had any sort of fun with the strategy genre, give Eufloria a download to find out why GamesRadar.com hailed Eufloria for its “beautiful stylized graphics and RTS gameplay that works great on the PS3 controller”.
NCAA Football 13: Recent Winners Pack

Free for PS Plus members

NCAA Football 13 delivers an authentic college football experience with an insane amount of realism on the virtual gridiron. If you can’t get enough of the gameplay, you’ll be happy to know that you can pick up the Recent Winners pack, free with your PS Plus membership. This pack will unlock Tim Tebow, Mark Ingram, and Matt Leinart for use in Heisman Mode.

We’re just getting started for January’s PlayStation Plus content, so we’d love to know more about what your favorite content was from the updates last month. NBA Jam: On Fire Edition and Chronovolt are being tracked for January’s Plus updates, so you’ll see those options at the end of this month.

Tell us what you think of this week’s update in the comments below and don’t forget to vote by using the links near the top of the post. You can also delve into the PlayStation Community Forums in the PS Plus space to continue chatting about PS Plus, find other great topics to contribute your thoughts to, or start one for yourself. See you in the comments!

PlayStation Plus Update 1-7-2013

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  • @Morgan
    I saw the feedback and dont care if the results are there or not. but there is no return to the blogs option there so either we have to reload the blogs through the internet or we have to hit the back button a few times, and then not sure the vote would still register if we do back the pages back to the blog post.

  • As for this talk of vita games here’s a little something for anyone who cares. The Vita IGC started on 11/20. Counting that day, it has been 49 days since it launched. If you wanna do the math 49 days=7 weeks, and *gasp* coincidentally we have gotten 7 free Vita games so far (not counting final fantasy- a psp game). So “technically” you could say we have been getting at least one vita game per week, and I’m pretty sure most people have not finished all of those yet. Even if you didn’t care for those, there was a really good 50% off PS Plus sale the past 3 weeks that included even more games, such as Rayman, LBP, Sound Shapes, and more. So I really don’t know how people can feel like vita owners are getting the “short end of the stick” as they say : \

  • Hey Morgan does Eufloria have a command and conquer feel to it and will we be able to download the Mega Man games to our psp’s or vita?

  • well, as an owner of only a psp vita i have to say i am happy with the free games i got on last month, also the discounts where great, apart from that i was exited when i saw megaman for free on this week then i got it by the “only for PS3” part, please dont forget you have owners of vita that dont have a PS3 (i use to travel a lot so i cant have it with me all the times), i am not asking for full psp vita games for free, but you can put some ps one classics there, like on this week it could have been awesome to see some ps classic games of megaman to “make it more equal on both consoles”.

  • Strange. People only comment when they’re mad. Anyway, I already have both Mega Man 9 and 10, but they’re great games, so it’s a pretty good update. Might check out Eufloria since it costs about the same as a hamburger.

  • Also I’d like to comment that I hope we get another PSP game soon, I didn’t own a PSP and I really wouldn’t mind playing some of the classics I missed out on.

  • Been playing the God of War multiplayer for a number of weeks now. Oh man is it fun. Can’t wait to see some new faces.

  • Thanks Morgan! Love Mega Man 9 and 10. Great choices this week.

    Also, love the poll. More choices is always good. Just wish there was a way to get back to the blog after voting. Maybe you guys should also add a flashing neon sign because it looks like putting it at the top of page and making it one of the first things people see was a bad idea.

  • ohhh boy, well its nothing for me this week ….. again. other polls were nothing and nothing. Its been pretty terrible for the last 8 weeks or so, a few discounts were OK but overall a 2/10

  • i’d be really happy with this update if it wasn’t because i already had acces to the GOW beta. So far, i’m really disappointed with USA’s PS+ service overall.ps1/ps2 classics or psp games would be great, specially RPGs. c’mon there are a lot of good, cheap, underrated RETAIL games out there. you can do way better than nba jam, retro city rampage or megaman. don’t get me wrong, bioshock 2 was neat and all, and street fighter, although i don’t like fighting games, was good. but i’ll be honest, the service pales compared with its european counterpart, and i prefer ps3/console (and more importantly vita) exclusive games.

  • @191 Yep I ‘WAS’ asking for big named titles like EU last month but they are not even giving a retail game this month, How Pathetic and sad! Its good that u r happy and satisfied with last decade games like retro city rampage and mega man as the main attractions. I can only think these PSN games should be the extras not the main attraction of the month. I may have these games in my download list since this is what I get for the 50 bucks I paid for subscription, otherwise I wouldnt even play these games even it was given for free to me. Even now I will have it in my download list but cannot think I will play these age old graphics games cuz there are lot of new gen games to be played. PEACE and Enjoy your megaman.

  • i just love my MONTHLY ps plus update… so amazing lol

    i just dont know why you ask for feedback if your just gonna do whatever u want!

    this weekly thing is getting old and im sure its not making people get ps plus since your giving out games almost everyone has by now

  • Off-topic question,but is the PS1 Metal Gear Solid playable on the PS Vita? In the description on PS Store it only says PS3,PSP while most other PS1 games show support for all three systems…

  • Thank you morgan . I like the new poll becuase it allows gamers to put their best foot forward with ideas.. Instead saying what they dont got or have . its time start telling want you what, with a poll. it kind of like giving us a vote.

    This is a lot wanted a vote to what games they want every week. Its wonderful becuase a choice, your choice. But that might change with these poll ” in stead nothing for me” every week . vote jrpg. vote action.platformer. vote shooter. vote stragty game. these polls are your vote your self conviction as a gamer .. I would like to thank all of psn staff for that . Its step in right direction for feedback to streghtn the psn store and community.

    If We just choose nothing every week how is morgan and staff going know what we want, becuase you nothing ?. but in your hearts of hearts, you do want a certian content on psn.. this the olive branch.

    Mcbuttz78
    vp -psn legionairee group

  • yeah and megaman 9 &10 should be ported to vita

  • The only game I’ve gotten off plus that I like at all since the edition of IGC are Bioshock 2 and Wipeout 2048.
    I may not resubscribe if we keep getting the throwaway games. I will say that I saw potential in the gravity game we got a while back, even if I don’t plan to finish it.

    What would be the most awesome thing ever would be the dragonborn dlc being free for ps+. THat would be better than a free game, especially another fighting game.

    Are there plans to add P4A to PSN? That would be the first fighting game I’d actually want.

  • I’ve been apart of the ps+ program from the start and from my perspective it is improving. Sure us U.S members may not receive as much full retail games as Europe but at the end of the day we’re all getting free content :) I’m just grateful that there is a gaming company that gives free games concistantely for a nominal annual fee.

  • Where are the great games??? where are the true discounts??? NFMTW… again and again…

  • Happy with the update this week been looking forward to GOW beta. I also love the access plus gives me to the indie games like Eufloria and Journey. It seems that the big blockbuster games are failing to hold my interest lately as much as the more quirky entries and I love being able to buy games like Tokyo Jungle at a discount. I also am happy the poll results are set to private because after this week and maybe next I wont have to read about how the poll proves that Sony hates gamers etc. one request, can the poll open in another window Its cumbersome to get back from the redirect thanks!

  • @260.. this why they changed the pool to hear your self convictions as gamers what do you want to see.. If morgan goes back . they want nothing every week, how does that help the psn store or self wants. it doesnt

    His job is to collect data and give us what we want and improve the brand and he is doing very good job.. What they are doing is the step in the right direction “listening to customers”. So please vote what you want to see and what games you want.

    Let us Help improve the content together. Nothing to complain about now the ball is our court,:)

    mcbuttz78
    vp psn legionairee group

  • muy decepcionado! esperaba más del plus de playstation VITA, se puede entender que no aya mucho contenido por haber sido lanzada recien, pero entonces no incien de la manera como lo hicieron… con titulos grandes, podian haber mezclado que se yo, ademas ahora podrian regalar juegos de PSP, pero nada… para colmo los ultimos juegos que regalaron tienen son bajos de calidad, amaba mi PS VITA, pero tanto decian que le iban a dar apoyo en navidad mas que en el lanzamiento y no veo nada… esto sinceramente me esta haciendo replantearme y vender mi PS VITA.

    Una pena realmente.

  • I dunno why everyone gets excited over the retail games. If I wanted, I could get the retail games on the cheap and not have to worry about downloading an 18 gb file. I’d rather have something that’s digitally exclusive because I can’t buy it anywhere else.

  • i would like ask morgan and the staff to please try to limit the votes to 1 per person.

    mcbuttz78

  • I for one appreciate they releasing games, they aren’t going to release their whole deposit of good games right as the new year begins xD Some of you guys are acting immature. Keep it going I know for sure we are getting something good at the end of the month :)

  • another awesome update there has yet to be a bad update since june keep up the good work we don’t need retail games psn games better anyways

  • Morgan,

    Since you say the bundle issue is fixed for the Mega Man games, any chance the Plus team will make good on the Sonic bundle, too? I saw a lot of complaints that it want being addressed in the related blog post comments, so I know I’m not the only one unhappy about it. (I’m mostly unhappy because the reason I couldn’t get it was that Plus already gave me Sonic 2 in the past.)

  • Yet another “Nothing for me this week” update, and that’s why “RESULTS FOR THIS POLL HAVE BEEN SET TO PRIVATE.” is shown in the results of the poll. Trash update! Not going to renew my Plus subscription, it’s a fraud!

  • Nice, but, where are the free retail games?

  • (Part One)

    I did vote in the polls, but seeing the results of them so far, the problem seems to be that few people are interested in sports games and fighting games, and that’s been the majority of what we’ve been getting. Well, that and really old games (like MegaMan), retreads, and PSN stuff. No one wants that stuff… they want full retail games with all DLC (or at least a nice discount on the DLC).

  • Kinda sad that they have to bury the polls so that ‘Nothing for me this week’ doesn’t runaway with the win for like the 6th straight week. This week isn’t that bad from an old school gamers point of view though, mind you most old schoolers like myself likely already own Mega Man 9 and/or 10 but you can’t make everyone happy. It would have been nice to see Chronovolt immediately replaced with something that is actually worth playing. You know your doing it wrong when next to nobody even bothers to dl the free Vita game. I still feel like Plus needs to change things up. Maybe put one of the UK guys in charge of the US Plus for a month so he can show whoever runs the show over here how it’s done right.

  • (Part Two)

    Here’s what would make a lot of people happy: get rid of NBA Jam, all of the fighters, and there’s a lot of them (Street Fighter IV, XIII, Double Dragon Neon, Scott Pilgrim), and the PSN stuff (Dungeon Defenders, Anomaly, Quantum Conundrum, Payday, Retro City Rampage). PSN games usually can be bought for $5-10 anyway, so offering them as a free game doesn’t give much value. Also, the few full retail games you have up there like Infamous 2, Ratchet and Clank, LittleBigPlanet2, and Bioshock 2 (now gone) were the games that you offered Ultimate editions for the WEEK before the inception of the free games collection, so many people who would have benefited from having them on the free games collection had just shelled out cash for them because of the prior week’s deal. Take those games down as well– they’re just taking up space.

  • (Part Three)

    Resident Evil 5 was a good pic for the collection, as were the 4 retail games I mentioned above if only they hadn’t had ultimate editions go up the week before. And if you’re going to put a fighter in there, Street Fighter is a good choice since it’s a popular retail game– but there’s no need for 3 more fighting games to also be in the collection, especially bad fighting games like Double Dragon Neon.

    I know you guys can’t give away brand new retail games, so just go back chronologically as far as you need to . Throw up a Call of Duty game, and include all DLC for it, or at least a nice discount on the DLC. Offer something like Kingdoms of Amalur that perhaps not everyone knows about or has access to in stores. Obviously, everyone is waiting for the Arkham game that EU has to go up on instant here. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. Maybe the first Prototype to get people interested in buying the second, if that’s too new to offer. Make Deus Ex free. A Dragon Age game.

  • (Part Four)

    I’d be happier with a smaller number of free games if they were game of a higher caliber. Right now the free game collection is awash with a lot of duds.

    And the holiday sale was an embarrassment. Sony was offering games discounted to $20 without DLC that were available on Steam (which doesn’t require a membership fee) for $5, which included all DLC. The difference between pricing between the two throughout both sales was staggering. If you spent any time looking at the Steam sales, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Deal after deal after deal with 10x the discount of any PSN discount. Entire libraries and collections of games for $5-10, with all DLC included, when PSN would be selling one game, on discount, at 5x the price with no DLC. I prefer console gaming, but PSN seems to be doing everything in their power with poor game choice offerings and insubstantial savings to push me over to PC gaming.

  • Personally, I was just thinking of Megaman the other day and I’m excited to play them. I consider PS+ to be a good service, I’ve only owned the PS since black friday in which it came with 4 (infamous 1&2 and uncharted 1&2) games already. I now have within a month a small library, thanks mostly to PS+, the discount deals and I’ve bought a good number already myself. Loved playing batman arkham asylum and playing batman arkham city now (much more challenging than the first, imho). Loved Ratchet and Clank TOD (beat) and I’ve now bought them all to play (better than Mario, which was my all-time favorite series prior, R&C is better.). Haven’t even played infamous or uncharted… and got GoW3 on the way! PS3 has won a fan! It was my intention for it to be a glorified blu-ray player… but I’ve gone gaming mad! This is my first PS ever, and I’ve been missing out on some good gaming. I’ve got time, and I’ve got tons of games now, and more keep coming through PS+. I’ve now got an eye on the Vita…

  • Not a good update! we want psn games as extras apart from the retail games. We want atleast one retail game per month and match or better the quality of what EU is giving to their members.

  • @FranklynStreet

    Cool story?

    The value of ps+ is unprecedented in gaming. Try comparing it to anything else on the market. Oh….there isn’t anything else on the market. Xbox live in comparison is downright embarrasing. Please understand the value of a dollar. I pay with my hard earned money for the plus service. Getting MM9 and 10 this week already paid for 4 months of the service. I think over entitled people feel like ps+ should just hand them every new game that is released into the IGC and it’s foolish. If we got RDR and Arkham City there would be just as much complaining going on because anyone that wanted them already has them.

  • The funny thing is they made the poll private so we dont talk about the results of the poll then everybody complains more about about the poll because you cant see the results. Then Morgan replies to 9 questions about the poll out of the 16 replies. What a good idea to stop people from talking about the polls.

    • the effect isn’t meant to be instantaneous. Gradually the conversation will shift to more relevant feedback that we can use effectively. thanks!

  • Already have MM 9 and 10 from Plus-discounted game+DLC bundle dealies (BTW: This is a GOOD thing to offer; please stop using full-price DLC as the payoff from a “free” game hook and/or only discounting the base game; while I’m not into sports, the NCAA freebie is good, though still as temporal as our subscription), but I don’t “have” the bundle, so let’s see if this isn’t one of too many Store inconsistencies with my actual licenses (it’s a pain merely THINKING of diving into my Download List just because the Store won’t let me access, say, inFAMOUS with the reason that I “already own” it).

    Wanna say I got Eufloria from Plus some time ago. Still, I’m not psyched enough over it to get it for merely 50% off, considering I got it from a Humble Bundle for PC (and, heck, have a gift copy in my Steam inventory; prolly an extra key lying around from Indie Royale or somesuch).

  • Really nice call on letting us choose multiple entries on the latter two polls. Chose MM9+10 and “Nothing for me” this week, and Action-Adventure (though I’d rather not FP nor S involved; @247 stalemate666 calls it like I sees it), Puzzle Adventure, Current-Gen JRPGs, Classic RPGs (we could use more “Classics” at all; see below), Strategy RPGs (though I still haven’t gotten far into one yet), and Platformer (because eff you, I like ’em, though preferably not with shooting elements, or at least not twin-stick, as Hell Yeah! managed to make awkward).

    @97 Valcrist08 – While that “sting” in your first line is beyond groan-worthy, I very much agree that if there’s gonna be no Vita-centric content (inc. compatible PSP games), there need to be Vita-compatible PS1 or PSm games to fill both sides of Plus. I came in at the beginning of 2011, and loved the bite-sized content, from avatars and themes to the Classics and minis (still remember the Flying Hamster Valentine’s Day gift, for keeps!). Bring back this kind of universal content!

    @104 JinZX1 – Says the guy with a Metool icon?

  • @Everyone who discounts PSN titles – Production values don’t mean the world. Many of the “Full Games” clamored for are worth their weight, but it’s not like downloadable titles don’t carry merits, even beyond their relatively meager offerings.
    (@159 TwinDad has the right idea, and @272 TehCro has the right mindset!)

    @231 zombie9 – I could go for that. Have it for PS2, but right now it’s either WiiWare (which I dislike primarily for being system-bound) or piecemeal PS1 “Imports”.

    @283 FranklynStreet – I can definitely agree with that last paragraph/wall-o-text.

  • Is there any chance of further Capcom sales (SF x Tek character pac, maybe)? I’ve loved that you guys are doing stuff for the SF and MM anniversaries, even though I’ve been surprised that you haven’t hyped that angle. I bought my PS3 for MM9 and SF4 and, while I have MM9 and 10 already, I’ve gotten enough great PS+ stuff that I’m still well ahead even with freebies of stuff I paid for. And, getting to move up from SSF4 to Arcade with my + account was a nice surprise.

    Also, is there any chance of us getting SF x MM on the PS3 or Vita? I know it was effectively a PC based fan game, but it is getting such great reviews and has enough Capcom support that it would be awesome on consoles.

  • Thanks for the feedback on why the polls are set to private. Makes sense to me. Although the Mega Man games are a nice addition, I can’t say I am terribly excited about it. I also already picked up Eufloria on a previous deal, so that doesn’t do much for me this time. I think the best deals in December where the holiday deals because I got a number of games I had been on the fence about at a good price.

    By and large I have been happy with the selection and don’t have much to complain about when it comes to plus.

  • Morgan Haro, you really read the comments, I will post again, and thanks to AsiaQatar.

    Haro, please, I need this answer today, tomorow the holidays essentials will finish.
    I got Just Cause 2 Free on PSN+, but I will not subscribe again. Today I saw: “Just Cause 2 – PS3 Game (now: $7.49 original price: $19.99)”, but I can not buy because a already had got free.
    How can I buy this game for use without PSN Plus?

    Thanks if you answer me.

  • >Action-Adventure (Resident Evil 5, Dishonored, BioShock 2)

    DUDE! Those are SHOOTERS!
    RE5 it’s a TPS, and Dishonored and BioShock are FPS with some minor changes!

    Also, I liked the new format of the poll.

    Oh, and we want anime avatars please. Like the ones in the japanese store.

  • Morgan,
    I can’t believe no one has asked this yet… Where is the poll? Jk. Great job with the genres. I like the categories, especially that you included examples. I am also really excited to not eat my words on RPGs being wanted. All of them have a lot of votes! Very excited for the combo pack of Megaman. I only played the demo for 9! Excellent!

  • 283 it’s right
    “I’d be happier with a smaller number of free games if they were game of a higher caliber. Right now the free game collection is awash with a lot of duds.”

    I mean, man!, the EU Store got the best shooter on this gen, Vanquish, got the godd*mn Batman, and also got the great plataformer Limbo.
    I would be more than happy with those games. (Although I already played Vanquish on Xbox, I would play it again on PS3).

  • @sab-krit

    Guess what? Our buds with the EU plus subs are getting games this month that we already got for the US plus. I TOTALLY want those since we…already have them and EU is apparently soooo much better.

  • the game genre poll is broken: Action-Adventure games DO NOT CONSIST OF FPS like Dishonored, Bioshock1/2, etc. These are classified as FPS and MUST be corrected!

    THANK YOU!

  • 295 – In the top, below the image where are wrote “We want your feedback”.

  • @295 Moofboy
    Dude, it was asked at the second comment!
    “The polls are at the top of the post on the right. There are three of them!”

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