PS Plus: ICO & GTA: Liberty City Stories Free for Members

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PS Plus: ICO & GTA: Liberty City Stories Free for Members

I hope you’re ready to get hit right in the feels, because ICO joins the PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection tomorrow. The classic title has been an industry favorite ever since its release, so if you haven’t had a chance to play it, you can finally learn what all the fuss was about.

One of fall’s biggest games – Grand Theft Auto V – is hitting store shelves and the PlayStation Store tomorrow, but you might need something to satisfy your GTA cravings when you aren’t at home. Thankfully, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories is also free for PS Plus members this week, so you can play a little GTA no matter where you are.

These PS Plus benefits will be available after the PlayStation Store updates tomorrow, 9/17.

PlayStation Plus Update 9-17-2013

Instant Game Collection

ICO (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $19.99

ICO
A young boy is locked away deep in a castle after horns started growing out of his head. After breaking free from his confines, he rescues a mysterious girl from her cage. Together they must escape the dangers of the castle and fend off the shadow creatures haunting their every move.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PSP, PS Vita Compatible)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $19.99

GTA LCS
There are a million stories in Liberty City. This one changes everything. Once a trusted wise guy in the Leone crime family, Toni Cipriani was forced into hiding after killing a made man. Now he’s back and it’s time for things to be put right.

Discounts

Sleeping Dogs Digital Edition (PS3)

PS Plus Price: $9.99, Regular Price: $24.99

Sleeping Dogs
Welcome to Hong Kong, a vibrant city whose exotic locations hide one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world: the Triads. You play Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside. Included in this Digital Edition are three premium DLC packs: The Retro Triad Pack, The Red Envelope Pack, The Street Racer Pack.
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (PS3)

PS Plus Price: $5.99, Regular Price: $14.99

Kane and Lynch
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men follows the violent and chaotic journey of two men – a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath and their brutal attitude towards right and wrong. This volatile partnership combined with innovative technologies allow for an unparalleled gaming experience. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men will immerse players into an emotionally intense crime drama with unflinching action.
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (PS3)

PS Plus Price: $7.99, Regular Price: $19.99

Kane and Lynch 2
What would you not do for love? For acceptance? When would you give-up? For Kane & Lynch, there is no limit. When there are no options, when the situation is broken beyond repair, they’ll never give-up. Ground-breaking art direction, relentless action gameplay and innovative multiplayer redefine the action shooter experience and make Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days a standout shooter of 2010.
Real Boxing (PS Vita)

PS Plus Price: $8.99, Regular Price: $9.99

Real Boxing
Real Boxing is a stunning boxing simulation game powered by Unreal Engine 3. Journey from amateur to pro in one of the most comprehensive handheld sporting games ever created. Each boxer is designed from the laces up to be as realistic as possible. Real-time deformation technology portrays every bone-crunching punch and jaw-shattering uppercut in stunning definition – the fight is on!
Pixel Junk Monsters: Ultimate HD (PS Vita)

PS Plus Price: $11.99, Regular Price: $14.99

PJ Monsters Ultimate HD
Tikiman the Forest Defender is in trouble. Hordes of monsters are sweeping through his realm, hoping to chow down on his offspring – and it’s up to you to defend them. By placing weapon towers at strategic points around the landscape, you can destroy the invaders and save the little ones. Collect treasure along the way to build up your arsenal and pay for new towers – countless waves of monsters are out to get the babies, so you need to be prepared to battle!

We’ll be back next week with more details on the game arriving to the Instant Game Collection as well as any other benefits we can share.

If you’ve got feedback on today’s Plus update make sure you leave a comment below. If you want to engage with some like-minded people, head over to the PlayStation Community Forums to discuss all things PlayStation, including this update. You’ll also find other topics you can contribute your thoughts to, or start one for yourself.

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  • @50
    + Morgan Haro on September 16th, 2013 at 9:35 am said:
    I’m always here in your hearts? no. wait

    So, right now you are in the Sogeki Island!?

    (BTW thanks for ICO!!)

  • Don’t blame sony for your crappy download speeds, blame your ISP. I guarantee you if you people whining about the slow speeds brought your ps3 to my house and hooked it up with an ethernet cable, your speeds would max out. How is it sony’s fault if you’re getting slow speeds? My download speeds have maxed out every single time I downloaded something on either xbox live or the PSN store…

  • Thanks for ICO, never played it but I am interested about it. I really hope there is AAA ps3 game for the next month, unlike this month.

    IGC whislist:
    LA Noire
    Max Payne 3
    Final Fantasy XIII
    Okami HD
    Heavy Rain
    Dragon’s Dogma
    God of War III
    Jak and Daxter HD Collection
    Assassins Creed III

  • MORE PS2 CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    WE DONT WHAT OLD STALE GAMES….. I Grew up playing this I dont wish to play PITFALL from ATARI2600 either…

    Meanwhile PS PLUS UK GETS ASSASSINS CREED 3 …… What the HEY????

  • WOOHOO! ICO! Is it weird that I’m more excited to play ICO than GTA V? Never been much of a Grand Theft Auto kind of player.

  • FAR CRY 3 on OCTOBER EU PS+?

    http://i.imgur.com/TGpEudb.png?1

  • A guaranteed home run in Ico and certainly a good game for me to try out in GTA on my Vita. This is a wonderful week for PS+.

    @Kristine Thanks for the post. Your short blurbs can make me laugh and I seem to be noticing a very punctual routine here which is nice.

  • So when can I start downloading GTA5? midnight eastern?

    I gotta start it as soon as I can so I can hope to actually play it on release day!!!

  • mmm you dont think PS Plus could EVER give all the games at the beginning of the month…. i wonder why … because thats what europe does! lol …. oh wait i answered myself THATS WHY lol America NEVER does what europe does … even though its the same company lol …craziness … :P

  • This sucks as always. I want to swap to EU PS+.

  • The blog REALLY needs an ignore poster feature. Like for real.

    Can’t wait for ICO.

  • @158 they think that we’re stupid customers and they don’t respect us, they just respect customers in Europe.

  • everything they come out with costs alot more in EUROPE too… be careful what you ask for.

  • GTAV Download = First World Problems

    Chill out and eat your kobe beef sliders with truffle shavings…

  • i am jumping on the renting games and buying used games wagon . i no some games i will not be able to play online if i rent or buy useds but nothing holds up online if it is not battlefield or call of duty anyways . so i will buy those 2 franchise brand new only.

    how can sony not add all the ps+ games for each month on the 1st of that month? eu does it and they are a part of sony. o well no more me buying 2 to 3 games a week

  • So many cry babies posting here, Im glad I dont have to respond to you and be nice about it.

  • I really like Blakseed’s idea. An “ignore poster” function on the blog would be REALLY nice. Could you seriously pass along that feedback, because it honestly would be a very useful and welcomed feature for the blog.

  • I would love to know why I still Cannot play my Crash Bandicoot PSOne Classics, it annoys me to hear the eu friends on my list go, “What crash doesn’t work on Vita in NA? Damn SCEA hates Vita hahaha” Can this be resolved, a Year of waiting and STILL NOTHING. Sony needs to do something about this cause Sony’s direct treatment of Vita in NA is soo bad it’s unbelievable.

  • It would be better to play Vice City Stories and Liberty City Stories if the PSP emulator on VIta had the option of attributing to the right analog the L button + right analog movements, so we can move and look around easily like in the PS2 version

  • Bottom line is that digital title releases have been messy. I’m especially aware of this because of the amount of titles I purchase for Vita digitally. Some release at midnight but only if you search for the title… but it’s not really midnight unless you’re in whatever timezone they release it in… then again some don’t release at all. I’ve just lived with it…..
    … BUT this has all got to change on PS4. Games must be available to everyone CLEARLY (without having to search to see it) at the CORRECT time EVERY time. PS4 is going to be a fresh start it seems for Sony in North America especially – get it right and I will buy my titles digitally. Be unreliable and I won’t bother. That’s all.

  • 166@167
    just dont read the post made by the people u dislike aka make your post and then move on unless you want to read the mode post which will be in bright bright red and very very easy to spot and read

    problem solved

  • Awesome! I’ll be definitely be downloading ICO. I really loved playing it on my PS2 and I’ve been meaning to buy the HD version on the PS3.

  • Can you please please PLEASE change the sound effects on the Playstation Store. The confirmation sound is like the critical error sound on Windows. I have to surf the store with the mute on. The other sounds are okay, but the confirmation selection sound is just an atrocious choice. Thank you for your consideration

  • Hmmm, I might have to sign back up for PS+.

  • Terraria for PS Vita when?

  • @164, Engimatech: Kobe beef sliders with truffle shavings!! Is that a real thing because it should be. Sounds fantastic. I’m going to yelp that now, lol.

    Even though I’m a trophy ‘ho, I’ll at least try the PSP GTA on my Vita, so thanks for that. We in American need that mythical 64 gig Vita card. I have two 32 gig cards and they’re getting pretty filled up since I prefer digital versions of Vita games.

  • It would be awesome if we could get the GTA3 and Vice City anniversary editions on PSN for vita… Just saying.. (Maybe even a San Andreas anniversary as well, or just a stand-alone San Andreas stories).

  • Finally a good week it’s been a few months since there’s anything I wanted but this month is good one game I really wanted and a few ones I’ll play if I find time. Still overall psn+ is worth it but please STOP with all shooters and fighters we need more variety like this month kinda, still got shooters but atleast we got ICO too.

  • can you guys please not listen to the first post from thelookey6… The way it is now give people something to look forward to on each weeks update… Thanks

  • GTA Liberty City Stories is a perfect game for PS Plus members the same day GTA V is going to be released. GOOD JOB. Sony is the greatest

  • Yeah! Really looking forward to finally playing ICO! My 500GB GTA5 PS3 bundle arrives tomorrow but I’ve bought Journey and Limbo during the PAX sale and will play those before GTA5. Busy next few weeks for me!

    Guys please keep supporting the PS3 with the Instant game collection for the next few years as I don’t intend on getting a PS4 until 2016 at least!

    thanks

  • I read the first page of comments and then stopped. There’s so much negativity, cynicism, and downright rudeness from the PS+ community in this week’s comments section that I’m embarrassed to call myself a gamer. It’s one thing to be passionate about gaming and you want to express concerns about the PS+ games this week, but it’s another thing totally if you’re being mean, lewd, and crass with your comments.

    Kids, please, knock it off. You know better than that. Adults: Just because the US grants you freedom of speech, it doesn’t give you free reign to act like kids. You know better than that, too.

    Thanks, PS+ — looking forward to both Ico and the Vita-compatible GTA game. Rock on! Congrats to Ryan Clements, too–glad to see he’s with Sony now. Good hire, Sony. Damn good hire.

  • What a good week; getting GTA for Vita and Ico for PS3 is awesome way to celebrate things this week (the launch of GTA V and the upcoming TGS). This months sales have been a bit lackluster (we seriously got a sale on Aliens, one of the worst games this year, and this week there’s sales for the horrid Kane and Lynch?), but the free games more than make up for it.

    I would be excited for Rayman next week, but as I already own Origins thanks to the Rayman sale in August and are almost done with it, I will not be. But its cool that it’s FINALLY part of the NA IGC (its been part of it for Europe and Japan’s IGC well before this month) and its a great way to get a feel for Rayman before people might get Legends.

  • PS+ Europe users get Far Cry 3 on Sept 25 2>_<

  • what I think is BS: the fact tha Sony does the same thing every month, and attempts to act like it is some surprize to get a ps3 game fore the first 2 weeks then a crappy psp game in the middle of the month, and finly the vita game in the last week of the month….hears a tip if you want the VITA to do well stop treating it like it is the least inportant thing in IGC! in addition I feel the US ps plus is not even close to competing with the EU plus for the same price.

    WHY DOES SONY HATE THE US???

  • Absolutely happy about this two games, already played ICO but is a joy to own such a masterpiece on HD thanks to PS+, hope we’ll get Shadow of the Colossus as well.

  • I have noticed lately Plus has been getting good games out with discounts but the mediocre games are given out free has anyone else noticed that also???

    For example lately we have seen the following at a discount recently

    Mortal Kombat,and Skullgirls,

    these are two games that we would all love to be in the IGC I wish it would happen soon or at least we start getting better games in the IGC ones that we are asking for.

    Hopefully next month we can see better games like the following

    Twisted Metal
    Catherine
    Dishonored
    RE6

    Still somewhat disappointed in this month ICO even though it looks cool when I played it a while back I just couldn’t get into it for whatever reason it wasn’t the same feeling as Shadow of the Colossus.

  • If you don’t like negative comments then don’t read it PERIOD! You guys are just stupid enough why would sony make an IGNORE POST function? Most stupid comment ever.

  • I would like to see these in the US PS+
    1) Red Dead Redemption
    2) DmC
    3) Max Payne 3
    4) Darksiders 2
    5) Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
    6) Shadow of the Colossus HD
    7) Batman Arkham City
    8) Mass Effect Trilogy
    9) Grand Theft Auto 4 complete
    10) Psychonauts
    11) Limbo
    12) L.A. Noire
    13) Beyond Good and Evil HD
    14) Dark Souls
    15) Metal Gear Solid HD collection

  • PS Blog Crew (Morgan and Friends),

    Thanks for the consistently good updates! I already have ICO and love it, but its great to see you are giving it for free to those who haven’t played it yet. It lets me know that you are still giving out great quality games! I have been in PLUS since day one and have a HUGE back log to go through and IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT! :)

    In fact, I just played Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine for the first time last week and it was a lot of fun! I would have never tried it had I not gotten it for free from you guys so long ago…I look forward to getting around to trying all these games you have given me over the years! Keep them coming…I don’t want to ever catch up!

    Looking forward to Drive Club PS PLUS edition November 15th!

    MrJolly

  • SOTC and ICO free :D

    but i own the physical copy anyways ^^

  • @149

    That’s the problem, today’s upcoming generation doesn’t understand what it means to be a collector of games or special editions. They are the “gimmie gimmie you owe me” crowd. Though thankfully in my time this niche market wont win out.

  • This week made my month.

    And I totally agree with @8 carlpain, we defiately need a way to purchase games from IGC when plus offers them on weekly sales.

    So please fix this.

    But where are all the sales at?
    Your killing me not having games to add to my library, thereby neglecting a true Sony Fan.

    And we all need more competitive priced memory.

  • As for 189 ADRENALIN10 and everyone else thinking metal gear should be on IGC, they offered it for like $14 bucks.

    Fork it out at that price.

    Some games are worth paying for.

    Every penny.

  • So since Vita memory cards are highway robbery, now I have to find something to delete AGAIN to be able to play this one.

  • Morgan Haro copied my signature ^__^

    Normally ^_^

  • CDWJUSTIN
    wait wait are you really saying give 1 game each week so you have something to look forward 2? life should be enough for you to look forward 2. and if you depend on the igc you are doing gaming wrong . right now we are trying to leave feed back to make the igc better so non game buyers like yourself can depend on the igc.

    why on earth would you want the igc to dish out 1 game per week and then that leaves the vita owners waiting 2 weeks at the least just to get 1 game.

    when i post my interest is for the rest of the group since i own almost every game that ps+ dishes out . i am in this for the discounts and to help others push back

  • GTAV is coming out and having PS2 games San Andreas, GTA3, Vice City would be cool.

  • I mean having them as discounted or free would be cool for Playstation Plus members

  • Hey These collections are great ICO for PS2 is EPIC! could you recommend more PS2 games for PS plus free, such as Ratchet and Clank, Jak, Sly copper, Etc. KEEP IT UP SONY!

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