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.
Instant Game Collection
ICO (PS3)
Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $19.99
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PSP, PS Vita Compatible)
Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $19.99
Discounts
Sleeping Dogs Digital Edition (PS3)
PS Plus Price: $9.99, Regular Price: $24.99
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (PS3)
PS Plus Price: $5.99, Regular Price: $14.99
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (PS3)
PS Plus Price: $7.99, Regular Price: $19.99
Real Boxing (PS Vita)
PS Plus Price: $8.99, Regular Price: $9.99
Pixel Junk Monsters: Ultimate HD (PS Vita)
PS Plus Price: $11.99, Regular Price: $14.99
Last Chance (Leaving on 9/24)
Instant Game Collection
Machinarium (PS Vita)
Discounts
Sleeping Dogs Digital Edition
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
Doodle God
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Aliens: Colonial Marines Ultimate Bundle
Aliens: Colonial Marines DLC Bundle Pack
Aliens: Colonial Marines Big Hunt DLC
Aliens: Colonial Marines – Stasis Interrupted
Aliens: Colonial Marines Reconnaissance Pack
Aliens: Colonial Marines Movie Map Pack
Real Boxing
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.
I hope October’s game of the month is Batman: Arkham City. It was free in Europe a long time ago and the sequel is releasing on the 25th.
“Why have we still not gotten the ‘Big in Japan’ sale that EU had yet?”
we did get. we JUST had it! I got soul sacrifice and Muramase. and we got an indie game sale.
There about 3 games in total that have never gotten a sale. pretty good. so 197 out of 200 have arleady been on sale or free in the last year.
Bad games for Plus this month…. I sincerely hope it gets better next month. This month was disappointing.
okay, please clear this up for me… I live in the central time zone, so it’s currently 8:55pm here… you guys all say on here that GTA5 will be available to download @ 12:00am EST, yet on the playstation store, it says it’ll be available at 12:00 PST
If it frees up at 10pm for me, I’ll stay up and let it download, otherwise I’ll just go to bed… not worth staying up until 2am just to let the download begin.
Thanks.
they need to offer gta vice city stories free to
@204 All you had to do was read Morgan’s response to #15 and you would see it’s 12 Eastern. It would have took less time to read the first few mod replies than to type your message. 12 eastern is 11 central.
Sorry if that came off as rude
@206/207 yes, I saw that… that is where my question came in… I have yet to see any explanation why the website says one thing, yet the actual PSN store says another. I already read through all the comments before bothering to post. No worries.
@ 208 I hear ya. Supposedly there was some missed messages. There are a lot more comments on The Drop about it. It’s definately 12 Eastern. Enjoy it. The reviews are great so far. My copy is coming in the mail tomorrow. Can’t wait!
Is this version of Ico the same from the “HD collection”? Thanks in advance!
@hazelcabug I like reading the comments very much, and I never said anything about negative comments. You are putting words into my mouth. What I would like to ignore are stupid comments from people who are nowhere close to understanding what they are even complaining about. I’d like to never experience that stupidity and I think an ignore function is very reasonable.
Do you know the file size of Liberty City Stories? Played that years ago on my PSP and really enjoyed it; recently picked up a Vita and wouldn’t mind giving it another go. GTA oveload this week. GTAV at home and GTA LCS on the go.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaann, are you for real??? I’ve been waiting for Rayman for weeks! I already own it on my ps3, but I wanna finish it on my vita before I get Rayman Legends.
Really need to get EU PS Plus, I’m really disappointed with the free games for NA.
I know they’re free, but it’s so unfair what EU gets.
Friggin money NA gaming company DBags.
@sifi32 Gta lcs is 1.2 gb of pure awesomeness
Where is GTA V for US Sony? I’m tired of your lack of seriousness.
This is how serious you will take the PS4 too?
For such a big company this is a direct insult to legal customers.
First you leak the game weeks before release spoiling it for everyone and then you take hours to let legal customers download it.
Pirates always win, no matter what, thanks for showing them that Sony.
@216 relax. It will be here in 30 minutes, like they’ve said all day. Sony didn’t leak anything, and the only people that had the game ruined for them were people that took the time to read about it. Man you kids get ruder and dumber every day.
oh god, psp game again ?
reg EU this month get 4 full game vita Jak&D Trilogy + Urban Freestyle + Little king + Stealth Inc
and we only get Rayman + old psp game
let me guess for the next month, we get indie + psp again right ?
@217 You are right, I got mixed up thinking it was going to be released at 11, Sorry.
I really appreciate the work you guys do. (dealing with the unappreciative/hateful comments and such as well) I have been loving PSN + so far and have no complaints. Even if I do, I would not express it the way some of these comments does. In any case, I barely even touched the backlog of games you guys have given us.
Keep up the good work! You are doing a great job despite what others will tell you!
I wish this month’s games were better. I’m looking forward to some JRPGS
So its 12am EST and no GTA V in the ps store what’s up
I thought GTA V was going to be up at 12 eastern, 9 pacific?
is after 12 eastern time ,how come i cant download gta5,,i have it on pre-order,
I also can’t download it. I just get the “overview” option, which does nothing. This is retarded.
Sony can’t tell time let me wake up a 5 year old
Is anyone else an angry customer now sure wish I could download me pre order
@227, yes, definitely… I have kids I have to get up for school in the morning… all I wanted to do was start my download, and go to bed. Next time I’ll just buy the disc, this is too much hassle. It would have been nice to actually get the pre-download option and then just download the unlock or w/e at midnight, but no.
And yet another disappointment.
After ignoring questions as false information gets spread online all weekend regarding the game’s availability on the NA PS Store, they finally answer us –12am EST, 9pm PST– yet, here we are, 26 minutes past that time, and *gasp* GTA V is still not available.
This my first experience pre-ordering off of the PS Store, and it will damn sure be my last, at least as far as the PS3 goes.
I’m sure I”m not the only one here with a really busy life and doesn’t get much time to game. When I’m told something will be available I expect it will be.
Sony, you make it really hard and really frustrating to be a customer sometimes. I’ve already paid. Now I wish I just went to the damn store and got it.
This has been an embarrassingly poor performance from you on this matter.
Less than 2 months from PS4’s launch. Just know you better do a hell of a lot better and fast.
I can’t download GTA V either. I paid my money. It’s after 12 AM Eastern time like was promised. I am getting sick of ordering games on PSN and I can’t download when promised. The whole point is to download the game overnight while I’m sleeping and having it set to shut off when done. Now I have to download tomorrow and wait on it to finish. I could have just went to Game Stop
This is not the first preorder I’ve made through PSN that got screwed up some how. You guys need to seriously work on your customer support. Stop lying to us. Learn how to look at the clock and deliver what we paid for on time. No more excuses Sony. This is not how you want to go into the next era with the PS4
you guys should really operate more like steam in terms of sales. Steam is able to have daily sales, mid-week sales, and weekend sales. The mid-week and weekend sale consist of 2 games each. That makes a total of 11 games on sale EVERY week. Not too mention they’re HUGE summer sale. If they can do it the a corporate power house like sony should be able to do it as well. After all you’re competing with them in the online distribution market and they are totally dominating.
Anyways I hope someone gets to read this and passes it on. Looking forward to playing ICO and GTA.
Is it too much to ask that if we don’t get a pre-load option to avoid waiting around for a download to finish, we at least get the option to download it at the time we were promised?
Yeah, i have a PS4 pre-ordered.
I cancelled my amazon GTA5 order when i heard about the digital download.
Im giving you guys all this leeway to impress me, but you fail over and over.
This is REDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a paying costumer WTF is going on?!?!?!? I don’t even have download as an option anymore!!! This is sloppy I will never preorder on ps3 again!!!!! I have been on hold with costumer service for close to a half hour now as well… This is terrible consumer relations!!! Have you people heard of the BBB?? And the consumer news?? I now have a bitter taste in my mouth towards this company I am P’od!!!!!!
@46 God of War 1 & 2 was made free for Plus users by mistake earlier this year. It was fixed in a few hours, but those who had downloaded them, got to keep them till their Plus subscription expires.
It’s up. Downloading now!
@233 Seriously? rediculous? Dude, if that’s the way you spell things, they will never take you seriously. Stop playing videogames and read a book.
Heh heh. Some of the comments here are comedy gold. Love being part of the Playstation Nation.
Ok I read on push sqaur EU also had a half hour delay.. I retract my last comments as my copy of gta 5 is now downloading :) please in the future give the US the ability to preload.
Finally, it’s up.
Only half an hour late.
*slow clap*
scratch that, DLing now :)
GTA V downloaders go to the ps store then
games
coming soon
GTA V
download now
otherwise you won’t find the game to download idk why blame Sony
I’m going to download GTA Liberty City Stories even though I have already played it and beat it on the PSP several years ago because I need stuff to play on my Vita. In all seriousness though it would be nice if you would do like a poll or something every month and let us pick out of some “good” games to choose to be the next months free ones. Machinarium…really?
@236 thanks for you’re concern but I’m doing just fine without the help of the grammar police :) you try and have yourself a decent life.
GTA V is up now in the north american store. We as paying customers expect punctuality. This is a repeated pattern of late preorders. I’ve been a Sony games customer since the PS1. I, for one, expect better from you and expect better service when the PS4 launces
I’m getting GTA 5 in the mail tomorrow, because I prefer a disc for my favorite games, but I had to see if Sony would mess this up. I just knew they would. How do these guys still have jobs? This is the most anticipated game in years, if not ever and they still can’t get it right. Sad. The vita store has been screwed up for months, we still don’t have several PS1 classics for vita that other regions have had for years, These guys are either really lazy or incompetent. They couldn’t even get TLOU demo release right, when they knew about it for months.
If October will be another psp/indie for VITA SUBSCRIBER, maybe SCEA should stop the vita ps plus service and refund what ever is left. PS PLUS SCEA is not a good service for those who only owns a VITA like me.
@4: You’re a Plus member. You’re well aware of their download speeds. Did the thought not occur to you before placing the digital pre-order that you’d have to download a large file? Stop acting like a whiny, entitled little crybaby. You’re giving gamers a bad name.
Sure, PSN needs faster servers but in this instance you don’t have a leg to stand on as you knew firsthand exactly what to expect.
@9: GTA isn’t for everyone. Plenty care.
OMGosh it’s finally here GTAV ;D woooooooooo
@1: So people can whine all month about having no new content? People can’t even wait a week for the next wave of content, and you want them to blow their load in one day?
Heck, people can’t wait a few hours every Tuesday for the store to update.