GRID 2 launched to critical acclaim earlier this year for its successful mixing of arcade and simulator styles. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, on the other hand, is more of a kart racer, complete with power ups but the ever-shifting tracks means your badass kart can also transform into a plane or boat.
You can hop into Borderlands 2 for free later this month on PS3, and this game absolutely shines with co-op, so be sure to bring some buddies along with you while you blast away all the skags on Pandora. You can build out your vault hunter how you like – focus on damage or get some support skills to aid yourself & your friends.
Finally, Vita owners can scrape their knees up a bit with Urban Trial Freestyle. Successfully complete the tricks, customize your bike and then challenge your friends with the asynchronous Ghost mode.
These games will hit the Instant Game Collection at various times throughout the month, so check back with us every Monday morning to see all the benefits of your membership.
There will also be a special Black Friday deal for PlayStation Plus at select retailers nationwide. Pick up 1 year of PS Plus for only $29.99* — that’s 40% off the regular price of $49.99. With PS Plus, you’ll get new games every month with Instant Game Collection. You’ll also get access to online multiplayer on the PS4 system. Best of all, one membership will cover you across your PS4, PS3, and PS Vita, for just $29.99*.
*A one-year PlayStation Plus membership will be $29.99 on Black Friday only
December PlayStation Plus Preview
GRID 2 (PS3)
Free for PS Plus members
Be fast, be first and be famous as you join the elite in ‘World Series Racing’ where the greatest cars, drivers and events come together in the search for a new motorsport icon. Experience aggressive racing against advanced AI and become immersed in the race with GRID 2’s new TrueFeel Handling system which powers edge-of-control exhilaration behind the wheel of every iconic car. An extensive, separate online campaign powered by RaceNet sets new standards in the genre. Welcome back to racing.
Borderlands 2 (PS3)
Free for PS Plus members
A new era of shoot and loot is about to begin. Play as one of four new vault hunters facing off against a massive new world of creatures, psychos and the evil mastermind, Handsome Jack. Make new friends, arm them with a bazillion weapons and fight alongside them in 4 player co-op or split-screen on a relentless quest for revenge and redemption across the undiscovered and unpredictable living planet.
Dyad (PS3)
Free for PS Plus members
Descend into Dyad to experience transcendental sensory overload in this abstract psychedelic racer. Blast through a reactive audio-visual tube to create a harmonious synthesis of color and sound as you hook, graze and lance enemies to master Dyad’s 27 unique levels.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (PS Vita)
Free for PS Plus members
Sonic and the All-Stars cast line up on the starting grid once again to battle for supremacy in the ultimate race. It’s not just racing, it’s Racing Transformed! Bonus Edition also includes extra racer Metal Sonic, and bonus Outrun track!
Urban Trial Freestyle (PS Vita)
Free for PS Plus members
Don’t miss the ultimate urban trial freestyle game for PS Vita system! The city is your playground! Nothing will stop you on your freestyle trials bike. Use the urban landscape to pull spectacular tricks – backflips, 360s, wallrides, ollies, and more. Customize your bike to boost your performance in Time Attack or Stunt mode. Choose between speed and style, developing your own unique riding style.
If you’ve got feedback on PlayStation Plus make sure you take the poll above as well as leave a comment below. To chat about all things PlayStation, including this update, you can head over to the PlayStation Community Forums. You’ll also find other topics you can contribute your thoughts to, or you can start your own discussion.
Alright Borderlands 2! A game I have played MANY times over since it came out. Now one of my favorite things to do in that game, is start a new character and play again, doesn’t matter how many times I do it, doesn’t get old. So if anyone who has plus wants to start the game off with some company, give me a message and say so. Though I won’t play with anyone using mods, or who isn’t just generally nice :)
Thanks for these. Glad to see some games my kids can play since I bought 2 vitas for Christmas for them.
I think there should be some PS4 games available. There are a lot of Xbox gamers that switched over to PS4 and these are the first months that they are experiencing Playstation Plus and skipping a month is not really good and it is off to a bad start for PS4’s PSPlus. Especially when we were promised 2 new games every month on PS4.
PS3: Amazing free games and discounts!
PS Vita: Amazing free games and discounts!
PS4: … crickets
Outstanding selection.
If the Vita memory cards were more reasonably priced, I would have one and even more enjoy PS+.
This is sooooooooooooooooooooo brilliant~! Love you Sony~~~
@301
you can never belive sony, dont you know that yet?
One of my favorite things about Plus is the games I never would have bought anyway. Getting them for free allows me to try them, and most of the ones I try turn out to be great. Same with the discounts. I wind up paying $2.50 for games I wouldn’t have played otherwise.
PS4: …
Redeem codes: There’s now a whole blog post dedicated to this issue. Don’t take your cards back to the store, and don’t call the company. Nobody can redeem codes right now.
Can anybody here or a Sony representative tell me why the PSVita games available on the PSPlus through the PS3, are not available through the PS4. I find this amazing and quite honestly completely unfair because we are paying the same amount of money in theory for the same service.
Thank you.
I just bought my Vita Holiday Bundle from Amazon! I can’t wait for it to get here!
Just wanted to say the games I hope will come to PS+ for Vita.
Persona 4 Golden (though I already bought it), Killzone Mercenary, the Jack and Daxter Collection (or one of the other collections), MLB 13 The Show (for PS3 and PS Vita so we can use cross play features!), and Assassin’s Creed III Liberation. Just the ones I’m hoping for! It would make me really happy if these games were on Plus!
I would literally never unsubscribe because I’d be too busy with these awesome games! :D
@307 I don’t know why you can’t redeem them through PS4 anymore, but you could always just redeem them through your PS3 or even easier just redeem them on your computer.
That is an incredible IGC lineup for December. Probably getting another 3 month PSN sub with that :D
Y no PS4 ??????????
I just bought the $29.99 1-year PS Plus Black Friday deal. I’m currently a subscriber. Am I not able to use this card to stack up my current subscription? I got an error code when I enter the code.
Come on totally pushing for a need for sped game come on sony :)
Ok anyone complaining about jot getting a ps4 game this month did u not buy any games yourself expecting to get everything for free? Please grow up support the awesome devs and purchase the games. I would have loved another ps4 game but I got bioshock infinite for 14 dollars from the flash sale that’s an awesome deal and will keep me going till I have the cash to throw down on more ps4 games. Also flower can be purchased for 6.99 and its cross buy for ps4, ps3 and vita that’s an amazing deal. So again stop thinking for 50 dollars you deserve everything and support devs to they keep making awesome games.
Rant done lol
@312 code redeeming is down you should be able to redeem shortly
you forgot to tell us what next months ps4 free game will be?
How you can redeem PSvita games through your computer? Where do you go?
I don’t know if it is just me or not, but when I go to the PSN store with my PS4 and I go to all the games there are none for the PSVita except Flower that is a cross buy game. ( Which I actually bought). It is just me? Games like Starwars pinball, soundscapes, etc. I don’t see any with the PS4.
I just got a PS3 and PSN online with the black friday bundle deals. I won’t physically have the console for another week and can’t redeem the PSN code online, I was wondering if Uncharted 3 and XCOM are still going to be free with PSN in December (or at least for the next week).
Great!!!! Very good december!!!!
i just bought dyad last month. and my friend just picked up borderlands 2. oh well. don’t think i can get a free digital copy if theres already one on my account but we’ll see. it’d still be rather pointless eh?
@318 Loki_Strikes
Those games aren’t going anywhere anytime soon so you’re good to go on those.
A little tip for downloading Uncharted 3:
First you will need to download the free to play multiplayer portion.
From there you will see the single player campaign, download that
Then you will need to download the movie part (cutscenes), if you have a 3d TV, DL those.
And last, you will need to download the voice pack (s), Depending on the language you want
Hope this helps.
WAAW
AMAZING
WOW!! thank you guys so much looking forward to playing these games.
Where is the free game for the ps4? I would have to assume there just not announcing it yet. Not haveng one would be unacceptable.
I’m pretty sure if there was a PS4 game, it would have been announced here on this blog. Developers aren’t so quick to let their games go free so shortly after launch when they could be making money from them. It would be a first if they added another game after the months offerings had already been announced.
How about some PS4 compatible titles?
People are ALREADY complaining about no “free” items for PS4?! Unreal!
So stoked for free Sonic Racing I just bought it on Steam, been holding out for this on Vita! <3
cant wait!
i mean literally its december 1st 12:04.
i cant wait any longer!
That is really sad that PS4 is not getting any love. It also terrible that there is seriously lack of PS4 games out there.
@ 317: No you won’t seem them on the PS4 PSN store… you have to download them via the SEN site then they will be available on your “list” and you can download them on your vita later on… that’s what I did last week when I got my PS+ subscription, grabbed it all, even though my Vita will be arriving at my door in a week days or so.
@ 330: I hear ya. That’s I guess the cross to bear to be one of the guinea pigs of the PS4 era.
I refuse to grab “updated graphics” games (aka available on PS3) for my PS4, so I’m left with Killzone and Knack which are both a little “meh”.
Hopefully some great ones will come next year (and again not the “been developing this for 5 years now.. oh the PS4 will be here in a year.. better create that new folder /Assets/PS4” like Ground Zeroes or WATCH_DOGS).
Don’t get me wrong I like MGS and WD but I want exclusives. Console exclusive is fine, PS4 exclusive is what I’d love. Otherwise I could just go back to the PC gaming world and build myself a gaming beast.
As for the “free PS4 game of December” it’s a give it or take situation. Developers need money and a lot of them seem happy anyway with their deals to get their games on the rotation (or so I’ve read), but on the other side the PS4 library is still building up so…
But at least something like Trine 2 (demo looks great) could have been negotiated? Seeing as it’s already old and available on other platforms… so not a “just launched” game for sure.
Grid 2… awesome!
Can you guys stop putting so many RPGs have more variety like action third person or horror.
great lineup. i’ve been waiting for borderland goty version but i can get it for free now
Is there any games for the ps4 this month?
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well i have no idea how grid 2 is going to play out. but seeing as it’s a racing game i’m not downloading it. racing games are trash and the AI cheats. but i am super excited to DL and play BL2. i loved the first game and got plat on that can’t wait to do the same for the 2nd game.
I checked just now and saw GRID 2 as a timely free? only playable for 1 hour?
@339 xsagon
The store doesn’t update until Tuesday between 3-5 p.m. Eastern normally. The timed trial you are seeing only lasts one hour.
when it will be loaded to the system ! it’s still not there !
Wow what an awesome deal for these month I wasn’t expecting Borderlands 2, and Grid 2 but I really didn’t know what to expect for a christmas/new years line up keep it up
@305 Well even though sony does a better job with there instant game collection then Microsoft even though most of the good games seem to be hitting towards the UK we still get a better deal then Xbox’s GOLD or BRONZE if you tell me but that all is just a matter of opinion
Great games but kinda strange from a business stand point that your releasing borderland 2 for ps plus when you guys plan to sell it for the vita next year. I was going to pick up the vita version. But if i can play it on the ps3 for free, it might change my decision.
And grid 2 was just released like 6 months ago, thanks for that, sorry code masters.
1.) My girlfriend is going to have a blast playing co-op on Borderlands 2. The game itself isn’t that great, but the fact that Co-Op (LOCAL) games are so rare these days makes it worth playing.
2.) GRID2? I never played the first, but I’m always down for a highly rated racing title.
3.) No idea what Dyad is… but that makes me happy to be able to experience it none-the-less!
4.) Sonic Racing2… OMG I’m so excited for this.
Now my main question…. CYBER MONDAY!? C’mon what are the deals gonna be!? Everyone knows your black friday deal was sub-par (Sadly) But I contend it’s because the good deals are comin’ on monday.
where the hell are the ps4 games? what is this? Gave up all my money for a ps4, thought it was an upgrade, would survive off ps plus games and now there isn’t any. LMAO, back to the ps3 I guess. Unbelievable.
Nothing for PS4?/ C’mon!
Great month!!
Looking forward to sonic and grid, I might give borderlands a try.
Any chance of seeing guacamole next month?
I love cross-buy games with cross save features! It would be the perfect follow up for hotline Miami!