It’s almost time for the New Year, and we’re ready to kick-off 2014 in a big way. January’s Instant Game Collection will offer PlayStation Plus members loads of amazing titles, starting off with a new PlayStation 4 title — Don’t Starve. A wilderness survival game wrapped in a cute art style, you’ll take control of a Gentleman Scientist trying to make his way home from a mysterious place. Be warned – this is one of those games where you’ll die a lot, but if you ever get frustrated, just look at how cute your buddy Chester is and I’m sure everything will be okay.
For PlayStation 3 owners, you’ll be able to download three critically acclaimed games – DMC Devil May Cry, BioShock Infinite and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. DMC Devil May Cry is a reboot of the beloved franchise, and while Dante may have received a haircut and a new backstory, his weapons and fighting style should be fairly familiar to fans.
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Created by the same folks who brought us BioShock, BioShock Infinite has received multiple Game of the Year nominations. This isn’t your average first-person shooter, you’ll gather vigors throughout your journey that will fling your enemies sky-high or unleash a horde of birds to peck at your foes.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons tugs at your heartstrings as you take control of two brothers (who would’ve guessed?), trying to cure their ailing father. You’ll be handling the sons with each analog stick, so once you get the hang of controlling two characters at once, you’ll need to solve various puzzles in order to save the day.
This month PlayStation Vita owners will be able to download Worms: Battle Island and Smart As. Worms: Battle Island stays true to the classic Worms formula of charming turn-based strategy gameplay. You can customize your wormy soldiers and use crazy weapons to take out the opposition.
Finally, Smart As will become your brain’s new best friend. Run through a series of mind-boggling challenges, and see where you stack up against your friends and other people in the world on the leaderboards. If you practice every day, maybe one day you’ll hit the top.
We’re also trying something new this month – we’ve created a video preview highlighting all of the titles you’ll receive as a Plus member, so give it a look and let me know what you think in the comments below!
January PlayStation Plus Preview
Don’t Starve (PS4)
Free for PS Plus members
Don’t Starve: Console Edition is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. You play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.
DMC Devil May Cry (PS3)
Free for PS Plus members
In a society corrupted by demons only The Order can see the world for what it really is. Join Dante in the ultimate experience of stylish action chain together combo after combo with panache and dispatch demonic spawn back to hell – reveal the truth behind the lies. Explore Dante’s dark past encountering some the most familiar faces in the DmC universe. Call upon unimaginable powers combined with Dante’s epic arsenal of weapons: sword, scyte, axe,
pistols and more. Face your demons…
“As a character action game, it hits all the notes — fast, robust action, marvelous visual style, and a tremendous sense of attitude” – Giant Bomb: 5/5 Stars
BioShock Infinite (PS3)
Free for PS Plus members
Indebted to the wrong people and with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and hired gun Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia. Forced to trust one another, Booker and Elizabeth form a powerful bond during their daring escape. Together, they learn to harness an expanding arsenal of weapons and abilities, as they fight on zeppelins in the clouds, along high-speed Sky-Lines, and down in the streets of Columbia, all while surviving the threats of the sky-city and uncovering its dark secret.
BioShock Infinite is a brilliant shooter that nudges the entire genre forward” – IGN: 9.4/10
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (PS3)
Free for PS Plus members
Share in the epic journey of two brothers, as they set out to find a cure for their dying father. Travel across beautiful vistas, through dark and foreboding forests, down perilous rivers, up hazardous mountain sides and experience the wonders of Nordic mythology along the way. Use the unique control system to control each brother with a thumb stick, for concurrent gameplay throughout the adventure. Use both brothers cooperatively to solve puzzles, explore the environments and in boss encounters.
“It’s a powerful venture that isn’t necessarily about where you began or where you end up; it’s about everything that happened in between.” – Destructoid” 8/10
Worms: Battle Island (PS Vita)
Free for PS Plus members
Battle up to three other players offline or online on one of six landscape themes, using one of forty classic Worms weapons or some of your own creation in the weapons factory. With sixty single player challenges, five game modes, a powerful level editor and a massive selection of ways to personalize your worm army and customize your game experience, it’s a package sky-high on entertainment!
Smart As… (PS Vita)
Free for PS Plus members
Join the brain gaming revolution! Use cutting-edge touch, tilt and camera controls to prove how smart you are in the first ever socially networked brain game on PS Vita. Solve math, memory, logic and word puzzles, crack augmented reality challenges and sharpen your rapid-fire reflexes to storm up the online leaderboards and show off your scores to the world via Facebook and Twitter.
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This is a huge list! Wowowowow! Thank you!! What a great way to kick off the new year =]
Great lineup, especially DMC, thanks a lot!
Kristine!!!!!! you did a great job on the video, please keep this feature up even if you can narrate it every time it will be a great addition to the playstation plus world and I just got to share with all my pc friends all the awesome games I am getting.
Why is the playstation plus network continuously down for the ps4….
Hol-ly crap! That is an EXCELLENT PS3 lineup! BioShock Infinite is, of course, acclaimed (time to actually break into the first, huh?), DmC is, attested by others, a kickin’ game, and Brothers seems to be a frontrunner for this year’s “well, that’s in the same ballpark as Journey” range (ah, Journey…!).
Don’t have a PS4, so no really give or take on Don’t Starve. Don’t have a Vita, either, so none on…whatever that is *scrolls up* Smart as….
As for PSP, eh, there’s so damn many Worms titles, I’d’ve been better with somethin’ else (just, not a PvP-centric fighter, eh?).
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Those are epic news!
But I am looking for a place to “file my complain” about Sony closing multiplayer for Resistance 1,2 & 3, and Gran Turismo 5…
Resistance 3 and GT5 have been out for less than 4 years, I payed for all DLC on GT5 and now it gets plugged out…
This months content alone is worth the price of plus for a year … But next month people will complain as always so sad … As for me bioshock will get me back on my PS3 for a little while … Great line up good job sony team
Great! Now I can get DMC for my PS3 and extend my PSVita and PS4 library. Is there any possibility to download games for PS Vita via PS4 in the future?
Great Update!! keep up the good work
This is an excellent line up!
Okay this is really annoying lately…i buy stuff when it goes on sale then a month ,or so later it comes up as free. I bought Bioshock on sale for 13.99 ,and i got DmC when it was on sale prior to that. Same happen with a few months prior to that when i bought Borderlands 2 ,and it became free.
I’m getting sick of grabbing something on sale thinking i’m getting a good deal on top of paying 17.99 every 3 months for my plus ,and then finding that another month is filled with a game or 2 i already just bought on sale whether its a plus discount sale ,or a regular sale. Sleeping Dogs was another case of that.
I think for now on unless its something that i know rarely ever if at all goes on sale or something i really really want bad enough. i think im just going to hold off buying a lot of stuff on the ps store ,and just pay for my plus ,and get my games as they come through there.
The line up is good ,and appreciate they are getting better quality games in there ,but i can’t be the only one that is going through the same thing. Makes you afraid to purchase anything.
Awesome!! I was sad to miss lasts weeks sale, but I’m feeling very excited about January’s line up! Bioshock Infinite is easily my favorite games this year and I’ve been curious about the DmC reboot. Thanks again!
By the way, I’m absolutely loving my PS Vita! I kept holding off thinking it wouldn’t live up to the hype, but I’m happy to announce that I was wrong. I am surprised to say this, but I may like it just as much as my PS3… Maybe even more since it travels well.
The amount of PS4s are decreasing and being traded like stocks on Wall Street, while the Xbox One’s supplies are at the point of saturation. And when you ask Sony when there will be a supply shipped to stores, all you get is an “I dunno” with shrugged shoulders. That’s getting a bit annoying and it’s making me reconsider my choice to get a PS4. Or get a system at all. I have a Wii U and it’s pretty awesome.
Perhaps I don’t need either system.
Anyone have anything to say about this?
January will be amazing!!! I saw December updates on PS+ and I become a member inmediately, now I’m not regreting on it.
I think some games must be determined by PS+ user voting BTW.
Thanks and that video just rocks
Bioshock Infinite is one of the best games ever. Fantastic update guys. Looking forward to trying out DMC and Brothers.
Again, great PS3 IGC list but the Vita selection has really been pretty poor lately, with the exceptions of Soul Sacrifice and Oddworld. Before that, we have to go back several months to see the most recent strong Vita release (Zero Escape). I know the retail selection for the Vita overall isn’t great but come on PSN, let’s have some REAL titles for a change, not some B-level stuff that could be played on the PSP. Don’t get me wrong, ‘Hotline Miami’ is a cool little low-res game but how about some HD-caliber Vita games that really push the envelope of what the system can do? (and not just Uncharted, which has been there forever).
How about-
Unit 13
Sly Cooper
Persona 4 Golden
Killzone Mercenary
Dragon’s Crown
Is that too much to ask? Really hoping 2014 is the year Vita owners get the kind of outstanding content PS3 owners have been getting for awhile now from PSN, and not just some stuff we’ll play for 5 minutes and then click DELETE.
Wish more was coming out for the PS4 :( Now I wish I didn’t get rid of my PS3 already :P
Ps plus for vita sucks…
I dont really understand why sony insist to give us such a bad games !
try for example assasins creed 3 liberation or need for speed most wanted !
Haha! I will take them! SUCKERS!
:)
This is by far the best Ps Plus month for me. I have been using the service ever since i got hooked on the TWD episodes last year which i played through a trial version of Ps Plus – but i have never been so appreciative of a single months offerings as i am right now. I had been expecting DMC since a while now, but Bioshock? I didn’t see that coming, and it makes for an incredible surprise.
I haven’t played DMC or Bioshock Infinite yet, and i have been waiting to get my hands on them ever since they were released – January will be a great month to be a Ps Plus subscriber. I already played Brothers though, it’s a brilliant game that more people need to play.
Now if we can get AC III in Feb, that would be equally amazing, keeping the 2014 NA version of Ps Plus on a consistently good start.
I never commented here before, but i was compelled to show my appreciation for the freebies of Jan, is there a way we can have titles up for consideration via voting or something; for the upcoming months of Ps Plus?
In the video, I’m pretty sure you showed Worms Revolution instead of Worms Battle Islands. In fact, I’d say i’m certain you showed the wrong game. That’s kind of an important thing to get right.
Guys, if you keep hitting it out of the park, we’re gonna run out of balls. Really though, nice.
The PS3 list is fantastic, though I’m still feeling blase about the Vita’s. I can’t blame you for that; the system just does not have a lot of games, something I hope will be remedied sooner rather than later. The system has so much potential, but we’re just not seeing anything for it. The only games I’m looking forward to in the future are Final Fantasy X/X-2. I hope more companies start working with the system… agh.
Yeah, I got DmC in the wrapper, going to promptly return that to Amazon, lol. I bought Bioshock Infinite during that flash sale for $13, totally awesome deal. This proves once more, PS Plus is awesome, gives the best games to members, hope those vita games are good!
Thank you sony for bringing some bad ass titles, bioshock hell yeah.
Will Bioshock be available on ps4?
Wow amazing start of 2014 and that video was a great addition.Well done Kris hope you can do it every month cause I found it very helpful even knowoning about some titles.Thanks for that and for all the work this year guys.Have a great start you too!
Fantastic selection. I love getting games like DMC, Brothers, and Don’t Starve; games many people likely would not have bought but should really play. It’s also great getting bigger games like Borderlands 2 and Bioshock for those who haven’t played them. I on the other hand already have, so I’m glad we oftentimes get the more niche and unknown titles as well. The games I’d otherwise miss are always my favourites of the IGC – like Spec Ops, Sleeping Dogs, and Hitman.
By the way, up until recently, I haven’t been interested in the PS Vita. However, I now think the IGC for the Vita is a great gateway into it. With all the games I’ve claimed over the year from Plus, it’s getting harder and harder to justify not buying one. Because of the IGC, I’ve made the decision to buy one, which I think is pretty cool.
Hey Kristie I hope you read this. I actually left a comment on the youtube video page saying nice to hear your voice, now if we can get you behind the camera that be great.
January is going to be something new next month. Playstation is going to have awesome games for 2014! :)
Great great month!!!
hey i have en idea for ps plus members buy 3 playstation games and get 4th one free (: sounds fair sony ?!
Great job on the ps3 games! Not so much on the vita and ps4. Don’t Starve looks very tedious . Oh well still have too many games to play as is. Thanks again!
Thank you for the great video. Great content details presented. It is also good to hear your voice Kristine.
DmC? Seriously? Everybody with a brain knows that game is garbage, don’t waste a month of subscription time on something so bad that even Capcom is ashamed of it.
Wow, talk about opening the year with a bang :). Can’t believe you guys are giving us Bioshock Infinite, DMC and Brothers so soon, all three came out not that long ago. Bioshock is wonderful, DMC is a bit odd with it being a reboot and all but its still looks fun, and Brothers sounds really interesting.
While the Vita stuff isn’t that great, after three great months of quality Vita content between Rayman Origins, GTA PSP, Hotline Maimi, Sane Mora, Oddworld Strangers Wrath, Soul Sacrifice and Sonic Racing, its going to be hard to top that :). Worms sounds like fun and Smart As might scratch that Brain Age itch.
Nice job with that video and thank you for kicking the year off to a great start. Hope you guys at the Sony Blog had a happy holiday and I look forward to another year of awesome free games :).
The video was great. Very well done. It really shows the value of Plus. I don’t see how anyone ever complains.
97 cents per week!
Really? The Vita list is terrible.
A PSP that you redo the cover on to make it seem like a Vita title, and a game that requires you to have AR cards.
Ah I didn’t realize it said PSP, but still. There’s many more Vita games you could be giving out instead..
I just got a PS4 and I’m glad you still give me plenty of incentive to keep playing my ps3. You’ve got a great business model going here, Sony!
No way DmC and Brothers?…no fu***** way….this can’t be true…this is too good to be true….Oh man I love you Plus…Plus never disappointed and its just gettin better and better….glad for Smart As too…I dont have any of these games….Bioshock is good too but that one I’ll get in retail….Can’t wait DmC and Brothers?….hahaha looks like a joke….I swear I just cant take the smile out of my face.
SPECTACULAR UPDATE.
People seriously need to stop complaining about PSP games showing up. Honestly it’s great for people like me who already own the game on-disc and can’t play them on my Vita. It’s also really nice that I can play some games I never got to buy (looking your way Final Fantasy Tactics.). Even if the PSP games weren’t there it’s not like some other game is going to take its spot. So it’s not like you’re gonna get another game anyway.
Oh forgot to mention…the video was great…really nice how you showed the stuff….and Kristine you got a great voice girl…you’re good.
sorry for being off topic, but i would like to buy a ps4 but i don’t have hdmi input on my tv, am i able to use an hdmi to component converter box or adaptor?
All these games need to be on the PS4 server as well
Nice month!!!!!!!
Don’t listen to the haters, DmC is excellent.
Are you going to come out with an update to fix the issue on playstation network?
i enjoyed the video preview, thanks for being awesome
Best PS+ month so far.