Coming to PlayStation Plus: Free Content and Discounts Galore, Trials for Ghost Recon and EA Sports MMA

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Coming to PlayStation Plus: Free Content and Discounts Galore, Trials for Ghost Recon and EA Sports MMA

Hi everyone,

First of all, welcome back and many thanks for everyone’s patience as we worked to restore the PlayStation Store! It’s been more than a month now since our last PlayStation Plus update, but with the Store back up and running we have some great announcements about free games, discounts and exclusives for Plus subscribers – all coming to you in two publishes: June 3 and June 7.

We’d also like to take this opportunity to introduce Morgan Haro, Community Manager for PlayStation Network. Morgan joined the PlayStation team back in March and he’ll be answering your questions and offering feedback in the comments section.

Without further adieu, check out some of our highlighted offers below, along with the full list that follows.

Deathspank

Free Games and DLC
PlayStation Plus is offering the PS one title Lilo & Stitch for free on June 7, and the MAG Escalation Mission Pack add-on becomes available for free starting June 3.

Huge Discounts
Plus is offering 50% discounts for Tumble, Shank, Death Spank, Death Spank Thongs of Virtue, and Dead Space Ignition. All prices are listed below.

Exciting Exclusives
The June 3rd publish will excite all the mixed martial arts fans out there as we kick things off with the full-game trial for EA Sports MMA Digital.

The June 3 publish also includes the Resident Evil 4 – 10 Avatar Bundle for $0.99, and the June 7 publish includes the inFAMOUS 2 Dynamic Theme for free!

To round out the exclusive offers, the full-game trial for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 will become available in a special E3 publish on June 9.

As always be sure to check the full list of new items from the PlayStation Plus storefronts below:

PlayStation Plus Highlights for 6/3:

Full Game Trial

  • EA Sports MMA Live full game trial (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)

Featured Games & DLC

  • MAG Escalation Mission Pack (add-on) (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $9.99)
  • Ace Armstrong vs. Alien Scumbags PlayStation minis (PlayStation Plus price $1.50, regular price $5.99)
  • Young Thor PlayStation minis (PlayStation Plus price $1.25, regular price $4.99)
  • MotorStorm Apocalypse – Remix Vehicle Pack – Bundle (PlayStation Plus price $1.99, regular price $2.49)

Discounted Games

  • Smash Cars (PlayStation Plus price $5.99, Sale Price $7.49, Regular price $14.99)
  • Worms (PlayStation Plus price $5.00, regular price $9.99)
  • Cubixx (PlayStation Plus price $1.00, regular price $3.99)

Featured Themes & Avatars

  • Ore Static Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
  • Resident Evil 4 – 10 Avatar Bundle (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers for $0.99)
  • MotorStorm Apocalypse – Tyler Dynamic Theme (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $2.99)

PlayStation Plus Highlights for 6/7:

Full Game Trial

  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 (Special E3 publish on 6/9) (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)

Featured Games & DLC

  • Qore June Episode 37 – Single Episode (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $2 .99)
  • MotorStorm Apocalypse Prestige Vehicle Pack Bundle (PlayStation Plus price $1.99, regular price $2.49)
  • Lilo & Stitch PS one title (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $9.99)
  • Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2011 (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $9.99)

Discounted Games

  • Tumble (PlayStation Plus price $5.00, regular price $9.99)
  • Shank (PlayStation Plus price $5.00, regular price $9.99)
  • Deathspank (PlayStation Plus price $7.50, regular price $14.99)
  • Deathspank Thongs of Virtue (PlayStation Plus price $7.50, regular price $14.99)
  • Dead Space Ignition (PlayStation Plus price $2.50, regular price $5.00)

Featured Themes & Avatars

  • Flamingo Fun Static Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
  • inFAMOUS 2 Dynamic Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)

Last Chance, Get Them While You Can – Coming Down on June 7

Featured Offers to PlayStation Plus Subscribers

  • Comet Crash (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $9.99)
  • Oddworld Abe’s Exodus (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $9.99)
  • Vector TD PlayStation minis (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $3.99)

Discounted Games

  • Ricochet HD (PlayStation Plus price $2.50, regular price $9.99)
  • Cool Boarders 2 (PlayStation Plus price $3.00, regular price $5.99)
  • Dungeon Hunter (PlayStation Plus price $10.39, regular price $12.99)

Featured Themes & Avatars

  • Molecules Static Theme – Full Store Takedown (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)

Enjoy!

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398 Comments

  • I am glad the PS Store is back up and running! It’s a shame I already have the content your offering a discount on, or I already own the games. Like usual though, no real difference there. No Dragons Lair II Time Warp for free? Then who cares…. Glad your back though….it’s about freaking time.

  • GoDZ_xToYSoLDiER

    when do we get the welcome back progam

  • GET2DAACHOPPAAAA

    Is FFVI and FFV coming to the US store? I noticed they were in the EU store.

  • GET2DAACHOPPAAAA

    I also noticed that EU has an Outland trial. Is that coming out tomorrow as well?

  • Pretty sweet

  • so looks as if EU just got another free game, robo cod james pond 2, thanks for lilo and stitch again, way to fail the first time back

  • what happen to the free infamous game. what a rip off. you guys suck.

    • Hey there, this is an update for the PS Plus content, not Welcome Back. What’s cool is that yes you’ll still be able to snag inFamous (and another PS3 game from the Welcome Back list) AND get access to the content in PlayStation Plus for 30 days, free. Welcome Back content is coming soon!

  • Looking Good Sony…

    Take your time sony with the welcome back program…Have alote off games to beat!!

  • and who the hell wants to play ghost recon advance warfighter as a 60min trial? that game bombed 2weeks after it released 3-4years ago. what next…. free game trial to HAZE… that stinker. i was looking forward to the free infamous. indian giving bastards. you guys better have a hell of a e3 this years and i hope starhawk isn’t your only ace in the hole. starting to see a xbox360 and konict in my future.

  • WILL MY TROPHIES FROM TOM CLANCY CARRY OVER FROM THE TRIAL? OH WAIT, THE GAME IS SO OLD IT DOESNT EVEN HAVE TROPHIES, THANKS FOR THE ONLY GAME MORE PATHETIC THAN LILO AND STITCH.

  • So, I’m perhaps you could let me know what’s going down with the Uncharted 3 Beta. Since everyone is going to be given a free 30-Days of PlayStation Plus, does that mean that everyone is going to have access to the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta from day one? Or will those who’ve had PlayStation Plus before the outage still have priority along with Infamous 2 purchase and everyone else will still have to wait a week.

    In short, how will the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta work? Can you shed some light on what we can expect since a month of free PlayStation Plus for ‘Welcome Back Program’ just so happens to fall on that Beta period?

  • Vinland_Krauser

    YEEAAHH!!!
    I’ve been wanting to buy the Deathspank games for a long time but the price always made me hold back.
    Now with the Welcome Back package I can get both for the price of one!

    • *high five* I’m pretty excited for the Death Spank discount myself! Didn’t get to it when it first dropped, now I have no excuse

  • GoDZ_xToYSoLDiER

    Hey Morgan what’s keeping us from selling our ps3s and getting an xbox who plays mag except for people who dont have cod they get a free dlc and we dont get the new cod dlc for free come morgan talk some sense into the board and who is going to download lilo & stitch besides guys who have little kids and not to mention its not in english plz tell me Morgan.

    • play what’s right for you, kind sir! =) MAG is an awesome game with an amazing community; and while it sounds like you’re more of a COD gamer, I’m sure Plus will have a ton of things you’ll love. Don’t forget, this is one of maaaannny Plus updates we do, so there’s always new stuff coming. As for Lilo and Stitch, important note, the ‘import’ was a typo. It’s the actual good ol’ USA version that Plus subscribers get free.

  • Hey Morgan, you. are. cool.

    • Thanks! Where do I send the $5 I agreed to pay for you to say that? ;) jk, DONT POST YOUR ADDRESS lol

  • We go from Oddworld to Lilo & Stich? Really?

  • If people get MAG Interdiction DLC free through their month of PlayStation+ membership, will they lose access to that MAG content when PS+ expires?

  • Of all the classic PS1 titles out there they could give us for “free”, we get… Lilo and Stitch… a game nobody wanted to play even back then… W..T…F..

    I’m at a loss for words for how FAIL this is… what self respecting gamer would want to play this old a$$ childs game, let alone let it take up their harddrive space.

    NO THANKS SONY.

  • @GoDZ_xToYSoLDiER I don’t plat cod because it SUCKS while MAG RULES hell I would would socom confrontation they it was when it launch of any cod game

  • I Stock up with PS Plus until 2013 (with free 3 months deal) + I will get 60 day back wow Why I should hate Sony for screwed a little everyone does even worse stuff these days.. I still love them.. bring it on on E3 guys Kevin Butler must be there Do or Die hard… *Wonder who will do same with PS4?! (Jim Carrey or Johny Depp)If any of those are will be there is no question who is the King of gaming… do you guys agree? just use your brain and picture those two it’s going to be crazy Microsoft and Nintendo going to be MAD to hell with lack of such PR and marketing.. If I will see them 1 day I will buy ANYTHING there is on shelf from Sony ( If I will not die from deadly laugh on the loor in front of a TV screen )

  • @Syrus718 – #93

    Thank you.

  • Why is there still no release date for the Black Ops DLC for the PS3. Can’t wait to try out the new zombie map!

  • @Lokiroo420

    Instead of spamming the comments with your incessant complaining and abuse of the caps lock key, maybe you can take the time to read Morgan Haro’s response to comment 37.

    “+ Morgan Haro on June 2nd, 2011 at 5:37 pm said:
    whoops! typo on our part. This is not an the import of Lilo and Stitch, but the English-friendly, North American version of the title.
    Don’t forget, Plus updates all the time with new content so watch for more updates coming down the road.”

  • @Lokiroo420

    Man, you sound like you are about 5 years old. Grow up. Sony should give you a kick in the @$$, not anything free.

  • I really want that Black Ops map pack, when can we be expecting that to be released?

  • WilliamFuchs420

    so are the discounts now posted gona be up when the plus free month comes live I want under seige for ten bucks

  • is the Call Of Duty Black Ops •MAG Escalation Mission Pack DLC Coming out tommorrow? if not when?

  • so will that mean that our free PS plus membership won’t get us games like Abe’s odd world?

  • is the Call Of Duty Black Ops Escalation Mission Pack DLC Coming tommorrow? if not when?

  • I have a legit question for SONY…

    PSN have been inaccessible for 40 days (if you don’t include april 20th and june 1st).
    60 “free” days of PSN+ to current member means 20 days because I paid for the other 40.
    Not paying for a service that is not accessible is not a freebie, it’s normal, no more, no less.

    Here is the question, is the extension for current PSN+ member is 60 days or 60 days + 40 days of downtime (100 days in total)?

    Keep in mind that non PSN+ have 30 free days of PSN+.

  • YOU MEAN THE REPLY THAT WAS AN HOUR AFTER MY COMMENTS, YH, UH, MAYBE WATCH THE BLOG AFTER YOU MAKE A PST, OVEER AN HOUR TO EVEN NOTICE A TYPO, SO UH YH DERPTASTIC JOB MORGAN.

    FREE? NOTHING HERE IS FREE, I PAID FOR A YEAR SUBSCRIPTION, 50 BUCKS, NONE OF THIS IS FREE, STOP DRINKING THE KOOLAID.

    LOL@LILO AND STITCH, SUCH A FAIL

  • I literally own all of the PS3 games that the Customer Appreciation Program listed. Will some sort of alternate reward be offered or will I miss out because I’m bought too many games?

  • W1ZZ4_CA GREAT QUESTION, KEEP SPAMMING IT, ITS THE ONLY WAY PEOPLE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENING. DONT LET THEM SLIDE BY WITH FALSE PROMISES AND INSUFFICIENT COMPENSATION.

  • If anyone likes those tower defense games like pixeljunk monsters and savage moon, you must, absolutely must play comet crash.

    Awesome game, I hope we can get that and more for the ngp as well.

  • Lookiroo420– In a post, I think on page 2, he explains it’s a typo on the import biz. But, even in English I don’t think my seven y.o. son will play it. He played the Infamous 2 demo today and laughed the whole time. Just tone it down a notch or you lose due to being skipped over and ignored.

    Sony-I’ve had my Plus since June 29, 2010, daqy one. (look it up, it’s there) When EU got LBP and we got, I don’t remember but it wasn’t very good, I blew it off cuz it’s a smaller market thus less expensive to give away. And now Burnout Paradise…is this because both studios are in the EU that they get these top tier releases free? What gives? We all pay the same price so we should all be treated fairly. With my anniversary/renewal date at the end of this month, and with the fact that you changed the terms on like day 10 as far as what we get monthly, this isn’t jiving with me. I never complain (look that up too), but this is not right.

    EU’s welcome back package is even more attractive, in my opinion.

  • Smartypants mode *On: still learning bro? Smartypants mode *Off

  • FIRST OFF, NA AMERICA IS A SMALLER MARKET THAN EU. SECOND OFF, I CAN EXPRESS WHAT I WANT, HOW I WANT. THIS HAS BECOME A ROBBERY, IM NOT GOING TO SIT AND WATCH IT KEEP HAPPENING. I WILL NEVER TONE IT DOWN, AM DOING NOTHING WRONG. HAVE AN ISSUE? DONT COME AND READ THE COMMENTS, EASY ENOUGH.

    LOL@LILO, GET REAL SONY, KIDS DONT EVEN WANT IT

  • what about the map pack for black ops?

  • Fist lokiroo, eu is half the size of US according to CNET as far as registered PSN users goes. Second, if you want to appear a psycho, knock yourself out

  • @Lokiroo420 shut your mouth,easy enough.pretty simple i know.

  • http://www.vgchartz. com/ hardware_totals.php

    not really close, eu has 5 millions more ps3’s

  • fAc3b0oKfReAk18

    So the people who r not subscribed to ps plus won’t get cod escalation for free???? That is not fare we waited same days as they did!!!!!!!

  • So when is the welcome back program? :I

  • I just wish Fallout NV wasnt so buggy…. *sigh*

  • fAc3b0oKfReAk18

    Morgan please reply me back i need my answer!!!!!!

    • Hey there! No COD Maps are going free to anyone. Not sure where you heard that PS Plus members get free COD maps =|

  • fAc3b0oKfReAk18

    so its releasing on june 3 am i right?

  • LOL

    People excited about getting *free* PS+, when in fact they’re getting nothing but a few discounts, nothing they get *free* actually is *free* until they pay for it every month afterwards.

    Marketing gimmick disguised as a “reward”. You guys at Sony are pathetic.

  • fAc3b0oKfReAk18

    thnx morgan! and my bad

  • About the list of welcome back games to choose from. Will they be adding any more to choose from?. I have all those on the list, so I’m feeling a little left out. Just wanted to put that out there. I know others in the same position.

  • fAc3b0oKfReAk18

    Yo morgan please explain me this “Escalation Mission Pack add-on becomes available for free starting June” 3.

  • Don’t bother with the second Deathspank game. It’s terrible. The first game is awesome, definately buy that one.

    The guns ruin Thongs. You can’t eat your food because you’re constantly getting shot at from off screen.

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