PlayStation Plus Update: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend Free For Members

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PlayStation Plus Update: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend Free For Members

Hey PlayStation Plus fans, the first thing you might notice this week is the notable lack of Morgan in this post. Not to worry, he’s taking a quick break as we ramp up to E3, and I’ll be trying to fill his shoes in the meantime. With that sorted, on to the content!

We have two Timed Themes this week that Plus members will want to check out. Vita fans need to also be sure to pick up BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend for free. Beyond that PlayStation Plus members are getting a handful of discounts for PS Vita and PS3 games. Check out the details below!

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May 28th PlayStation Plus Update

PlayStation Plus Update 5-28-2013

Fuse (Timed Trial)

PSN Price: N/A, Free Trial for PS Plus members

Fuse
When a volatile alien energy source called Fuse falls into the wrong hands, the CIA calls in an elite contact team to retrieve it: Overstrike 9. Join up to three friends in co-op play as you deploy lethal teamwork and fringe-tech weapons to take down the rogue paramilitary corporation behind the theft.
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (Timed Trial)

PSN Price: N/A, Free Trial for PS Plus members

Sly Cooper Thieves in Time
Sly Cooper and the whole gang have returned with another epic adventure for the PlayStation 3. The pages of the Thievius Raccoonus are disappearing and Bentley, now keeper of the ancient master Thieves book, must round up the gang and save the Cooper Clan legacy from being destroyed forever.
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend (PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $24.99; PS Plus Price: Free)

Blazblue CSE
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift EXTEND is the definitive version of the Continuum Shift series, which includes character balance tweaks, a new character, Relius Clover, story modes for all previous three DLC characters: Platinum, Makoto, Valkenhayn, new modes, and improved online multiplayer!
Hamilton’s Great Adventure (PS3)

50% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $4.99; PS Plus Price: $2.50)

Hamiltons Great Adventure
Hamilton’s Great Adventure puts your problem solving and timing skills to the test. Outsmart the enemies, rush through the levels and collect all the bling in this co-op action puzzle game.
Draw Slasher (PS Vita)

30% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $5.99; PS Plus Price: $4.19)

Draw Slasher
Meet Hanzo. He’s a ninja. While he was training ‘out there’ the Pirate Monkey Zombies™ – stupid, ugly, smelly, rotten and disgusting creatures – kidnapped his family. Take control of his awesome blade and aid him in the quest to free them.
Germinator (PS3)

25% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $7.99; PS Plus Price: $5.99)

Germinator
Germinator twists the bubble genre, wiping away match-three. Crash germ bubbles into those of the same color to combine, grow and explode into splattering goop. 150 story and puzzle levels, local multiplayer, unlimited arcade mode and crazy multi-colored bubble germ personalities will keep you cleaning house.
Germinator Bundle (PS3 and PS Vita Bundle)

40% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $9.99; PS Plus Price: $5.99)

Germinator
Germinator twists the bubble genre, wiping away match-three. Crash germ bubbles into those of the same color to combine, grow and explode into splattering goop. 150 story and puzzle levels, local multiplayer, unlimited arcade mode and crazy multi-colored bubble germ personalities will keep you cleaning house. Move controller support adds a messy good time!

Last Chance (Leaving on 6/1)

Instant Game Collection

  • SLEEPING DOGS DIGITAL EDITION

Discounts

  • DARKSTALKERS RESURRECTION + SUPER PUZZLE FIGHTER II (FG BUNDLE)
  • Metro: Last Light Season Pass

You’ll find all the content detailed above with their Plus benefits active when the PlayStation Store updates tomorrow.

So tell us, what are you most excited for this week? Your comments and feedback matter, so leave them below, or, if you’re looking to engage with more of the PS community, make sure you head over to the PlayStation Community Forums to discuss this week’s news more, find other topics to contribute your thoughts to, or start one for yourself. As Morgan always says, “See you in the comments!”

PlayStation Plus Update 5-28-2013

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  • smoothboarder540

    Could Paul, or whoever is reading these comments, let us know if the Pinball Arcade problem on the Vita will be fixed with tomorrow’s update? If not, could we get an eta?

    • No ETA at this time. It is on the minds of all here, though. I’m told a resolution is close, though.

  • why doss everyone hate pinball so much? at least gjve some of the tables for free

  • Sleeping Dogs leaving next week – for those who aren’t PS Plus members yet, or haven’t added it to your download yet, sign up and/or add it to your download list now, guys!

    It seriously one of the best PS3 titles I have ever played and I play a lot of games.

    Great times to be a PS Plus subscriber. Hyped for Blazblue.

  • This is a little off topic but I feel I have to say this. Will someone who’s communicating with Gamestop actually know which games are on the IGC. When I go to gamestop I either see games that are expired or games not even there. Like what the hell is Pax’s Truffle Trouble is that even a game? I talk to some managers and they said they have know idea what that game is OR the lamest excuse is “The Sony guy said we should put that up”. Sony who have you have placed to be the communication between you and gamestop DOESN”T know PS+ and should be replaced with someone who does. If this goes on you’ll be deceiving a lot of customers and that is atrocious behavior and it’s totally unacceptable .

  • im so confused. germanator free for plus. 5.99 for the full game. 5.99 for the bundle. is it still cinco de mayo or something?

  • TriangleOffense

    EU Gets

    Demon’s Souls
    Kingdoms of Amular
    ICO
    Shadow of the Colosus

    on May 29th…..

    Cant wait for my “free” PSN game from last year from the US this month

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

    We need to lose ALL of the games in the “Instant Game Collection” and bring in new blood. We shouldnt have to wait until E3 for the IGC to be renewed, those games need to be refreshed at least every 6 months.

  • @Paul, usually Morgan gives us the option to select “Nothing for me this week” on the poll. That option seems to be missing.

    • That’s fully on me. My bad.

      I’ll make sure that’s noted in all reports we build internally though. Thanks for keeping me sharp.

  • Lol another fighting game, oh boy.

  • I think we should have a fallout game in the IGC , since the rumors of fallout 4 are spreading quick.

  • This month was an absolute snore. Too bad since it’s my birthday tomorrow. Would’ve liked a nice birthday game. It’s cool though. I’ll just hope for something fun in June!

  • hey cant wait 4 e3! also cant wait for more free games ps+ 4 life! by the way great update this week!

  • sithmathamatiks

    the update is alright…i’m hoping for Ninja Gaiden Sigma for ps vita to be part of the instant game collection again….i missed it the first time around….

  • championzasalaml

    @Tjoeb123 in my opinion the best fighting game out there is the tekkens hands down

  • The-Sigma-Alpha

    Looks like nothing is happening on for PS+ on the PS3 side this week;(

  • This month apart from Sleeping Dogs has been incredibly disappointing.. Please, enough Vita games… I understand some people wanted these, but this is getting silly now.. Even for the people that own a Vita, i’m sure they are sick of so many fighting games.

  • Oh look another full game for Vita is fighter! Contrary to popular belief guys, there are other genres that exist besides fighting.

    …at least this one isnt a crappy PSP fighter though

  • I would like to second the request from post #151.
    The Vita version of Pinball Arcade still doesn’t work for many people.
    An update would be appreciated.

  • I imagine the June PS3 game will be kind of big.

    Hitman Absolution? I know EU got it a while back.

    Now everyone bow their heads, as the Xbox brand died this past week.

  • I want to see more fighting games released on PSN. None of the PS3 versions of Blazblue or MVC3 are available for download.

  • @#40

    im with u on that! Knytt sucks!! its like made with the feet. xD

    I keep crossing fingers for Catherine for IGC in june!!

  • no option in the voting for “nothing for me this week”

  • Ohh and thanks for Blaz Blue for vita!!

    Another good adittion for fighting games would be persona 4 arena.

  • I agree. the games as been crappy , yes I said it. we all know that these free games are not free. we do pay for them when we purchase play station plus. because when you don`t renew your play station plus all the free games expire no longer works can`t re-download them threw you history they take them out of your history.. when you renew your play station plus they all come back. so your paying for the games. so with that said I and many others would like to see better free game, since we are paying for to play them.

  • I agree with the other comments..
    WE NEED A PINBALL ARCADE FIX!
    The leaderboards haven’t been working right since version 2.11.
    It’s a very important aspect to a pinball game.

    Also, as far as the PS4 goes, PLEASE consider releasing a version that has all the needed chips to support PS1-PS4 game discs and DLC.

    Call it the PS4 Legacy Edition and charge an extra $150.. I’LL PAY IT!

  • LIMBO for IGC or at least a good sale plz ^_^

  • I’m super exited for Blazeblue tomorrow. I hope it’s not too late of an update.

  • would love to see LBV on ps+

  • I agree with +SpooNManX i would pay the extra $150

  • @Quinn40 do you really know how plus works? This is how it works:some games do come of the subscription cause i got stacking from plus 2 years ago and i can play it without having plus and no i did not buy the game. also i think u need to learn how marketing works. magic the gathering online does the same thing cause they charge you $10 in the beginning and then give you said ten back to buy product from their store. plus does this same thing. you spend 49.99 for year subscription and then sony gives money back to buy any of the $60 dollar games then gives you access to other games for free cause the $60 dollar game u chose covered the price you paid so when said sub is up you pay for new sub and it covers the price of game you got before and then you get all games from before also you get another year of games that are basically free cause the first game you chose covers the price of subscription. Its like going to a movie rental place and you pay for a movie and then they give you other stuff at no additional cost. so when you look at it from a marketing point of view you pay for use of one game for the year and get the rest of the games and bonus stuff for free, cause the game you chose covers the price of subscription.

  • More junk enough with the stupid fighters it seems like most the games we get are crappy fighters.

  • Great, still no sign of Velocity Ultra. WHY???????!!!!!!

  • Blazblue!!!!!!

  • DSouza_Vasco-91

    Nothing for me again this week…

  • Nothing for me this month…

  • Well, PS plus team? After all these comments..wait for it……you have nothing?

  • Legendary

  • we get a pinball game that we cant dl on vita or ps3 whats the problem when u gonna fix it

  • Can the vita version of this game be crossplayed on the PS3?

  • Why no sly cooper time trial for vita!!!!

  • I don’t get how the vita gets germinator for free but if you only have a ps3 you have to settle for a discounted price and shell out 6 bucks…not cool..

  • I’m pretty happy with this. It’s another fighting game but at least it’s a vita fighting game rather than a PSP one.

    Also I wish we would knew what we were getting for the upcoming month of PS+. EU knows what they get in the middle of the month while we know ours at the last possible day.

  • AWESOME!! MORE FIGHTING GAMES!!KEEP EM COMING

  • not everyone likes FPS so MORE FIGHTERS PLEASE..THANKS SONY

  • PrimeroIncognito

    @ SpooNManX

    I’m not sure how so many of you are having problems with Pinball arcade. It’s working fine for me.

    Update 2.11 was last week. I’m on v2.12. Downloaded it 2 days ago, and with that update, the leaderboards are actually faster than they’ve ever been! Score pages load instantaneously now, and uploading a personal score no longer takes a few minutes to register, it takes less than a minute now. At least that’s been my experience so far.

  • I have one thing to ask someone from Sony. I hope this does not get skipped over or not answered.

    But my question is this, “IF you are suppose to give a game a Digital Day One Release (at 12:01 am EST) the day of release then why does it take for the PS update for you finally make it able to download?” I just don’t get it.. I Pre-order a game from the store and it says something along the lines of, “It will be available to download at 12:01am EST(on 5/28/2013)” but I log-in anxious to get it and download it at that precisely time and I can’t? Why not just remove those promises and say, “It will be available for download when the PS Store updates.” or something along those lines.

    • Not skipped over, but I also don’t have an answer to share. I did want to note that this was read, though, since I feel that this is a commonly felt sentiment.

  • I never had much of a complaint before and this would qualify as one yet but I can say.. this is a question and complaint of services being rendered…or rather not being rendered. I vested a lot into PS/Sony for years as I am sure quite a few others have as well… and all I ask is for this one question to be answered. Why can’t your promises on Digital DL’s be a promised fulfilled, instead of a promise delayed. If you’re not going to fulfill those promises on said dates and times, do not include them. Instead of going digital, I could have waited for the hard copy instead but I trusted it would have been available at the time your network gave. Please, just be clear on this next time or address or something.

  • @PrimeroIncognito –

    Did you already own The Pinball Arcade before this past week? There are many, many people who are having issues downloading the game, so it’s clearly an error on Sony’s part and not some huge coincidence that we all stupidly can’t figure out how to download the game.

  • Damn I have this game already :( every free vita game I either have or its a PSP game or another fighting game. Not enough diversity of genres.

  • Soul Sacrifice DLC tomorrow :D

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