Morgan Haro
Community Manager, PlayStation Digital Platforms
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There’s a lot to dig into today, including a new addition to the Instant Game Collection — the acclaimed Jet Set Radio on PS3 will be free for PS Plus members!
We’re also rolling out some fantastic discounts on sweet games including Ducktales Remastered (pre-order is live tomorrow along with the PlayStation Store PLAY lineup, game releases 8/13), the charming and super fun indie platformer Cloudberry Kingdom (game releases July 30th), and discounts on some of the best PlayStation Move titles like Datura and Sorcery.
Read on, and then let us know what you think about this week’s update in the comments below. We’d also love your thoughts on the current Instant Game Collection, so if you have a second, take the poll!
Fight for control of Tokyo-to, mark your turf with graffiti, tag walls, billboards, and even rival gang members! Perform tricks and flips on magnetically driven in-line skates, but watch out for the local police force!
Ducktales Remastered (PS3)
20% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $14.99; PS Plus Price: $11.99)
(PREORDER, game releases August 13th for PS3) DuckTales: Remastered is a hand-crafted, beautiful reimagining of one of the most cherished 8-bit titles of all time. Embark on an authentic Disney adventure, as Scrooge McDuck and his three nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie travel to exotic locations throughout the world in their quest to retrieve the five legendary treasures.
Stealth Inc. A Clone in the Dark (PS3 and PS Vita – Cross Buy)
20% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $9.99; PS Plus Price: $7.99)
(PREORDER, game releases July 23rd for PS3 & PS Vita) Stealth Inc is a fast-paced stealth platformer featuring brutal hazards, ruthless enemies, fiendish puzzles and red pixels galore. Jump, sneak, and be chunked through 80 levels. Will you make it out alive?
Cloudberry Kingdom (PS3)
20% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $9.99; PS Plus Price: $7.99)
(PREORDER, game releases July 30th for PS3) Unhappily ever after. That’s how it starts. The Orb resurfaces and the classic characters return. Kobbler with his mania, Princess with her endless boredom. It’s only a matter of time before Bob, our hero, shows up to restore order back to madness. Three powers struggle for victory and the fate of Cloudberry Kingdom hangs in the balance. What will become of the retired hero, Bob? Will saving Princess one last time win her love?
ibb & obb (PS3)
20% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $9.99; PS Plus Price: $7.99)
(PREORDER, game releases August 6th for PS3) ibb & obb is a two-player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together.
50% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $9.99; PS Plus Price: $5.00)
Sorcery is a fast-paced action adventure where your PlayStation®Move motion controller is transformed into a powerful magic wand, immersing players in a unique fantasy adventure like never before. As the sorcerer’s apprentice Finn, it is up to you to master the arcane arts and defeat the Nightmare Queen’s plans to cover the land in eternal night. Use an intuitive spell-casting system to master an arsenal of different spells and combos. Collect rare ingredients and return to your alchemy bench to brew your own powerful magic potions.
50% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $9.99; PS Plus Price: $5.00)
Experience the joy of classic family-friendly fun in more than 35 carnival games and attractions. Using the PlayStation Move motion controller’s precise tracking technology, every toss, roll, throw, spin, and slam is translated directly into the game for extremely accurate and responsive gameplay. Whether you’re 5 or 65, family game night just got a lot more fun!
50% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $4.99; PS Plus Price: $2.50)
Navigate your way through a mysterious forest by controlling your character’s hand using the PlayStation Move motion controller or DUALSHOCK 3 wireless controller. Datura’s experimental narrative and unique style of interaction enable players to experience the world with more than just their eyes, creating the illusion that you can actually touch trees, faces and other objects. As you travel through the game, you will find yourself confronted with a series of choices, and while some may be clear, others are much more ambiguous. It is through this element of choice that Datura explores the aspects of consequence. What is right, and what is wrong? That is for you to decide…
20% Discount for PS Plus members (PSN Price: $3.99; PS Plus Price: $3.19)
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. You need just your finger to play. Draw a line to jump, dash, dodge and slash. Tap to run. Pinch the screen to summon powerful Ninjutsu Techniques – super-efficient against the ‘rottents’.
You’ll find all the content detailed above with their Plus benefits active when the PlayStation Store updates on 7/16. 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 or thoughts on today’s Plus update, 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 to discuss this week’s news more, find other topics to contribute your thoughts to, or start one for yourself. See you in the comments!
Wow… way to confuse the crap out of this. DuckTales, Stealth Inc, Cloudberry Kingdom and Ibb & Obb don’t come out tomorrow. You guys might want to make that a bit more clear.
Thanks, yeah let me look into this now; it looks like we may need to make some corrections! Some of these games listed may not have their discounts occur this week, which are mainly the PSN PLay titles.
Still no vita love -_-… why must we wait till the end of the month? Good thing I didnt re activate my plus membership yet, I woulda lost a couple weeks for nothing. (Do not own ps3, only vita)
One thing I have to say is Sony stop giving out the same game on different consoles. It’s a waste of space for a game slot. Gamers who have both PS3 & Vita (like me) will get annoyed because we have already played the content. If you have to make these kinds of games for free, they should be free for both consoles cross buy or not. Don’t make a game free for one console then months later make it free for a different console. This has happen once before.
woah: Quite some deep discounts for PlayStation Move games! Gonna definitely pick those up, as well as make some pre-orders!
Can’t wait to pick up Jet Set Radio on PS3 tomorrow & cross-play with the PSVita copy from a while-back!
Yeah! i’ve been really looking forward to play jet set radio , i already got the vita version , but i dont have a vita (Yet) , might pick up sorcery for that price , i heard that game is preety good :D
I love you guys, but this piece needs a lot of revisions. You need to be clear about when many of these games are coming out. I’m assuming from a previous post that the summer promotion games aren’t coming out until later and that these are preorders. You need to be clear.
And Draw Slasher is a Vita game, not a PS3 game.
I still love you, though.
YEah thank you for the feedback; I think some fixes to this post are incoming, mainly with the PSN Play content being featured here, which shouldn’t be the case. Though those discounts are coming! Apologies for any confusion
How about more psvita sales or offerings? Killzone Mercenary beta is coming soon, you kow? how about Tearaway demo? heck sony should make mandatory to all first party games on the vita to offer a ps plus incentive like demos, betas ( for those with online multiplayer ), isnt the vita supposed to be the ultimate social connected handheld machine? time to start flexing those muscles dont you think?
Summer Blast will be ending with tomorrow’s Store Update, but we have some great titles in PLAY that will be on discount. There may be other offers throughout the month as well that we haven’t talked about yet, so stay tuned!
@11 Gokugt25 Sorcery is the best psmove exclusive game i have played. Hopefully sony is working on a sequel and make the camera free roam and more open world and you have your move selling title sony but sadly i dont think sorcery sold as much as they wanted it to guaranteed a sequel.
Also, i’d like to make a suggestion for Tales of Graces F as the IGC game for August. Not only will it give us an rpg (which won that genre poll you guys took months ago but haven’t actually given us), but it will be good promotion for the upcoming Tales of Xilia.
I really wish the Vita games were more intermixed. I personally own both, but for those who don’t consecutive weeks of “nothing new” is not as much fun. I would love to see more Vita love in the form of sales and titles for Vita (be they indie or retail titles, as opposed to PSP games).
Overall my impressions of the PS+ program are still overwhelmingly positive and I really appreciate the time and effort that goes into the program. I don’t always have something I am really looking forward to every month, but my back-log is now so full i don’t really see that as a negative.
Stealth INC is on the top of my list this week. Hope to get some new info on DLC for Guacamelee soon. Oh and hey Konami, please release Castlevania LOS:MIF on the Vita. It would be so sweet.
Been a day 1 Plus subscriber and it has been more than worth it. Probably the best subscription service I have ever taken part in. Keep this service rollin’ with value and I will always be a part of Plus!
ModNation Racers Road Trip, Little Deviants, Unit 13, Dokuro, F1 2011, Hot Shots Golf, MLB 13 The Show, MUD-Motocross World Championship, Playstation All Stars Battle Royale, Ragnarok Odyssey, Resistance Burning Skies, Smart As, Sonic&All Stars Racing Transformed would benefit from discounts.
God of War (all games in the series; digital versions of GOW3 & Ascension)
Grand Theft Auto (all games in the series)
Guacamelee
Hitman Absolution
Hotline Miami
Machinarium (Vita)
Max Payne 3
Metal Gear Rising
Metal Gear Solid HD (PS3), digital version of MGS4
Red Dead Redemption
Red Faction Guerrilla & Armageddon
Uncharted 1 & 2
Velocity Ultra
Also, could you add Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops to the Vita store? It’s available in all regions except North America, and it’s also the only MGS game I haven’t played!
Where are the love for Vita? And why do you guys are still marking a Vita game as a PS3 game? The inverse doesn’t happen. The PS3 is always the star of the show. Is USA Sony really caring about Vita? And when the PS4 become available, what will happen to Vita? Total forgetfulness? Is it fair?
PS+ is still awesome, but i’m starting to believe that’s it only applies to PS3 owners.
Appreciate the move sales, thanks. At $5, it’s going to be hard not to pick up sorcery. And I wasn’t aware Draw Slasher was also a ps3 title, is it move compatible as well? As always, more sales and discounts (especially on vita titles) please!
We think that Indie games offer a great experience on PlayStation that you can’t get elsewhere. You’ll still be getting the big AAA games with content you can’t get elsewhere, but through creating a welcoming environment for devs of all types, you’ll see greater gaming experiences overall on PlayStation. And we like to support those guys with great PS Store events like PLAY, and Day 1 discounts through PS Plus.
Sweet deals on Datura and Sorcery! Jet Set Radio isn’t my cup of tea, but these sales really make me feel I’m still getting tons of value from my Plus membership.
DuckTales Woo-oo!
Can’t wait for DuckTales, and I have heard good things about Stealth Bastard, will likely get it also, I’ve always loved games where you sneak around.
Nothing for vita today, hope to get MGS HD Collection for vita as Sony Europe already did
Oh my god, psmove owners must buy Sorcery for $5 is a steal!!!!! , i wish sony is working on a sequel on the ps4.
Wow… way to confuse the crap out of this. DuckTales, Stealth Inc, Cloudberry Kingdom and Ibb & Obb don’t come out tomorrow. You guys might want to make that a bit more clear.
Thanks, yeah let me look into this now; it looks like we may need to make some corrections! Some of these games listed may not have their discounts occur this week, which are mainly the PSN PLay titles.