PS Plus: ICO & GTA: Liberty City Stories Free for Members

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PS Plus: ICO & GTA: Liberty City Stories Free for Members

I hope you’re ready to get hit right in the feels, because ICO joins the PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection tomorrow. The classic title has been an industry favorite ever since its release, so if you haven’t had a chance to play it, you can finally learn what all the fuss was about.

One of fall’s biggest games – Grand Theft Auto V – is hitting store shelves and the PlayStation Store tomorrow, but you might need something to satisfy your GTA cravings when you aren’t at home. Thankfully, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories is also free for PS Plus members this week, so you can play a little GTA no matter where you are.

These PS Plus benefits will be available after the PlayStation Store updates tomorrow, 9/17.

PlayStation Plus Update 9-17-2013

Instant Game Collection

ICO (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $19.99

ICO
A young boy is locked away deep in a castle after horns started growing out of his head. After breaking free from his confines, he rescues a mysterious girl from her cage. Together they must escape the dangers of the castle and fend off the shadow creatures haunting their every move.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PSP, PS Vita Compatible)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $19.99

GTA LCS
There are a million stories in Liberty City. This one changes everything. Once a trusted wise guy in the Leone crime family, Toni Cipriani was forced into hiding after killing a made man. Now he’s back and it’s time for things to be put right.

Discounts

Sleeping Dogs Digital Edition (PS3)

PS Plus Price: $9.99, Regular Price: $24.99

Sleeping Dogs
Welcome to Hong Kong, a vibrant city whose exotic locations hide one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world: the Triads. You play Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside. Included in this Digital Edition are three premium DLC packs: The Retro Triad Pack, The Red Envelope Pack, The Street Racer Pack.
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (PS3)

PS Plus Price: $5.99, Regular Price: $14.99

Kane and Lynch
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men follows the violent and chaotic journey of two men – a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath and their brutal attitude towards right and wrong. This volatile partnership combined with innovative technologies allow for an unparalleled gaming experience. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men will immerse players into an emotionally intense crime drama with unflinching action.
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (PS3)

PS Plus Price: $7.99, Regular Price: $19.99

Kane and Lynch 2
What would you not do for love? For acceptance? When would you give-up? For Kane & Lynch, there is no limit. When there are no options, when the situation is broken beyond repair, they’ll never give-up. Ground-breaking art direction, relentless action gameplay and innovative multiplayer redefine the action shooter experience and make Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days a standout shooter of 2010.
Real Boxing (PS Vita)

PS Plus Price: $8.99, Regular Price: $9.99

Real Boxing
Real Boxing is a stunning boxing simulation game powered by Unreal Engine 3. Journey from amateur to pro in one of the most comprehensive handheld sporting games ever created. Each boxer is designed from the laces up to be as realistic as possible. Real-time deformation technology portrays every bone-crunching punch and jaw-shattering uppercut in stunning definition – the fight is on!
Pixel Junk Monsters: Ultimate HD (PS Vita)

PS Plus Price: $11.99, Regular Price: $14.99

PJ Monsters Ultimate HD
Tikiman the Forest Defender is in trouble. Hordes of monsters are sweeping through his realm, hoping to chow down on his offspring – and it’s up to you to defend them. By placing weapon towers at strategic points around the landscape, you can destroy the invaders and save the little ones. Collect treasure along the way to build up your arsenal and pay for new towers – countless waves of monsters are out to get the babies, so you need to be prepared to battle!

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 on today’s Plus update make sure you leave a comment below. If you want to engage with some like-minded people, head over to the PlayStation Community Forums to discuss all things PlayStation, including this update. You’ll also find other topics you can contribute your thoughts to, or start one for yourself.

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  • EU PS+ >>>>>>>>>> US PS+

    Sorry but it’s true :P

  • Has anyone seen Europes october plus? A-M-A-ZING! I mean wow. 2 big games. And coming right off of AC3!!! Can I switch over :)
    https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/09/17/playstation-plus-in-october-far-cry-3-street-fighter-x-tekken-lead-the-way/comment-page-4/#comment-423687

  • This is awesome!!! PS Plus gave us Shadow of the Colossus a while ago for free. Back then I was bummed cuz I wanted to play ICO before playing SOC . So patiently I waited…….. This week we get the news that Ico is free on PS Plus. Now I can play them in order (First Ico then SOC) And hopefully, someday, the Last Guardian…..? Does anyone else remember getting SOC for free from PS Plus a year ago ? Did you wait like I did(in hopes that we’d get Ico for free someday) or did you play it ? Just curious if anyone else out there held out?

  • hey if you guys are doin more fighting games for PSP/VITA, why not SFA3 Max?

  • Please!More Vita games!No more PSP games!!

  • @Use1cc I played both on ps2 back in the day, but there were no reason for you to wait, since those games are not in a line of time in itself, they are just realated, and if there is a timeline sodc would be first. Kind of like in starwars.

    As for why europe get better stuff, is because they value their money and dont buy videogames like dumb people in us, that buy everything that comes out and keep buying it 5 years later. In europe a 1 year old game can be given away cuz nobody will buy it anyway. So thats why they get the good stuff cuz they demand good stuff, the typical american praise the s.hitty games they get and even buy them, there are other that want to buy. The game even when its free in plus.

    Resume

    Americans are in take my money mode, european are in earn my money mode, thats why scea get away with all the bad treatmeant they give to american public, an their custumers even encourage it.

  • I still like you US PS+.

  • @13 PS+ already has received Plants VS Zombies on PS3 and PS vita sorry to disappoint on that subject, however you did make some good suggestions with Mass Effect and Okami, There are a lot of PS2 games I would like to revisit but lack the disk for but Okami would be a great game.

    My only snag with this month is that some games don’t hit home with people, I personally love this month since it gave me great games to pass the time with, however I would have really liked receiving Europe’s Plus more so. It hurt seeing that they got AC3… it hurt Sony.

  • You guys are doing a great job in Plus, I just wish there were more variety in sales. Also, why are PSP games rarely getting discounts? If I could make one change tho, I wish there was the ability to buy the games that we received free on Plus. It’s nice to have piece in mind that we “own” the game just in case of the theoretical future where PS+ doesn’t exist and the opportunity to get the game cheap when it was on sale was missed.

  • #307 this is the kind of guys that make US market a cashcow, and we ask why they dont put good games on US. Seriouly dude do you want to pay for the things that are free? let me rephrase that, do you want to pay twice for digital stuff? There will be a time when ps store will not exist and you will lose all those games.

  • Great sale on sleeping dogs. Never tried ICO. Wish I didnt pick up SD for 25 a few months back ha, otherwise I would have landed this superb deal.
    Thanks guys, hopefully another great sale next week or so.

  • @296 Its not free if we are paying $20 – $50 for a subscription to receive games so stop being a tool and stop thinking we are getting these games for free. SCEE has been releasing tittles that have sold millions and that were or are in high demand while Sony America has been releasing old ports, mediocore tittles, and bad discounts. European subscribers are going to enjoy FarCry 3, Dragon’s Dogma and a nice port of Giana Sisters… while we sit by with a PS2 port and a PSP spin off of GTA.

  • Hey. Uh I live in Australia but have a US PSN account. Just wanna note that it is 2:25am at 18/09/2013 and still the PSN update hasnt appeared on my Vita. Checked the store and everything.

  • I’ve been pending on renewing my PS+ membership for the past 2 months and it will continue to be put on hold… no offense to the US market but if I lived in Europe my PS+ membership never would’ve went away… They get Farcry 3 today??? We get an old PS2 title?

  • I would like that if we are getting some psp games instead of vita games they would be something a bit diferent. Liberty city looks great,but most of the time we get an old fighting game, I would prefer something like a patapon or a persona game. It may be just my opinion, I still think Plus is doing a great job and cant wait to see what comes next! Keep the good work :)

  • Wish list

    Assasins creed 3
    Max Payne 3
    Gta vice city stories

    Europe just had ac3 and next month far cry 3. Seems to me we are lacking slightly. Still great overall value but when Europe receives triple a title I expect us to get same game with in few months.

  • @311 For you then likely expect the store update around 8:00am-3:30pm. Update usually comes in the evening(it’s 11:30am here now).

    I welcome more PSP games, especially if we get more arcade/action titles like Metal Slugg XX, God Eaters Burst, etc.

  • When is GTA Liberty City Stories going to be added/updated on Playstation Plus? Went to download it and it is still saying 19.99. Thanks

  • One of the worst updates ever (don’t get me wrong) I love ICO & SotC but how it’s possible that UE received both games as one and US receivesthis games in a one by one bases, I really don’t appreciate how SCEA threats his customers…

    Next month UE PSN+ it’s going to be GOOD beyond words, my only hope is PSN+ US follows…

    Next-gen almost here and SCEA seems to keep giving the worst to their customers in the US, not the brightest if your plan is to win the US market.

    Ps. Psn+ user since day one and I have spent more than $1.000Usd easy on digital content.

  • While Europeans are having Farcry 3, dragon’s dogma and street fighter x tekken, we are having a PS2 game and PSP game. Switching to European psn.

  • I really am pissed off with what was put this month on Playstation Plus, I was thinking about renewing my Playstation Plus membership at august till I saw what was on September, EUROPE yes I am saying EUROPE again cause it’s true and i’m pissed off, THEY GOT ASSASSIN”S CREED 3!!!!!!! this month they’re getting Far Cry 3, Street Fighter x Tekken and Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen in OCTOBER

    What are we going to get? NOTHING and I am damn sure of it, if you want to make Playstation Plus 24.99 3 months I’ll fkng pay but at least put better games omg, they make Euros per hour we make Dollars, is our money not good enough? We just want some decent damn games, they get over 2 FULL PS3 games per month every freaking month !!

    We got Battlefield 3 in July, no offence rest was crap

    Hitman Absolution in August , no offence again rest was crap

    September: Resident Evil Chronicles HD Collection, rest is crap, i dont really care about ICO

  • October : guess what we’re getting again? CRAP you know why? cause our money doesn’t have the same quality as EUROS, I mean how is it that Europe get’s over 2 amazing games per month FULL PS3 not PSN games, and in the US Store we get crap, I’m not going to lie the games are amazing that we get but I just hate it when Europe get’s a lot more better content then us for the past few months or years now, someone had to open their mouth and yes, this is how I feel, prove me wrong

    it’s either that or the Playstation HQ in Europe is more hard working then you guys? of course I don’t know how the deals are made , sorry for this but a lot of people feel like this and I had to write it, sorry.

  • My playstation plus membership is ending on the 26th and I’m not renewing it until we get some decent games, if you want more people to subscribe add more PS3 Full games, not PSN games,

    ffs out of the 12 games there 5 are okay, I don’t really like xcom but for me and others that’s 4 and I already have some of the games, some people may not have Dead Island riptide, or people want more Assassins Creed, or God of War 3 since it’s not on Playstation store, why not add it to the Instant Game Collection, do something, and I hope you guys can make more than 1 FULL PS3 game per month, we don’t like PSN games, only some are decent and like 75% are in my download list which I’ll never play.

  • @ 155 EagleEyeSamurai – No its not weird..you’re just more excited with ICO…because its way better than GTA V or any GTA game.

  • Well the free games this week are nice I already have the shaw/ico package the day it came out but don’t have GTA LCS. The sale though still very weak. Sleepingdogs would be great at $9.99 if the vast majority of ps+ users didn’t Already have it for free a while back. Though I don’t regret buyin Aliens colonial marines last week for $9 it was improved after the patching. Hopefully we get some bigger sales soon on some better games and more of them.

  • Fcking serious, stop removing my comments . You really need to deliver better content for IGC .

  • I love what you guys do with PS+ but can we please get the same games as Europe does? They always seem to get the most cool games. Not saying these are bad but still it feels like us at the states are being jerked. I’m not sure if it’s because the PS3 is not profitable here? Or whatever. But I saw on Playstation Access that Europe is getting Far Cry 3. Will we get this or are we getting something else?

  • OMG I AM WAIT FOR THE UPDATED for 5 hours I dont know why we need to wait , bad service really, bad games, bad workers, all is bad whit plus US, EU DONT HAVE THIS PROBLEMS MAYBE BECAUSE THEY HAVE WORKERS that KNOW WHAT NEED TO DO MAYBE IS TIME THAT CHANGE THE SYSTEM.

  • @ 303 Use1cc – Hey friend…you didn’t need to wait for ICO since Shadow is a spiritual sequel…just like The Last Guardian would be a spiritual sequel to Shadow….maybe you know this already but you didn’t need to wait.

    On another talk…OMG its impressive how stupid and ignorant a human can be when complaining and whining.

  • I’m just curious as to what time the PSN is updated. I went to download Liberty city stories and it still said that it was $20.

  • It’s getting progressively harder to look at the list of games that EU Plus is getting and NOT think, “I want that. Why can’t we have that? It’s the same service, why can’t we get in on that too?”

    Now, as far as I know Plus is managed in each region by that region’s branch of Sony Computer Entertainment. So SCEA handles it here, SCEE in Europe, and so on.

    So, what are they doing that SCEA isn’t? How are they able to get so many more retail titles than here? Is it the exchange rate, allowing for bigger payouts to major publishers? Smaller number of subscribers? BIGGER number of subscribers?

    I don’t want to complain like a a private in the Entitlement Brigade. I just want to understand the how and the why of it. There’s a huge discrepancy between their service and ours. I understand that there are a number of good reasons for it. I really just want to know what they are, and if there’s anything that can be done to fix it.

    Just trying to get my head around why their service is so much better than our (still quite awesome) service.

  • @djsaiyan: dude, yours is one of few reasonable comments I have seen here. There are two kinds of people generally:

    People who get really mad and call the service BS;
    People who worship PS even when it is really BS.

    My stance is kinda same as yours – if its the same product and same service with the same price (not a common currency I understand) then there shouldnt be no comparison. The fact that there is discrepancy means that something is not “equal”. Again, I understand that 50 dollars != 50 euros. But if you earn in euros and spend in euros, 50 is 50.

    Anyways, we have to agree that the neighbors house is awesome if it is awesome. So, yeah, PS EU rocks. Not sure if I can honestly say that PS US sucks. It has its ups and downs, but thats how it is supposed to be, right!?

  • Can somebody please respond to comment 331? This is what we are all wondering. This is the biggest complaint about NA Plus and yet on this blog it seems like a constant ‘look the other way and hope people stop complaining’. Ignoring the problem won’t make it go away, and to be honest it really comes off like they are simply better are doing their job than you are, and you know it. I get value out of Plus and no I don’t think it sucks, but I think we should see parity throughout the regions so one part of the world isn’t constantly getting better treatment than another. It’s bad business.

  • Oh and sorry but the discounts this week are a joke. Being the most appealing part of the service(much more so than our once impressive IGC) I suggest you try harder in the future. Cycling one game out of the IGC and putting it on sale a few weeks later is lazy, plain and simple.

  • I have the same question that I have asked every week this month, and that many others have but without receiving a single response…

    “I was wondering why NA gets Ico alone but other regions get The ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Collection???”

    It seems like a pretty good collection. Welp, hopefully next months offering can match or top EU’s offerings (good luck).

  • People here defending SONY US and against us complainers saying that “WE ARE GETTING FREE GAMES EVERY MONTH”. WHERE THE HELL WE ARE GETTING FREE GAMES EVERY MONTH?? DIDN’T YOU PAY U$ 49,90 TO HAVE PS PLUS? BECAUSE I PAYED FOR IT! Me and many other customers here that are complaining about the quality of the games released every month payed for it! Then, to say so, a fraction of this price goes for every game released in IGC, doesn’t matter if is a fraction of the original price oh the game, we are paying for it. Then, me and all the other costumers here have the right to, at least, to REQUIRE, DEMANDING HIGH QUALITY GAMES, something that saddly, in NA PS PLUS, isn’t happening!

  • This is a joke compared to what the EU is getting. What is the problem with NA PS+? Can we get something close to parity?

  • Something’s messed up with the store. Ico shows up in the freebies for $20 and there’s no sign of GTA.

  • Anyone else see Ico with the “X (in this case, Ico) is available as a free download for PS+ subscribers, but then, there being no download option? There’s only an option to buy the game, and I know my PS+ subscription hasn’t ended, because I remember buying it sometime this year, AND I’ve retained my PS+ games.

  • UK PS Plus is much better

    Assassins Creed III and now Far Cry 3

    why not in US? =(

  • Alright, nevermind. Seems to be fine now.

  • Man, with all the complaining you guys are doing it makes you sound like a bunch of XBOX users.
    I look forward to these PS Plus updates. Sure, sometimes I dont download anything that week, but I have downloaded alot of great games. For example
    Hitman Absolution
    Alice Madness Returns
    BF3
    Saints Row the 3rd
    LBP Karting
    Sleeping Dogs
    Spec Ops The Line.
    They were all free and alot of fun.
    Stop complaining! Sony is actually trying, instead of screwing there customers over like Microsoft.

  • people dont seem to get the point that we are *all* paying members of PS Plus; and thus, should all get the same service, irrespective of the region.

    Let me change the tune, dont give US what EU gets, give EU what US gets. Lets see how that goes.

  • I keep reading PS+ is getting Dragons Dogma or is that only EU?

  • Sleeping Dogs was free on Plus a couple of months ago. At least putting a game that most Plus members already downloaded for free on sale is better then your normal strategy of discounting a game a month or two before putting it on Plus for free.

    Liberty Cities was a great game that came out 8 years ago. Pretty much anyone who owned a PSP played it, even me who was more then a little bit put-off by the franchise’s concept. I would rather see Vita Indy tittles on Plus or even classic PSN games than old retail released PSP games.

  • i don’t say that EU plus is better than US but c’mon, that got AC3 for free this month and will be getting farcry 3 and dragons dogma on ocotober… is there a possibility of these games be available for US plus in the future?

  • ICO is up, downloading from the PS Store is down… the network must be completely jammed at this point. Everyone needs to stop god damn whining about the EU. You really think it’s because they don’t “like” north america?? really?? There’s obviously more going on like game licensing, etc that goes into making a game available for free. You people and your damn first-world problems…. just enjoy what they give us and STFU or cancel your PS Plus account.

  • here is my question to u Morgan is there any way we could start getting notices a little bit earlier of what is coming to ps plus for the month only reason why I ask is because the PlayStation Europe just tweeted out of what Europe is getting for October here is the tweet Woah. Coming to PS Plus in October: Far Cry 3, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, SF X Tekken, more. Full details: http://bit.ly/1gs43un yes I know u guys are busy I just wanted to know if we can ever get these types of notices like two weeks before so we know what to expect from plus all im saying

  • @347 if ppl want to whine they will, why dont YOU STFU or go to some other blog?

  • Why cant we get good stuff like UK

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