PlayStation Plus: January Preview

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PlayStation Plus: January Preview

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.

PlayStation Plus January 2014 Preview

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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)

PlayStation Plus January 2014 Preview

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)

PlayStation Plus January 2014 Preview

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)

PlayStation Plus January 2014 Preview

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)

PlayStation Plus January 2014 Preview

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)

PlayStation Plus January 2014 Preview

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)

PlayStation Plus January 2014 Preview

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.

If you’ve got feedback on PlayStation Plus make sure you take the poll above as well as leave a comment below. To chat about all things PlayStation, including this update, you can head over to the PlayStation Community Forums. You’ll also find other topics you can contribute your thoughts to, or you can start your own discussion.

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  • Holy wow… Playstation cannot be stopped.

    I’ve been a PS+ subscriber for almost two years now, but I’ve always been an Xbox fan at heart. I think this Christmas season finally broke me.

    Sony… you’ve stolen my heart.

  • What are the odds of adding XCOM enemy within or warriors orochi 3 into the free game collection in the future.

  • dam im pissd i mised out on gta liberty city stories i wish cod declassifeid and vice city stories was in the instant game collection for vita free to play

  • Nice line up of PlayStation Plus games we’re going to have this month.

  • I’m curious as to why a game as substantial as Don’t Starve didn’t get a Platinum?

  • This list is AWESOME! PS Plus is the best thing I have ever bought. Thank you Playstatio! ^^

  • When does this actually go into effect seeing as it is january and they’re not up yet?

  • Tues.

  • @Keytolight Dude, how long have you been a psplus subscriber? You should know that they don’t give you them right away. They give a new one every week Tuesday in January.

  • Great Games for instant collection! Thanks!

  • these games for ps vita was very weak :-(

  • It happened again. Right after I bought Borderlands 2 they added it to PS Plus then I just buy Bioshock: Infinite and now they add it. That’s it I’m not buying no more games :-)

  • Can’t wait to play Don’t Starve!… Now the wait… do you guys know when they’ll be available?

  • Hmm sounds like a great lineup to start off the new year,
    I personally Will probably download, Don’t starve and Bioshock infinite, since I already Own Dmc, Well here’s a to a great and interesting year,

  • just wondering what days of the month the store updates

  • When will this update arrive? I cannot wait for Bioshock

  • The real tragedy is that no one will tell us when the store updates…

    :(

  • Umm… It’s almost a WEKK into January and the ‘Update’ hasn’t happened YET!! What gives?? Are you waiting until the end of the Month to do this?

    Don’t jerk us around, Sony! It’s bad enough the PS4 is pretty much non-existent, except for photos and media buzz.

  • when are these games coming out next weekend??

  • also when are we getting Warthunder for ps4 EU have it why dont the US

  • i would love if persona 4 golden was one of the free games in the upcoming months

  • We’ve been checking daily, haven’t checked yet today though, but when’s this list supposed to release?

  • Such a sick month for PS+ members!

  • Love the video! I really regret selling my PS3 now… I never got to play The Last of Us and it looks like there’s some great games on Plus that I’m missing out on.

    Oh well… There’s plenty to keep me entertained on the PS4 and my Vita :-)

  • Great! :) I’ve never played a DmV game before. So…

  • Anyone know when the free games will be released for PLUS members?

  • GREAT GAMES
    I LOVE PLUS

  • Kristine Steimer, with all respect; your voice is so sexy ;)

  • dont starve? i didnt spend £400 on a ps4 to get a game that can be ran on a ps2

  • This month reminds me why I decided to subscribe to PS+! I have varying degrees of interest in all of the PS3 games, but my minimal gaming budget usually prevents me from venturing into a new series or genre. I’m awful at FPS’s, but have always kinda wanted to dive into Bioshock. I loved the PS2 DMC games, but have been unsure of the PS3 iterations. I have been researching and considering Brothers for quite a few weeks; never expected it to be a PS+ free game!

    Very appreciative and practically overwhelmed this month! I’m also very very excited to see so many niche and indie games within the ps store library represented the past few months. Keep it up, team!

  • This line up is crazy seeyick! When do I get to experience this awesomeness?

  • I dont know but,,,,, I only see DmC and Borderlands 2 for free but not Bioshock and Brothers..What now?

  • bioshock/DMC, two titles i want so bad. not knowing when is driving me nuts! why do you guys never show dates? still wonderful!:)

  • @nysamurai16 you must have missed it, xcom was availible, i have it.

  • thanks very much sony, dont forget people who dont have old systems yet. honestly i think it would be good to devide the collections into console sections for the sake of organization. besides, not everybod owns the next big thing. i just got my ps3 a year ago, almost exactly 365 days. please consider accessability improvements, and keep it up. i love somebof the titles if gotten… KoA, dogma… mmmmmm dogma…… ill play that title til i die:) saints row 3rd, poker night 2.., not interested in smaller games but great for those who are. the cave is interesting but i cant beat it. thanks so very much, i needed a great month to look forward to.

    id love to see classics like doom for example, but not ps though. just an idea.im a blind gamer lost in a sighted gamers world.

  • Stellar month, hoping Bioshock goes up soon…rushed through it with a Redbox rental, want to enjoy it this time. I have to say, having purchased the three month and then the year subscription, PS+ continues to be the best value I’ve gotten video game wise. Infamous 2, Uncharted 3, Spec Ops the Line, Darksiders, Little Big Planet 2, Dragon’s Dogma, Vanquish, Binary Domain, All Saints Row 3, and too many others. Buying those used on Ebay or AMazon would have cost way more than the subscription fee. Great month to start the year.

  • But the big question is when will these PS3 games drop?!

  • this month is great games i would like to see more sports games spacificaly nba 2k is good will we see any of them

  • when are these games available in psnetwork???

  • it is a great list! i wonder when would be available for download.. I am still seeing Grid 2 & Borderlands 2 whenever i go to the playstation store?

  • Very disappointed at the attention the PS4 is getting i sold my PS3 and look at the games that are free thru plus this is all you have to start the year off for PS4 haven’t had a game that I could enjoy on PS4 yet a bunch of games played on KILLZONE and a bunch of wack digital games not fair I hear the same complaint from every PS4 owner Sony been dedicated for years but its so sad to say I am very unhappy

  • @BEANO-NP If your so unhappy with your life, please throw your PS4 away and jump off a cliff. No one here wants to hear your rants. It’s not even been 2 months the PS4 came out and you expect AAA titles free on the first month? You’re nothing but a naive brat, let’s see if you make a AAA game in a month.

  • Oh god…
    This month is… is… disgusting. Just disgusting.

    DMC Devil May Cry: AWFUL action game.

    BioShock Infinite: TERRIBLE and overrated as hell linear “FPS” with terrible story.

    Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (PS3): The epitome of “modern game” because how automatic is: you move with the analog stick, and do EVERYTHING else with ONE button… AUTOMATICALLY, that explains the good scores obviously. Holy crap… This games is bad and laughable,

  • Swizzle. Been with Sony since ’96, when I got my first PlayStation with no memory card and a demo disc that contained Tomb Raider, Armored Core, Jetmoto, and some other ish I cant remember. By far, the best deals in gaming come via PlayStation. Proud supporter I am(in my Yoda voice).

  • I need a ps4 D;

  • When are the games available for download in January?

  • The only way PSN would let me download Dont Survive was to pay for it. I just (last month) renewed my plus for another year…. Hope I eventually get refunded my 15 bucks.

  • Don’t Starve is on the PSN Store and it says free download for PS+ members, but if you put it in your cart, it then says you’re on the hook for 14.99. I just did notice it in time to avoid having to pay.

  • So i downloaded DMC once it showed up in free games. Sure enough, it charged my wallet anyway. I talked to a PSN support member online.

    He said the update wasn’t complete, thats why it wasnt free.

    Apparently they’re either trying to swindle impatient PS plus members, or they somehow forgot to make the PS Plus free game of the month….free.

    I hope I get my money back

  • Anybody else having issues with the audio in DmC? People not having voices, etc.

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