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Sony’s all-new PlayStation Plus is now available in Canada

After many months of rumours and a few more months of official build-up, Sony has officially launched its PlayStation Plus revamp in Canada.

Simply titled ‘PlayStation Plus,’ the new version of the service is a combination of PS Plus and PS Now, Sony’s game streaming service, with some added perks like classic games, more PS4 and PS5 offerings and time-limited demos thrown in. These will all be spread out across three membership tiers.

Keep on reading for a full breakdown of Canadian pricing and features for each:

PlayStation Plus Essential

This is basically the previous PS Plus membership. You get a few free PS4 and PS5 games every month, cloud saves and, most importantly, access to online multiplayer.

As such, it’s priced the same as the old PS Plus:

  • 1 month — $11.99
  • 3 months — $29.99
  • 12 months — $69.99

PlayStation Plus Extra

Here’s where things start to get different. This middle tier includes everything found in Essential, plus a catalogue of “up to 400” first- and third-party PS4 and PS5 games.

  • 1 month — $17.99
  • 3 months — $49.99
  • 12 months — $114.99

Here are some of the games offered with Extra:

First-party:

  • Alienation | Housemarque, PS4
  • Bloodborne | FromSoftware, PS4
  • Concrete Genie | Pixelopus, PS4
  • Days Gone | Bend Studio, PS4
  • Dead Nation Apocalypse Edition | Housemarque, PS4
  • Death Stranding and Death Stranding Director’s Cut | Kojima Productions, PS4/PS5
  • Demon’s Souls | Bluepoint Games, PS5
  • Destruction AllStars | Lucid Games, PS5
  • Everybody’s Golf | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Ghost Of Tsushima Director’s Cut | Sucker Punch, PS4/ PS5
  • God of War | Santa Monica Studio, PS4
  • Gravity Rush 2 | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Gravity Rush Remastered | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Horizon Zero Dawn | Guerrilla, PS4
  • Infamous First Light | Sucker Punch, PS4
  • Infamous Second Son | Sucker Punch, PS4
  • Knack | Japan Studio, PS4
  • LittleBigPlanet 3 | Sumo Digital, PS4
  • LocoRoco Remastered | Japan Studio, PS4
  • LocoRoco 2 Remastered | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man | Insomniac Games, PS4
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Insomniac Games, PS4/PS5
  • Matterfall |Housemarque, PS4
  • MediEvil | Other Ocean, PS4
  • Patapon Remastered | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Patapon 2 Remastered | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Resogun | Housemarque, PS4
  • Returnal | Housemarque, PS5
  • Shadow of the Colossus | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Tearaway Unfolded |Media Molecule, PS4
  • The Last Guardian | Japan Studio, PS4
  • The Last of Us Remastered | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • The Last of Us: Left Behind | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Until Dawn | Supermassive Games, PS4
  • Uncharted The Nathan Drake Collection |Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Uncharted: The Lost Legacy | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • WipEout Omega Collection | Clever Beans & Creative Vault Studios, PS4

Third-party:

  • Ashen | Annapurna Interactive, PS4
  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla | Ubisoft, PS4/PS5
  • Batman: Arkham Knight | WB Games, PS4
  • Celeste | Maddy Makes Games, PS4
  • Cities: Skylines | Paradox Interactive, PS4
  • Control: Ultimate Edition | 505 Games, PS4/PS5
  • Dead Cells| Motion Twin, PS4
  • Far Cry 3 Remaster | Ubisoft, PS4
  • Far Cry 4 | Ubisoft, PS4
  • Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition | Square Enix Co. LTD, PS4
  • For Honor | Ubisoft, PS4
  • Hollow Knight | Team Cherry, PS4
  • Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy | Square Enix Co. LTD., PS4/PS5
  • Mortal Kombat 11 | WB Games, PS4/PS5
  • Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 | Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., PS4
  • NBA 2K22 | 2K Games, PS4/PS5
  • Outer Wilds | Annapurna Interactive, PS4
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 | Rockstar Games, PS4
  • Resident Evil | Capcom Co., Ltd, PS4Soulcalibur VI | Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., PS4
  • South Park: The Fractured but Whole | Ubisoft, PS4
  • The Artful Escape | Annapurna Interactive, PS4/PS5
  • The Crew 2 | Ubisoft, PS4
  • Tom Clancy’s The Division | Ubisoft, PS4

PlayStation Plus Premium

The final PS Plus tier features significantly more perks than the previous two options. On top of including all of the Essential and Extra benefits, Premium offers:

  • “Up to 340 additional games,” including PS3 titles available via cloud streaming and classic games from the PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PSP generations
  • Cloud streaming access for original PlayStation, PS2, PSP and PS4 games offered in the Extra and Premium tiers
  • Time-limited game trials

Here’s Premium pricing:

  • 1 month — $21.99
  • 3 months — $59.99
  • 12 months — $139.99

Here are some of the games offered with Premium, separated by category:

Classic games — Original PlayStation and PSP

First-party

  • Ape Escape | Japan Studio, Original PlayStation
  • Hot Shots Golf | Japan Studio, Original PlayStation
  • I.Q. Intelligent Qube | Japan Studio, Original PlayStation
  • Jumping Flash! | Japan Studio, Original PlayStation
  • Syphon Filter | Bend Studio, Original PlayStation
  • Super Stardust Portable | Housemarque, PSP

Third-party

  • Mr. Driller | Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., Original PlayStation
  • Tekken 2 | Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., Original PlayStation
  • Worms World Party | Team 17, Original PlayStation
  • Worms Armageddon | Team17, Original PlayStation

Classic games — Remasters

First-party

  • Ape Escape 2 | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Arc The Lad: Twilight of the Spirits | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Dark Cloud | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Dark Cloud 2 | Japan Studio, PS4
  • FantaVision | SIE, PS4
  • Hot Shots Tennis | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Jak II | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Jak 3| Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Jak X: Combat Racing | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Rogue Galaxy | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Siren | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Wild Arms 3 | SIE, PS4

Third-party

  • BioShock Remastered | 2K Games, PS4
  • Borderlands The Handsome Collection | 2K Games, PS4
  • Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition | Gearbox Publishing, PS4
  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning | THQ Nordic, PS4
  • LEGO Harry Potter Collection | WB Games, PS4

PlayStation 3 games (original versions, available via streaming)

  • Crash Commando | Creative Vault Studios, PS3
  • Demon’s Souls | From Software, PS3
  • echochrome | Japan Studio, PS3
  • Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds | Japan Studio, PS3
  • Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational | Japan Studio, PS3
  • Ico | Japan Studio, PS3
  • Infamous | Sucker Punch, PS3
  • Infamous 2 | Sucker Punch, PS3
  • Infamous: Festival of Blood | Sucker Punch, PS3
  • LocoRoco Cocoreccho! | Japan Studio, PS3
  • MotorStorm Apocalypse | Evolution Studios, PS3
  • MotorStorm RC | Evolution Studios, PS3
  • Puppeteer | Japan Studio, PS3
  • rain | Japan Studio, PS3
  • Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty | Insomniac Games, PS3
  • Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time |Insomniac Games, PS3
  • Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus | Insomniac Games, PS3
  • Resistance 3 | Insomniac Games, PS3
  • Super Stardust HD | Housemarque, PS3
  • Tokyo Jungle | Japan Studio, PS3
  • When Vikings Attack | Clever Beans, PS3

Third-party 

  • Asura’s Wrath | Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3
  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 | Konami, PS3
  • Devil May Cry HD Collection | Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3
  • Enslaved: Odyssey to the West | Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc., PS3
  • F.E.A.R. | WB Games, PS3
  • Lost Planet 2 | Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3
  • Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 | Koei Tecmo, PS3
  • Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare |Rockstar Games, PS3

And, finally, here are some of the game trials, all of which must be downloaded. Most will run for two hours, although some bigger games, like Horizon Forbidden West and Cyberpunk 2077, will have trial periods as long as five hours. All save game and trophy progress will be retained, so you can pick up where you left off should you decide to buy any game in the PS Plus catalogue.

First-party

  • Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection | Naughty Dog, PS5
  • Horizon Forbidden West | Guerrilla, PS4/PS5

Third-party

  • Cyberpunk 2077 | CD Projekt, PS5
  • Farming Simulator 22 | Giants Software GmBH, PS4/PS5
  • Tiny Tina’s Wonderland | 2K Games, PS4/PS5
  • WWE 2K22 | 2K Games, PS4/PS5

The full list of PS Plus games across all three tiers can be found here.

If there are any other questions you have that weren’t covered here, PlayStation also has a comprehensive guide to the all-new service on its blog.

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Here are the free games hitting PlayStation Plus in June 2022

Every month, Sony offers a few PlayStation games at no additional cost to those subscribed to its PlayStation Plus service.

Now, the company has unveiled the three games hitting PS Plus in June.

Leading this month’s lineup is God of War, the 2018 PS4 reboot of the long-running action franchise. The inclusion of this particular game is notable, as its hotly anticipated sequel, God of War: Ragnarok, is set to release later this year. This, alongside recently leaked Ragnarok slated for a September release, could suggest we may finally see more of the game soon — potentially at one of June’s big gaming events.

Additionally, the Super Smash Bros.-esque fighter Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl and anime fighter Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker — both PS4 titles — are joining the PS Plus catalogue this month.

All three games will hit PS Plus on June 7th. May’s free games will remain free until June 6th.

That’s not all for PlayStation Plus this month. The expanded version of the service, which will be a merger of PS Plus and PS Now that retains the former’s branding, will launch in North America on June 13th. The all-new PS Plus will include the service’s existing perks at the same price point while adding two extra tiers featuring hundreds more PS4 and PS5 games, streaming functionality and retro titles.

More information on that, including full pricing, can be found here.

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Enter our contest to win 1-year of PlayStation Plus Premium

Sony’s PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscription tiers launch on June 13th, and both tiers will offer access to up to 400 first and third-party PS4 and PS5 games — you can check out the first tier of games here. 

However, PS Plus Premium will also give users access to classic original PlayStation and PSP games, classic and remastered games, PlayStation 3 titles via streaming and two-hour game trials.

A year’s membership of PlayStation Plus Premium costs $139.99, which is pretty pricey considering PlayStation players are used to paying only $69.99 for current PlayStation Plus (the current version of PlayStation Plus will be dubbed PS Plus Essential.)

MobileSyrup is offering five lucky contestants a full year of PlayStation Plus Premium codes. The winners will be selected on June 10th, so keep an eye out for an email that day. On the morning of June 13th, you’ll find the code in your inbox.

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Some of the new PlayStation Plus’ full-game trials are as long as five hours

The all-new PlayStation Plus just launched in Asia, which has been giving users around the world a bit more insight into individual aspects of the service.

First, it was PS Plus’ inferior emulation, and now, it’s some extra clarity on how game trials work. Essentially, those subscribed to PS Plus Premium ($21.99 CAD/month, $59.99/three months, $139.99/12 months) can get full-game, timed-limited trials for select games, which vary depending on the title.

Interestingly, PlayStation and its partners have given consideration to the fact that some games are bigger than others and are offering longer demos accordingly. For example, as spotted by Twitter user PSVortex, Horizon Forbidden West and Cyberpunk 2077 have five-hour trials, versus the two-hour demos offered for Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection and WWE 2K22.

This makes sense considering Horizon and Cyberpunk are both open-world games that take dozens of hours to complete. It’s currently unclear, though, if five hours is the max amount of time PS Plus trials will ever offer. On the flip side, all games over a certain price point (going forward, not retroactively) are reportedly required by Sony to offer a demo.

To further entice players, PlayStation is also allowing you retain all trophy and save game progress from the trial, so you can pick up where you left off should you buy the game.

The new PlayStation Plus is set to launch on June 13th in North America. More information can be found here.

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PlayStation Plus Extra or Plus Premium: Which will you get and why?

PlayStation has revealed the Canadian pricing for the new PlayStation Plus and the first batch of games coming to the service.

PlayStation Plus Extra

  • 1 month — $17.99
  • 3 months — $49.99
  • 12 months — $114.99

Games like Bloodborne, Days Gone, Concrete Genie, Horizon Zero Dawn, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Returnal, MediEvil, Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut, Ashen, Control: Ultimate Edition, The Crew 2, Celeste, Red Ded Redemption 2 and more are available to play in this tier. You can check out the full list of titles, here.

Now that we’ve some of the games and know the pricing are you interested in purchasing the new service, which tier do you plan on opting for?

PlayStation Plus Premium

  • 1 month — $21.99
  • 3 months — $59.99
  • 12 months — $139.99

With this tier, you get access to classic games like Ape Escape, Syphon Filter, Hot Shots Golf, Tekken 2, and Worms World Party. Additionally, you’ll also get Remasters like Jak II, Ape Escape 2, BioShock Remastered, Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, LEGO Harry Potter Collection and more. With streaming, you can play titles like Infamous, Infamous 2, Demon’s Souls, Rain, Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time and more.

With Premium, there’s also access to game trials, which allow you to play for two hours.

These games include Horizon Forbidden West, Cyberpunk 2077, Tiny Tina’s Wonderland and more. You can take at the full list of games, here.

It’s worth noting that this is only the first batch of games and that Sony will add more titles monthly.

With all of this information in mind, I think I might try out PlayStation Plus Premium for at least a month. I definitely want to try out Horizon Forbidden West and Tiny Tina’s before actually purchasing the games. I actually find the game trials to be my main attraction towards purchasing Plus Premium, but I’d like to see what titles come to this feature. However, Plus Extra is probably where I’ll settle.

Let us know in the comments below what tier you’re more interested in. Additionally, head to our new contest where five lucky winners will get codes for Plus Premium for a year.

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Ubisoft+ coming to PlayStation, starting with Ubisoft+ Classics on PlayStation Plus

Ubisoft has announced two services that are soon coming to PlayStation.

The first is Ubisoft+, its Xbox Game Pass-esque subscription that offers access to over 100 games, including day one releases, for $19.99 CAD/month. The service is currently available on PC, Google Stadia and the U.S.-only Amazon Luna, and will come to PlayStation (and Xbox, as previously confirmed) on yet-to-be-confirmed dates.

Additionally, Ubisoft is launching a special version of this service called Ubisoft+ Classics exclusively on PlayStation Plus, and it will include a selection of Ubisoft games on PS4/PS5 at no additional cost. These games include Far Cry 3 Remaster, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, South Park: The Fractured But Whole and The Crew 2.

Ubisoft+ Classics will launch on June 12th in North America alongside the all-new PS Plus and be bundled with the expanded service’s ‘Extra’ and ‘Premium’ tiers.

Prices for Extra:

  • 1 month — $17.99
  • 3 months — $49.99
  • 12 months — $114.99

Prices for Premium:

  • 1 month — $21.99
  • 3 months — $59.99
  • 12 months — $139.99

Ubisoft says the full launch catalogue will include “up to 27” games depending on device and territory and surpass 50 titles by the end of 2022.

For more on the all-new PlayStation Plus, check out the recently revealed first batch of games that are coming to the service’s Extra and Premium tiers.

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Sony finally unveils first batch of all-new PlayStation Plus games, including PS1 classics

PlayStation has finally offered an official list of some of the games that will be offered through the upcoming expansion of its PlayStation Plus service.

As previously confirmed, the current PS Plus benefits — online multiplayer, a few free monthly games and cloud saves — will remain the same through the ‘PS Plus Essential’ tier. This will still be priced at $69.99 CAD/year.

However, read on for a first look at “some” of the titles that are being offered through the two higher PS Plus tiers.

PlayStation Plus Extra

  • 1 month — $17.99
  • 3 months — $49.99
  • 12 months — $114.99

PS Plus Extra subscribers get a catalogue of “up to 400” first- and third-party PS4 and PS5 games — here are the ones PlayStation has just confirmed. It should be noted that all of the Ubisoft games listed below are part of a new ‘Ubisoft+ Classics’ perk that will be available through PlayStation Plus Extra.

First-party:

  • Alienation | Housemarque, PS4
  • Bloodborne | FromSoftware, PS4
  • Concrete Genie | Pixelopus, PS4
  • Days Gone | Bend Studio, PS4
  • Dead Nation Apocalypse Edition | Housemarque, PS4
  • Death Stranding and Death Stranding Director’s Cut | Kojima Productions, PS4/PS5
  • Demon’s Souls | Bluepoint Games, PS5
  • Destruction AllStars | Lucid Games, PS5
  • Everybody’s Golf | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Ghost Of Tsushima Director’s Cut | Sucker Punch, PS4/ PS5
  • God of War | Santa Monica Studio, PS4
  • Gravity Rush 2 | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Gravity Rush Remastered | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Horizon Zero Dawn | Guerrilla, PS4
  • Infamous First Light | Sucker Punch, PS4
  • Infamous Second Son | Sucker Punch, PS4
  • Knack | Japan Studio, PS4
  • LittleBigPlanet 3 | Sumo Digital, PS4
  • LocoRoco Remastered | Japan Studio, PS4
  • LocoRoco 2 Remastered | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man | Insomniac Games, PS4
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Insomniac Games, PS4/PS5
  • Matterfall |Housemarque, PS4
  • MediEvil | Other Ocean, PS4
  • Patapon Remastered | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Patapon 2 Remastered | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Resogun | Housemarque, PS4
  • Returnal | Housemarque, PS5
  • Shadow of the Colossus | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Tearaway Unfolded |Media Molecule, PS4
  • The Last Guardian | Japan Studio, PS4
  • The Last of Us Remastered | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • The Last of Us: Left Behind | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Until Dawn | Supermassive Games, PS4
  • Uncharted The Nathan Drake Collection |Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Uncharted: The Lost Legacy | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • WipEout Omega Collection | Clever Beans & Creative Vault Studios, PS4

Third-party:

  • Ashen | Annapurna Interactive, PS4
  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla | Ubisoft, PS4/PS5
  • Batman: Arkham Knight | WB Games, PS4
  • Celeste | Maddy Makes Games, PS4
  • Cities: Skylines | Paradox Interactive, PS4
  • Control: Ultimate Edition | 505 Games, PS4/PS5
  • Dead Cells| Motion Twin, PS4
  • Far Cry 3 Remaster | Ubisoft, PS4
  • Far Cry 4 | Ubisoft, PS4
  • Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition | Square Enix Co. LTD, PS4
  • For Honor | Ubisoft, PS4
  • Hollow Knight | Team Cherry, PS4
  • Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy | Square Enix Co. LTD., PS4/PS5
  • Mortal Kombat 11 | WB Games, PS4/PS5
  • Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 | Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., PS4
  • NBA 2K22 | 2K Games, PS4/PS5
  • Outer Wilds | Annapurna Interactive, PS4
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 | Rockstar Games, PS4
  • Resident Evil | Capcom Co., Ltd, PS4Soulcalibur VI | Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., PS4
  • South Park: The Fractured but Whole | Ubisoft, PS4
  • The Artful Escape | Annapurna Interactive, PS4/PS5
  • The Crew 2 | Ubisoft, PS4
  • Tom Clancy’s The Division | Ubisoft, PS4

PlayStation Plus Premium

  • 1 month — $21.99
  • 3 months — $59.99
  • 12 months — $139.99

Premium includes all of the benefits of Essential and Extra, as well as “up to 340” additional games from the PS1, PS2, PSP and PS3 eras. Some games will have “improved frame rates and higher-quality resolution” over their original versions, PlayStation has teased.

For select original PlayStation and PSP classic games, PlayStation says subscribers will have access to a new user interface that allows you to save any time or rewind the game. Additionally, those who have purchased select PS1 or PSP games will be able to redownload them for free, no PS Plus membership required, while other titles will also be available for purchase individually outside of a subscription.

Classic games — Original PlayStation and PSP

First-party

  • Ape Escape | Japan Studio, Original PlayStation
  • Hot Shots Golf | Japan Studio, Original PlayStation
  • I.Q. Intelligent Qube | Japan Studio, Original PlayStation
  • Jumping Flash! | Japan Studio, Original PlayStation
  • Syphon Filter | Bend Studio, Original PlayStation
  • Super Stardust Portable | Housemarque, PSP

Third-party

  • Mr. Driller | Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., Original PlayStation
  • Tekken 2 | Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., Original PlayStation
  • Worms World Party | Team 17, Original PlayStation
  • Worms Armageddon | Team17, Original PlayStation

Classic games — Remasters

First-party

  • Ape Escape 2 | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Arc The Lad: Twilight of the Spirits | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Dark Cloud | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Dark Cloud 2 | Japan Studio, PS4
  • FantaVision | SIE, PS4
  • Hot Shots Tennis | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Jak II | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Jak 3| Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Jak X: Combat Racing | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy | Naughty Dog, PS4
  • Rogue Galaxy | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Siren | Japan Studio, PS4
  • Wild Arms 3 | SIE, PS4

Third-party

  • BioShock Remastered | 2K Games, PS4
  • Borderlands The Handsome Collection | 2K Games, PS4
  • Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition | Gearbox Publishing, PS4
  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning | THQ Nordic, PS4
  • LEGO Harry Potter Collection | WB Games, PS4

PlayStation 3 games (original versions, available via streaming)

  • Crash Commando | Creative Vault Studios, PS3
  • Demon’s Souls | From Software, PS3
  • echochrome | Japan Studio, PS3
  • Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds | Japan Studio, PS3
  • Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational | Japan Studio, PS3
  • Ico | Japan Studio, PS3
  • Infamous | Sucker Punch, PS3
  • Infamous 2 | Sucker Punch, PS3
  • Infamous: Festival of Blood | Sucker Punch, PS3
  • LocoRoco Cocoreccho! | Japan Studio, PS3
  • MotorStorm Apocalypse | Evolution Studios, PS3
  • MotorStorm RC | Evolution Studios, PS3
  • Puppeteer | Japan Studio, PS3
  • rain | Japan Studio, PS3
  • Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty | Insomniac Games, PS3
  • Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time |Insomniac Games, PS3
  • Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus | Insomniac Games, PS3
  • Resistance 3 | Insomniac Games, PS3
  • Super Stardust HD | Housemarque, PS3
  • Tokyo Jungle | Japan Studio, PS3
  • When Vikings Attack | Clever Beans, PS3

Third-party 

  • Asura’s Wrath | Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3
  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 | Konami, PS3
  • Devil May Cry HD Collection | Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3
  • Enslaved: Odyssey to the West | Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc., PS3
  • F.E.A.R. | WB Games, PS3
  • Lost Planet 2 | Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3
  • Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 | Koei Tecmo, PS3
  • Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare |Rockstar Games, PS3

Game trials

Finally, here are some of the titles that will offer free, downloadable full-game trials. PlayStation says most of these will only be available for two hours, although the counter only runs when you are actually in the game. Further, any progress, including earned trophies, will carry over into the full game should you decide to purchase it.

First-party

  • Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection | Naughty Dog, PS5
  • Horizon Forbidden West | Guerrilla, PS4/PS5

Third-party

  • Cyberpunk 2077 | CD Projekt, PS5
  • Farming Simulator 22 | Giants Software GmBH, PS4/PS5
  • Tiny Tina’s Wonderland | 2K Games, PS4/PS5
  • WWE 2K22 | 2K Games, PS4/PS5

Going forward, PlayStation says new PS Plus Essential titles (PS4 and PS5) will be added on the first Tuesday of every month — the same as usual. On top of that, new games will be added to the Extra and Premium plans “in the middle of each month.” The exact number of titles will vary per month.

The all-new PlayStation Plus will launch in Canada and the U.S. on June 13th.

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Converting to the new PlayStation Plus is hilariously complicated

When PlayStation unveiled its long-rumoured PlayStation Plus expansion, gamers quickly started wondering how their existing subscriptions would convert to the new one.

During this time, PlayStation remained quiet as it seemingly allowed people to buy PS Plus and Now memberships to stack them. Then, suddenly, the company disabled the ability to redeem codes for prepaid cards.

Now, it’s published an FAQ page for the new PS Plus — which merges the existing PS Plus with PS Now, plus adds retro games and free trials — to explain how membership conversion works.

Or rather, to release a bafflingly messy chart:

Part of this needlessly overcomplicated process boils down to the fact that PlayStation has broken down PS Plus into three tiers, and each of which has its own “conversion rate,” for lack of a better term. This further illustrates how inelegant the new PS Plus structure is; while it’s meant to streamline PlayStation’s services offering by combining Plus and Now, it just carves up everything in a different way.

Xbox Game Pass, by contrast, has two simple tiers — an $11.99/month base subscription for console and PC, and a $16.99/month ‘Ultimate’ that includes console, PC, streaming, Xbox Live Gold and more. Meanwhile, Nintendo’s Switch Online has simple monthly and annual options for both its base membership (required for online play) and the optional Expansion Pack for bonus games and add-on content. Why is this all so much more complicated on PlayStation?

It’s even stranger, too, when you consider that we don’t yet know the single most important thing about the new PS Plus: the catalogue. So far, the only games that have been confirmed are Death Stranding, God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Mortal Kombat 11, and Returnal. Six games, out of “up to 400” for Essential and those, plus “up to 340 additional” titles, for Premium. That’s to say nothing of how the game trials might work — we don’t know for sure yet.

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Even more frustrating is the fact that these are all modern games. What’s arguably most enticing about the new PS Plus is its promised retro catalogue, which will cover the PS1, PS2 and PSP generations. Some rumours have suggested a few titles we’ll get, including Syphon Filter and Tekken 2, but PlayStation hasn’t said anything official itself. Frankly, I’m not interested in even considering any of these conversion methods for PS Plus until we actually know what we’re getting for our money.

This is speaking to a larger trend this generation with PlayStation making things needlessly convoluted.

When the PS5 launched, PlayStation didn’t offer a way for your console to recognize which version of cross-gen games it should run. On Xbox, such a feature exists in the form of “Smart Delivery,” which automatically gives you the best version of these games on the new-gen hardware. The lack of such a feature even led to an issue in which players had to factory reset their consoles for a time. And for a while, we didn’t even know how many games would be PS5-only, despite PlayStation boss Jim Ryan once arrogantly stating “we believe in generations.”

Then there’s how the company has handled PS5 upgrades for its PS4 games. In September 2021, the company said the cross-gen title Horizon Forbidden West wouldn’t have a free upgrade path from PS4 to PS5, despite originally promising one, only to pivot and offer one after all. However, the company still ended up charging $10 more for the physical PS5 version of the game, even though you could technically buy the PS4 version then upgrade to avoid the fee. And while it’s likely the individual companies’ policies and not PlayStation’s, we’ve seen a few cases (Mortal Shell and, for a time, Final Fantasy VII Remake) where PlayStation Plus only netted you the PS4 versions of games, not their PS5 counterparts, which led to further head-scratching.

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That doesn’t even touch on how storage expansion works on PS5, which requires opening up the PS5 and figuring out which compatible SSD to install. Once again, this process was far simpler on Xbox — simply insert an official third-party Seagate stick and you’re good to go. That’s not to say Xbox’s method is flawless, though, as they’re limited by lack of storage size options.

It all boils down to PlayStation’s communication lacking over the past couple of years. And on that note, we have a good idea of what’s coming from Xbox and Nintendo this year, while PlayStation’s lineup, outside of the undated God of War: Ragnarok, is currently unconfirmed.

I say all of this not out of some fanboyism — I love all three platforms in their own ways. If anything, I’ve always gravitated more towards PlayStation, as my first console was the PS1. But I’m getting increasingly tired of how tedious a lot of the company’s business practices are getting, with PS Plus now especially.

Unlike many others I’ve seen, I don’t even take issue with the new PS Plus not including day-one first-party games, as I understand Microsoft can afford to do that in a way Sony cannot. But it’s really not asking too much to ask for things to be a bit simpler with the service. Hopefully, that’ll happen — if not before the new PS Plus’ June 13th launch, then shortly after.

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Sony is building a game preservation team for PlayStation

Sony is reportedly building a game preservation team. The division likely comes off the heels of the new upcoming PlayStation Plus platform, though exact details on the team are sparse.

Garrett Fredley, a former build engineer for mobile developer Kabam, is joining Sony for its game preservation team. In a Twitter post first spotted by Video Games Chronicle, Fredley announced the role.

“Today is my first day as a Senior Build Engineer at @PlayStation,” the engineer wrote. He goes on to explain that he is one of the “initial hires for the newly created Preservation team.”

Fredley later followed up with a video from GDC 2019 in which he discusses game preservation and the work he did with EA. He also states that his “work is similar, although larger in scope.”

As expected, Fredley didn’t reveal exactly what this new team is working on. However, as the division’s title suggests, it likely ties back to preservation. Sony hasn’t always been a pioneer for game preservation in the past. While classic PlayStation games are available through PlayStation Now, more support is always welcomed.

In the near future, Sony’s revamped PlayStation Plus subscription service will offer new tiers. These include perks such as access to classic PS1, PS2, PS3, and PSP titles. While many supported games (which are largely unannounced) will be downloadable, PS3 games are only available to stream.

Last summer, Sony shuttered the PSP storefront and initially aimed to close the PS3 and Vita marketplace. However, due to the reception of the community, those plans were put on ice.

The narrative surrounding Sony and game presentation has slowly shifted over the past few years. Back in 2017, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan made a comment regarding older Gran Turismo titles on previous PlayStation consoles. “The PS1 and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this?” Ryan has since clarified that the quote was in respect to making contemporary games feel modern. However, the messaging turned the heads of those hoping Sony would take game preservation more seriously.

The extent of game preservation greatly differs between different console manufacturers. For example, Microsoft offers extensive backwards compatibility across all generations, including the original Xbox, and game preservation has been a focal point for the company for many years. Nintendo, on the other hand, only offers select titles from NES, SNES, and N64 as a part of the Nintendo Switch Online service.

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Via: Engadget 

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These PS Now titles might not make it to Sony’s upcoming PS Plus tiered service

Sony’s upcoming PS Plus expansion, which merges PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now, and offers additional perks is slated to launch in Canada on June 13th.

Up until now, the PS Now service gave users access to a wide range of PS2, PS3 and PS4 titles, and the same will still be offered but under different tiers. You can read more about the new PS Plus tiers, what they offer, and how much they will cost in Canada here.

While the older generation games would still be available in the higher tiers of the new PS Plus expansion, according to Reddit user “Cobra_Bite,” (via VideoGaamesChronicle) several games that are currently available on PlayStation Now would not be available in the expansion.

Said games currently show an expiry date for May, and might not be available in the PS Plus expansion.

Check out some of the titles that might not make it to the new PS Plus service below:

  • Hotel Transylvania 3
  • NBA 2K18
  • Sonic Mania
  • Silent Hill HD Collection
  • Virtua Fighter V
  • WWE 2K19
  • Bomberman Ultra
  • Metal Gear Rising
  • The Revenge of Shinobi
  • Yakuza 4 and 5

Check out all the games that might not make it to the new service on “Cobra_Bite’s” Reddit post here.

From what we know so far, PS Plus will have three tiers, namely PlayStation Plus Essential, PlayStation Plus Extra and PlayStation Plus Premium, with monthly pricing coming in at $11.99 CAD, $17.99 CAD and $21.99, respectively.

Source: ‘Cobra_Bite’ on Reddit, Via: VideoGaamesChronicle