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Free Plants vs. Zombies Vita on PS Plus this week, PSN Gamers Choice winners
Tomorrow's PSN content dump unlocks Plants vs. Zombies on the PS Vita for all PS Plus members, free of charge. The usual asking price for Popcap's tower defense darling is $10.49 – PS Plus members will find the free game available in their Instant Game Collection when PSN updates tomorrow.In addition to the free game, the PlayStation Blog has given us a look at some of the discounts on offer in this week's update. Quirky rhythm game Retro/Grade from 24 Caret Games will be on sale for a mere $2.44 this week, plus the winners of the PSN Gamers' Choice Awards contest have been determined – a promotion that asked gamers to vote on which games they'd like to see discounted. Highlights include reduced prices on PS All-Stars: Battle Royale, Sound Shapes and Escape Plan.
Vote for games you want on sale in the PSN Gamers' Choice Awards
The third annual PSN Gamers' Choice Awards are open for voting today through February 25, with winners announced and discounted on Tuesday, February 26. The awards cover 10 categories, including Best PSN Exclusive, Best PSN Game, Best Indie Game, Best PS3 Game and Best PS Vita Game.Awards show powerhouse Journey is nominated in three categories: Best PSN Exclusive against Tokyo Jungle and The Unfinished Swan, Best PSN Game against The Walking Dead and Sound Shapes, and Best Indie Game against Sound Shapes and Rainbow Moon. The Best PS3 Full Game nominees are Borderlands 2, Assassin's Creed 3 and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, while Vita nods to Gravity Rush, Super Stardust Delta and Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack.Vote for your favorites via the PlayStation Store or its website.
Vote on your favorite PSN Gamers' Choice games to save
Once again, you'll get to vote on your favorite PSN games of the year by downloading a theme. Sony announced the 2012 version of its PSN Gamers' Choice Awards, along with nominations for standout PS3 and PSP games in ten different categories.The biggest nominees include the "Best PSN Exclusive" group: inFamous Festival of Blood, PixelJunk Shooter 2, and ... Tetris; the "Best PSN Game" group: inFamous Festival of Blood, Plants vs. Zombies, and Resident Evil 4. The title of Best PSP game is between Tactics Ogre, Dissidia Final Fantasy, and, uh, the Dissidia Final Fantasy demo. Voting for this stuff reaps benefits other than recognition for your favorite games: following the announcement of winners on March 6, each winning game will be discounted 30%, or 50% for PS Plus users.
Download themes to vote for your favorites in PSN Gamers Choice Awards
Sony's giving you the chance to honor some of the best games on PSN -- and, more importantly, get some free XMB themes for games like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Costume Quest, and God of War: Ghost of Sparta. The company announced the first PSN Gamers Choice Awards, which will allow PS3 and PSP users to vote on their favorite downloadable game for each platform -- among the nominees pre-selected by Sony, anyway. From Feb. 22 through March 1, users will be able to vote for their favorite downloadable PSP or PS3 game, Mini, and PSN-exclusive by downloading a free XMB theme corresponding to that game. The winning game in each category will be discounted 30% for all PSN users and 50% for Plus members during this year's edition of the Spring Fever promotion. Find all the nominees after the break. Spelunker HD is not one of them, but there are already free XMB themes available on the PlayStation Store that will allow interested parties to pretend it is.
