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PSN Europe: Tomb Raider, Brothers, PixelJunk Monsters free for Plus members
PlayStation Plus subscribers in Europe can access a smorgasbord of free content starting this week, including downloadable copies of Tomb Raider, PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD, and Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition. PlayStation 3 owners with an active Plus subscription receive Tomb Raider and Starbreeze's Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons for free this week. Brain-training puzzler Smart As... and tower defense game PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD arrive as free PlayStation Plus offerings on the PS Vita, while the upgraded PlayStation 4 version of Housemarque's co-op zombie shooter Dead Nation is also available as a free download in its debut week. Other PSN games premiering in Europe this week include Gust's Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky, Wales Interactive's Master Reboot, and Obsidian's South Park: The Stick of Truth. [Image: Sony]
Tomb Raider, Brothers head up Europe's PlayStation Plus lineup in March
Sony has revealed next month's additions to its PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection in Europe, mirroring much of the content set for a free release in North America throughout March. Starting next month, PlayStation Plus subscribers in Europe can pick up a no-cost copy of Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition, an enhanced PlayStation 4 version of Super Stardust developer Housemarque's top-down zombie shooter. PlayStation 3 owners will receive free downloads of Square Enix's Tomb Raider and Starbreeze's Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, which hit the PlayStation Plus program in North America last month. March's PlayStation Vita freebies include the brain training app Smart As... and Q Games' tower defense game Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate HD. Launch dates for featured games have not been announced. [Image: Square Enix]
PSN Tuesday: Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, free Smart As on PS Plus
This week's PlayStation Network content update is now live. You'll find downloads for Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and Dragonball Z: Battle of Z, as well as the option to pre-order Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII ahead of its February 11 launch. There's also a pretty tempting cross-buy enabled Curve Studios bundle, which includes Thomas Was Alone, Stealth Inc., Lone Survivor and Proteus. PS Plus subscribers can grab a free copy of Smart As..., a brain-training game for the PS VIta starring John Cleese, and all PSN users can sift through deals on select Final Fantasy and Assassin's Creed content this week. Permanent price drops have been extended to Batman: Arkham Origins, Grid 2, Killer is Dead and more, so hit up the PlayStation Blog if you want the full rundown. Image: Square Enix
PS Plus in January: Don't Starve, BioShock Infinite, Brothers
The January freebies for PlayStation Plus have just been revealed and it's quite the eclectic mix. Next week, PS4 owners will be able to partake in Klei's survival simulator Don't Starve, a game about scrounging for supplies and surviving for just one more night in a hostile environment. On PS3, will offer three separate free downloads in January: BioShock Infinite, DmC: Devil May Cry and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. BioShock Infinite, which takes place in the floating city of Columbia during 1912, is the latest first-person opus from Ken Levine and Irrational Games, while DmC: Devil May Cry is Ninja Theory's reboot of Capcom's devil hunter action series. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, the story of two young brothers on a quest to obtain medicine for their sick father, is from Starbreeze Studios. Finally, rounding out next month's downloads are two PS Vita offerings: Smart As... and Worms: Battle Islands. The former is a brain training game while the latter is another entry in Team17's long-running Worms franchise.
Three months of PS Plus free with 3G Vita activation on AT&T
Activating a 3G-enabled PlayStation Vita under a new DataConnect plan with AT&T will get you two free games and three months of PlayStation Plus membership. The promotion is similar to one Sony ran in February 2012, especially because one of the games in question is the same: Super Stardust Delta. The other freebie in the deal is Smart As, a brain-training game developed by XDEV. The Vita received a permanent price drop to $199 last week, alongside cost reductions for the system's tiny but pricey memory cards.
John Cleese to crack wise in Smart As
John Cleese will tell you what this all means.It's possible you'll be scolded or encouraged – we don't want to assume your intelligence level – by John Cleese when you play the Vita's upcoming brain training game, Smart As. Cleese has signed on to be your audio sherpa. It's a step up from being a butler, we guess."His instantly recognizable voice and distinctive style deliver intelligent and witty narration during the game, always encouraging and sometimes teasing you to improve every time you play," the announcement post on the PlayStation Blog reads. Cleese will act as your guide throughout the game, quipping at your performance across the 20 different exercises aimed at improving "Logic, Arithmetic, Language, and Observation" included within Smart As.%Gallery-155563%
There's a new Vita brain training game for you, 'Smart As'
Sony is boldly experimenting with the idea of a brain training game on a handheld. "Smart As," coming to Vita this fall, is a "social brain training experience" that calculates players' Brain Power through daily exercises based on 20 different puzzle games – and then encourages them to compete with their friends with online leaderboards and Facebook integration.The 20 brain games fall into the categories of "Logic, Arithmetic, Language, and Observation," and use all of the Vita's input methods, including cameras, AR, and both touchscreens. Regional challenges will give you more to do based on where you are when you play it.What part of the brain makes you able to understand Near? Because we don't have that.%Gallery-155563%
Uncharted, Killzone, Resistance, LBP ... and Little Deviants among 'NGP' games in development
Sony's bringing out its biggest guns for its new little game machine, the device currently known as "NGP." A slide revealed franchises currently in development for the newly announced handheld, including familiar names like Hot Shots Golf, LittleBigPlanet, WipEout, Killzone, Resistance, and PS3 showpiece Uncharted. Sony's Shuhei Yoshida showed off the Uncharted game, and revealed some controls new to the series: you can touch the screen (or press X) to jump, swing the NGP back and forth to swing on vines, and climb using the device's rear touch panel "as if you're climbing a vine with both hands."The new IPs sound a bit more, um, eclectic: Gravity Daze, Reality Fighters (an augmented reality title), Smart As, Broken, and the delightful-sounding Little Deviants. Update: PlayStation Blog confirms the complete list of game franchises noted at PlayStation Meeting 2011 with NGP iterations in development: Call of Duty Broken Gravity Daze Hot Shots Golf Hustle Kings Killzone LittleBigPlanet Little Deviants Reality Fighters Resistance Smart As Uncharted WipEout
