There’s a lot to love with PlayStation Plus in December. Perhaps you’ve already thought of what a great gift a PS Plus membership makes for your fellow PS3 gamer. Or maybe you’ve been diving into the games in the Instant Game Collection with new additions like BioShock 2, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, and Rochard. Either way, you’ve got more great content on the way with this week’s addition: Anomaly Warzone Earth! You’ll also find some amazing holiday deals on games that you might have missed. Read on to find out more.
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December 18th PlayStation Plus Update
Anomaly Warzone Earth (PS3)
Free for Plus members
Holiday Essentials Sale
Various discounts for Plus members
You may have seen the announcement already, but this week marks the first week of the PSN Holiday Sale! You can check out the full announcement here, but here’s the breakdown of all the games that you’ll be able to get an amazing sale price on for this week:
| Game | Normal Price | PSN Sale Price | Plus Sale Price |
| Catherine | $39.99 | $27.99 | $19.60 |
| Counter Strike Global Offensive | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.35 |
| Dyad | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.35 |
| Escape Plan | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.35 |
| I am Alive | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.35 |
| LittleBigPlanet 2 | $19.99 | $13.99 | $0.00 |
| LittleBigPlanet PS Vita | $35.99 | $24.99 | $17.49 |
| M:tG Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 | $9.99 | $6.99 | $4.90 |
| NHL 13 | $59.99 | $41.99 | $29.40 |
| Rayman Origins | $19.99 | $13.99 | $9.80 |
| Rayman Origins PS Vita | $29.99 | $20.99 | $14.70 |
| Resident Evil 4 | $19.99 | $13.99 | $9.80 |
| Retro/Grade | $9.99 | $6.99 | $4.90 |
| Street Fighter: Third Strike Online Edition | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.35 |
SEGA Holiday Sale
Various discounts for Plus members
Our friends at SEGA are also bringing more great games to all of PSN at some truly great prices to celebrate the holidays as well. Just like the PSN Holiday Sale, all PSN gamers get to enjoy some price breaks here, but Plus members get the best deals on the following content:
| Game | Normal Price | PSN Sale Price | Plus Sale Price |
| Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown (Game Only) | $14.99 | $9.99 | $6.99 |
| SEGA HERITAGE COLLECTION (BUNDLE) | $36.95 | $19.99 | $14.99 |
| Sonic 4: Ep1 & 2 Full game Bundle | $24.98 | $14.99 | $11.99 |
| Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 | $14.99 | $9.99 | $7.49 |
| Hell Yeah Full game | $14.99 | $9.99 | $5.99 |
| Hell Yeah DLC Pimp My Rabbit Pack | $2.99 | $1.99 | $1.00 |
| Hell Yeah DLC The Virtual Rabbit Mission | $4.99 | $2.99 | $1.50 |
| After Burner Climax | $9.99 | $4.99 | $2.50 |
| Crazy Taxi | $9.99 | $4.99 | $2.50 |
| Daytona USA | $9.99 | $4.99 | $2.50 |
| Crush, PSP | $9.99 | $4.99 | $2.50 |
| Sonic Rivals, PSP | $9.99 | $6.99 | $4.89 |
| Sonic Rivals 2, PSP | $9.99 | $6.99 | $4.89 |
That’s it for this week’s update, and remember that the above updates will be in effect once the PlayStation Store updates tomorrow. See you next week for more on PlayStation Plus!
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This is supposed to be a season of giving and PS Plus sure is “giving” us a lot of free stuff, so I can’t see why people are still so upset. Get some holiday cheer people
Hmm interesting, Hey Morgan are there any Instant Games leaving our collection next week? I’m hoping we can get some more games that way I can make my downloads list extremely long. Any chance we will see Arkham City or Red Dead Redemption on the instant game collection any time soon.
I’m glad I got PS+ because now I really have new game even though I don’t know I do :P
Blah! Im glad to have plus and get the occasional good game free but I figured Christmas month there would be some big name games or some classic game of the year editions. Also giving away free dlc to games would be a cool addon.
nothing worhty for me:
1-free psn game: not interested
2-50% sales: already have them bought at normal price on release (psvita games)
3-no dlc sales
conclusion: 3 week of regret in a row,but still 10 months ahead :)
WOW!
You added a holiday sale and it’s sooooo bad, that the number of “nothing for me this week’ jumped up from about 40% to currently over 50%
Can you people not understand/see/read that you’re doing a terrible job with plus and sales?
And that’s not even comparing to the EU, if we did that our heads would expload (how many full, recent ps3 games have they had 50% or more off so far for their xmas sale? We get catherine at 20$ for the 2nd or 3rd time this year?????)
Stop redoing the same sales over and over. Stop giving us mediocre PSN and really old (for this gen) PS3 rental games. Give us a sale worth spending money on. At the very least make it look like you’re trying.
over 50% with nothing wanted during your holiday sale…. that’s not good, maybe for once you’ll actually admit there’s a problem instead of the usual PR lies: “greet stuff coming/next week” and “most people like the new plus”.
There is now public statistics to show those statements aren’t how the community feels.
Yep, the poll is a valuable tool and we always make sure to use it when we’re looking at the big picture. Thanks for the feedback boomstick!