PlayStation Plus Update: Guardians of Middle Earth Free; Karateka 50% Off

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PlayStation Plus Update: Guardians of Middle Earth Free; Karateka 50% Off

Welcome to this week’s PlayStation Plus update, where we’re excited to bring news that the Guardians of Middle Earth MOBA greatness will be coming free to PS3 for PS Plus members! If you’ve never tried this unique genre that’s taking the gaming community by storm, give Guardians of Middle Earth a download and see what all the excitement is about. While you’re at it, check out a handful of discounts on some pretty amazing games you may have missed out on for both PS3 and PS Vita.

Friendly reminder: The deal is on through March 4th: purchase a one-year membership of PS Plus and get three bonus months free. Current members can stack this value on to their existing membership as well. Learn more about the offer here, or click the link below to go to the SEN online store.

Don’t have PlayStation Plus, or just want to add more time to your existing membership? Go to the PlayStation Store on your PS3 or PS Vita or click here to get access via the Sony Entertainment Network online store.

February 5th PlayStation Plus Update

Guardians of Middle Earth (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members (Original Price: $14.99)

Take up arms in the clash over Middle-earth with the most powerful heroes from the greatest fantasy epic of all time. Form alliances with and against friends and jump into the wildly popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) gameplay. With 20 iconic guardians from Middle-earth, and new guardians coming all the time, it’s the perfect time to get lost in the multiplayer fray in epic 5 versus 5 battles.
Karateka (PS3)

50% off for PS Plus members (Original price: $9.99; PS Plus price: $5.00)

A beautifully simple premise with a fun pick up and play fighting system, Karateka blends old school gameplay charm with fluid combat animations and gorgeous backdrops and music to provide an amazing adventure with a ton of replay value. Are you skilled enough to rescue Princess Mariko with the fighting finesse of her True Love? Or will you need the power of the burly brute to topple the opposition? For more on Karateka, check out PS.Blog’s post from Assistant Producer Heather d’Evelyn.

Big Sky Infinity (PS3 and PS Vita – Cross Buy Enabled)

40% off for PS Plus members (Original price: $9.99; PS Plus price: $5.99)

Big Sky Infinity is a lightning-fast, randomly-generated game that adapts to how you play; which means, it’s never the same game twice. You pilot a spaceship that’s flying straight into an alien armada. The further you progress, the harder it gets, with giant bosses, streams of enemies, and unique events that shift the gameplay to keep you on your toes. It’s Cross Buy enabled, so this purchase will get you a version to play on both your PS Vita and PS3. Check out more Big Sky Infinity from the game’s director James Whitehead.

Knytt Underground (PS3 and PS Vita – Cross Buy Enabled)

40% off for PS Plus members (Original price: $9.99 $14.99; PS Plus price: $5.00 $8.99)

Knytt Underground tells a quirky and strange tale that’s set in the future, hundreds of years after the humans disappeared from the planet. Sprites, fairies and various other lifeforms roam tunnels in the underground. With a curiousity about their origin and the meaning of life, they strike out to find those answers they try to understand the ones who had obviously figured it out: the humans. It’s a beautiful adventure with a vast environment to explore and story driven quests that will keep you hooked. Read more about Knytt Underground in the PS Blog’s post featuring the Creative Director Nicklas Nygren.

Thanks for reading this week’s update. As usual, you can join the PlayStation community over on the PlayStation Community Forums in the PS Plus space to continue chatting about PS Plus, or find other PlayStation topics to discuss, or even start one yourself. See you in the comments!

PlayStation Plus Update 2-4-2013

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  • Sorry Dazeofwar, misspelled your tag

  • @BlueBl1zzard ppl said they wanted GOME cuz they got RCP. When in comparission GOME is a better update to RCP. Now they are complaining cuz of not that GOME is a bad game but it is not of the same quality as Sleeping dogs.

    I know this is first week of feb, but still they get sleeping dogs in the first week. Ofcourse there will be complains cuz now they are comparing GOME to sleeping dogs not GOME to GOME(a past EU update). Last month did you see how many customers were happy when Darksiders were given. It’s not that they want to complain every week. They want to complain when there is a disparity and NA gets the short end of the stick.

  • Dear SCEA PS+ Team

    I cannot wait until the new xbox comes out. If im gonna be treated like a second class customer at least I’ll do it on a system that all my friends have. Why does it seem so hard for some real quality changes to come to plus. Please dont event try to patronize us with that bs about all this “value” im getting, because I dont see the value. You took my money now GIVE ME WHAT I PAID FOR. Equal value to EU. Doesnt have to be the same games but stop giving us garbage. If the person making deals with the publisher cant do it, then its time to find someone who can get things done. I am completely disenfranchised with the Playstation brand right now, and PS+ is leading the charge. Im sure you dont care but I am now voting with my wallet. Sony is losing a customer for sure.

  • @Kermit-21

    LOL Yeah, paying 60 bucks a year to Microsoft just to play online is seriously getting your money’s worth

  • Great update. Thanks.

  • @ goldenratio13

    What kinda games u play online?

  • @sab-krit

    Borderlands 1 &2, starhawk, PlayStation all stars, mortal combat, streetfighter, lbp karting, lbp 1 &2, dungeon defenders, and starting tomorrow Dead Space 3 ;-)

  • definitely playing alot of Ni no Kuni this week. thx anyway

  • ME3 has pretty good MP too. I got the plat in this one, so hardly play it anymore

  • First off, not here to complain (I’m an older gamer, lets just say I played pong when there was ONLY pong) Anyway, for the $50 a year we pay there really is no reason to complain. The content we get far exceeds that price and no one makes you pay it, it is a choice. Is every game for me? No, but I’ll try anything once, especially if its free. (My real gaming was back in the day, and sports and racing games were more my style) My real issue is I keep having at least one game almost every week I can not purchase or down load, granted so far they haven’t been that big a deal, like last weeks foosball… however with that said, it is getting rather annoying (Although some like the afore mentioned foosball, I wouldn’t play, but I do have kids that might) I’m paying to have these free games and when an issue like not being able to down load them comes up, well, you get the point. And yes, I have updated the system etc, and they still can not be purchased. I receive the message “This content is not available for purchase at this time” Or such as that… Is this an issue that can be corrected?

  • @goldenratio13(#450) I agree. Since you can’t keep free games if your plus subscription expires, and because there’s currently no way to buy a free plus game even if you did want to keep it, I too would prefer more discounts/sales. However that 75% off all new releases thing, I don’t see happening.

    @sab_krit (#452) So, based on that logic, let’s say NA gets Sleeping Dogs, and EU gets something like let’s say ACIII. If NA users complain about that, then it sounds like they are complaining just for the sake of complaining.

  • Morgan, your answers to the “how come US plus is so much crappier then EU plus” comments are rubbing me the wrong way.

    It’s not a plus specific complaint either. The same thing happenes with stuff like “How come other regions got more PSone games for Vita then us” etc.

    You always try to paint the reasons as being completely out of your/SCEA’s control. That is completely disingenuous. The reasons are not always “we’d do the same if we could”, Different people are running each branch of Sony and their own creative vision or whatever you want to call it is also playing a part in everything.

    It would be nice if you would stop trying to paint us as complaining about things you have no control over and instead as being critical of things you do in fact have control over and adjust future decisions accordingly.

    There are clearly some creative/philosophical differences with the people running each service that are contributing to the differences in the content available on each. That is what we are complaining about. Quit pretending that doesn’t exist.

  • Wow why all the complains? We are getting FREE games like every week for only 50$ a year… that’s less than 1$ for each game! Stop complaining and go purchase your Sleeping Dog for 60$ in a store.

  • @453

    Wow. Dramatic much?

  • @BlueBl1zzard – I will totally agree to you in my point of view, if thats the case. If the value of what is given is same for the full retail games, I am satisfied.

  • @kremit-21
    LOL this guy prefers to pay 50$ for “Gold membership” on Xbox that gives you NOTHING but the “rights” to play online??? We are getting FREE games here every like week for BOTH PS3 and PSV plus discounts and other bunch of extras, I really don´t understand all that complaining…

  • Really glad to see Guardians of Middle-earth free. That game is really fun and more people now get the chance to try it out! :D

  • @grbolivar – its not 60 bucks its 39.99 bucks in store. During boxing day it was 19 bucks in walmart. Dang I missed out on that sale!

  • Thank you sony for the update been broke lately the only thing I can pay for is PlayStationPlus im glad I only have to pay for it every three months lol ty again!!!!

  • LOL, you guys should check out the EU blog from January. They were up in arms that we got the 13 for 13′ sale.

  • this is epic ty sony i luv u i am huge huge fan of lord of the rings O.O TY SO MUCH

  • To all the people who complain every week about these updates SHUT UP!! these are great games just because they are not necessarily games you always want to play doesn’t mean others don’t. GOD ENTITLED GAMERS!!! ye u pay for this service doesn’t mean u should be guaranteed new games you like the instant game collection is a service on top of the already awesome ps PLUS! many of you people complain about how these games don’t “look good” HAVE YOU PLAYED IT?!!! NO!!! the point of the instant game collection is 1) to promote games 2) make sure you always have something to play and 3) to introduce you to new games that you may never have played. There are MILLIONS of people who bought and LOVED the Walking Dead and never would have played it had they not had PS+.

  • @ goldenratio13

    LOL, you should check all the other weeks(not even months) including feb. They were laughing at NA+ for all the other updates. It hurts my feeling that NA+ service is getting mocked up during other weeks.

  • Well at least I’ve got next week to look forward to.

  • All you chicken heads that want Sleeping Dogs need to go buy it now.

    Then I hope it becomes free in the future so you can cry some more.
    Wish people would stop acting like they don’t get their moneys worth out of the plus service.

    You know what I used to have to do as a kid? Look at the back of the box on a game and hope to god it didn’t suck after dropping 50 bucks for it. That was a lot of money in the 80’s for the uninitiated.

    IF we do end up getting Sleeping Dogs one day we’ll probably see a slew of complainers because EU already had it. You can’t please everyone. For the love of god…..go ask your parents to explain the value of a dollar to you.
    I’d be happy with just discounts and cloud saves for my plus membership. The free games are just a bonus. I didn’t sign up for plus because I wanted any specific free games. I just saw it as an amazing value as a gamer of 32 years. CHEERS!

  • hmmm… I dont think I mind this update. I’ve liked previous LotR games.

  • @sab_krit

    LOL, yeah I do recall quite a few jokes from our EU brethren after the NBA Jam update

  • Best….update….ever!

    Don’t listen to the haters, it was just a month ago where these were the titles everyone was screaming for. You can’t please everyone. This is an amazing update. I’m going to play the hell out of Guardians and the vita games. I unfortunately already have Kinetica, but it was amazing too. You could have staggered these week by week and kept me ecstatic for a month, but putting them all together just made me want to sign up for that year deal that is going on right now.

    Keep doing this! This completely made my week!

  • @GhostWize

    I agree 100%

  • The best update was the June update last year. That one made me get a plus sub again but only for 3 months and I bought two games with 1 month sub. I was going to extend it to a year but no games I wanted were announced. Europe though has the games I want. Until we get AAA games again like last June, I am definitely not going back to plus.

  • well i would have MUCH rather had a full game (aka sleeping dogs) BUT!!!!!!!!! i am really happy with tis game have wanted to play it for a while now

  • CRAP!CRAP!CRAP!CRAP!CRAP! I Have Been A Plus Member Since The First Day And I Must Say Its Getting Worse & Worse By The Week. GOME Are You Serious. Starting To Think About Just Letting My Membership Expire Cause Im Not Getting Any Good Games Out Of This!!!

  • @Ghostwize

    LOL, so u dont want any complainers. SO y are u complaining abt the complainers?

    Be happy and play the best game u got for ur plus subscription instead of complaining abt the complainers here. Cuz what u said is a repeat of already said thoughts and discussed thoughts and ur comment doesnt answer very much what the complainers are complaining abt.

    If ppl were satisfied with the old 8-bit games, there wont be a any 1980*1200 resolution games nowadays. It was a change happened because some ppl wanted a change.So stop bashing the complainers, if u r happy, its good for u.

  • If Sleeping Dogs, Batman Arkham City and Crysis 2 were released next week, people would still complain that Ni no Kuni, Dead Space 3 and Sly Cooper 4 weren’t the IGC releases for that month. Further, if anyone thinks NA PS+ has it hard compared to the EU, look at the JP release list.

    I’ll say again what I’ve said before, PS+ is the best value in the history of console (and now portable) gaming. If you’re not getting $4.16 of value from the PS+ IGC per month, I just don’t understand how you value games. Maybe you don’t have a Vita, or you’ve played some of the games released already, but I’ll happily try Guardians of Middle Earth this month and whatever else comes down the pipeline. I know I’m not alone when I say I’ve saved a hell of a lot more than $4.16 per month just on PS+ sales alone.

    So, Morgan, keep up the good work and thanks for exposing yourself as the public face/punching bag of PS+. One last thing, if you (or anyone over there) could scrounge up some information on the Ratchet and Clank Vita disappearance, I think I’m not alone in holding a great curiosity.

  • LOL @ kremit-21

    saying they will go to Xbox instead of PS+ where you actually get something for your money’s worth.

    Such moronic threats, LMAO. What a joke.

    Good riddance, I’d rather people like you actually have to PAY to use features that should be free, so I know that you are getting ripped off for real, unlike what you seem to believe PS+ is doing to you.

  • I would become a PS PLUS member if they gave away better games like they do in europe

  • We don’t want sleeping dogs=we the ones that already bought it,the games that are always mentioned most of us have them already,@ Morgan it would be a great idea to let us choose one game of our choice from 1-3 choices each week,the problem with plus is that some of us already bought the games that keep getting mentioned,if there was a way to choose 1 from 3 options,I strongly believe there would be less complaining,please consider this pass it on to the team

  • I already have the game when it came out along with the season pass. I never thought I would say this but yeah, this update is meh. Maybe because it’s free because there aren’t enough players online? Because if that’s the excuse of making it free then that’s just sad.

  • I do not care what Europe gets we’re in America :),whoever keeps saying Europe gets this and that,move to Europe :),you all sound like spoiled step children,this is America!!

  • @sab_krit

    I think the issue might be because many of us prefer to purchase discounted titles over older free games. If we don’t make our voices heard then Sony could just assume that their customer base in N.A. is a homogeneous bunch who just want free games. This is dangerous because they foul just do away with great discounts and focus pin freebies instead. This would be a disaster for a gamer like me who enjoys getting discounts on new titles. Gamers who want discounts are getting drowned out here. Just my two cents

  • @goldenratio: I’m with you on better discounts. 10%-20% off ins’t really much. Even 40% is kind of week. I’d love to see maybe something like 2 games a month go 75% off or something like that. Kind of how Steam does their daily sales. But since PSN store only updates once a week they could set it up like my example.

    I actually quit buying games off of PSN because I was worried it’d come to Plus for free. It’s really the only way I can make sure I have better chances of not getting a game from Plus I already have.

  • I tried the deimo for Gome it wasn’t for me,I appreciate the discounts,getting knytt underground,look forward to the next update

  • Autocorrect strikes again

  • MORGAN,

    I think I can fairly say that I speak for the majority when I say we would like 2 VITA games/month and if you have to reduce the number of PS3 games given away per month, then we are OK with that.

    Great job, been loving PS+ since I joined. Its only going to get better from here.

    More Vita games please. :)

  • @ sab_krit

    There is a difference between complaining and throwing out complete and constant vitriol.

  • Morgan Haro Said:

    “MS doesn’t secure free content across regions; we’re the only ones who do. Of course publishers will work world wide to get their game out across all territories to get $$; but delivering free content poses a different challenge.”

    Since we PAY for PLUS so far we have gotten NOTHING FREE.

    So should we take this comment to mean that actual FREE content is coming to the PSN in some fashion?

    If not, once again your words are misleading, if not outright lies.

  • And I thought the worst plus months were the last 2 from 2012. Boy was I wrong. But people need to realize that they only give us really old good games or really bad newer games. Or games with really poor sales that have lots of dlcs like this MOBA thing.

    And the only answer we get is “Next month willl be better”. I still have about 6 months of plus remaining. And I see no reason to renew it. If the quality of the next updates mantain this low I won’t even bother downloading these “play once delete” games they keep giving.

  • Terrible update, bad game and no good sales.

    Why can’t we get the AAA games EU gets?

  • @ boomstick.

    You perfectly well know what he means by free. Are you seriously going to act this dense?

  • @489

    Maybe you’re in America, plenty of NA customers are also in Canada and Mexico.

    Just saying, you going on about ‘America” doesn’t mean much.

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