PlayStation Plus: Battlefield 3 Free for Members, Summer Blast Discounts

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PlayStation Plus: Battlefield 3 Free for Members, Summer Blast Discounts

It’s July! That means summer! Sun! But we must be careful and enjoy those things in moderation, because… videogames. They need playing. And this month, PlayStation Plus is bringing plenty of content as part of the Instant Game Collection; which means free games as part of your PS Plus membership, not to mention discounts galore on fantastic content throughout the PlayStation Store.

Battlefield 3 is leading the way this month and will be free to download for PS Plus members starting with the 7/2 PS Store update. You’ll also find some truly great savings with this year’s two week long Summer Blast 2013 sale! Read on to learn more about what’s coming in July, as well as the deals in the PlayStation Store this week.

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July Preview

The following games are slated to be free to PS Plus members through the Instant Game Collection in the month of July.



PlayStation Plus: Battlefield 3 Free for Members, Summer Blast Discounts

Battlefield 3 (PS3)

PSN Price: $39.99, Free for PS Plus members

Battlefield 3
In Battlefield 3, players will step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines. They will experience heart-pounding single player missions and competitive multiplayer action ranging across diverse locations from around the globe. Powered by the innovative technology of Frostbite 2, Battlefield 3 takes first person shooters to a whole new level.
Metal Slug XX (PSP, Compatible on PS Vita)

PSN Price: $19.99, Free for PS Plus members

Metal Slug XX
The excitement of the arcade comes to your PSP system with the series’ uncompromisingly crazy “run-and-gun” gameplay and a 2-player ad hoc mode that lets you and a friend take on the challenge together! After General Morden is defeated and captured, a mysterious army arrives from the future to save him. They reveal themselves to be Morden’s Army from the future, and their goal is to provide their future leader with special advanced weaponry to take on his enemies in the present. Classic characters Marco, Tarma, Fio, Eri, Ralf, and Clark return once again to take on General Morden and his new and improved Rebel Army.
Jet Set Radio (PS3)

PSN Price: $9.99, Free for PS Plus members

Jet Set Radio
Tag, grind, and trick to the beat in SEGA’s hit game Jet Set Radio! Fight for control of Tokyo-to, mark your turf with graffiti, tag walls, billboards, and even rival gang members! Perform tricks and flips on magnetically driven in-line skates, but watch out for the local police force!
Dokuro (PS Vita)

PSN Price: $13.99, Free for PS Plus members

Dokuro
Dokuro is a stoic, little skeleton who is a mere peon in the Dark Lord’s army. One fateful day he witnesses his master returning with a helplessly abducted Princess he intends to force into marriage. At once smitten by her plight, Dokuro resolves to free her from the Dark Lord’s treacherous, monster-infested castle. Along the way, he happens upon a mystical blue potion with the power to transform him into a dashing Hero tragically, this is the only time the Princess can witness his noble endeavors.
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee HD (PS3)

PSN Price: $9.99, Free for PS Plus members

Oddworld Munchs Oddysee
It’s up to you to help guide Munch in efforts to rescue fellow test creatures. These critters will be forever loyal to Munch and in turn enable his escape . Once free, Munch teams up with Abe and together they are guided by the wisdom of the Almighty Raisin. They are informed as to how to accomplish their goals, but in order to do so, they must work together. For Munch, his dream is to bring back his species from the brink of extinction. For Abe, it is to rescue his Mudokon buddies.

Leaving PS Plus In July

  • July 2nd – Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  • July 9th – Joe Danger 2 The Movie
  • July 16rd – The Cave
  • July 23rd – Germinator
  • July 30th – Zero’s Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward

Entering PS Plus in July (in no particular order)

  • Battlefield 3 (PS3)
  • Metal Slug XX (PSP, Compatible on PS Vita)
  • Jet Set Radio (PS3)
  • Dokuro (PS Vita)
  • Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee HD (PS3)

Remember, check back every Monday to learn when Metal Slug XX (PSP, Compatible on PS Vita)
Jet Set Radio (PS3), Dokuro (PS Vita), and Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee HD (PS3) are arriving to PS Plus members. You’ll also find more discounts and other exclusives that we weren’t able to detail here just yet. Remember the month preview is subject to change.

PlayStation Plus Update 7-2-2013

July 2nd PlayStation Plus Update

Battlefield 3 (PS3)

PSN Price: $39.99, Free for PS Plus members

Battlefield 3
In Battlefield 3, players will step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines. They will experience heart-pounding single player missions and competitive multiplayer action ranging across diverse locations from around the globe. Powered by the innovative technology of Frostbite 2, Battlefield 3 takes first person shooters to a whole new level.
Summer Blast 2013 Sale (PS3)

Various Discounts

Summer Blast Sale
Summer Blast 2013 is a two week event where we’ll be bringing you some of the best deals in gaming. Take a look at this list, and tell me there’s not ONE game on there that you won’t be picking up at those prices. Go ahead, I dare you. If not this week, we’ll have more games to pick up in the second week of Summer Blast 2013. This sale offers discounts to all PSN, but PS Plus members get the edge in discounts for this one.

Discounts

Game Title Normal Price Sale Price PS Plus Price
Call Of Duty: Black Ops II $59.99 $41.99 $37.79
The Amazing Spider-Man $49.99 $29.99 $20.99
Batman: Arkham Asylum $19.99 $9.99 $5.00
The Lord Of The Rings: Aragorn’s Quest $9.99 $4.99 $2.50
Mortal Kombat PS Vita $19.99 $9.99 $5.00
Mortal Kombat $19.99 $9.99 $5.00
Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands $19.99 $7.99 $4.00
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game $9.99 $3.99 $2.00
Shadow Of The Colossus $19.99 $7.99 $5.00
Ratchet & Clank Collection $29.99 $14.99 $7.50

Last Chance (Leaving on 7/9)

Instant Game Collection
Joe Danger 2: The Movie

Discounts
Creat Studios Summer Survival Pack
Pool Nation
Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Call Of Duty: Black Ops II
The Amazing Spider-Man
Batman: Arkham Asylum
The Lord Of The Rings: Aragorn’s Quest
Mortal Kombat Ps Vita
Mortal Kombat
Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game
Shadow Of The Colossus
Ratchet & Clank Collection

PlayStation Plus Update 7-2-2013

Thanks for reading this week’s update along with the month outlook. Got more questions on Plus? Leave your comments below, or, if you’re looking to engage with more of the PS community, make sure you head over to the PlayStation Community Forums to discuss this week’s news more, find other topics to contribute your thoughts to, or start one for yourself. See you in the comments!

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  • Only got a PS vita.. So Dokuro and an awesome discount on MK9 for me :)

    Pretty cool that you guys got BF3 for PS3, but I do all of that on PC

  • BF3 <3 , thx !

  • AWESOME!

  • nice! =)

  • Hello Morgan,

    I would like to be able to buy games that were already in the IGC, for example in this week: Scot Pilgrim for 2$, i would pay that to keep the game, just my suggestion. You could work that by putting a rent button and a buy button. Of course the rent being able just to plus gamers and if the game is in the IGC.

    Also, i will like to see bigger sales, more games on sale just to cover a bigger variety.

    Oh and i just picked up Virtual Last Resort, please if it goes on sale later i WANT to buy it.

    Furthermore, we need better PS2 classics like Dark Cloud 2, just a tiny example of great tittles that could go in that category.

    Finally, we need more games from the PS1 and PSP library to be compatible with PS Vita: i’m looking at Legend of Dragoon, Crash and Spyro Games, FF V, etc. Just update the list please.

    Thanks for reading!

    Omii

  • iamtylerdurden1

    @444 I don’t believe we have EVER gotten Unit13 only EU, but honestly Resistance Burning Skies is a MUCH better game and criminally undervalued and underscored by anti Vita/ anti Sony/ Resistance Critics. Don’t Believe me that critics are hating on Resistance then look at Game Informant I mean Informer giving Resistance 3 a rating of a 7 ! That game deserved better and look at GI’s ratings on Vita games in general Gravity Rush an 8, playstation allstars a 7 ish ect. and the reason why critics rate Resistance low NOW is because they feel like they overrated Resistance2 (actually rating it better than Resistance FOM) when sooo many fans ended up liking R. FOM better. Burning Skies has better graphics, MUCH better framerate, and it actually has a campaign unlike U13. The controls are far better also sporting spot on seamless fps controls, don’t get me wrong I still want Unit13(for free) but all these people clamoring for U13 & nobody ever gives Burning Skies love. Sickeningly U13 outsold Burning Skies (shows how much taste the common folk have.)Unit13 isn’t terrible it’s just that Burning Skies is better. period.

  • Glad to hear that, finally the online experience for new comers will be enjoyable, since now only high levels play the game and ruin the multiplayer for people that just bought the game.
    Plus even “noob servers” are full of highest levels simply owning noobs that try to have some fun with people of their strength.
    And since the single-player campaign is one of the worst I’ve seen in a long while, this game will truly shine again for everyone soon.

  • hey morgan its my birth month yall should get it crackin 4 me whats good bro ham?

  • WOW!!! BF3…. I was waiting for a price drop to buy.. but thanks now it’s free!!!!
    An the summer blast is awesome…. if you keep like this soon I’m gonna run out of space in my PS3 system and I have 500GB one….
    Keep it like this… I just love to be PS+
    Hope to see more summer blasts, spring sales, and weekend rush…
    Great work.

  • all this years lost with microsoft… i need a hug men… tears of happiness

  • Wow! July looking sooo good! BF3 how many GB??

  • Can I dowload the bf3 full game trial now just so that I have it on my ps3? Will I then be able to unlock the full game later today when the store updates? Or do I have to wait to download when the store receives the update? I appreciate the help.

  • i look forward to seeing wht other games ps + has to offer this month….battlefield 3 is a nice addition ^_^

  • Nice to se more people going to BF3 servers, I love this game!

    I think I’m going to sell the disc and download the digital copy, need money for BF4, PS4 and Premium membership.

    And finally I’m going to buy Mortal Kombat!! not sure if I should buy it for the Vita or the PS3…

  • I think BF3 is 11 GB + updates

  • First Saints Row and now Battlefield… Worst content I could imagine :/
    Stop that, seriously.

  • this is how playstation plus should be. Every body get the same stuff i love this update im not going to miss out because stuff is only n EU

  • It is almost mid day here in the Midwest.. Does anyone have a clue as to when this update is going to start?

  • Wow just amazing! I’ve been an Xbox live subscriber for years and NOTHING! They have given me NOTHING! I got on the PS PLUS bandwagon back when the Mortal Kombat demo came out and Its been nothing short of phenomenal the games you give us! Wow wow wow. Starting to think twice about the Xbox one nowadays. And the last of us is just magic never played anything like it. THE BEST

  • And I love sonys commitment to 3D gaming, I’ve got two 3d tvs and I love my 3d gaming!

  • When is the update

  • Lame a game over a year old gets ppl excited I believe if u cant afford a game that’s basically under $20 every where (even less used) for probably the past year than the lot of you have a lot more in life to worry about than if EU gets it and we don’t , Sony keep the gr8 discounts comin’ and please add some more current games to the IGC not games that your real consumers have already bought as most are old bigger AAA titles, not knockin plus, but it seems it caters to your more non loyal users and imo should be the opposite

  • nice to see that @BigDerbo it’s a recovering Xbox fan

  • iamtylerdurden1

    @436 Elvick_ I played Lair and it SUCKED, I even pre ordered it (what a waste of $) and guess what friend but Lair sold under 1million copies and considering it was a bigtime highly marketed title that would quantify it as a flop. This also would quantify it as a “AAA” game that nobody bought considering CoD sells 30mil and battlefield3 sold around 15mil, GoW3 7 mil, Gran Turismo5 8mil,every uncharted sells 5-7 mil, hell Resistance FOM sold nearly 5 mil, MGS4 8 mil, Resistance 3 (sales wise) was an utter flop and nearly doubled Lair’s sales. Do you know how much $ they lost and what they projected to sell (they projected over 4 mil when they were marketing it)Yes the first week it sold and then it died because ppl realized it was trash. I would consider a AAA game that sells under 1 mil to be a game that “nobody played” when compared to most AAA games. These are MY opinions and Ninja Gaiden3 was terrible, more so when considering how good the series was prior. I will be honest though I never played Haze but I could see it not being AS bad as advertised considering Free Radical of Time Splitters fame dev the game. If only they didn’t attempt to build their own engine from the ground
    up.

  • YES! Awesome month to be download some free games! Good looking out! Battlefield 3 & GT6 will be on my cue as soon as the store’s updated.

  • So.. I know this may be kind of selfish, but I would be forever grateful if PS plus would add some of the PS1 originals to the instant game collection. I know that they did earlier but i wasn’t yet a member for i had not seen the light. Just a suggestion. Thanks!

  • 16rd hurt my brain in the leaving igc section.

  • DouglasSerafim3

    Hi! The page on the psn uncharted 3 q says Brazil is Portuguese languages downloaded part due to the size. But to get the Plus does not appear in the list of download Portuguese Brazil. You know why?

  • My jesus…

    Just downloaded The Walking Dead Season Pass, for the fourth time on three other platforms. Awaiting 400 Days.

    Now Battlefield?

    I guess I have to call into work for the rest of the week.

  • So sick of shooters… Already have jet set on vita. Dokuro is good though, rest are really meh, sigh. I guess getting way too many shooting games isn’t going away.

  • @468 Only just STARTING to think twice about sexbox one? If the “used games” or should I say no used games policy, always online required, a less powerful system xbox one 8gb of DDR 3 – PS4 8gb of GDDR 5 a better graphics chip ect., a bigger clunky/uglier system, a higher price, zero controller inovations, and the fact that they are focused on multi media functions rather than gaming haven’t already turned you off then what will?
    LOL

    but hey you can change the channel with your voice! Yes! Can’t wait to be screaming at my Xbox while my GF is trying to sleep.

  • Harvey_Birdman99

    Hey Everyone, I don’t mean to sound like a noob but I’m not seeing BF3 under PS+? I checked to see if there’s a system update, but it says I’m up to date. Will it become available later in the day?

  • @469 But you have a point that 3D gaming rocks as I love my 3D Sony TV and get excited when I see that little 3D icon on the latest game I bought. 3D isn’t essential but just one more element Sony has over competitors, and I for one think it makes the likes of Dungeon Defenders, Motor Storm PR and APOC., and of course bada** Killzone3 much more fun to play even though they are already fun.

  • When is the store update today? PS: This month looks great

  • Harvey_Birdman99

    Nevermind, I just got the update!

  • @482 usually the update doesn’t occur until approximately 3-5 pm eastern time. Sometimes earlier sometimes later but that is the best estimate really, however if you are eager to play BF3 like I am you can download the trial free right now from ps store so that way when they add BF3 you will basically already have it downloaded (u will still have to officially DL it again when it goes free but it will only take about 30seconds cuz u already got the bulk of it) also you can play the 60min trial and when you get the free version your game will start off where you left it in the trial. Your trial data saves and counts towards the full game.

  • Would of been nice if Jet Set Radio was a cross play :/

  • Microsoft already got 30 bucks from me. Sony needs a better sale. Do it, please!

  • alright gotta get back to FFXIV closed beta

  • @482 – Harvey_Birdman99 – The PSN store updates approximately, “whenever they feel like”.

    But usually it’s sometime in the afternoon (going by Pacific Time); the earliest I’ve ever seen it go up was Noon . . . well, not counting last week when they did the update Monday night because of Tuesday’s maintenance.

    Sometimes you can manually search for the games on the web store and if they show the PS+ Free label even before they’re officially added to this page . . . https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/free-games/cid=STORE-MSF77008-PSPLUSFREEGAMES . . . then you can go ahead “buy” it and get it downloading right away.

    At the moment of this writing though, they haven’t flipped the switch on BF3: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/cid=UP0006-NPUB30742_00-BF30000000000000

  • so wait is battlefield 3 only for Europe? cause i don’t see it free on the psn store atm. If it is then dang this sucks i was looking forward to it. But eh walking dead 400 days is out today =DD

  • Awesome and all but WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO FIX PINBALL ARCADE??????????? I still get errors on both PS Vita and PS3 when I try and download it!!!!!!

  • That good games, great playstation plus upgrade. Thank you very much. Battlefiel 3 is for the American playstation store too?

  • I freaking own Dokuro already! :( but its awesome and totally worth it. :)
    btw i repeat….. DONT CHARGE FOR ONLINE ON PS4! DONT DO IT! LEAVE IT OPTIONAL!

  • I see Mortal Kombat set for 9.99, not 5.00 for us PLUS people. Anyone else still see 9.99?

  • @472… Wow so arrogant.
    Nice update anyways.

  • THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!

  • Still don’t see BF3 as a free. Nor I see MK for Vita for $5.

  • Me Neither.. I downloaded the update, but when i press the advertisement there just the old games..
    Living in the Netherlands. Yieeha

  • Morgan you should quit you job! EU’s community manager loves ps vita owners. But you???? NO! VERY OLD PSP game every month? REALLY?

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