Star Wars Pinball and Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower are both coming to the PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection with tomorrow’s PS Store update! You’ll also want to be one of the first to get your hands on the astounding Killzone: Mercenary via the beta. You’ll also find a timed trial of the acclaimed PAYDAY 2.
You’ll also find great sales including the final week of the PS Vita Japanese Games Sale, the Fan Expo sale celebrating our developer friends and neighbors in Canada, and did I mention… Divekick? The fighting game that took the fighting game community by storm is coming this week as well. All of those sales come equipped with a lovely PS Plus discount as well!
Take it all in, then let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
August 20th PlayStation Plus Update
Zen Pinball 2: Star Wars Pinball (PS3 and PS Vita)
Regular Price: $9.99, Free for PS Plus members
Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (PSP, Compatible on PS Vita)
Regular Price: $9.99, Free for PS Plus members
Divekick (PS Vita, PS3) (Part of the PS Vita Summer Select event) (Cross-Buy)
Regular Price: $9.99; PS Plus Price: $7.99
Killzone: Mercenary Public Beta Access (PS Vita)
Ms. Germinator (PS3 and PS Vita) (Cross-Buy)
Regular Price: $9.99; PS Plus Price: $7.99
PS Vita Japanese Games Sale – Week 2
Various Discounts
PS Vita Japanese Game Sale
| Game Title | Normal Price | Sale Price | PS Plus Price |
| Street Fighter X Tekken PS Vita | $39.99 | $27.99 | $19.59 |
| Dead or Alive 5 Plus | $39.99 | $19.99 | $10.00 |
| Ragnarok Odyssey | $29.99 | $20.99 | $14.69 |
| Metal Gear Solid HD Collection PS Vita | $29.99 | $20.99 | $14.69 |
| Dynasty Warriors Next | $34.99 | $17.49 | $8.75 |
| Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 PS Vita | $39.99 | $19.99 | $10.00 |
| New Little Kings Story | $19.99 | $13.99 | $9.79 |
| Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz | $29.99 | $20.99 | $14.69 |
| Muramasa Rebirth | $34.99 | $27.99 | $20.99 |
Last Chance (Leaving on 8/27)
Instant Game Collection
Dokuro
Discounts
Divekick
Street Fighter X Tekken Ps Vita
Dead Or Alive 5 Plus
Ragnarok Odyssey
Metal Gear Solid Hd Collection Ps Vita
Dynasty Warriors Next
Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Ps Vita
New Little Kings Story
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Guacamelee!
Guacamelee! Ps Vita
Lights, Camera, Party!
Might & Magic Clash Of Heroes
Critter Crunch
Tales From Space: About A Blob Premium Bundle
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Tales From Space: About A Blob
Nun Attack
Max Payne 3
Max Payne 3 Ultimate Edition
Exclusive Beta Access
Killzone: Mercenary Public Beta
Fan Expo Sale (PS3 and PS Vita)
Various Discounts
Fan Expo Sale (PS3 and PS Vita)
| Game Title | Normal Price | Sale Price | PS Plus Price |
| Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.34 |
| Guacamelee! | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.34 |
| Guacamelee! PS Vita | $14.99 | $10.49 | $7.34 |
| Nun Attack | $2.99 | $2.09 | $1.46 |
| Might & Magic Clash of Heroes | $14.99 | $7.49 | $3.75 |
| Critter Crunch | $6.99 | $3.49 | $1.75 |
| Tales from Space: About A Blob Premium Bundle | $7.99 | $4.99 | $2.50 |
| Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack | $9.99 | $3.99 | $2.00 |
| Tales from Space: About A Blob | $7.99 | $3.99 | $2.00 |
| Lights, Camera, Party! | $29.99 | $14.99 | $7.50 |
You’ll find all the content detailed above with their Plus benefits active when the PlayStation Store updates on 8/20. We’ll be back next week with more details on the game arriving to the Instant Game Collection as well as any other benefits we can share.
If you’ve got feedback or thoughts on today’s Plus update, leave them below, or, if you’re looking to engage with more of the PS community, make sure you head over to the PlayStation Community to discuss this week’s news, find other topics to contribute your thoughts to, or start one for yourself. See you in the comments!
Drop price of the 32gb Vita memory card to $30 – $40
Release a 64gb Vita memory card for $60 – 70
Encourage demos to be released for games by tapping into your partnerships with developers, allowing greater exposure to the titles, especially indie titles.
Time for everyone to buy Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. STEAM hasn’t even had it at this price yet iirc.
Don’t complaint about fighting and pinball games, look at it this way the more they publish them the sooner they will run out of them :P, I for one enjoy them quit a bit and can do without a 100+ hours jrpg grind haunting me in my pile of shame, hey maybe for october you should line up silent hill downpour that would definitevely will haunt me in my ps3 as I play it.
Street x Tekken for Vita comes with dlc (characters and outfits) for the PS3? I dont have a PSVita.
why would anyone want a old psp game that they should have played 5 years ago ?
we bought the ps vita to play vita games . and yet another pinball game and another psp game again this month.
you people who run the usa ps+ should be fired in fact the whole sony team can keep the psp games all to there self from now on
When can we get all this new offer?
I can’t seems to get these offers in my vita.
Normally I should have get New update on Tuesday morning but today I’ve not get any update on my play station store. It’s still showing last week discount item.
I can’t wait to buy the dynasty warrior. Please help me. Thanks
which hour well the update arrive?
Morgan,
If you cant get the same titles that Europe gets, then How about releasing a few of Sony’s titles to us loyal PS Plus customers? This month alone they are getting: Need For Speed MW, Spec Ops the Line, and Mafia 2, just to name a few of the “retail” quality games. What are we getting Hitman, great game! ( bought it years ago), and then oh yeah a SW pinball game, and a old school PSP game…really? I didn’t shell out another $250.00 + dollars for a PS Vita, so I can play some rehashed ten year old + PSP game!……Really????
We want “retail” mainstream titles as well!!! The difference isn’t just this months this has been going on for awhile now, fix it, or this loyal customer s gone!
By the way….way to go on the Vita memory card issue really stuck it to us chumps on that baby, didn’t You!! $100.00 for a 32Gb should be criminal! Not that it matters that much cause I don’t want to fill it up with Pinball, or old PSP games anyway….Vita is getting Dusty!!!
Hey Morgan Haro, i did what you suggested to “pinguino27” on post 48 and it still didn’t resolve my issue.
I spend 30minutes on the phone and the the person who talked to me had no idead what was happening. In the end she said she could issue me a refund for the bonus content but that it would take 3 days for it to go through and by that time the promotion would be over. I tried to explain that the only thing I wanted wast to buy Tomb Raider but the person kept talking about “ok, you may be able to buy the bonus content on some other way”…. I was really let down by this kind of reponse. While this is in no way the end of the earth, I purchased a 20U$ psn card only for this promotion and then go out of my way to try to buy the game just to be left out cold? I think the least you could do is fix this issue and offer the discount again… you’re in a position where we want to buy games from you guys but find ourselves unable because you guys can’t help us… sad me :(
even though ps+ sucks most of the time sony does have great customer service and great exclusive games
but ps+ sucks.
and just to throw this out there again…… stop giving us these old washed up 6 year old psp games.we can buy those for $3 or $4 at the retail stores
Sorry, but since Battlefield 3, I didn’t get any good games…
But the Rebate, Darkstalkers and Killzone Mercenray will keep me busy.
I love how they burried this post, they are ashamed of the bad stuff not even a proper sell. I bet I call a couple of developers and could get better sales than this.
Morgan,
No one is probably going to see this because this post has been buried below other things, but in reply again to my #48 comment….. who told you that customer service had a solutuon for this? THEY DO NOT! Yesterday I talked to one of them, and they had no idea what the problem was. She told me to delete the PS Store, do a file recovery, and then reinstall the store, and then it would work. So I did that. However, in the middle of the file recovery, a corrupt file was discovered and so I had to reformat my entire PS3, losing EVERYTHING!!!! Once the format is done, I reinstall the PS Store, and guess what? Still get the error message!!! So now I lost all of my data AND I still cannot purchase this bundle.
So I call customer support again today. This time they tell me they have NO IDEA what is causing the issue or how to fix it. I told them that you said on the blog they should have a fix for this, and they said they had no idea what you are talking about, and even said “well maybe he was a fake Moderator on the blog.”
I am so far beyond frustrated with all of this nonsense!!! So now I have to redownload over 200 games, files, add-ons, etc.
So where’s the update? It’s after 4pm here and still no PS Store update?? All the same stuff in there..
Yeah, I second that.. Where is the update? it’s almost 5:00pm here… :(
I have Ps+ but Divekick still cost me $9.99… what gives?
i dont like pinball games to much
Anybody know when sony is updating the psn store? I have been waiting for a while to play the killzone mercenary beta.
Haha my comment is awaiting moderation. What a joke.
Doo doo doo doo dooooooo….
It’s Tuesday afternoon, this was supposed to happen last night.
Where is the store update?
I’m right there with you 222. This is ridiculous
I’ve been keeping my eye on the playstation store, for vita anyway and it looks like they are updating a little at a time, when I checked earlier all that had been done is the price cuts from previous weeks were no more and then I checked a little later and now dive kick shows up as well as some others at a discounted price, but none of the free games are there yet, killzone is all I’m waiting on.
Does no one at Sony realize that you are STILL advertising Batman: Arkham City as “in your Instant Game Collection” on the web store in North America? I say either stop being terrible at your jobs and fix it, or stop lying and actually add it to the IGC.
It’s all there now ppl, time for some killzone
…pretty pissed off how i purchased muramasa for my vita then not even two months after it comes out its on sale for half the price. you guys need to implement a process where games digitally purchased can be rendered back in for a percentage value if its something you dont want. i.e. full value within 24 hours, 50% value after a week and 10 or 20% after two weeks. i would be buying so much more stuff if i knew i would like it. …but that being said i do look forward to my free game every week and discounted prices. i will be picking up 3 or 4 games on discount this week definitely. blooddragon, nun attack , UMvC3 (vita) and DIVEKICK!!!
+ Morgan Haro on August 19th, 2013 at 8:59 am said:
Zen Pinball 2 is set up in quite a unique way in that all of the tables are actually individually titles. Technically it’s not categorized as an Add-On since you don’t need any sort of prerequisite game to play it. However, no matter what you call it, it’s obvious it may not be your cup of tea, but I would encourage you to still play it as I hear it’s quite good! Thanks for the feedback.
The real problem is seeing anyone support game makers in the newest endeavor to make more money by letting them make and release small fragments of a game at a time, which is acceptable ONLY when it is as an add-on. This was released earlier this year as an add-on for Zen2 and as a stand alone….that does not make it it’s own game. That makes it an add-on that can be played as a stand alone game (kinda why it has to be described as a stand alone). No one, not you, not game developers, not even gamers get to change or alter what “game” and “add-on” mean. Star Wars Pinball is an add-on, releasing it as a stand alone does NOT change this fact.
Yay more Zen pinball tables! I’ve received 12 tables as a result of PS+ and I have to say Zen pinball provides the best virtual pinball experience to date. Also the two sales this week are enticing! I’m thinking about picking up Ragnarok Odyssey. If anyone on this blog has played this game, would you mind sharing whether or not you liked it? I’d greatly appreciate anyone’s thought on the matter!
starwars pinball rocks!!!
thanx for the great update
May the force be with me.
Ok, I just bought a VITA (Assassins Creed III edition), for $199 and subscribed to PSN+, (Best Buy), for $40. I hope you start to show some Vita love with some triple AAA titles, native Vita titles, and even put some top indies on the collection. I see people are making request, maybe I should put one together. Morgan do you and the team consider these list when adding games to the IGC. If so, would you guys also consider adding some of the games from the past like PS Classics, PS2 titles, along with previous games from the IGC. Thanks,
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P.S. Lower the price of memory cards, even more than you guys are considering at gamescom, and I would buy more VITA titles. They should somewhat be in line with the cost of comparable flash memory. Memory card prices prevented me from buying a VITA sooner and would limit my purchases going into the future. This is a make or break for me, as it is with many other gamers. I could just end up selling the VITA to buy more games for my 3DS, which I had bought a year ago due to price drops on the XL and the ability to use SD cards which keeps the cost down. I currently own 15 games 3DS which could have been VITA sales because I was more interested in the VITA. The memory card prices changed my mind, which pushed me the direction of Nintendo as a first purchase, as I think is true of many other gamers. That’s all. Thanks,
morgan you are a lier i am looking at the star wars pinball add-on in the plus section and it clearly states that it is a add-on
Hey when I try to download zen pinball star wars, i get error c2-12383-7. Please help me or fix this!!!!!!!
same error here, pinball games are hunted
The question is how long the newer games will last on the playstation plus.
I’ll be picking up either New Little King’s story for $10 or Antelier Aeishia for $20 if its still on sale from last week. I’ve got Zen 2 so don’t need SW and I’ll avoid Darkstalkers because I’m sick of PSP fighters.
Morgan, week after week you can read on here people’s very negative opinions about getting more PSP fighters. Yes there are some who post otherwise but the disparity between the two groups is huge. In fact the voices against more PSP fighters I’d say is one of if not the most often voiced opinion on this blog.
My question to you is that knowing this, and you must if you read these comments, what goes through your mind each time you pick a new fighter to give us? Indifference, maniacal laughter, heartfelt condolences, what? Whatever it is it’s becoming obvious that players opinions on the matter are either being outweighed by something else or just ignored.
downloaded star wars yesterday but it wouldn’t install!! I do not like! At all…
Can’t install Star Wars Pinball!! Error c2-12383-7!!!
ok i guy from the ps forums told me that i need to download the free zen pinball demo and then star wars would install after i boot up the demo and it worked. i forgot the guys name so i can not give him credit at this time.
and yes ps+ gave us a add-on @ not full game this month
morgan said it was not a add-on and he said it was a stand alone game lol
bburger steve was the guys name from the playstation blog who told me how to solve the zen pinball problem
so make sure you guys have the zen pinball demo installed and then download the star wars add-on and boot up the zen pinball demo and the star wars add-on will install
I never complain about stuff but really..i baught muramasa only 2 months ago and its already on sale …Im just sayin it prettty much a slap in the face to anyone thats trying to support the vita…
Just my 2 cents, I love the Star Wars Pinball games, and wouldn’t mind more of them, or discounts on more. Those tables are digital hybrids and take pinball to the digital age. Zen deserves some love for making these available.
I’m a relatively new member, and I’m kicking myself for not joining sooner. I’ve already gotten my money’s worth and whatever you send down the pike for us is cherry for me. I’m kind of surprised that so many are complaining. I can’t say I’m interested in EVERYTHING that’s been available to me through the service, but it seems like there’s something for everyone in there.
This is probably OT, but I picked up on a bunch of Rayman stuff in the sale and they were a great deal.
I downloaded the free Star Wars Zen Pinball 2 tables on my Vita but for some reason it’s not registering in the game as I can’t play them and it’s still asking me to buy them. Any ideas??
Put the Rayman sale up again for a week. So I can purchase and play them before Rayman Legends comes out.
Sorry I am new to PSN+. I also missed (in addition to the Rayman sale, I wanted to buy them all), Touch my Katamari Sale. I thought that these deals lasted the whole month. I found this blog when they disappeared.
I for one enjoy pinball greatly, so haha to you haters!!
Enough with the PSP fighting games though, seriously.
PS plus America is terrible in giving monthly games for vita. If only I can refund my subscription. Can’t wait to get out of this terrible service.
I have recently purchased Ps plus for the us, but since I travel a lot between European countries and the US I’ve bought the PS PLUS for the US, and I have to say it has been disappointing. The European PS+ seems to be really going at it ever since I’ve purchased the US PS+ and it’s disappointing to say the least, I mean they’ve got ACIII and Jak & Daxter Trilogy and we get Star wars Pinball? I am personally very fond of jak and daxter and so I was very disappointed by the fact that we weren’t getting it. I know most of the EU games have been already been in IGC but it is still disappointing for newcomers. 3 months so far. 9 months left I hope we get something I like
This is the EU ps plus:
Leaving PS Plus this month:
28th August: Need for Speed Most Wanted
28th August: ICO and Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection
28th August: Demon’s Souls
28th August: LEGO Lord of the Rings
28th August: When Vikings Attack
Entering PS Plus this month:
28th August: Assassin’s Creed 3
28th August: The Jak and Daxter Trilogy
28th August: Stealth Inc: A Clone In The Dark
28th August: Urban Trial Freestyle
28th August: New Little King’s Story
Now I just got a 3 month ps+ and ends at the end of sept.
This month we got hitman and indie games.
If we don’t get the same love that EU gets, I’m done
I’m going out on a limb here and state that Assasins Creed 3 is going to completely miss the PS+ boat in America. I wish I’m wrong, but Europe gets a good selection of games, I understand that the US appeal is more “hidden gems”, but it would be nice to get games such as Stealth Inc.
I also understand that it sells 4X better than in the US, but still…