Hello everyone! I hope you’re all enjoying the new content that arrived on PlayStation Plus at the beginning of December. As we move through the gift-giving season I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to inform you of all the awesome content changes you can expect in January.
But before that, I wanted to let you know about a great offer that starts today on the PlayStation Store. As soon as the store has been updated, the PS Plus 1 year membership will be available at an incredible 25% off its usual price!
Until 9th January you can get a whole year’s subscription for a one-off payment of only £29.99/€37.49. And remember – you can stack your membership so you can treat yourself even if you’re an existing member!
Right, onto this month’s games. Kicking things off is your lead title for January – BioShock 2, diving into the PlayStation Plus service from 2nd January for four weeks.
Developed by the talented teams at 2K Marin and Digital Extremes, this first person shooter takes you back to the underwater dystopia of Rapture. You’ll step into the boots of the original ‘Big Daddy’ in a thrilling adventure that see you tracking down the evil force responsible for snatching girls for the Atlantic coastline.
With BioShock Infinite on the horizon, this is the perfect opportunity to get your aim back in.
The next title entering the service, also on 2nd January, is the acclaimed Guardians of Middle Earth from our friends at Warner Bros – an authentic multiplayer online battle arena game set in The Lord of the Rings universe and specially crafted for console systems. Take a look at the trailer below to see it in action.
The final PS3 title entering the service on 2nd January is Mortal Kombat. Those of you who have a PS Vita might already be taking advantage of this title on the move but now you can also enjoy this classic beat ‘em up on your TV screens too.
Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer our friends in Australia and Germany this game due to regional rating issues so as a replacement we’ve secured Gotham City Impostors in those two territories. Hatched from the twisted minds at Monolith Productions, this multiplayer first person shooter pits violent vigilantes against crazed criminals in open warfare on the streets of Gotham City.
Moving onto PS Vita, the first game joining the service on 16th January is the heavily requested Jet Set Radio. You must join up with the GGs – an up-and-coming street gang in the futuristic city of Tokyo-to fighting for self-expression. Rolling through crowded urban environments on magnetically-driven inline skates, you take control of gang leader Beat and his growing posse of artists as they steal turf from local gangs by covering the city with graffiti.
Secondly, entering the service on 23rd January is the PS Vita version of The Pinball Arcade. This impressive title really nails the retro score-chasing thrills of the pinball machines of old. Check out the trailer below for a closer look.
As usual, you can also expect exclusive PS Plus discounts on lots of titles, including Foosball 2012, Wakeboard HD and Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath HD. We’ll update you on these offers in the weekly Store posts.
In summary:
Leaving PS Plus:
- 2nd January – Batman: Arkham City
- 2nd January – Bulletstorm
- 2nd January – Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
- 16th January – Mortal Kombat (PS Vita)
- 23rd January – Knytt Underground
Joining PS Plus:
- 2nd January – Bioshock 2
- 2nd January – Guardians of Middle Earth
- 2nd January – Mortal Kombat – excluding Australia and Germany
- 2nd January – Gotham City Imposters – Australia and Germany only
- 16th January – Jet Set Radio (PS Vita)
- 23rd January – Pinball Arcade (PS Vita)
If you are not currently a Plus member, visit our PlayStation Plus site to find out more about the service. Here you’ll learn all you need to know about the Instant Game Collection, which gives members access to at least 14 games at any one time, and over 65 games across the course of a 12 month subscription – all for a one-off payment of just £39.99.
But don’t forget from 19th December until 9th January you can claim 25% off this price by purchasing through the PlayStation Store.
That’s all from me this year folks! I’ll be back with more updates in 2013! Bring it on!
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 1:55 pm by icedude666
Thanks for the extra gotham city impostors we shouldn’t have been able to get ! Mortal Kombat, Guardians of Middle Earth AND Gotham City Impostors, great update guys. Everything downloaded and installed by now, worked like a charm
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 2:43 pm by DylaNolife
2nd January – Gotham City Imposters – Australia and Germany only
I don’t understant. I can download the activation for Gotham City Imposters from France but I have delete the demo version a few months ago…
I can’t download this demo version again, so, if we have already the demo’, we can have the game ?
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 3:03 pm by Golwar
@DylaNolife
There is nothing to understand … well besides the simple fact that SCEE is SCEE.
It really is no surprise that we have only 2 games in our german store, with Gotham City Imposters missing, and everyone else seems to have 4 games, including GCI.
You can even communicate that with them and you won’t get a reply. You can even witness how they made the same mistake just 2 weeks ago and how they seem to be unable to learn.
Ha, I even told them that they constantly missed the Plus avatars for the last months and guess what is missing once again for January? But those Hell Yeah avatars from October are still around.
It’s SCEE, that is all that you must know.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 3:06 pm by cosmic_uk
@DylaNolife the full game trial is available if you search for it. That plus the full game unlock code gives you the complete game.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 3:31 pm by EpicSoloInc
I am from Turkey, but still Gotham City Impostors is in my instant free game list. The thing is it is not free at all. Also I cannot download the said Mortal Kombat too. Tried searching over psn, but I can just find the vita version. Anyone have any ideas?
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 3:31 pm by Furiekins
Any news on if/when this will be going live?
In the US, the team came in early to make sure that there was a store update last week and that the PS+ and store update happened early this week too.
I assume that SCEE are all full of man flu and/or Christmas cheer and may update things and communicate with us by February?
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 3:35 pm by evilwitch83
@Golwar
If it makes you feel any better, my internet speed is too slow to play games online so I can’t play Guardians of Middle Earth or Gotham City Imposters anyway, so I am just thinking of Lego Batman as a replacement for Guardians of Middle Earth.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 3:37 pm by DylaNolife
“@DylaNolife the full game trial is available if you search for it. That plus the full game unlock code gives you the complete game.”
I find 2 results : the demo version & the unlock code but downloading the demo version give me the unlock code too…
So, i searched in my download list (08/02/2012) to find the demo version !
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 3:47 pm by Golwar
@evilwitch83
Thanks, but currently only 1 or 2 news could make me feel better.
Option A: Global store announcement.
Option B: SCEE staff fired.
It is interesting how quickly they managed to make me angry with them again.
After Fred’s lengthy reply before Christmas I really trusted him that their team is giving their best to please us.
But I guess his good intentions never had the slightest chance against the lack of competence and working morale of his colleagues in the store team. I mean, what excuse could there be for the inability to read “Germany and Australia only”? And that twice within such a short time. Blows my mind.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 4:20 pm by chrisboers
@Golwar: So, you’re angry with SCEE because you got what you were intended to get, right?
What is it to you that they made a mistake that gave others a chance to get more than they were intended to get? I don’t see how that hurts you, unless it makes you envious.
At least, this time you got something in return for not being able to get those games that YOUR GOVERNMENT blocks. It’s not SCEE that blocks content in your country.
Be angry at the right people, please.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 4:25 pm by ghettokid1987
What about content update in russian store ?
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 4:47 pm by Golwar
@chrisboers
I’d advise you to read before you comment. I often enough said that GCI seems to be available everywhere with the exception of the store where it should be: The german one.
So before you start another round of (CENSORED) talking my government, hold your breath.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 4:48 pm by Golwar
@chrisboers
I’d advise you to read before you comment. I often enough said that GCI seems to be available everywhere with the exception of the store where it should be: The german one.
So before you start another round of *beep* talking my government, hold your breath. And take care about your own matters if you have nothing better to share.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 5:00 pm by fords30
Can anyone else not download BioShock 2 as they’ve already downloaded the Full Game Trial (FGT) in the past? It just shows as ‘Purchased’ for me, even though I only have the trial.
The same thing happens for all of the FGTs, except from Assassins Creed II, which appears to be the only game with a FGT that works properly, i.e. you can still buy the full game if you’ve got the FGT registered on your Download List. For all others, the price disappears and you can no longer buy or download the full game if you’ve previously ‘purchased’ the FGT.
Seems this issue has been around for a while now and has been covered by some sites, (Google “Playstation store glitch gives you free games doesn’t let you play them” – Game Podunk, for an example), but it still hasn’t been fixed.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 5:01 pm by fords30
So is there a way to fix this Chris? Seeing as it works correctly for AC2, you must be able to fix it for the other FGT games too. If not, then I’d like to remove all of the FGTs from my Download List so that I don’t continue to run into this issue in the future if/when other FGT games are on Plus. Is there any way to go about doing this?
I’m not overly bothered in this case as I already own BioShock 2 on disc, but I’d still like to be able to get all of the content that I pay for.
Thanks.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 5:14 pm by evilwitch83
@Golwar
I understand how you feel. Around half a year ago I got in contact with my internet service provider, asking them if there was any plans to improve the speed in my area. They told me that it was going to be improved to about 3-4 mbps within the next month. After that month, the speed had still not improved so I got in contact with them again. They tried to tell me that they never said my speed was going to improve and when I told them the date and time they told me, they just said ” that person made a mistake. There are no plans to improve your speed.”
What really annoyed me the most was the fact that I was given this false hope for a month, only to be told that their employee made a mistake.
Plus, it really annoys me when people who can download games much faster than me complain that their download is too slow. I saw one person on here a few weeks ago complaining that a 3gb game took them 30 minutes to download, which would take me almost 6 hours.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 6:12 pm by Sp4rkyM4rk1337
Perhaps there has been an issue which I am unaware of, but Gotham City Impostors is appearing for £3.99 but also ‘Not available for purchase’ to me. Only the trial version is available to download for free, so some people may be mistaken. I got no more than three games as expected.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 6:23 pm by AquaMid
Still no MK in the russian psn.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 6:35 pm by Organ1zm_kld
still no MK on PSN in Russia…
what happened?
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 7:38 pm by supersmith2500
Btw, little question for you guys, does the digital version you got include all the DLC characters? (Rain, Scarlet, Kenshi and Freddy)
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 7:44 pm by EpicSoloInc
Why can’t I download Mortal Kombat for PS3? It is not on the store and I all can find is the Vita version. Either this offer is exclusive to vita or my whole psn is messed and I cannot find it in the store.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 8:19 pm by Organ1zm_kld
i have 2 MK version for PS Vita in my store =((( but have’t for ps3
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 8:23 pm by EpicSoloInc
@ Organ1zm_kld
Yeah, same. One of them is the arcade version right? I guess we will have to wait some. Also, do you see Gotham City Impostors under your instant game collection, even though it isn’t free?
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 9:45 pm by chrisboers
*Sigh* once again one of the downloads doesn’t work correctly. The ‘Guardians’ offering in the Dutch Store only downloads the 5 KB key, and leaves me with no option to download the 1.2GB Demo. I had to trick the Store by logging in using a second (US) account, and download the Demo from there.
That really shouldn’t happen any more after several months of this new store, and users shouldn’t have to be this resourceful getting their goods.
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 9:47 pm by chrisboers
@Golwar: Gotham is not available (for free) in the Dutch store either…
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Posted on 2 January, 2013 at 10:14 pm by Chriss--V
Anyone know if any DLC comes with Bioshock 2? Cant get to my ps3 properly for a few days.
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 12:26 am by ghettokid1987
Situation in russian store is some kind of weird.
Instead of Mortal Kombat for PS3 they trying to give Vita-version (again), which cannot be downloaded from now on.
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 2:14 am by Grimmy11
I downloaded Gotham City Imposters, Am wondering what will happen when Sony realise their mistake, Do you think they will pull it or just leave it now it’s out?
Maybe they will deactivate it somehow so it won’t work anymore? They can’t seem to do simple things with the store right so that might be unlikely
I think the most likely is they will pull it, Let the people who downloaded it keep it and then it will be in Februarys games.
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 3:00 am by xena4ever
Oh man! I paid full price for the LOTR game. Should have waited…
Great update as usual. Just one suggestion. Maybe you could give a God of War psp game for the vita or any other old first party games in the future.
ps+ is the best deal in gaming history!
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 11:14 am by sandkillerpt
@Chriss–V
I just started downloading both Bioshock 2 and Mortal Kombat and they don’t include any DLC (unless the DLC is somehow embedded in the Main Game). I’ll have to check after installing…
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 1:38 pm by violentcop6
@fords30
yes am having the same problem with Bioshock 2, am bummed out since its the only thing i was looking forward too this month but it doesn’t work, awesome! Im trying to download it once again and hopefully it works this time around, otherwise im emailing SCEE. Let me know if you find a solution for this first though.
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 2:19 pm by Grimmy11
I hadn’t hade the full game trail of bioshock 2 but when i selected it on the left there was an option to choose version which gave me the option of the full game or the full game trial.
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 5:02 pm by vickman79
No Mortal Kombat in Russian PSN, please add it.
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 5:18 pm by blackout_pt
sounds great, the Guardians of Middle Earth is actually making me want to buy a ps3 (only have ps vita).
One request tough.
I’m a huge fan of RPG, could you add a good one to the playstation vita instant game collection? (even if it’s a good one from psp or psone, Like one of the Final Fantasy).
Jet Set Radio might be interesting (from the video not my favorite type but ok), Pinball might be interesting also. Thanks for gravity rush and uncharted (last month)
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 5:50 pm by violentcop6
Good news for those who are having problems with downloading Bioshock 2, its working for me now not as a full game and not a FGT. It appears they fixed the error, thanks Sony!
@Grimmy11
thanks for your comment but i had actually selected the full game option before as you mentioned but it would automatically switch me to FGT mode anyhow, just a error on the store i guess
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 6:19 pm by Tinlelm
No Mortal Kombat in Russian store, instead Mortal Kombat for Vita is available. Please fix that.
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 6:29 pm by hayzink
@ supersmith2500
no extra kontent in mortal kombat m8
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Posted on 3 January, 2013 at 7:57 pm by TokyoMek
As a new PSN member ( besides using the account for my sons PSP ), and a new Plus Subscriber I’m a little confused by when updates arrive etc. Is there anything official on this? I just got myself a Vita and a good couple of games. So far great, Gravity Rush, MK etc. are cool.
I’m in South Africa and we seem to be linked to the EU store, is this correct?
Games for the most part seem to be cheaper at retail though. Anyway as a 6 year long 360 user, the PSN Store does seem a little less organized.
When are the updates above going live?
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Posted on 4 January, 2013 at 4:57 am by ghettokid1987
In additional to cheap update in Russia:
if there are insuperable circumstances for content managers because of which the Mortal Kombat(PS3) and Gotham City Impostors can’t be available in our country, in this case we can expect the equivalent replacement like in case with Australia.
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Posted on 4 January, 2013 at 8:45 am by Organ1zm_kld
a whole new year messed with this MK
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Posted on 4 January, 2013 at 10:19 am by chrisboers
@TokyoMek: The Plus update is already live.
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Posted on 4 January, 2013 at 12:44 pm by alexei379
Neither ‘Gotham City Impostors’ nor ‘Mortal Kombat’ is in Russian Store. When will this be fixed?
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Posted on 5 January, 2013 at 4:35 am by ghettokid1987
update of plus-content in russian store is going to be fixed ?
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Posted on 6 January, 2013 at 8:28 am by Tinlelm
The MK for PS3 absence in russian store is really becoming frustrating, is what really that hard to fix?
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Posted on 8 January, 2013 at 4:25 pm by pulsar_15
Mortal Kombat for PS3 is not avaiable in Turkey either, please fix this.
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Posted on 10 January, 2013 at 10:26 pm by PachecoPortugal
I downloaded the mortal kombat twice but it keeps freezing on the main screen (I can’t even close the game, I have to force a shutdown)… anyone here with the same problem?
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Posted on 11 January, 2013 at 5:32 pm by Riblet_aka_Rib
Is mortal kombat on vita now for plus members I don’t get it
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Posted on 11 January, 2013 at 8:59 pm by donjohn96
ahh i wish the fallout 3 DLC’s will be given away again. hope so!
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Posted on 12 January, 2013 at 5:56 am by Zrinko7
I need help… Its about downloading Bioshock 2, it always stucks at 9899 mb every single time. everything else downloads without a problem (god of war ascensions, mortal combat), but this one stuck at the same place over and over again?
Any thoughts?
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Posted on 13 January, 2013 at 3:59 pm by IntenseFAtE98
I hope they get games like Wipeout 2048 and Fifa on PS Plus for the vita real soon!!!
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