Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition headlines this month's free games lineup for PlayStation Plus members, along with Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends.
All titles release May 21.
PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium | Game Catalog
- Red Dead Redemption 2 | PS4
- Deceive Inc. | PS5
- The Sims 4 City Living | PS4
- Crime Boss: Rockay City | PS5
- The Settlers: New Allies | PS4
- Stranded: Alien Dawn | PS4, PS5
- Cat Quest | PS4
- Cat Quest II | PS4
- The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame | PS4
- Watch Dogs* | PS4
PlayStation Premium | Classics
- 2Xtreme | PS4, PS5
- G-Police | PS4, PS5
- Worms Pinball | PS4, PS5
They gotta do better on the premium side for sure. Where are any of those jrpgs from the ps1 Era. Come on Sony.
Most of the Sony JRPGS have been released. Square has a ton that could be ported over but they would need Squares involvement.
Crime Boss! I know it hasn't reviewed well but I love the eighties action movie vibe of the trailer but didn't want to risk any money on it so this is a great way for me to play it.
G-Police is a game I have fond memories of and will definitely download to replay. I remember controlling your helicopter was a bit difficult and would make my hand cramp having to press all the shoulder buttons to go up and down and I think yaw left and right.
The next game they should add to Classics is Colony Wars, and I wouldn’t mind replaying Nightmare Creatures. I’d also like to replay Black, PSI Ope: The Mindgate Conspiracy.
If gamepass is so pointless and unprofitable why did PS shamelessly copy it with Plus extra?
Psnow was out well before gamepass. To boot most people talking sht about gamepass are talking day 1 releases. That and the fact that Xbox players as a whole aren't buying games like they should be. It's day 1 releases, Sony doesn't do that so you can't compare.
Aren't buying games like they should be? That's the most company statement I've ever read.
Shin,
While they do talk shit about every aspect of everything MS, including game pass, you just minimized it.
The first claim used to be that "It's all old games" because MS doesn't make new games. I then sit and watch people celebrate games that have been on GP for months/years, being celebrated on PS Plus.
Then when plenty of new good games were hitting regularly, the complaint changed to, the games suck, and the quality of them is bad because of GP.
When that well ran dry, it moved to GP, which is unsustainable and hurting developers.
Then, when MS said it had been making a profit, the goalpost moved again to ownership of games, and GP is driving killing off physical media.
In the meantime, Sony has produced a Digital Playstation and created a robust sub-service that they revamped after seeing the success of GP and admitting their service would not catch up to GP(Sony said it, not me). They also released some games on day 1 in the service. Both companies are doing very similar things, but the less popular brand generally receives the brunt of the negativity.
@InUrFoxHole this discussion has been stated many times on this site. Buying games is good for the industry for many reasons, keeps more studios open and helps them to be profitable which they need to be to stay open, it gives us a say in what games we want to play and continue to see and gives us the ability to demand quality with our wallets. If the majority rented , games will end up having lesser quality or be short or both , we will get less games, higher rental prices and studios getting shut down or downsized, more games with Micro-transactions and battle passes to help pay for the lack of people buying the game.
Gaming is a hobby that needs money to stay healthy and the best way to do that is to buy your favorite games and support your favorite studios. I don’t buy all games full price but I do for my favorite studios and favorite types of games because I want more of them in the future. I do buy some games on sale 40-20$ and occasionally cheaper than that but even that is better than a rental.
Maybe collect some braincells before calling yourself TheProfessional.
GamePass copied PSNow, not the other way around.
PSNow later changed name to PS+ Extra and Premium.
What makes GamePass unprofitable is because day 1 games makes gamers stop buying games and the amount of subscribers is too low to make up for it.
You don't need a lot of math knowledge to figure the rest out.
Didn’t PSPlus do it first and MS copied. I kind of remember it this way… your comment didn’t age well.
And you seem to be missing the point.
My memory is that playstation started it with the instant game collection which is pretty much what the Monthly games on PS essential is now.
PS now was cloud only and on demand (pay for by hour or day) with no subscription.
MS did the games with gold and gamepass as an awnser to the instant
game collection.
Then PSNow changed to subscription and native downloads(not cloud) like gamepass.
I'm of the mind that gamepass is another version of the instant game collection but i could see people seeing gamepass as the first one to do it in that particular way.
I'm going on memory too so not comited to this timeline.
Its about Day 1 releases. They don't put game in there day one because they want to get their money back before they give it away for 'free'. This is what the debate boils down to. The reason day one becomes an issues is because in order to make money back on games costing 200+ million to make you would need to either have Plus cost more a month or you would have to have many more subscribers (which is preferable to these companies). Activision was spending somewhere in the range of 4 billion a year to produce yearly COD games. The profit they made a year came in around 1 billion. If the revenue from GP has to also pay for the production cost of COD, it would take many, many decades to see a return on the purchase. That is the issue.
LOLOLOL Comparing a supplementary offering like PS Extra that you don't need to literally the entire point of Xbox and their primary selling point with day one releases of all their main titles. Well done mate for the false equivalence.
Man.... Premium has been a massive letdown but this is the only month they don't have a single thing for me. Oh well. I've gotten my money's worth so far and still need to finish up Rebirth and Rise of the Ronin then I'll hop back in to Relink and Helldivers after that.
RDR2 is a win for Sony and Crime boss is a good fit to help promote a struggling game
but we're far from what was removed this month (including Horizon Zero Dawn)
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Yeah I was hoping burning shores would have been added now that it's a year old vs. the base game being removed.
I wouldn't be surprised if both MS and PS continue to either walk back the quality of games in the sub services or increase the price, since it's now clearer to them how cannibalistic these services are
Available today on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, PC, Android and the Apple App Store is Athenian Rhapsody.
The Arctis Nova family of headsets expands today with the introduction of the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5 series and Nova 5 Companion App.
Lame month on both sides
Eh, I guess I'll try Darksiders 2.
Got Darksiders 2 in the PlayStation Humble Bundle for $4 along with Darksiders 1 and a few other titles. Poor this month.