BioShock Infinite, Brothers, DmC & Don't Starve headline PlayStation Plus in January

PlayStation Plus' Instant Game Collection starts with a bang in 2014, with games hitting PS4, PS3, and PS Vita. Many of these games are potential Game of the Year candidates, meaning you'll have an easy way of accessing 2013's very best games for cheap.

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PlayStation Plus' Instant Game Collection starts with a bang in 2014, with games hitting PS4, PS3, and PS Vita. Many of these games are potential Game of the Year candidates, meaning you'll have an easy way of accessing 2013's very best games for cheap.

PlayStation 4

  • Don't Starve

    Don’t Starve: Console Edition is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. You play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.

PlayStation 3

  • DmC: Devil May Cry

    In a society corrupted by demons only The Order can see the world for what it really is. Join Dante in the ultimate experience of stylish action chain together combo after combo with panache and dispatch demonic spawn back to hell – reveal the truth behind the lies. Explore Dante’s dark past encountering some the most familiar faces in the DmC universe. Call upon unimaginable powers combined with Dante’s epic arsenal of weapons: sword, scyte, axe, pistols and more. Face your demons…

  • BioShock Infinite

    Indebted to the wrong people and with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and hired gun Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia. Forced to trust one another, Booker and Elizabeth form a powerful bond during their daring escape. Together, they learn to harness an expanding arsenal of weapons and abilities, as they fight on zeppelins in the clouds, along high-speed Sky-Lines, and down in the streets of Columbia, all while surviving the threats of the sky-city and uncovering its dark secret.

  • Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

    Share in the epic journey of two brothers, as they set out to find a cure for their dying father. Travel across beautiful vistas, through dark and foreboding forests, down perilous rivers, up hazardous mountain sides and experience the wonders of Nordic mythology along the way. Use the unique control system to control each brother with a thumb stick, for concurrent gameplay throughout the adventure. Use both brothers cooperatively to solve puzzles, explore the environments and in boss encounters.

PS Vita

  • Worms: Battle Island

    Battle up to three other players offline or online on one of six landscape themes, using one of forty classic Worms weapons or some of your own creation in the weapons factory. With sixty single player challenges, five game modes, a powerful level editor and a massive selection of ways to personalize your worm army and customize your game experience, it’s a package sky-high on entertainment!

  • Smart As

    Join the brain gaming revolution! Use cutting-edge touch, tilt and camera controls to prove how smart you are in the first ever socially networked brain game on PS Vita. Solve math, memory, logic and word puzzles, crack augmented reality challenges and sharpen your rapid-fire reflexes to storm up the online leaderboards and show off your scores to the world via Facebook and Twitter.

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    December 26, 2013 10:00 AM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, BioShock Infinite, Brothers, DmC & Don't Starve headline PlayStation Plus in January.

    PlayStation Plus' Instant Game Collection starts with a bang in 2014, with games hitting PS4, PS3, and PS Vita. Many of these games are potential Game of the Year candidates, meaning you'll have an easy way of accessing 2013's very best games for cheap.

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      December 26, 2013 10:06 AM

      Holy God.. Sony for the win!

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      December 26, 2013 10:08 AM

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        December 26, 2013 10:38 AM

        Yeah I mean how can you not be concerned when they pull a desperation move like this

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        December 26, 2013 7:56 PM

        yes, this is clearly an act of a dying company.

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        December 26, 2013 8:27 PM

        I think you got it all wrong. Sony is doing well that's why they can afford to do this for their supporters. If they were "dying" and suffering, how do you think they can give out these titles for free and front the bill??? Use your head man...

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      December 26, 2013 10:11 AM

      guess i don't need to buy Brothers now...

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        December 26, 2013 10:12 AM

        haha, yuppppppppppppppppppppppppppp/

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          December 26, 2013 10:53 AM

          It beats MS's $5 price tag. This is what I get for not waiting.

          (No regrets, though.)

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      December 26, 2013 10:31 AM

      Pretty crazy

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      December 26, 2013 10:36 AM

      Oh my god those are awesome!

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      December 26, 2013 10:55 AM

      I can't help but wonder what deal Sony throws to the publishers. They must waive manufacturing costs or licensing or something.

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        December 26, 2013 11:35 AM

        a lot of the people who get these games for free never would have bought them (or had already bought them), I could see how a fraction of a dollar from the subdivided subscription fee paid by each of these people in aggregate could largely equal or perhaps even exceed the losses from forgone sales to those who would have purchased but for the 'free' psplus license

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        December 26, 2013 11:50 AM

        Most of the people who wanted to play these games bought them at release. I got B:I the day it came out, for example.

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          December 26, 2013 1:52 PM

          True, but if you just got into gaming now, you could buy a PS3 with PS+ and just coast on the free games for a long time. I keep telling myself I should do that, but I can't get past the desire to have things as soon as they release.

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            December 26, 2013 9:01 PM

            I think you're under the impression that free games stay free. Each game only stays free for a limited time; after 30-60 days, it carries a price tag again.

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              December 26, 2013 9:20 PM

              It's still worthwhile, two quality games per month is probably plenty for most people.

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              December 27, 2013 6:51 PM

              its still free for me since i am staying with PS+ and it will always be free. It stays in your download history and you can re-download it anytime you want. Even if you end the subscription and choose to renew it at a later time.

              get the fact straight.

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              December 30, 2013 12:57 PM

              No, games will stay free as long as you D/L them when they are released. I still have access to games from 2+ years ago through PSN

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        December 26, 2013 1:36 PM

        The general consensus is that after the free period is up there are a lot more people who are interested in the game, and it actually boosts sales enough to make up for the difference.

        Sony is just smart enough to know how to market this and make these games sell good enough to make publishers happy with the deal.

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          December 26, 2013 9:24 PM

          Or the opportunity to sell the DLC!

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          January 5, 2014 11:39 PM

          And if a game is more popular it will be more prominently featured in the interface of their store. Many of these games they put out for free are new enough to be great deals while old enough that they are no longer on the front page so to speak.

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      December 26, 2013 11:09 AM

      I'm a PC gamer and a Steam addict, but I also have Sony products and the PSN is absolutely great. You can score a year of PSN for $30 in some places, but it goes for $50. If you own Sony you should definitely grab PSN.

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      December 26, 2013 12:39 PM

      Awesome was just about to click buy on steam for dmc as I read this. Yay PS+ saving me 12$ I'll also take don't starve and a new worms game. Already own bioshock and brothers though. I'm so glad I have PS+!

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        December 27, 2013 2:37 AM

        It's worth grabbing DmC on PC if you're anything more than just casually interested in the game. It runs at 30 fps on consoles, which makes it feel far less fluid than its predecessors thanks to the less distinct attack animations (making it harder to judge when to make the next input to continue a combo) and added input latency. On PC, it's extremely well optimized and will run at over 60 fps on even middling hardware.

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      December 26, 2013 2:17 PM

      Dang I just bumped the ps3 to the small TV to make room for the ps4. Guess she gets a reprieve for a few months

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      December 26, 2013 2:18 PM

      It's amazing I'm enjoying the PS3 this much for it being so late in this console generation. I've had mine for about a year now and I use it more and more, it seems. PS Plus certainly helps.

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      December 26, 2013 2:32 PM

      Does anybody know the exact day these hit?

      Another exciting thing was that I was checking the Sony store the other day and noticed that one of the games (I forget now.. maybe Lego Avengers or something) was up for a Flash Sale of 30% off or something along those lines. That's kind of exciting that they might actually be learning from Steam and doing sales on downloadable titles! I hope they do more of that stuff!

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      December 26, 2013 2:46 PM

      Damn EU PS+ doesn't have Bioshock (nor Brothers)... Only DmC.

      Hoping it comes out in the follow month or two.

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