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PSN Welcomes You Back With These Free Games

Posted on Monday, May 16 @ 15:06:23 Eastern by danielrbischoff

North America and the rest of the world ('cept Japan) got back online with their PlayStation 3s over the weekend. While the PlayStation Network Store still remains dark, the PlayStation Blog has given North American and European gamers an idea of what they'll be getting in return for all of that thumb-twiddling they did during the outage.

Once the PlayStation Store is restored, PSN users can select two PS3 games from the following list for download, free of charge:

-Dead Nation
-inFAMOUS
-LittleBigPlanet
-Super Stardust HD
-Wipeout HD + Fury

If you're a PSP owner with a PSN account, you've got two more choices to make out of the following four games:

-LittleBigPlanet PSP
-ModNation Racers
-Pursuit Force
-Killzone Liberation

The PlayStation blog also reports that PlayStation Network users will also be able to choose from a selection of "On Us" movie rentals over the course of one weekend. If you were not enrolled in PlayStation Plus, Sony's hoping you'll change your mind after 30 days free of the premium PSN service. The same 30 days will be available to individuals not enrolled in Sony's Music Unlimited service.

If you were enrolled in PlayStation Plus before the outage, your account will be extended by 60 days. If you were already enrolled in Music Unlimited, you'll get 30 free days attached to the end of your current subscription, along with the total number of days the service was out.

Even PlayStation Home will get a handful of bonuses in order to get player to reenter the virtual space. 100 virtual items will be available to users reentering Home after the service outage. More free content will also become available including an addition to the Home Mansion space and Ooblag's Alien Casino.

I have no f***ing clue what any of that Home stuff is, but I'm happy about some free games. What will you be taking away from the outage?

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Related Games:   Dead Nation, inFamous, Killzone: Liberation, LittleBigPlanet, LittleBigPlanet PSP, ModNation Racers, Pursuit Force, Super Stardust, Wipeout HD
Tags:   psn, ps3, Sony


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  • shandog137
    shandog137 - Joined: Mar 14, 2007
    Well this sucks...I have Dead Nation, Infamous, Little Big Planet, and Super Stardust HD. All great games but does that mean because I am a great sony customer I only get Wipeout HD +Fury. Shitt...I am writing a letter.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 3:12 pm
  • Rinnon
    Rinnon - Joined: Nov 8, 2005
    Yeah, their choice in games is good... but I own all of the games listed there that I want to own. -_-
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
  • StudioTan
    StudioTan - Joined: Jan 29, 2010
    I already have Dead Nation. It is a GREAT game. You guys should definitely pick up that one. I've always been intrigued by Wipeout HD, (it had great reviews from what I can remember) so I think I will be picking that up. I guess for me it's a choice between LPB and Super Stardust HD. Has anyone played the latter?
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
  • StudioTan
    StudioTan - Joined: Jan 29, 2010
    I'm too slow for you guys! What do you think: LBP or Stardust?
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
  • Eduardo_Reboucas
    Eduardo_Reboucas - Joined: Dec 9, 2008
    I already own LBP2 but I'll easily pick the first game. And guys, don't have any doubt - get Liberation. It's awesome.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
  • Swolern
    Swolern - Joined: May 16, 2011
    @ StudioTan
    Stardust for sure, it's a really fun game that took up a lot of my time. It is also 3d compatible if u got a 3dtv. In 3d the planet your playing on floats in front of you and asteroids come flying by your head, it's intense. LBP was fun for the first day or two (then i never played again) and don't get me wrong a very original game and has more content than the others, but if you got kids they will like it more than you.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
  • Masterwabbit
    Masterwabbit - Joined: Mar 15, 2009
    I'm personally thinking WipeOut+Fury and Super Stardust. I own inFAMOUS, not a fan of Zombie Games (Dead Nation), and LBP has a sequel out there that's bigger and better.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2 - Joined: Jan 29, 2009
    This is about what I expected it to be like. Wish they had straight up given us $10 PSN money as a way of making it up to us and giving back, albeit at random, to the many game distributing companies that have also felt the crunch. Hopefully we'll also see some good sells too as companies want to get the ball rolling again.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff - Joined: Nov 13, 2009
    I'll go ahead and pick up inFAMOUS... never played that. I have Dead Nation and LittleBigPlanet so I think I'll go ahead with Super Stardust HD.... Wipeout doesn't seem that entertaining to my tastes.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
  • Eduardo_Reboucas
    Eduardo_Reboucas - Joined: Dec 9, 2008
    PSA for the day - do not get Dead Nation. It's awful. That is all.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
  • Eduardo_Reboucas
    Eduardo_Reboucas - Joined: Dec 9, 2008
    If you want a Housemarque game, get Stardust OR better yet, get Outland once it hits PSN.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
  • Longo_2_guns
    Longo_2_guns - Joined: Jun 30, 2003
    I've been meaning to get Wipeout HD + Fury anyway.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff - Joined: Nov 13, 2009
    @Eduardo_Reboucas: Stardust is a Housemarquee game? Sold.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
  • moretokes
    moretokes - Joined: Apr 27, 2011
    Oh great we get ancient games that are 10 dollars to. Purchase
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 5:27 pm
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander - Joined: Sep 29, 2006
    inFAMOUS for sure, and I'm leaning towards Wipeout for the second game.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
  • The_Big_Cheese
    The_Big_Cheese - Joined: May 22, 2007
    I wonder if I'll be able to get the games since I couldn't sign up for a psn until after service came back up.
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    Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
  • MrrClean
    MrrClean - Joined: Aug 7, 2010
    inFAMOUS and Dead Nations... everyone likes killin' zombies.
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    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 6:48 am
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting - Joined: Nov 11, 2006
    I'll take Dead Nation and Wipeout, plus Modnation and Liberation.
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    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 9:08 am
  • Lethean
    Lethean - Joined: Jan 27, 2001
    It's either iNFAMOUS and LBP or Wipeout HD for me.
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    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 10:02 am
  • Rushko
    Rushko - Joined: Jun 23, 2010
    sure would be nice if GR had reviews on these games so I could decide what to get.... not like that's there job or anything.... guess there too busy doing bikinicasts sigh
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    Posted: May 18th, 2011 at 10:25 am

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