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Welcome Back: Sony Gives Free Games To PS3/PSP Owners
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Now that the PlayStation Network is back online, Sony is ready to start dolling out the goodies in reparation for, you know, losing all your personal details, or something.
Sony Europe (which includes Australia, oddly) has outlined what they're giving and it looks fairly decent:
Two PS3 games from the following list:
- LittleBigPlanet
- Infamous
- Wipeout HD/Fury
- Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
- Dead Nation
For those with PSP accounts, you will also be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list:
- LittleBigPlanet PSP
- ModNation PSP
- Pursuit Force
- Killzone Liberation
As well as that, there's also:
- 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PS Plus subscribers
- Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will be given 60 days free subscription.
- For existing Music Unlimited subscribers, you will be given 30 days free subscription.
- We are working on a Welcome Back offer in PlayStation Home and will share that when it is confirmed.
Huzzahs all around!
Reader Comments:
"Please don't leave us for Wii2 and 360 - here, have some free crap!"
I'm going to grab Infamous, but I'm tossing up between Wipeout and Rachet and Clank.

I think i've got Infamous somewhere. I can't find my promo games folder for PS3![]()
Will probably end up getting Dead Nation and R&C..
I do, n.

I had Infamous but didn't like it, same with LBP. So I might grab the others. How do we redeem it?
When the store's back up you'll be able to claim it.
How much of infamous did you play, insano?

It got off to a bad start for two reasons. I bought it in the US and played the first 3 or 4 hours on my brother in law's PS3. And I didn't enjoy them too much, and I had to go and redo all of that again when I got home. The same feeling as losing a save game, which usually saps the fun out of something for me.
Second time through I started getting some cool powers, and it was more fun, but I found that getting around was really annoying. Like I would randomly get killed by dudes on roofs that would hide before I had a chance to shoot back. And I didn't want to play on easyI had Prototype at the same time, which I probably wouldn't consider a better open-world game now, but it was certainly more accessible and fun for short bursts.
LBP is similar, a game I didn't have much time to put in to. I appreciate what people can do with it, but I never had the patience to learn it that much, and I found the mechanics a bit annoying.
I spent quite a bit of time playing through the story-line, which was alright with a friend. But I put a few hours in to the creation mode, and didn't have a chance to get back to it for a few weeks. And by then I'd forgotten how to do most stuff... And I didn't really put the effort in to thinking of cool levels to make. I just messed around.
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I had Prototype at the same time, which I probably wouldn't consider a better open-world game now, but it was certainly more accessible and fun for short bursts.