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Sony (Europe) to Offer Select PS3, PSP Games When PSN's Back Online

Details on what the rest of the world can expect haven't been detailed.


 The free stuff train is comin'...at some point.
 The free stuff train is comin'...at some point.
We don't know when PlayStation Network will come back online, but Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has provided a glimpse into what customers can expect in terms of goodwill gestures (aka freebies). What's available will vary region-to-region, but it wouldn't be a surprise if they were very similar.

On the European PlayStation Blog, we've learned Sony will offer up five different PlayStation 3 games and four PSP games. You won't be able to download all five, however. Instead, you'll get two from each.

The actual lineup hasn't been revealed yet--aka the most important piece of information.

Sony Computer Entertainment America wasn't willing to be as forthcoming about its offerings.

"We'll announce details of the Welcome Back program for North America in due course," the company told me this morning.    
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@ArmyCrow: Calling all Cars! :P
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Has anyone got a clue what type of game is being offered yet (full or PSN game)? I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to choose a couple as the only ones I've ever downloaded are Super Stardust and Rampart so it will be good to have another couple of games installed on the box.

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Did you know that Gamestop Germany is offering a PS3 slim to Xbox360 trade in? Bring your PS3 slim today and get a brand new Xbox 360 slim 250GB + 3 Month of Xbox Live Gold and 800 points: http://www.gamestop.de/tauschrausch

Thats really tempting. But I wont back down ;)
    Rumor says thats the revenge for the "digital distribution only" psp go console...

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@TeflonBilly: 

well if thats true about getting my days lost and a free month i wont complain, but losing online play for a free service isnt so bad as you will get to use that in the end when its up and running again, they still have the game itself, but i spose its worse for gamers who wanted online play only then yeah i feel sorry for those of you that want that.  i bought mortal combat to play online but it dont bother me as much as the online play is free and i can play the game first to get better at it so i dont get wasted so much.
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@wizeguy: If I remember correctly Plus subscribers are reimbursed for each missed day on top of the extra month.
And technically people are losing out due to the loss of PSN. They purchase games with the promise that online play is an inherent service of the product.
Hence they are now in possession of something less than what they bough. Some games have online as such an integral part of their package that an extreme example would be as if you bought a movie and it happened to be missing five minutes somewhere in it.
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anyone saying sony owes us nothing as its a free service is kinda wrong i pay for playstaion plus, a yearly sub.  ill be lost almost a month of that, ok ok they did say they will give a month free sub to everyone.  thats kind of a kick in the balls though cos people that didnt have playstaion plus will get a free month and people that have lost a month will get a month back your kinda not gaining anything free just getting back what you lost in the way of + membership.    but i dont really car as long as i get my month back, it just dont seem right that everyone should get a month free when they never lost it to start with.
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Hopefully it's not reject content 

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I'd love for Sony NOT to offer anything from SCEA/SCEE in tihs, but instead offer games from small third party developers as part of the make good program to them.  Pixel Junk X?  Slambolt Scrappers?  Chime Super Deluxe?  Gundemonium?  Kill two birds with one stone please...

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Ugh, just give me a free download copy of Infamous and call it a day.   It might even be good advertising for Infamous 2.

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I'll gladly take a couple games if they are offering, but I still don't like how negligent Sony has been with the security of users information. They better make sure this dosen't happen again.

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My friend has lost money due to his information being stolen, Sony are fucking lying if they are saying that no-one has had their accounts compromised and withdrawals being made.

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@rudyarr said:
" @the_chojin99: not sure why some people are so ungrateful. So sony effed up. Did you actually lose any money? Does your credit card show any activity that is not yours? It's like if facebook went down for 2 weeks and people wanted money for their time with out it. It is a free service, they really don't owe you shit. No offense to you sir, this is more for everyone that is complaining, even people that don't have their credit card info on their PSN, but I mean really complaining about PSN being down is really childish. People like to complain though and this is the internet.. "

My thoughts exactly. Free stuff for not being able to use a free service for a while? Sounds good to me even if it was something like tetris... hell Id play the shit outta tetris if they gave it to me free and i would be happy since it was FREE just like their service.
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I swear... if LBP 1 is one of the five I'll smash my PS3 to pieces!

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I say 5 free games of our choice out of the entire playstation library, and or a full year of PSN+. Having lots of PSN+ members might help their next gen sales.

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so let me get this right i get to choose 4 games out of 10 where 2 of em HAS to be a psp game. so people who dont have a psp only get 2 and what if you allready have the 5 game you can select you get nothing??? i know thats abit worse case senario but what i think they should have done is give everyone a x amount of credit on there psn wallet that way people can buy the shit they want. cant see a difference since it would be the same amount as the give away or mayb a little less
i got a psp but i only used it for about 3 hours total

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@Grillbar said:
" @MariachiMacabre said:
" Anyone know if the Uncharted games are on PSN? because those would be my pick. "
there is only some addons for unchated 2 mp, skins, some avatars and dynamic themes.(eu psn store)sounds like you have not played any of the game if thats the case then shame on you go directly online and buy em'  "
I've played a bit of both when I rented them back before I had Gamefly and loved both but couldn't afford them. I'll probably buy em before 3 comes out.
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@MariachiMacabre said:
" Anyone know if the Uncharted games are on PSN? because those would be my pick. "
there is only some addons for unchated 2 mp, skins, some avatars and dynamic themes.(eu psn store)
sounds like you have not played any of the game if thats the case then shame on you go directly online and buy em' 
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Anyone know if the Uncharted games are on PSN? because those would be my pick.

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Wow that's very nice of them.

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I bet its shit i and everyone else has already!

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If the wipeout HD games are in it i'm game.

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Bet all five are those five terrible blue toad detective games. Just saying.

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I hope they won't just offer PSN games, but the retail games you can buy on PSN as well (like Red Faction: Guerrilla, God of War Collection etc.).

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Two free PS3 games for something I don't use anyway not working? Sweet!

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Correct me if im wrong but hasnt this news already been released in the Japan meeting on the 1st of May?

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This sounds better than the sad PSN+ 30 day trial.

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This is great...I only ever use my PS3 as a Blu-Ray player and don't even own any games for it. If it wasn't for it being all over the news and GB, I wouldn't ever have known PSN was down.
If this happened to Xbox Live with its millions upon millions of Gold subscribers, the service would have been back up and running within 24 hours. You get what you pay for.

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Sony hack was partly an inside job. It's not only the users who like OtherOs.

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Hell yes! Three Bluray sized games for everyone to bring the network down again asap!

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@AkIRA_22 said:

" @ChristianCastillo: 


"Y'all no what I've been doing? playing Pixel Junk Shooter 2 on my Sony Playstation 3. It's so good, so good, YOUR ALL GETTING OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEE!"
"
 
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@the_chojin99: i sure hope so. that would go great in my room :p. again no hard feelings sir. I guess I am just fed up with all the Sony Ramblings going on lately. 
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well i hope america get's this also. it sounds pretty cool of them doing this. i hope they are good games. something tells me that they won't be that great of games to be on there.

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@ChristianCastillo: 

"Y'all no what I've been doing? playing Pixel Junk Shooter 2 on my Sony Playstation 3. It's so good, so good, YOUR ALL GETTING OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEE!"
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@Gabriel said:
" Free Home Content for EVERYONE!!!! "
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH..........wait no!
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Will this get me to update my PS3 for the first time in a year? Depends how sweet the deal is.

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All I can say is that in a perfect world, I hope that we here in the states with uk accounts can get in on this.   I am just Hoping that they don't go security crazy and block our access overseas in the long run.

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SONY = the new Oprah

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It would be hilarious if these were  9 terrible games, and then out of anger someone decides to hack PSN.

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Hey sweet, free games.

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Here's a chance to get some of the games that someone else bought with your money but you didn't get.

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Bet they will be pretty crappy. I would love my burnout paradise back though (sold the disc).

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So I'll be able to choose 4 games then, since I have both a PS3 and a PSP?

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Sony:   Sorry we screwed up. Here's a short list of free games to choose from. You can have four.

Gamers: Waaaugh! These are PSN games! My hard drive isn't big enough.
Sony: Okay...Um, I guess you could choose from these retail games.
Gamers: Waaaugh! These are Greatest Hits!
Sony: Wow. Well, I guess you can choose from these new bestsellers. With free DLC.
Gamers: Waaaugh! These aren't the Collectors' Editions!
Sony: Okay, screw it. We'll buy your health insurance so you can stop leeching off your parents. What are you, 25?
Gamers: Waaaugh! This is a closed-access HMO!
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Sounds good, lets hope the games on offer are decent. I also picked up a PSN card for 20 quid today for a few of the Final Fantasy games on the store. 

So lets go Sony, I am ready for freebies.

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I want all 5.

ALL FIVE.

FIVE

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Candidates (already available as full download PS3 games)

Ferrari
Borderlands
Infamous
Assasins creed 1
Wipeout

anyone remember any other games that were available in EU before shutdown?

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This is how I picture all the people that are complaining (still) about this PSN stuff:


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End of story...
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This would be awesome for me seeing as how i own a ps3 but only 1 game.

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@Everyones_A_Critic
Watch it be a fuckin' 1/2 off playstation plus coupon or some other useless shit.
Your name says it all.