Geez, the February Plus free games catalog looks great.
- Outlast (PS4)
- Metro: Last Light (PS3)
- Payday 2 (PS3)
- Remember Me (PS3)
- Street Fighter X Tekken (Vita)
- ModNation Racers: Road Trip (Vita)
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$50 for a year?
Damn ... wow.
Damn ... wow.
Yeah. And yet there are some idiot gamers out there that still call it a ripoff because you don't get to keep the games. WHO CARES? It's basically renting them, but without worrying about returning them. They've had some seriously great AAA games in the past, like Uncharted 3, Little Big Planet 2, X-Com (the good, tactical one; not the shitty FPS), Saints Row 3, etc.
Now, if you download a free game, can you only play it that month or can you play it so long as you're a subscriber?
As long as you're a subscriber. So you can keep it for years if you keep up your Plus account.
And as I found out, if you let your subscription lapse (and thus lose access to the games) you get access to them again should you re-up later.
Holy shit. So, for less than the price of one game per year, I get many of them per month.
I'm signing up.
I'm signing up.
Yeah, I can't believe I waited so long. It's a freaking no brainer. Plus, great deals. I just got Crysis 3 for 5 bucks.[DOUBLEPOST=1391493234,1391493174][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, the month after I bought bishock infinite it went up for free. Now I buy almost nothing because I know it will happen again
Heads up: start the purchase for any game you may be interested in, at least up until the download begins. You can then exit without finishing the download and will, for as long as you have access to plus, retain access to the game and finish or redownload load at a later date. If you don't "buy" the games this way, once their offer period runs up you won't be able to get them.
The sad part is that I'm running out of room on my first-gen PS3. 
The Playstation guide on upgrading the HDD is actually pretty good, but does anyone have any advice not in the official guide?
The Playstation guide on upgrading the HDD is actually pretty good, but does anyone have any advice not in the official guide?
GasBandit
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Play to Cure:Genes in Space for Android and IOS - the free-to-play mobile game that is really just an entertaining way to do distributed gene analysis.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/04/us-cancer-game-idUSBREA130P320140204
I had a feeling that was the case. Started a few extra downloads that I'll let trickle in (and then delete) over time.
Ditto. I just went on a clearing spree for games we're not really playing right now. Some of it was long overdue--we had install data for Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition. Just cleared up 5 gigs without losing a damn thing.The sad part is that I'm running out of room on my first-gen PS3.
This thing is supposed to have 150GB, but I don't know where it's all gone. Seemed like it only had half that when we bought it. System updates must eat a lot of space.
In shittier news, Ubisoft has abandoned the "Watch Dogs" trademark.
So either they're changing the title or ... I hope they're not cancelling the game.
So either they're changing the title or ... I hope they're not cancelling the game.
Apparently the abandonment claim was fraudulent.
...so you're saying there's still a chance?
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I wish I could find that Penny Arcade(VGCats?) comic that shows how a mobile Assassin's Creed game would be nothing more than Farmville with a new skin.
--Patrick
Yeah... apparently Toonami got that way early and ran a review of it earlier last month. It looks pretty good.
I played through Freedom Cry. It was very good. If you like AC4 it's worth a purchase. Not as *fun* as the main story though, and I think everyone learned with AC3 that you HAVE to have fun with AC or else it's just to grim. Freedom cry is good but it is grim, yet it's short enough that it never becomes wearisome.
I actually just went and bought a 320GB drive and copied stuff over with the backup utility, so I'm good.
With all the plus games coming out, $50 for an additional 240GB of space seemed very worth it.
Are there specific hard drives for the PS3 that I have to get or will anything do? 'Cause I wouldn't mind an upgrade.I actually just went and bought a 320GB drive and copied stuff over with the backup utility, so I'm good.
With all the plus games coming out, $50 for an additional 240GB of space seemed very worth it.
The official upgrade page (linked farther up) made it sound like all you needed was a standard 2.5" internal Sata drive, so I got a Seagate Momentus 5400RPM 320GB (the same drive family and type as my current one, just 4 times larger). Nothing special. Some folks talk about the benefits that come with adding a 7200RPM drive or an SSD, but the regular load-times never bothered me that much (barring ridiculous exceptions like MGS4 and Lost Odyssey), and investing in a high-end 2.5" drive for what is now officially last-gen seemed really silly.
EDIT: FYI, I haven't played anything yet because I've been downloading shit. So you may want to hold off until I report back.
EDIT2: So it appears that when playing games you already had played on the old HDD, the PS3 re-writes the note that says you have played it before and treats the game as if you've played it on the machine for the first time. Mind, it won't delete anything in the "saved data utility" folder, it will re-write data in the "game data utility" folder. So it depends on how exactly that game uses save files.
Person 4 Arena (disk) - save file not recognized, re-written, starting from scratch.
The Last of Us (disk) - loads from the save file in the saved data folder, worked perfectly.
Warriors Orochi 3 (digital) - auto-loaded save file no problem, worked perfectly.
2/3, and the games that I would really want the save files to work are the ones that work. So there you go.
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