This is your PS Plus April 2015 IGC from PSN JP!

For the first time, PSN JP revealed their IGC line-up earlier than PSN US/EU. And not only that, these IGC will live tomorrow! Which means today is your last chance to get the March 2015 IGC from PSN JP which is a lot of games.

Let's check the list first:

• PS4 Valiant Hearts: The Great Wars
• PS4 Never Alone
• PS4 Rogue Legacy
• PS4 OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood

• PS3 Gatling Gears
• PS3 The Guided Fate Paradox 
• PS3 Rogue Legacy

• Vita Monster Bag
• Vita Rogue Legacy
• Vita OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood

We don't think this line-up is as jaw-dropping as previous IGCs, as there are too many Western Indie games, which made PSN JP lost its charms. By comparison, these below are the games that will expire tomorrow (Japanese Time) when the list is updated. So you need to be a member today if you want to claim both these games below and those games mentioned above.

And if you are never become a PS Plus members on JP PSN before, you can pay for a special price $4.1 for 3 month of JP PSN PS Plus membership. The price only valid until today, March 31st unfortunately so you'll have to rush a bit. EXPIRED

• PS4 CounterSpy (Crossbuy Vita/PS3) full English support.
• PS4 OddWorld: New 'N' Tasty
• PS4 OlliOlli (Crossbuy Vita/PS3) full English support.
• PS4 Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends Japanese only

• PS3 Tales of Symphonia Chronicles Japanese only
• PS3 BLAZBLUE CHRONOPHANTASMA Japanese only
• PS3 Deadly Premonition Red Seeds Profile Complete Edition English support unknown
• PS3 Dungeons & Dragons -Tower of Doom & Shadow over Mystara- (game size 4GB)
• PS3 Grandia Xtreme (PS2 Classic) Japanese only

• Vita/PSTV Toukiden PlayStation Vita the Best Japanese only

Confused how to make a purchase from PSN webstore? Read our step-by-step guide.

A rule of thumb, all western Indie games are presumed to have its original English version intact. So if you are getting indie games and don't speak Japanese, chances are you can still play it. Another rule of thumb, all Japanese games that is either Racing, Fighting or Shmup are almost guaranteed to have English menus, although the explanations may be Japanese only.

The line-up for US/EU PSN is not yet revealed, but one game for PS3 is confirmed to be Dishonored. Woah Dave! (PS4) is also free for Plus members in April but it is not a part of IGC.

If you don't have JP PSN account yet, you can read our tutorial on how to set up a PSN account straight from your PC. The registration is free and open to everyone everywhere in the world, not limited to any nationality or place you live.

To purchase Plus membership, go here for US, UK, HK, or JP.
30 days membership starts at $10 for PSN US, or $8.8 for PSN UK, or $5 for PSN HK, or $4.3 for PSN JP.

You can purchase top-ups for your account from play-asia. See also our guide on how to top up your account from PC.

 
Deals currently ongoing:

1. Spring Fever Week #4 in US PSN
2. Easter Sale and God of War games sale live in UK/EU PSN.
3. Two more games added as IGC for PSPlus members in JP PSN. Tales of Symphonia Chronicles (PS3) and Dynasty Warrior 8 Xtreme Legends (PS4). Claim it before it gone on April 1st.
4. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99. HK PSN account required.
5. Play the addictive free game Fat Princess: Piece of Cake on your Vita or smartphone, finish level 15 and get the PS3 game Fat Princess free for life, available for US/UK/HK PSN account holder.
6. As an addition to the official IGC, Uncharted 3 is re-offered as IGC for UK PSN Plus members. Not available on US/HK/JP PSN.
7. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
8. Sing popular song in English, or perhaps even Anime/Game songs and K-POPs at affordable price. Read our guide for Joysound TV Plus. You need Japanese PSN top-ups for this service.

follow our twitter @psnworldupdates

Surprise 10% discount code for entire purchase on US PSN (EXPIRED)

NOTE: EXPIRED. Move on guys!

PSN US has surprised us all with 10% discount code that will only valid this weekend for United States, Canadian, and Latin American PSN account holders worldwide.

To anyone who like to purchase anything from those stores, we suggest you to wait until weekend (Pacific Time) to buy something from the store since this code is valid once for your entire cart/basket. So if you purchase a total of $60, you will only need to pay $54. Spring Fever Week #4 and God of War sale is still ongoing and you can use the code on them too.

If you have difficulty loading the image above, the code is: LQ8ERDQH3A

Just like before, there are limitation in using the code. The code won't work for pre-orders and all kind of subscriptions (PS Plus, PS Now, also any in-game and app subscription etc.). For PS Vita/PSTV users, you have to use the PSN webstore on PC to use the discount code.

Confused how to make a purchase from PSN webstore? Read our step-by-step guide.

Where to use the code:

On PC, just before you checkout with your games, type or paste the 10 alphanumeric digits code into the form as seen below as Xs. Picture is taken from HK PlayStation Official Site, but it is apply to US and UK PSN as well.

Remember to click Apply to apply your code.

If you don't have US PSN account yet, you can read our tutorial on how to set up a PSN account straight from your PC. The registration is free and open to everyone everywhere in the world, not limited to any nationality or place you live.

If your PSN account is a sub-account, you can now upgrade it into master account, only after your age turned 18. See this blog post for detail.

To purchase Plus membership, go here for US, UK, HK, or JP.
30 days membership starts at $10 for PSN US, or $8.8 for PSN UK, or $5 for PSN HK, or $4.3 for PSN JP.

You can purchase top-ups for your account from cdkeys and play-asia. See also our guide on how to top up your account from PC.


  Deals currently ongoing:

1. Spring Fever Week #4 in US PSN
2. Easter Sale and God of War games sale live in UK/EU PSN.
3. Two more games added as IGC for PSPlus members in JP PSN. Tales of Symphonia Chronicles (PS3) and Dynasty Warrior 8 Xtreme Legends (PS4). Claim it before it gone on April 1st.
4. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99. HK PSN account required.
5. Play the addictive free game Fat Princess: Piece of Cake on your Vita or smartphone, finish level 15 and get the PS3 game Fat Princess free for life, available for US/UK/HK PSN account holder.
6. As an addition to the official IGC, Uncharted 3 is re-offered as IGC for UK PSN Plus members. Not available on US/HK/JP PSN.
7. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
8. Sing popular song in English, or perhaps even Anime/Game songs and K-POPs at affordable price. Read our guide for Joysound TV Plus. You need Japanese PSN top-ups for this service.

follow our twitter @psnworldupdates

PSN EU celebrate Easter/Spring with a Sale

PSN EU announced Easter Sale yesterday. Although the games being offered are not bad, the list they've posted on their blog are not complete, certainly forcing all of us to visit the PSN webstore directly to see all games being offered. Nevertheless instead of just copying and pasting the original list written by PSN EU, we added some more titles that are not listed yet offered in the sale, but only those with prices under £7 (Roughly equal to US$10. We don't think digital games worth it if prices above that price line.)

So here we go, the official list from PSN

Until 8th April
PS4 Assassin’s Creed Unity £34.99/€44.99/AU$62.95 (10% PS+)
PS4 Call of Duty Advanced Warfare £34.99/€49.99/AU$69.95 (10% PS+)
PS4 Far Cry 4 £34.99/€44.99/AU$67.95 (10% PS+)
PS4 Knack £15.99/€19.99/AU$29.95 (10% PS+)
Vita Dead Nation + Road of Devastation £3.29/€3.99/AU$5.95 (10% PS+)
Vita Freedom Wars £11.99/€14.99/AU$22.95 (10% PS+)
Vita Lemmings Touch £2.49/€2.99/AU$4.55 (10% PS+) EXPIRED


Until 15th April
PS4 FIFA 15 Deluxe Edition £29.99/€34.99/AU$47.95
PS4 Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris & Season Pass £11.49/€13.99/AU$20.95
PS4 Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes £5.79/€6.99/AU$10.45
PS4 Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare £11.59/€14.49/AU$21.95 (10% PS+)
PS4 PES 2015 Pro Evolution Soccer £19.99/€24.99/AU$30.95 (20% PS+)
PS4 Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition £9.49/€11.99/AU$17.95
PS3 Demon’s Souls £3.99/€4.99/AU$7.55
PS3 Far Cry 3 + Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon £11.59/€14.49/AU$21.95
PS3 Mass Effect Trilogy £11.99/€14.99/AU$22.95
PS3 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance £3.29/€3.99/AU$5.95
PS3 Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch £3.99/€4.99/AU$7.55
PS3 Resonance of Fate £6.19/€7.49/AU$11.25
PS3 Sleeping Dogs Digital Edition £3.99/€4.99/AU$7.55
PS3 SSX £3.99/€4.99/AU$7.55
Vita Criminal Girls: Invite Only £24.99/€29.99
Vita Muramasa Rebirth £7.99/€9.99/AU$14.95
Vita Silent Hill Book of Memories £3.99/€4.99/AU$7.55
Vita Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment £19.99/€24.99/AU$37.95

and here is the additional game we listed, only for those under £7 (US$10).
Crossbuy PS4/PS3/Vita Entwined £3.29 (£2.49 with Plus)
Crossbuy PS3/Vita Sound Shapes £3.99 (£3.59 with Plus)
PS4 Crimsonland £2.49
PS4 Flockers £6.49
PS4 Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition £3.99 (£3.59 with Plus)
PS4 MXGP £3.99
PS4 Peggle 2 £3.29
PS4 Peggle 2 Magical Masters Edition £4.99
PS4 Putty Squad Game £3.99
PS4 Risk £6.19
PS3 Alice Madness Returns £3.29
PS3 Demon's Souls £3.99
PS3 Doom Classic Complete £2.49
PS3 DOOM 3 BFG Edition £5.79
PS3 Far Cry Blood Dragon £3.99
PS3 Far Cry Classic £3.29
PS3 FIFA Street £3.99
PS3 Hitman Absolution £3.99
PS3 Hitman Trilogy HD £6.19
PS3 Just Cause 2 Ultimate Edition £5.79
PS3 Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning £5.79
PS3 Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light £2.49
PS3 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance £3.29
PS3 Mass Effect £3.99
PS3 Mass Effect 2 £4.99
PS3 Mass Effect 3 £6.49 (£5.84 with Plus)
PS3 Metro: Last Light £5.79
PS3 MGSV: Ground Zeroes £3.99
PS3 Mirror's Edge £3.99
PS3 Prince of Persia Classic £2.49
PS3 Prince of Persia Trilogy £3.99
PS3 Rain £3.99 (£3.59 with Plus)
PS3 Ridge Racer Unbounded £3.29
PS3 Ridge Racer Unbounded Special Edition £3.99
PS3 Sleeping Dogs £3.99
PS3 Sonic Unleashed £4.39
PS3 SSX £3.99
PS3 Syberia £3.99
PS3 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Trilogy HD £3.99
PS3 TC's Ghost Recon Future Soldier £5.79
PS3 TMNT: Out of the Shadows £5.79
PS3 The Walking Dead - Season Pass £5.79
PS3 Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2 £5.79
PS3 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 £5.79
PS3 Under Defeat HD: Deluxe Edition £2.49
PS3 Yakuza: Dead Souls £6.19
Vita Asphalt Injection £3.99
Vita Dead Nation £2.49 (£2.24 with Plus)
Vita Dead Nation + Road of Devastation £3.29 (£2.96 with Plus)
Vita Dungeon Hunter: Alliance £3.99
Vita Escape Plan £3.99 (£3.29 with Plus)
Vita Jet Set Radio £1.99
Vita Lemmings Touch £2.49 (£2.24 with Plus)
Vita Little Big Planet Marvel Super Hero Edition £6.49 (£5.84 with Plus)
Vita Lumines: Electric Symphony £3.99
Vita/PSP Monster Hunter Freedom Unite £3.99
Vita MUD - FIM Motocross Championship £3.99
Vita Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD £3.29
Vita PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale £5.79 (£5.21 with Plus)
Vita Ratchet & Clank: Q Force £3.99 (£3.59 with Plus)
Vita Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz £3.99
Vita Unit 13 £3.99 (£3.59 with Plus)
Vita Virtue's Last Reward £6.99
Vita WRC4 FIA World Rally Championship £6.99

You can check the whole list in UK PSN here. Remember that everything marked as "Add-On" are DLCs and only works with games from PAL regions.

If none of the games above interest you, UK/EU PSN still have their God of War games sale ongoing, or you can check the current sale in US PSN. EXPIRED

You can purchase top-ups for your account from cdkeys and play-asia. See also our guide on how to top up your account from PC.


  Interested to take advantage? Don't have UK PSN account yet? Read our tutorial on how to set up a PSN account straight from your PC. The registration is free and open to everyone everywhere in the world, not limited to any nationality or place you live.

If your PSN account is a sub-account, you can now upgrade it into master account, only after your age turned 18. See this blog post for detail.

To purchase Plus membership, go here for US, UK, HK, or JP.

30 days membership starts at $10 for PSN US, or $8.8 for PSN UK, or $5 for PSN HK, or $4.3 for PSN JP.

Deals currently ongoing:

1. Spring Fever Week #3 in US PSN
2. Some updates in UK/HK/JP PSN.
3. God of War games sale live in UK/EU PSN.
4. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99. HK PSN account required.
5. Play the addictive free game Fat Princess: Piece of Cake on your Vita or smartphone, finish level 15 and get the PS3 game Fat Princess free for life, available for US/UK/HK PSN account holder.
6. As an addition to the official IGC, Uncharted 3 is re-offered as IGC for UK PSN Plus members. Not available on US/HK/JP PSN.
7. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
8. Sing popular song in English, or perhaps even Anime/Game songs and K-POPs at affordable price. Read our guide for Joysound TV Plus. You need Japanese PSN top-ups for this service.

follow our twitter @psnworldupdates

Spring Fever #4 brings along God of War games to low price. (EXPIRED)

Replacing the Week #3, Spring Fever event continued to Week #4 in US PSN. This time Metal Slug 3 is in the spotlight, and you can get games from God of War franchise and more. This is the list for the games discounted this week on US PSN. Click on the sale title to see the games on US PSN webstore.

Spring Fever Spotlight
Crossbuy PS4/PS3/Vita Metal Slug 3 $14.99 ($13.49 with +)

God of War Sale
PS4 God of War Theme $1.00
PS3 God of War: Ascension Ultimate Edition $12.00 ($8.00 with Plus)
-- DLC ‘Ultimate DLC Bundle’ Free
PS3 God of War Collection $17.99 ($11.99 with Plus)
PS3 God of War Origins Collection $11.99 ($7.99 with Plus)
PS3 God of War HD $8.99 ($5.99 with Plus)
PS3 God of War 2 HD $8.99 ($5.99 with Plus)
PS3 God of War: Chains of Olympus HD $8.99 ($5.99 with Plus)
PS3 God of War: Ghost of Sparta HD $8.99 ($5.99 with Plus)
Vita God of War Collection $17.99 ($11.99 with Plus)
Vita/PSP God of War: Chains of Olympus $8.99 ($5.99 with Plus)
Vita/PSP God of War: Ghost of Sparta $8.99 ($5.99 with Plus)

Wrestlemania Sale
PS4 WWE 2K15 $39.99
-- DLC ‘One More Match’ $7.49

-- DLC ‘Hall of Pain’ $7.49

-- DLC ‘WCW Pack’ $7.49

PS3 WWE 2K15 $29.99

-- DLC ‘Hall of Pain’ $7.49
-- DLC ‘WCW Pack’ $7.49

Remember, DLC bought from US PSN only works with games from Region 1, NTSC U/C games, or Latin American version.

If you have an active PS Plus membership at PSN JP store, you now can claim two new games as your Instant Game Collection. These are only available for one week until 31st. To see what games you get, see this post.

If you don't have US PSN account yet, you can read our tutorial on how to set up a PSN account straight from your PC. The registration is free and open to everyone everywhere in the world, not limited to any nationality or place you live.

If your PSN account is a sub-account, you can now upgrade it into master account, only after your age turned 18. See this blog post for detail.

To purchase Plus membership, go here for US, UK, HK, or JP.
30 days membership starts at $10 for PSN US, or $8.8 for PSN UK, or $5 for PSN HK, or $4.3 for PSN JP.

You can purchase top-ups for your account from cdkeys and play-asia. See also our guide on how to top up your account from PC.


  Deals currently ongoing:

1. Spring Fever Week #4 in US PSN
2. WWE, Metro franchise, and God of War games sale live in UK/EU PSN.
3. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99. HK PSN account required.
4. Play the addictive free game Fat Princess: Piece of Cake on your Vita or smartphone, finish level 15 and get the PS3 game Fat Princess free for life, available for US/UK/HK PSN account holder.
5. As an addition to the official IGC, Uncharted 3 is re-offered as IGC for UK PSN Plus members. Not available on US/HK/JP PSN.
6. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
7. Sing popular song in English, or perhaps even Anime/Game songs and K-POPs at affordable price. Read our guide for Joysound TV Plus. You need Japanese PSN top-ups for this service.

follow our twitter @psnworldupdates

Some PSN updates: Japanese PSN is crazy! In a very good way!

We don't create that title out of nowhere, we are still excited how Japanese PSN treat its PS Plus members in all around the world, for a reason we will tell you soon! Keep scrolling.

US PSN may win in term of game sale (yeah, under $1 games is hard to beat, we end up spending $10 for several games). But for Plus members, Japanese PSN took the crown as the best PSN this month.

As announced last week by PSN JP (we are late, we know), starting from March 25th until 31st, if you are a JP PSN PS Plus member in that date, in addition to the current IGC, you will get two additional games to play.

And these two games are very popular title:
PS4  Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends 真・三國無双７ with 猛将伝
PS3  Tales of Symphonia Chronicles テイルズ オブ シンフォニア ユニゾナントパック
Go here to claim the games

Both games are Japanese version only unfortunately, so if you don't understand Japanese, these would only have a little use. But, still we have to call this a crazy offer. Since, speaking from our own experience, one month of JP PS Plus only cost you $4.3. We subscribed at March 3rd, just in time to get the February IGC and March IGC. Added with these two new games, we will need to make space for another GB in our consoles.

That's not all. Our 30 days subscription will finish on April 3rd, and the next IGC will live on April 1st, which means we are eligible to claim the games that will be offered next month (and we will claim them of course). We usually let our subscription lapse until we think we need to be a plus member again (normally we lapsed around 50 days).

We don't know yet what the April IGC are, but we predict we will need to do some space management to keep all those games we got by just spending $4.3

Not only that, if you have a JP PSN account and never subscribed their PSPlus before, you can join the 3 months PS Plus for a special price $4.1 (price only valid until 31st).

Deep in our heart, We hope each PSN store are as crazy as Japanese PSN store when they serve the PS Plus members.

PSN JP also have Capcom PS3 Spring Sale ongoing, these are title that interest us:
Street Fighters III 3rd Strike Online edition $6.5 full English support.
Vampire Resurrection $6.5 major parts of the game are in English.
Capcom Fighting Jam $3.5
Capcom vs SNK 2 Millionaire Fighting 2001 $3.5
You can check the whole list here.

Don't forget to check the under $1 Flash sale in US PSN that will expire in a few hours. It is directly after this post. EXPIRED

If you don't have JP PSN account yet, you can read our tutorial on how to set up a PSN account straight from your PC. The registration is free and open to everyone everywhere in the world, not limited to any nationality or place you live.

If your PSN account is a sub-account, you can now upgrade it into master account, only after your age turned 18. See this blog post for detail.

To purchase Plus membership, go here for US, UK, HK, or JP.
30 days membership starts at $10 for PSN US, or $8.8 for PSN UK, or $5 for PSN HK, or $4.3 for PSN JP.

You can purchase top-ups for your account from cdkeys and play-asia. See also our guide on how to top up your account from PC.


  Other deals currently ongoing:

1. Spring Fever Week #3 in US PSN
2. WWE, Metro franchise, and God of War games sale live in UK/EU PSN.
3. PS4 game deals and Rockstar games on sale in UK PSN.
4. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99. HK PSN account required.
5. Play the addictive free game Fat Princess: Piece of Cake on your Vita or smartphone, finish level 15 and get the PS3 game Fat Princess free for life, available for US/UK/HK PSN account holder.
6. As an addition to the official IGC, Uncharted 3 is re-offered as IGC for UK PSN Plus members. Not available on US/HK/JP PSN.
7. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
8. Sing popular song in English, or perhaps even Anime/Game songs and K-POPs at affordable price. Read our guide for Joysound TV Plus. You need Japanese PSN top-ups for this service.

follow our twitter @psnworldupdates

ALERT! Under $1 Flash Sale happening in US PSN (EXPIRED)

UPDATE: EXPIRED. See other deals on psnworldupdates.blogspot.com

PSN US has just announced the March Flash Sale. To all gamers in the world who have account at PSN US/CA, you can now go to your console or PC, log in to your US/CA account and get ready to burn some money since all titles (except for one) listed below are under $1.

So, for the first time in our blog, we only list titles, without prices. Except for Dead Nation PS4, the maximum price of these games is $0.99.

PS4

• Dead Nation Apocalypse Edition
• Home
• Surgeon Simulator Anniversary Edition
• Tennis in the Face

PS3

• Babel Rising
• Back to the Future: The Game Full Series
• Bejeweled 3
• Cloudberry Kingdom
• Dead Nation
• Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
• echochrome
• Feeding Frenzy 2
• Ferrari: The Race Experience
• Flashback
• Galaga Legions DX
• Game of Thrones (not the one made by Telltale)
• Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear
• Heavy Fire: Afghanistan
• ibb & obb
• Jurassic Park: The Game Full Season
• Mad Riders
• Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection
• Narco Terror
• Noby Noby Boy
• Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
• PayDay: The Heist
• Poker Night 2
• Puzzle Agent
• RIPD: The Game
• Rock of Ages
• Sacred Citadel
• Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse
• Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space Full Season
• Shoot Many Robots
• Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
• Tales of Monkey Island Bundle
• Texas Cheat Em
• The Expendables 2
• Tokyo Jungle
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire
• Who Wants to be a Movie Millionaire
• Zuma

PSVita

• Gravity Rush
• Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

PSP

• Beta Bloc
• Dead Head Fred
• Despicable Me
• Kurulin Fusion
• Myst
• Star Wars Battlefront 2
• Streetkix: Freestyle
• Super Pocket Tennis
• TAC Heroes: Big Red One

PS2 Classic

• Katamari Damacy
• Twisted Metal Black

PSOne Classic

• Breath of Fire IV
• Championship Bass
• Dino Crisis
• Dino Crisis 2
• Extreme Pinball
• Fighting Force
• Hi-Octane
• Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
• Magic Carpet
• Mega Man X4
• Mega Man X5
• Nuclear Strike
• Populous: The Beginning
• Sim Theme Park
• Soviet Strike
• Syphon Filter
• Syphon Filter 3
• Tekken 2
• Wild Arms
• Wild Arms 2

US PSN members go here, for those who have Canadian PSN account go here. If you purchase a lot of games, it is a lot cheaper to purchase from Canadian PSN due to the currency differences. You only spend US$8 in Canadian PSN for same games that will cost you US$10 in US PSN.

If you don't have US PSN account yet, you can read our tutorial on how to set up a PSN account straight from your PC. The registration is free and open to everyone everywhere in the world, not limited to any nationality or place you live.

If your PSN account is a sub-account, you can now upgrade it into master account, only after your age turned 18. See this blog post for detail.

To purchase Plus membership, go here for US, UK, HK, or JP.
30 days membership starts at $10 for PSN US, or $8.8 for PSN UK, or $5 for PSN HK, or $4.3 for PSN JP.

You can purchase top-ups for your account from cdkeys and play-asia. See also our guide on how to top up your account from PC.


  Other deals currently ongoing:

1. Spring Fever Week #3 in US PSN
2. Some updates in UK/HK/JP PSN.
3. WWE, Metro franchise, and God of War games sale live in UK/EU PSN.
4. PS4 game deals and Rockstar games on sale in UK PSN.
5. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99. HK PSN account required.
6. Play the addictive free game Fat Princess: Piece of Cake on your Vita or smartphone, finish level 15 and get the PS3 game Fat Princess free for life, available for US/UK/HK PSN account holder.
7. As an addition to the official IGC, Uncharted 3 is re-offered as IGC for UK PSN Plus members. Not available on US/HK/JP PSN.
8. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
9. Sing popular song in English, or perhaps even Anime/Game songs and K-POPs at affordable price. Read our guide for Joysound TV Plus. You need Japanese PSN top-ups for this service.

follow our twitter @psnworldupdates

PSN China Store visited!

As PS4 and PS Vita officially launched March 20th in Mainland China, a new PS Store has been opened as well. Apparently Chinese PS4 is only digitally region-locked, and no region lock for physical bluray games as reported by Tech in Asia. The same site also reported that all universal PS4 console is capable to access China PSN store.

And with Sony opens of a new PSN store, this mean for us cross-region gamers, a new store with completely different offering has been added as an option, but is it really worth it? Let's check it out.

First thing you need to know is that PSN China is devoid from any PS3 contents. No games, no themes, no add-ons, nothing for PS3 as the console is still, under Chinese law, illegal in China. So for PS3 gamers, you are permitted to lose interest at this moment.

Next, there are only a tiny amount of games selection. PS4 users can buy Knack, Trials Fusion and Rayman Legends for 199 Yuan each ($32.1) which is quite expensive. The only game that catches our attention and is unavailable anywhere else is the local-made Mr. Pumpkin Adventure, which is quite a beautiful game, but we don't know how it will play. It is a lot cheaper than the other 3 games at 38 Yuan ($6.1).

Vita users only have Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD (Chinese version) and Rayman Legends at around $30 each as well. The local-made game One Tap Hero is not yet available to purchase.

Only a tiny selection of PS4 and PSVita themes. At least all of them are free.

Now this is the only thing that you PS4 users can take advantage of, only if you are interested. There is a free MOBA game King of Wushu (九阳神功) weighted at 2.5GB, which we don't know how it will play. And probably it is all in Chinese. The graphic itself though, judging from the screenshot, may not be that bad.

For this moment only PS Vita has apps, Network Media Player and Skype. We are sure we won't see YouTube app for PS4 as it is blocked in China.

We quick checked the PlayStation Plus section, and there are no Instant Game Collection for China PSN members yet. The fee for membership in USD is, in the same order as the screenshot above: $33.6 / $11.1 / $4.7. These are quite cheap and on par with Asian PSN PS Plus membership fee.

At this moment, there are only three method to top-up: Visa Credit Cards (China-issued), Alipay and UnionPay Card. So unless you have one of those, you might have no chance to purchase anything from China PS Store as they have no prepaid card yet.

All in all, there are currently nothing you can gain from Chinese PSN. Unless if you want to try King of Wushu, I have no idea what other uses for you to take advantage from. Nevertheless, we will keep this PSN on our watch for interesting deals.

  

If you'd like to visit the store on your PC by yourself, click here.

If you are wondering how to create a Chinese PSN account, read our guide here.

For now, let's go back to the land of US/UK/HK/JP PSN.

Deals currently ongoing:

1. Spring Fever Week #3 in US PSN
2. Some updates in UK/HK/JP PSN.
3. WWE, Metro franchise, and God of War games sale live in UK/EU PSN.
4. PS4 game deals and Rockstar games on sale in UK PSN.
5. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99. HK PSN account required.
6. Play the addictive free game Fat Princess: Piece of Cake on your Vita or smartphone, finish level 15 and get the PS3 game Fat Princess free for life, available for US/UK/HK PSN account holder.
7. As an addition to the official IGC, Uncharted 3 is re-offered as IGC for UK PSN Plus members. Not available on US/HK/JP PSN.
8. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
9. Sing popular song in English, or perhaps even Anime/Game songs and K-POPs at affordable price. Read our guide for Joysound TV Plus. You need Japanese PSN top-ups for this service.

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GUIDE: How to create a China (CN) PSN account.

March 20th, 2015 onward, a whole new PSN Store for Mainland China has been added. The store is new so there are not a lot of contents there yet, however, probably you may have various reasons to check how to create of even creating Chinese PSN account for yourself, and now we have made this guide for you to follow, to create yourself a Chinese PSN account, that you can use on your PS4 and Vita (not available to PS3 users). Let's go!

Before you continue, you need these ingredients:

• One email address of your own (don't use other's, seriously), preferably not GMail since it is blocked in China. If you have to create one, we suggest to use the formula: username_CN. Where CN is the two letters to represent China.
• One alphanumerical password, if you already have other PSN account, just use the same password.
• A Chinese address, which you can get from our previous guide. Check it out first.

Now after you have your email and Chinese address ready. Let's go creating your CN PSN account.

Open any PSN Store or just click this link. You can create Chinese PSN account straightly from any PSN region.

You will see PSN store just like above. If you are logged in, you need to log yourself out first. If you are not logged in yet, skip this.

Click Create Account on top right part.

 Fill the essential information first, since they will be converted automatically into Chinese format to save you some headache. After that, choose China from the drop-down country/region list.

 Bam! Welcome to the land of Chinese characters. No more English. Chinese call those characters Hanzi, but we still exclusively use Kanji to refer them. Anyway, you need to click the second drop-down list, and choose the Prefecture shown above.

This is quite tricky, if you are counting-type of a person, it is 13th option from bottom. If you are visual-type of a person, look for a character looks like an upside-down L (广) and since there are two of those, you need to be careful when choosing it. Choose the first one.

 Just some mandatory requirement. Type your password and reenter again, enter captcha etc. We suggest to use the same password as your other PSN account.

 Time to name your PSN China ID. Just use your usual ID added with suffix CN, it's the country two letters code for China. This ID is permanent, so make sure you think of it carefully before thinking of creating a random name.

 It ask your name, you answers. You can use English.

 Tricky time part 2, you need to enter the address information. We already give you how to get your address for registering PSN account here in the previous guide. You may have to check it first. Anyway, follow the guide written in our perfect broken English in the picture above.

 Choose NO.

Just click finish.

You can either visit store right now, or check your email address to confirm the email from Sony. We recommend you to confirm your email though so you can receive the billing from them. Just check your email and click any blue button you see.

Welcome to the Great Wall of PSN!

Don't forget to sign out everytime you are finished. You can not check the content of the other regions is you are signed in. I suggest you to read our FAQ for any information surrounding multiple PSN region accounts.

See also our guides:

HOW TO CREATE US/UK/HK/JP PSN ACCOUNT ON PC

HOW TO TOP UP YOUR JP/US/UK/HK PSN ACCOUNT ON PC
HOW TO PURCHASE A TITLE FROM JP/US/UK/HK PSN STORE ON PC

GETTING AND USING JOYSOUND TV PLUS FROM JP PSN

  

Important notes:

1. Games are region free, but DLCs and game saves are locked into the same region with the game itself. Remember which game tied with which account.
2. Treat these accounts as wallet, they are legal payment for each store. Do not share your account or any credential information related to it to anyone else.
3. Payment with PayPal and Credit Card on PSN only works if your billing address is the same with the country you created the account with. So for cross region gamers, prepaid vouchers are your only option.
4. You should play the games under your own main account. Purchased games, including the free games from PS Plus are playable with any account on the same console. 
5. In general, only if the game is a full game trial then you should play it under the purchasing account for the first time. You can use any account the second time playing it. 
6. If the game/app is subscription-based, you can only use it under your account that have been used for purchasing.
7. Do not use your account to cheat online. Or your account will be banned.
8. Do not use your account for gamesharing. Or your account will be banned.
9. Do not use obscene or offensive word(s) as your or parts of your account name. Or your account will be banned.
10. Do not use your account for spamming others. Or your account will be banned.
11. Do not use your account to threat other players, not even as buddy jokes. Or your account will be banned.
12. Do not use a modified game saves. Or your account will be banned.
13. Do not use your account on a jailbroken or modded console. Or your account will be banned, and your console too.
14. This blog does not condone any topic related to games-piracy, please don't ask us how to get games for free. However, free games do exist and are free if they are being set as such by the publisher, which we will notice you in this blog.

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