Asian PSN PS Plus IGC May 2015 revealed

Asian PSN PS Plus Instant Game Collection has been revealed and consists of some AAA indies. Though it's lack a major AAA games, this time the list looks okay to us. Let's check out the games:

PS4 The Unfinished Swan
PS4 Race The Sun
PS4 Hohokum
PS4 Tower of Guns
PS4 Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
PS4 Aaru's Awakening
PS4 Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition (full game & upgrade are both IGC)

PS3 The Unfinished Swan
PS3 Race The Sun
PS3 Hohokum
PS3 Aaru's Awakening 
PS3 Tower of Guns

Vita Murasaki Baby
Vita The Unfinished Swan
Vita Race The Sun
Vita Hohokum
Vita Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

So that's it. Seven games for PS4. And five for everyone else.

If you don't have HK PSN account yet, you can read our tutorial on how to set up HK PSN accounts 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.


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PSN Asia PS Plus IGC is once again, catching up with the others.

PSN Asia has revealed their IGC line-up for April 2015, all games will be claimable on 9th and will stay for a month until May 6th. As usual the line-up is a mix of new IGC (the same with the others region), old IGC, and out of nowhere IGC. Let's check the list:

• PS4 Never Alone
• PS4 Apotheon
• PS4 OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood
• PS4 MouseCraft

• PS3 BlazeRush
• PS3 MouseCraft

• Vita OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood
• Vita Killzone Mercenary
• Vita MonsterBag
• Vita MouseCraft

As you see above, PS3 only get two games, the least from all of them. So you might be dissappointed if you only have PS3 console. Anyway if you subscribe now, even with the 30 days subscription, you will be eligible to claim both the games above and all these games below (which are going to expire next week, on the same time the new games are live)

• PS4 Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty
• PS4 Valiant Hearts: The Great War
• PS4 CounterSpy

• PS3 Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition
• PS3 Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut 
• PS3 CounterSpy

• Vita CounterSpy
• Vita Kick & Fennick
• Vita Woah! Dave

We think this is not a great month being a PS Plus member, we hope the sales are more exciting.

Also, we apologise we are skipping the Spring Fever #5 in US PSN, simply because the sale is not interesting to us, since most of the item offered are DLCs. Nevertheless if you'd like to check by yourself, they have Batman games on lower price. See it here.

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

If you don't have HK 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. Batman sale in US PSN.
2. Easter Sale 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.

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This is your IGC from PSN EU/US. Never alone again!

The wait is over, shortly after Japanese PSN revealed their IGC, US and EU PSN revealed theirs as well. As usual both US and EU are offering the exact same games. And this time, most of the offers are similar across region, including Japan. We still don't know yet what is the Asian PSN IGC, but we think it won't be that different.

Let's see the list, this is the IGC for US/EU PSN:

• PS4 Tower of Guns
• PS4 Never Alone
• PS4 Aaru’s Awakening 

• PS3 Dishonored
• PS3 Tower of Guns
• PS3 Aaru’s Awakening 

• Vita Killzone: Mercenary
• Vita MonsterBag

Most of the indie games (oncoming and past ones) are also offered in Japanese PSN, making April the first time PSN JP is offering a lot more similar titles than before. The different is, Japanese PSN IGC will live in 12~15 hours from this blog posting time, while you need to wait until next week at April 8th to get yours from US/EU PSN.

Also don't forget, Woah Dave! (PS4) is also free for Plus members in April but it is not a part of IGC.

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

If you don't have US/UK 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 Expiring soon 
2. Easter Sale and God of War games sale (Expiring soon) 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. Expiring soon
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.

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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.

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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.

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Dishonored (PS3) is your April 2015 PS Plus IGC in EU PSN.

One game that has been rumoured as the reason why March 2015 IGC announcement is so late: Dishonored (PS3), is now announced by PSN EU as the free game to play on April 2015 for every UK/EU PS Plus subscribers all around the world.

Dishonored is coming to PlayStation Plus (PS3) in April. Sorry for the confusion this month - we pulled the trigger too early!
— PlayStation Europe (@PlayStationEU) March 6, 2015

If you haven't followed the story, Dishonored was leaked from the link that redirect into the IGC announcement post in EU PSN Blog, as seen in the screenshot in a blog post by JustPushStart . The link to the post has been fixed and removed any reference to the game anywhere, but the comment posted by users on it suggested that the info has been leaked.

If you are planning to get this game, we suggest you to wait until it comes as a free game to play next month. Unless, of course, if you want to play this game forever even after your subscription ends, then we suggest to skip it and get the game when it is offered in discount.

Seeing that the past PS+ IGC for US PSN is always the same as EU PSN, it is safe to say that US PS Plus subscribers will get this game as well. HK PSN may get it up to several months late.

If you are interested to take advantage, want to anticipate but don't have a 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.

If you are confused on how to purchase the PS+ membership from PSN webstore, read our guide. 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 #2 in US PSN
2. Some updates in UK/HK/JP PSN.
3. Final Fantasy Deals and Digital Discount part 4 in UK PSN. 
4. March games for PS Plus members has online. See here for US/EU,  JP, and HK 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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At last! This is your March 2015 Asian PS Plus IGC. No OlliOlli for Asian PS Plus members though.

UPDATE: We forgot to list Woah! Dave as an IGC for PS Vita. Now it has been added.

Asian PSN at last revealed Instant Game Collection for their PS Plus subscribers all around the world. The line-up is a combination of old and new PS+ IGC, meaning there are nothing new from HK PSN, and they are just trying to keep up with the other region, which is not a bad thing.

The notable title that is absent is OlliOlli, where the prequel is offered in JP PS Plus IGC, and the sequel is on EU/US PS Plus IGC. However, seeing that HK PSN is always trying to catch up with everyone else, we think the title will come in a month or two. Without further ado, see the list for March 2015 Asian PSN IGC below:

• PS4 Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty
• PS4 Valiant Hearts: The Great War
• PS4 CounterSpy

• PS3 Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition
• PS3 Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut 
• PS3 CounterSpy

• Vita CounterSpy
• Vita Kick & Fennick
• Vita Woah! Dave

Click here to see the games live on HK PSN. The games will stay until April 8th.

Check out here to see what games is offered for PS Plus members in JP PSN and in US/EU PSN.

If you don't have HK 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.

Note for Vita/PSTV users, Switching between regions on PS Vita requires a separate Vita Memory Card involving a factory reset on Vita devices. So if your PSN account on your Vita currently is not HK PSN and you are feeling that there is too much hassle to switch, perhaps it is better to wait until the title you want is being offered in your region. Nobody knows when though. If you don't mind switching region, Kotaku has written a detailed tutorial on how to change PSN region on PS Vita, you can check it.

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.

Or you can get one year of HK PSN PS Plus membership for only US$30 from Play-Asia. It is cheaper than the US$34.6 official price on HK PSN.

You can also 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 #2 in US PSN
2. Some updates in UK/HK/JP PSN.
3. PS4 game deals and Rockstar games on sale in UK PSN.
4. Final Fantasy Deals and Digital Discount part 4 also in UK PSN. 
5. March games for PS Plus members has online. See here for US/EU,  JP, and HK PSN.
6. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99. HK PSN account required.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
10. 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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March 2015 IGC line-up for US/EU PS Plus members is no longer a mystery.

UPDATE: EU PSN has announced theirs too, and as usual, their line-up is completely same as US PSN. 

It seems this March will be remembered as the first time where PSN US (and perhaps PSN EU too) updates their Instant Games Collection without any announcement, since the new format began post-2014 E3.

But there's no more mystery! The new titles for March 2015 IGC for US (and EU) PS Plus is already out and while it is still not yet revealed by the official PS Blog, it has been noticed by Playstation Lifestyle. So, how exciting are the titles? Actually several games are also offered in JP PSN that was announced several hours ago, so you might not be surprised. Without further ado, these are the titles for PSN US/EU PS Plus subscribers all around the world:

• PS4 Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty
• PS4 Valiant Hearts: The Great War
• PS4 CounterSpy
• PS4 OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood

• PS3 Papo & Yo 
• PS3 Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment 
• PS3 CounterSpy

• Vita CounterSpy
• Vita OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood

You can grab the games here (US PSN), or here (UK PSN).

Apparently the rumoured title, Helldivers, is not offered as a free to play title this month. That game goes to Spring Fever 2015 Sale in US PSN instead. Also like we predicted, the Lego Marvel Super Heroes and Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a hoax.

PSN EU is still in silence about their line-up, however, in the past six months the line-up is exactly the same between two region. So we expect PSN EU PS Plus IGC is also the same this month. EU PSN offer the exact same games.

Do these titles excites you? Check out here to see what games is offered for PS Plus members in JP PSN. The first OlliOlli games is currently offered as IGC in PSN JP and it's in English.

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.

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 still have time to grab the February IGC from UK PSN here if you haven't done so. No luck for US PSN as the February IGC expired exactly when the March IGC revealed.

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 #2 in US PSN
2. Some updates in UK/HK/JP PSN.
3. PS4 game deals and Rockstar games on sale in UK PSN.
4. Final Fantasy Deals and Digital Discount part 4 also in UK PSN. 
5. March games for PS Plus members has online. See here for US/EU,  JP, and HK PSN.
6. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99. HK PSN account required.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
10. 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

This is your March 2015 PS Plus IGC from........... PSN JP!

UPDATE: Games has already online. Click here to see them live on JP PSN store.

Unlike its sister stores in US/EU/HK, JP PSN webstore keep consistent and announced its own Instant Game Collection for March 2015. And the leaked photo several days ago has been proven to be true. The list is kind of mix of great and good to us.

Seeing the past of JP PS Plus IGC, it is worthy to note that there are only a small probability that the same game may be offered in US/EU/HK region, even if the game is in English. So cross your finger so that US/EU/HK line-up may surprise us all, in a good way. Let's check out the list. The games will live on March 4th, except for Deadly Premonition which will live on 12th, and will stay for (less than) a month until March 31st.

Free to play with subscription

• PS4 CounterSpy (Crossbuy Vita/PS3) full English support.
• PS4 OddWorld: New 'N' Tasty
• PS4 OlliOlli (Crossbuy Vita/PS3) full English support.
• PS3 BLAZBLUE CHRONOPHANTASMA menus might be in English
• 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

Click here to visit the games.

Trial

• PS3 Ukiyo no Shishi Japanese only
• Vita/PSTV Muramasa Rebirth Japanese only

Click here to see the trials.

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.

So, if you are bored with your usual PS Plus IGC offer and want to take advantage of JP PS Plus IGC, the good news is that the JP PS Plus 30 days membership is only cost you $4.3, yes it is the world's cheapest if you are wondering.

And I still keep recommend that today is the best time to subscribe JP PS Plus, since with only $4.3 you are eligible to grab the games from February IGC that you can see here, and also eligible to to claim each games listed above. That's $4.3 for two months worth 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 #2 in US PSN
2. Some updates in UK/HK/JP PSN.
3. PS4 game deals and Rockstar games on sale in UK PSN.
4. Final Fantasy Deals and Digital Discount part 4 also in UK PSN. 
5. March games for PS Plus members has online. See here for US/EU,  JP, and HK PSN.
6. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99. HK PSN account required.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
10. 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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Games you are going to miss out if you are not a Plus member yet! (EXPIRED)

UPDATE: Last month's IGC has expired.

If you are still waiting for the March 2015 Instant Game Collection list and looking for any info about it anywhere -just like us-, then you're still out of luck. It seems PSN US/EU will announce the games tomorrow or even at the day when game list updates (March 3rd), which practically made US/EU PSN in the same league with PSN Asia/JP in revealing game list.

If you haven't noticed, PSN US/EU usually reveal the free to play games for the Plus members up to one week before the store updates. In this case it should have been revealed around February 24th. PSN Asia normally on the first day at the week when the updates happening, and this means tomorrow. And the last PSN to reveal their list is PSN Japan, which usually only reveal the full list in up to two days before the day of update. Although two of the titles for JP PSN is already leaked.

Well we try not to dwell into this matter too much. Let's hope each PSN give us the best games to enjoy. And before that, check these games that you will miss out if you are not a Plus subscriber and haven't claim them yet:

These games are in English
PS4 Transistor US/UK/HK
PS4 Apotheon US/UK
PS4 Escape Plan HK
PS4 Strider Hiryu JP
PS4 Rogue Legacy US/UK/HK
PS4 Steamworld Dig JP

PS3 Prototype 2 HK
PS3 Raiden IV OverKill JP (menu is in English, explanations are in Japanese)
PS3 Thief US/UK
PS3 Yakuza 4 US/UK
PS3 Rogue Legacy US/UK/HK
PS3 Dungeon & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara HK
PS3 Steamworld Dig JP
PS3 Luftrausers JP

Vita Tearaway JP
Vita Kick and Fennick US/UK
Vita Rogue Legacy US/UK/HK
Vita Escape Plan HK
Vita Steamworld Dig JP
Vita Luftrausers JP

English-support unknown
Vita Rayman Legend JP

These games are Japanese only
PS4 Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed JP
PS3 Clannad JP
PS3 E.X.Troopers JP
Vita/PSTV Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus JP
Vita/PSTV God Eater 2 HK

Click here to see the PSN IGC game page for the games above: US - UK - HK - JP 

*PSTV compatibility info is taken directly from PSN. Normally only HK/JP PSN provide this information, while US/EU PSN aren't. Some titles from US/EU PSN might be PSTV compatible but you need to try it yourself.

If you are not a Plus member yet, and want to claim a certain game(s) you can 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.

And I still recommend that now is the best time to subscribe Plus, since you are eligible to claim the February 2015 IGC, and eligible to get March 2015 IGC as well, and have some times to play them. Remember that you need to manually claim them though.

Please note that unlike on PS4 and PS3, switching between PSN region on PS Vita system requires factory reset of your Vita console and separate Vita Memory Card. Kotaku has written a detailed tutorial on how to change PSN region on PS Vita. If you think this is too much hassle, perhaps it is better to wait until the game is being offered in your region.

If you are wondering how to create four PSN region accounts for yourself, read our guide on how to set up all four PSN accounts 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, you can also check the FAQ if you are in doubt. 

You can start topping-up your account with codes purchased from play-asia to anticipate future deals. See also our guide on how to top up your account from PC.

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

Deals currently ongoing:

1. Vita Birthday sale, February Price Cut, and Digital Discount part 3 in UK PSN.
2. Get one year of PS4 online multiplayer for only US$29.99.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Final Fantasy XIV (PS4/PS3) free to play for 14 days in UK and US PSN. 
6. 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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BBCP and Toukiden confirmed to be your March'15 Japan PS Plus IGC!

UPDATE: No need to read this anymore. The full list for March 2015 Japanese PSN PS Plus IGC is already out. See here. And yes, these two games are legit.

It seems two of the content for March 2015 IGC for Japanese PS Plus members all around the world are leaked. We don't know if this is real or not but it seems the picture is legit enough, it is said to come from a pamphlet (brochure) given in a store and has been snapped and uploaded on Twitter universe. Moreover, there are several gamers' blog in Japan such as this one and this one that are talking about it.

If this information is true, then we got several confirmations from the picture.

1. One of the game for PS Vita is an Action RPG titled Toukiden: The Age of Demons, and the version offered is the "PSVita the best". This game is Japanese only. Source.
2. One of the game for PS3 is a fighting game BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma (most blog predict it is for PS3, while we can't see it clearly in the photo, it seems it is for PS3 due to the lack of space as in "PS Vita", and this version of the game is not available on PS4). No language information about this game, so expect Japanese only.
3. The April 2015 Japanese PS Plus IGC will live on April 1st.

If you can't read Japanese, BlazBlue is a great offer since a fighting game doesn't really need any Japanese language proficiency.

For US/EU PSN, we heard some rumours about an Indie game titled Helldivers is one of the crossbuy offer for March 2015 IGC. No matter how convincing the probability is, we only treat this as rumour. Expect the goodies for US/EU PSN to be revealed in this week. Stay tuned.

Interested to take advantage? If you are not a Japanese PSN member yet, the good news is it is open to everyone all over the world, you don't have to be Japanese or living in Japan to be a member, and its 30 days PS+ subscription is the world's cheapest at only 514 Yen or $4.33! The bad news is that the store is only in Japanese, so click here to read our tutorial on how to set up a JP PSN account straight from your PC. See also our guide on how to top up your account from PC. And just in time, Play-Asia.com have a lucky draw until Feb 25th if you buy JP PSN top-up vouchers from their site, you might have a chance to win a Metal Slime PS4 console.

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

30 days membership starts at $10 for PSN US, or $8.9 for PSN UK, or $5 for PSN HK, or $4.3 for PSN JP.

If you were live on PSN sub-account before, you can now upgrade your sub-account into master account, after your age turned 18. See this blog post for detail.

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