In the first week of 2017, things are quite slow on the PlayStation Store in North America, with no themed sale being offered and no new titles releasing. There are some deals to be had, but most of them are carrying over from 2016.
Here’s the games on sale this week through the PlayStation Store, with many offers ending really soon on January 4 at 8am PT/11am ET:
PlayStation Plus Deals
- Attacking Zegeta (PS4) – $1.99
- Attacking Zegeta 2 (PS4) – $2.49
- Mahjong Deluxe 3 (PS4) – $2.49
- Perfect (PSVR) – $7.99
- Q*bert: Rebooted & Fluster Cluck Mini Bundle (PS4) – $9.74
- Stranded: A Mars Adventure (PS Vita) – $2.49
- The Last Tinker & Fluster Cluck Mini Bundle (PS4) – $11.19
- Warframe: PS4 Obsidian Azura Collection (PS4) – $19.99
- Whispering Willows & Fluster Cluck Mini Bundle (PS4) – $9.44
Other Deals (Sale Price, PS+ Price)
- AeternoBlade (PS Vita) – $2.24
- AeternoBlade (PS4) – $3.74
- Armageddon Riders (PS3) – $2.49
- Axiom Verge (PS4, PS Vita) – $9.99
- Blade Ballet (PS4) – $4.49, $3.74
- BlazeRush (PS4) – $2.49
- BlazeRush (PS3) – $2.49, Free
- Caladrius Blaze (PS4) – $17.99, $14.99
- Coffin Dodgers (PS4) – $8.03, $5.99
- Corridor Z (PS4, PS Vita) – $3.99, $3.19
- Crazy Strike Bowling EX (PS4) – $5.19
- Dead or Alive 5: Last Round ‘Story Mode’ (PS4) – $9.51
- Dead or Alive 5: Last Round ‘Story Mode’ (PS3) – $9.44
- Defiance Gold Edition (PS3) – $25.99
- Draw Slasher (PS Vita) – $0.89, $0.59
- Electronic Super Joy (PS4) – $7.49, $5.99
- Fluster Cluck (PS4) – $4.99, $1.99
- Headmaster (PSVR) – $14.99
- Homefront: The Revolution ‘The Voice of Freedom DLC’ – $4.01
- Hue (PS4, PS Vita) – $5.99
- Infinity Runner (PS4) – $4.68, $3.49
- Knot (PS4) – $4.99
- Lethal VR (PSVR) – $11.99
- Lost Sea (PS4) – $5.99
- MasterCube (PS4) – $1.37
- Master Reboot (PS3) – $10.04, $7.49
- No Man’s Sky (PS4) – $39.59
- N++ (PS4) – $7.49
- Planets Under Attack (PS3) – $1.99
- Rainbow Moon (PS4) – $5.99
- Rainbow Moon (PS Vita) – $4.49
- Rainbow Moon Premium Bundle (PS3) – $4.93
- Ray Gigant (PS Vita) – $8.99, $4.49
- Smite Gems Packs – 33% off each
- Smite Ultimate God Pack Bundle (PS4) – $14.99
- Soft Body (PS4) – $7.79, $6.49
- Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype Complete Bundle (PS3, PS Vita) – $4.93
- Soul Axiom (PS4) – $13.39, $9.99
- Space Hulk (PS3) – $23.99
- Space Hulk (PS4) – $31.99
- Space Hulk Ascension (PS4) – $39.99
- SteamWorld Dig (PS4, PS Vita) – $1.99
- Sword Coast Legends (PS4) – $9.99
- The Bread Pub Brawlers (PS4) – $4.79
- The Bunker (PS4) – $13.39, $9.99
- The Little Acre (PS4) – $11.04
- The Tomorrow Children Frontier Pack (PS4) – $13.99, $11.99
- Unholy Heights (PS4) – $4.19
- Wanderjahr (PS Vita) – $6.99
- Worlds of Magic: Planar Conquest (PS4) – $23.19, $20.29
PS4 Pre-Order Deals
- Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition – $50.99 (also includes Duke Nukem as a playable character)
- GNOG – $13.49 (PS+)
- Night in the Woods – $17.99 (PS+)
- South Park: The Fractured but Whole – $59.99 (includes South Park: The Stick of Truth)
*Prices are in USD and may be higher in Canada.
If you’re a PS+ subscriber, the January 2017 PlayStation Plus titles are now live.
Best of 2016 Game Awards - Game of the Year
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Best of 2016 Game Awards - Game of the Year
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Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Naughty Dog could beat the series into perpetuity, but they chose to close this chapter of their story at a high point and allow themselves and players to move on. In some ways it feels like I’m playing Uncharted for the first time again, living that sense of incredulity and adventure as we join Nathan Drake and his charming half-tuck for one final adventure rooted in love and sacrifice. It’s a bittersweet feeling, but they’ve gone all in to make sure that A Thief’s End is the Uncharted finale that the fans deserve. A farewell this monumental is spectacularly deserving of a nomination for Game of the Year.
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Titanfall 2
The team at Respawn Entertainment took everything they learned from the original Titanfall, and applied it perfectly to Titanfall 2. Considering this developer started with members from Infinity Ward of Call of Duty fame, their experience in crafting a masterful multiplayer experience shows throughout Titanfall 2. The campaign even kicks ass, to boot!
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World of Final Fantasy
Square Enix may have tried to write love letters to Final Fantasy fans in the past, but World of Final Fantasy is the true love letter to these fans. The hilarious dialogue, innovative gameplay, and adorable Pokemon-esque features make World of Final Fantasy one of the best FF games in years, if not one of the best Final Fantasy spin-offs.
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The Last Guardian
In an industry where every developer packs in as many new features, as many modes, options, and configurations, The Last Guardian has no upgrades, no leveling, no add-on map packs, no RPG elements – it is an almost solitary experience, between nothing more than a boy, a beast, and the big world around them, yet it outshines nearly everything else. Video games as a market might demand the Call of Duty’s of the world to move units and put a spotlight on the industry through hype and marketing buzz, but video games as a medium deserves The Last Guardian.
Beautiful. In every way.
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Battlefield 1
Though the “1” in its name may officially stand for the Great War, it could also represent the rebirth of a franchise that took a bit of a beating with Battlefield 4, went down an awkward path with Hardline, before finally rising as the Battlefield title that simply all shooter fans must buy."Boasting both solid single-player and top-tier multiplayer components, Battlefield 1 is the complete package for fans of warfare on a huge scale. -
Overwatch
It’s ironic to imagine a title about a fragmented team fighting amongst itself serving as a big unifier, but that might just be what we need. At a time when the division between our hobby’s constituents seems more visible than ever, Overwatch reminds us that we’re more alike than different — if we let them, games can bring us together. I don’t know about you, but I think that’s something well worth fighting for.
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Inside
Inside is a very peculiar game in the sense it differs so much from what we’re used to seeing in games that the only thing I can compare it to is Playdead’s own Limbo. If there ever was a game that the phrase “less is more” applies to, it’s none other than this game. There’s no explosions, gunfights or anything that almost all games these days have in order to be a guaranteed seller. But it does have a lot of soul though, and a story that’ll make you ask questions and stick to your brain long after it’s over, which is rare in our medium.
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Ratchet and Clank
I knew that I was looking forward to revisiting Ratchet and Clank’s origins, but I didn’t know how much I’d really missed Ratchet & Clank until I got the opportunity to play it all over again for the first time, and this brand new experience is every bit as good as I remember it being 14 years ago. Sometimes you have to revisit the classics on today's terms, and Ratchet and Clank is a perfect example of a faithful rebuild on the mesh of the original.
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And the winner is...
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Winner - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Surprised? Yeah, most likely not -- and even that lack of shock is a testament to just how well crafted Naughty Dog's latest, and possibly last, Uncharted game is.
From the story, gameplay, and even from a technical perspective, Uncharted 4 is a masterclass of how to end things with a bang, and with class.
If there's a game that's a good showpiece as to why AAA gaming cannot -- and should not -- cease, ever, Uncharted 4 would be it.
Naughty Dog has once again delivered and then some. Will we see Nathan Drake again? Maybe, maybe not. Whatever Sony and Naughty Dog decides on, we hope it continues the franchise's stellar streak of awesomeness.
Congrats, Naughty Dog! Here's to us raising our glasses to Drake, Sully, Elena and the rest of the crew!
