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PSN Tuesday: Hydrophobia, DC Universe Online F2P, more PS2 games

by JC Fletcher on Nov 2nd 2011 12:20AM

Dark Energy Digital decants Hydrophobia Prophecy onto PSN this week -- free for Plus members, $10 for everyone else. In other format-change news, the multiplatform side-scroller Max & The Magic Marker comes to PS3, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe goes downloadable, and DC Universe Online officially becomes free-to-play.

Also enjoying a change of hardware as of this week: three new PS2 classics -- Raiden III, BloodRayne, and Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland; and two more PSOne imports. Check the PlayStation Blog for a more exhaustive list of this week's PS3 and PSP downloads.

Source: PlayStation Blog

Tags: dc-universe-online, Hydrophobia, max-and-the-magic-marker, playstation, ps3, psn, psn-tuesday, psp, sony

Reader Comments (34)

Wish DC Universe Online wasnt 18 GB, also wish you could buy the discs for super cheap.

Only thing that stopped me before from getting it was the $15 per month, nows its the 18 GB x.x

@Faenix

Also tempted to purchase BloodRayne

@Faenix

In Canada at Walmart DCUO for PS3 was going for 5 Cents !!!!

but i had it ever since March this year and i enjoyed it ... the 18 GB isn't too bad .. ( it is ALOT ) but if your not liking how it's gonna take long to download then download it while your off doing other things or sleeping. sure you may be leaving the PS3 on, But if you were home waiting for it to download you would be waiting none the less with the system left on ! also if you let some download and then stop and go back to it later it picks up where it was left off !

@Faenix

You ain't lied....on my connection way out here, I'm gonna have to download that one in bursts...not to mention its murder on drive space....I mean I got the room but...d@mn.

@Faenix

Well, if you have a 160GB or 320GB PS3, then it really shouldn't be a big deal. If you have one of the sub 80GB PS3s on the other hand... yeah 18GB would suck.

You could always spend $40, pick up a 500GB HDD and then never have to worry about PS3 space again. It's what I did to my 80GB PS3 - a very well spent $40.

@ShadowXIII

Yeah, I guess 18GB would take a couple hours to download. After using Steam to buy all of my games, seeing 10GB + games really is the norm. So while 18GB is still on the high end, it wasn't really surprising.

@Faenix

This.

I really really wanted to play it being a huge DC fanboy, but I'm bandwidth capped to 60 GB/month until january, when I can change ISPs (stupid contract), and I hit the 60 gig cap every month, so I won't be able to DL DCUO at home... If it was 3-4 gigs, I could've compensated with other stuff, but 18 gigs is wayyyyy too much... Will probably have to ask a friend to download it for me and then go copy it from him using a USB drive, but by the time I can do that Skyrim will be out and I won't have time for it... Sad :(

@Faenix Even the disc makes you do the download. There's not really anything to be gained from playing the game from the disc other than needing to have it in your PS3 to play it.

@Faenix I'm downloading the game right now so I don't have to get up, overall I love the game especially helping other out. If everything turns out right I have no problem sending you my disc but I don't know if it will still need a specific code.

Wow thanks Joystiq, now I have to click a link to see what's on the PSN store, instead of reading it here...

Thanks for nothing jerks!

...

But on a serious note, my computer actually crashed when I clicked on the PS Blog source link... I don't know what that means.

i waited ever since the " What's Playing " post you made Monday for things coming this week and i saw you had Hasbro Family Game Night Marked Free ( Except the DLC ) and low and behold it's .... $20 !!!! not Free ! Seriously Ticked. i was looking forward to a new game to play since i am broke till after Christmas so no buying games for me !

Can we please get "Loaded" as a PSN title?!!?!

The best part imo, is the 4 free Crash Bandicoot games for PSN+ members. Crash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk 2 were my favorite games back in the PS1 days

@killerjuice

Tony Hawk 2 was such an awesome game, I always had to pick Spider-man :) Even the GBA TH2 was pretty cool and I was even happier when I saw Spider-man was in that one also!

@killerjuice

I was never a big fan o TH. The game with skate that I loved was ESPN Xtreme or 1Xtreme (re released with that name). I had so much fun with that game, I still have 2 copies to this day.

Crash is just amazing.

14GB for DCUO is brutal. I have a 1MBps connection and it's going to take 8 1/2 hours to complete. It also looks like my bandwidth limit will be over this month. It's too bad they didn't create an installer like PS Home.

BloodRayne is really, really awesome.

Although it does suffer from one of the worst openings ever that is nothing like the rest of the game.

@Kabapu

Can you explain what you mean by this comment? I've never played BloodRayne and am considering buying it.

I want to choose my own games.

@FreakinaVault Yeah keep telling them that maybe it will happen, on the other hand my subscription paid itself a LONG time ago and will easily renew.

Can someone tell me if PC users can play with ps3 users in DCUO?

@(Unverified)

Nope they can't sorry they are Separate Servers

All of the PS1 Crash Bandicoot games for free? Hell yes!

More PS2 Games? Cool, only 3000+ more to go then for PSN lol

Dang, I have PS+, but already purchased Hydro on the Xbox months ago. Is this version the same game?

Are the crash games worth playing? I fear they would be such an eye sore.

@dvdjunkie32
are you really concerned about free stuff?

@dvdjunkie32

Hydrophobia Prophecy is an even more updated and tweaked version of Pure, so it might be worth a play even if you've played the 360 version.

@captplut9465 Yes, yes a million times over.

Hey guys silly question but Is DCUO free to download on PS3 in Us?
Cause in Aus it's $80!! No way I'm downloading 18GB and paying $80!!

I'd try DCUO but honestly, I just don't want to tie my PS3 up for a full day just making an 18GB download. I've never been able to find a good reason as to why my PC and my Xbox360 can download files much quicker than anything my PS3 can hope to manage.

@superfrick The installer is only 125mb, so that's simple enough. Once you launch and update it, it starts the huge download from inside the installer. Fortunately, if you exit the game, it will keep what it has already downloaded. So you can download a few gb, exit and play something, and go back and download some more when you're done, etc.

It also doesn't require 28gb of free space on your hard drive to install this way, as it would if it was a PSN Store download.

Lucky me my ISP allows 200GB per month of data.

OH MY GOD ALL OF CRASH BANDICOOT IS FREE

I really hope they add the Crash and Spyro PS2 games, especially The Legend Of Spyro series, as I missed out on those and I am not going swimming through the hundreds of PS2 games at Gamestop.

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