Last week Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that playstation plus will become a subscription service with three plans available, but this change will take place in June and PS+ subscribers will continue to receive free games each month in the meantime. April games are now available on PS4 and PlayStation 5.
The games that will arrive in April as a benefit for PlayStation Plus subscribers were announced last week and are the following: Hood: Outaws & Legends, Slay the Spire and Spongebob Squarepants: Battle For Bikini Bottom Rehydrated. If you are subscribed to PS+ you can already redeem and play them.
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New games also arrived today to the PlayStation Now catalog, which will become part of the PlayStation Plus plans in June, when Sony unifies both services. Among the PS Now games arriving today are Outer Wilds, Werewolf The Apocalypse and WRC 10 FIA.
This week the sales of PlayStation Now subscriptions skyrocketed, as players are taking the opportunity to grab discounted subscriptions, because when the new PS Plus arrives, PS Now subscribers will be upgraded to the PS Plus Premium plan automatically.
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Although Sony has been criticized for not following the same Xbox Game Pass model, Jim Ryan promises video games from more than 200 studios in the PlayStation Plus catalog, including some of the biggest to arrive in recent generations.