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Oooh boy, you lucky Playstation Plus subscribers you. October looks like it's going to have some good games for your Playstation 4.

Incredibly punishing (and incredibly fun) platformer Super Meat Boy and the very charming puzzle game Broken Age will both be free to download for Playstation Plus subscribers Oct. 6.

The Playstation Blog has a few more details:

Super Meat Boy will challenge even the most devoted platforming players with teeth-grinding levels, insane obstacles, horrible traps, and smiling chunks of meat. Yum! Can you stand against the gory onslaught of near-impossible tasks in Super Meat Boy? You'll find out soon enough…

If that's a little too intense, why not point and click at things, instead? Broken Age is joining the PS Plus lineup, too! In it, guide two teenagers through strangely similar circumstances but on two different worlds. With a gorgeous soundtrack and award-winning cast, Broken Age is perfect for gamers that grew up with the adventure genre. Or people that just want to hear some jokes. Jokes are always good.

Although the post says to check the official Playstation page for the free Playstation 3 and Vita games for October, that site has not yet been updated with that information.

How quickly the time goes by, especially when you're playing video games.

Over at the Playstation Blog

they've begun celebrating the landmark anniversary of the first Playstation launch in America, which happened 20 years ago Sept. 9.

Those were exciting and pioneering times for all of us: new technology, the arcade experience in the home, and no guarantee that we would still be around come the turn of the century –- or sooner. Exciting times indeed.

But we did make it. And thanks to the dedication and passion of the greatest gaming community of all time, the PlayStation Nation, we are celebrating the twentieth birthday of the original PlayStation system, which officially launched in North America on September 9th, 1995. At its launch, PlayStation was a stylish, powerful, developer-friendly game console that popularized polygonal 3D graphics and CD playback of games and music.

Do you have any memories of that launch? Any favorite PS1 games?

Surely you've seen all the stuff going around about Pluto after New Horizons provided us with the clearest shot we've ever had of the dwarf planet, but did you know the CPU powering the New Horizons probe is the same CPU that once powered the ORIGINAL PLAYSTATION CONSOLE? We're talking about the PS1 here, the console that brought you this:



this:


and this:


NASA launched New Horizons in 2006, so they could have used at least a PS2 equivalent CPU, but I guess NASA just likes to keep it classic.

Back in the early 1990s, Nintendo and Sony teamed up to make a video game console combining Nintendo's Super Nintendo technology with Sony's Compact Discs. It was the original PlayStation. After the collaboration fell through, Sony moved forward with making the PlayStation we know now, but dizzle521 has one of the original protoypes for the canceled Nintendo Playstation. It's an impressive piece of video game history.

Are you excited for E3 yet? Sony wants to bring it just a little closer to you.

For the second year in a row, the current generation console leader will show their E3 press conference to the masses by way of theaters in all 50 states.

According to the above official video, the format will follow closely to the show displayed last year, just available to more folks. The Playstation E3 Experience will feature interviews and teasers hosted by Geoff Keighley.

Tickets will again be free to people over the age of 17 and will come with a "Playstation surprise". Last year, Sony gave away exclusive access to the Destiny alpha.

Tickets are available beginning May 27 here.

The Heroes app allows players to purchase themes, games and other digital content to support a variety of charities. Each purchase also enters the player to win a chance to play video games against celebrities.

Via Playstation:

Hi everyone – Just over one month ago, we announced PlayStation HEROES – a brand new app for the PS4 that lets you purchase digital content like themes and games to support charities and enter for a chance to play video games against celebrities. With your help, we've successfully donated over $300K for our charity partners! In addition to that, I'm happy to announce that we've selected a winner who will fly to Los Angeles to play MLB 15 against Yasiel Puig in his own home. Thrakadral, this will be your chance to tell your friends that you struck Yasiel out and your PS Heroes' donations all went to benefit the V Foundation for Cancer Research – an incredible cause.

Playstation closed down it's PS3 "Home" services yesterday, and the uproar was (as expected) fairly minimal.



What started as a failed service did blossom into a weird little social project, like some sort of bizarre mashup between the Sims and Second Life. 

Playstation Home:
You may not be missed, but you shall be remembered. 

New streaming gameson PlayStation Now for March 2015 include inFAMOUS 2, Twisted Metal, R-Type Dimensions, Alone in the Dark: Inferno, and Operation Flashpoint: Red River.

PlayStation is offering the opportunity to play games with celebrities including Stephen Curry, Snoop Dogg, Shaun White, and Yasiel Puig as part of their new "Heroes" charity opportunity.  Purchasing items in the PlayStation Heroes app enters you to win a chance to play with a different celebrity each month.  90% of the proceeds from any Heroes app purchase go to charity.

PlayStation Plus' free game lineup for February includes Transistor, Yakuza 4, Thief, Rogue Legacy, and Kick & Fennick.  Check out the teaser for it above. 

For $20 a month (or about $15 if you buy a three month package), PlayStation Now is offering streaming access to over a hundred PS3 games on your PlayStation consoles, PSTV, and Sony Smart TVs.  Check out some of those titles in the promo above.

What do you think, is a subscription to PlayStation Now worth it?

The game was originally to be released on February 6th, but is getting a month and a half delay to address some of the feedback the development team received from alpha testers, according to a post on the PlayStation Blog.