The Asian Age

New month and new releases too

- ISHAAN ARYA

September is the traditiona­l month of game releases and as a bonus, India gets closer to its long awaited Xbox One Launch. But that’s not all, there will also be a new set of free games for PlayStatio­n Plus and Xbox Live Gold subscriber­s through their respective programmes.

Starting today, September 3, PlayStatio­n plus is bringing in two free indie titles to PlayStatio­n 4 in the form of the whacky Sportsfrie­nds, the crazy local multiplaye­r title that is bound to have you in a fit, and the newly- released Velocity 2x, where you travel across new worlds, alien bases and space stations battling an evil empire.

Vita users can get their hands on the psychedeli­cs shooter Txk and JoeDanger. Playstatio­n 3 probably has the best offering this month with coop adventure Hoard, where you get to pillage castles, terrorize castles and kidnap princesses with friends. The second game is Sony exclusive PlayStatio­n All- Stars Battle Royale; a fun fighter featuring all your favourite Sony characters. Sony seems to be pushing their users towards the PlayStatio­n 4 with relatively weak PlayStatio­n 3 offerings through PS Plus. However, the PS4 game library might be half a reason to migrate their PS Plus offerings because PS4 have had users cringing for months now with AAA titles nowhere in sight.

In comparison, Xbox One users can get their hands on Super Time Force; think contra with time- stopping abilities that let you reset should you die. Xbox 360, on the other hand, is offering the hit stealth heist game, Monaco: Whats Yours Is Mine for the first half of September followed by the blockbuste­r Halo Reach, seemingly a build- up to the launch of the Halo Master Chief Collection, which itself is a steal with 4 full Halo games bundled into one purchase for the Xbox One.

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Velocity 2x is one of the free indie titles by PlayStatio­n
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