As promised, Sony will be handing out a few free games to players that suffered from the PSN outage (that ended this weekend after almost a month). The Playstation Store is still labelled as under maintenance, but when that's done we Europeans will get to choose two games from the following list:
- LittleBigPlanet
- Infamous
- Wipeout HD/Fury
- Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
- Dead Nation
Unless you live in Germany, where Infamous and Dead Nation have been replaced with Super Stardust HD and Hustle Kings.
You'll also get to choose two PSP games from the following:
- LittleBigPlanet PSP
- ModNation PSP
- Pursuit Force
- Killzone Liberation
Again, if you're in Germany, you'll be able to choose from Everybody's Golf 2 and Buzz Junior Jungle Party instead of Pursuit Force and Killzone Liberation.
If you were a Playstation+ subscriber before PSN went down, you'll get 60 days of free subscription. If you weren't, you'll get 30 days. There will also be some Welcome Back-stuff added to Playstation Home at some point.
Remember the following though, quoted from the Playstation Blog:
For eligibility for the welcome back programme consumers must be an account holder on 20 April 2011. Specific details about these offers and eligibility requirements will be posted as the services go live. All existing PSN registrants have 30 days from when the welcome back programme goes live to redeem their content.
So don't rush out and buy a Playstation 3 hoping you'll get free stuff.
So what do you think? Is this enough compensation for the time the Playstation Network was down? Is it enough compensation for having your personal information stolen by someone? Most of the Playstation 3-games being offered are high-profile titles, which is nice in a way but it also means that a lot of PS3-fans will already own them. If you do, what's your reaction? Let us know in the comments!