Sony's "Welcome Back" Program Now Available in Playstation Store

If you're one of those people, which I don't doubt, that have been itching to access the Playstation Store to get your demos, DLC, and etc., then you may be happy to find out that the Playstation Store has already returned. What about the "Welcome Back" program that Sony had promised us since they had begun rolling out restoration worldwide? Well, you're in luck because the program is now available!

Today, the official Playstation Blog announced that it had finally launced its program! To refresh your memory, on the PS3, you wil be able to select 2 of 5 games Sony has picked out for us to download for free! This goes for PSP as well; choosing 2 of 4 PSP games.

The following list are the games you will be able to pick 2 of, previously detailed by Sony in our recent article detailing the program:

Playstation 3

• LittleBigPlanet
• InFamous
• Wipeout HD/Fury
• Super Stardust HD
• Dead Nation

PSP

• LittleBigPlanet
• Modnation Racers
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone: Liberation

PS3 users will also be able to access Playstation Plus for 30 Days Free as well. Along with that, Sony has also set up a FAQ section explaining Playstation Plus for newcomers, like me, for example that have never used the Plus service. This FAQ section can be seen in their announcement they made today, right here

Now this whole PSN outage has finally ended, we can all return to our daily PS3 gaming lives!

Sony Details PSN's "Welcome Back" Plan

The PlayStation Network is now almost completely back, except for the store. Sony is still ironing out all the wrinkles with that. While we wait though we finally have details about how they plan to win our trust back with free stuff.

The PlayStation Blog has released a list of what users will get as part of Sony's "Welcome Back" program once the PlayStation store is finally up and running again.

Users will get to choose two PS3 games and two PSP games and download them for free. So that's four free games, and while most of the games are a bit older there are still some gems in there.

PlayStation 3

• LittleBigPlanet
• Infamous
• Wipeout HD/Fury
• Super Stardust HD
• Dead Nation

PSP

• LittleBigPlanet
• ModNation
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation

For European users there's a slightly different lineup.

PlayStation 3

• LittleBigPlanet
• Infamous
• Wipeout HD/Fury
• Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
• Dead Nation

PSP

• LittleBigPlanet
• ModNation
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation

The only caveat is if you live in Germany then on the PS3, Infamous and Dead Nation will be replaced with Super Stardust HD and Hustle Kings, and on the PSP, Pursuit Force and Killzone Liberation will be replaced with Everybody's Golf 2 and Buzz! Junior Jungle Party this is most likely due to content restrictions.

As previously reported users will gain 30 days of access to PlayStation Plus with current users recieving an additional month. Sony is also offering a lineup of "On Us" movies, probably ones produced by Sony.

PlayStation Home users will also recieve 100 free virtual items as well as more free content which will be announced later on.