After an admittedly crap December line-up for PlayStation Plus, January's line-up is already a marked improvement.
Heading the line-up and available on PlayStation 4 and 5 is 'Deep Rock Galactic' which is making it's PlayStation debut via PlayStation Plus.
Already available on Xbox and PC, the game is making it's way to PlayStation consoles for the first time and is a fun, solid co-operative first-person shooter that boasts procedural generation, meaning players never play the same game twice.
A hit on Xbox and PC, selling over 3 million copies in the process, a month's exposure on PlayStation Plus will help raise the profile of the game as it debuts on Sony's consoles.
'Dirt 5' is the other PS4/PS5 game available next month, with the arcade racer a solid alternative to the peerless 'Forza Horizon 5' for Xbox.
The PlayStation 5 version of the game is capable of 120HZ, making it a perfect game to test out the console and a television set-up.
The game was the final game put out by Codemasters prior to their acquisition by Electronic Arts earlier this year.
'Persona 5 strikers' is a spin-off of 2017's critically-acclaimed 'Persona 5' and is a perfectly serviceable free game for PS Plus subscribers, and is available for PlayStation 4 owners.
Subscribers have until January 4th to claim December's titles, but we wouldn't exactly be rushing out and making it our priority to download the titles.
Rumours have been swirling recently that PlayStation is looking to launch a rival to Xbox's lauded Game Pass service, with the Game Pass service touted as a major success story for Xbox in the console war.
According to documents seen by Bloomberg, the new subscription service is codenamed ‘Spartacus’ and will combine the current PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now services.
The service is expected to launch sometime in 2022 when it will be available on both PS4 and PS5 and be structured across three payment tiers, it’s claimed.
The first tier would include existing PlayStation Plus benefits, such as online play and free monthly titles, the second would offer a large catalogue of games like Xbox Game Pass (although not first-party titles at launch) while the third tier would add extended demos, game streaming and a library of classic PlayStation games.
