PlayStation Now Beta Gets a Lot of New Games, Raises Quality; “Rental” System and Screenshots Leaked

Giuseppe Nelva April 20, 2014 5:07 PM EST

Looks like Sony is applying some very fast iteration to the games offered as part of the PlayStation Now beta test, and one of our readers took upon himself the task to deliver a few snapshots showcasing the new catalog, which shows an arguable improvement in the quality of the titles included since the last update.

Here’s the full list of the games currently available:

Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear

LUMINES: Supernova

NIGHTS Into Dreams…

Retro/Grade

Sacred Citadel

Saints Row: The Third

Skullgirls Encore

Sniper Elite V2

Puppeteer

Eat Them!

PixelJump Racers 2nd Lap

PixelJunk Shooter 2

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

Ben 10 Omniverse 2

Contrast

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness

Catherine

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron

FUEL

GRID

Another very interesting elements we can see in the snapshots below is the “rental” system present in the beta (the actual games in the screenshot have been obscured in order to protect our tipster’s identity). Basically when you decide to play a game in the beta you can select to do so for 30 days, 1 day or 7 days. It pretty much works like a rental.

At the moment, of course, there are no price tags attached, and it’ll be interesting to see how this will translate into the final version this summer. Of course we have to remember that this is indeed a beta, and it doesn’t represent the final list of games that will be offered by the service.