It’s taken a really long time, but Sony has finally gotten PSN back up, along with the PlayStation Store and its promised free content. Two games for the PS3, two games for the PSP (choose from a short list of both; my suggestions: Infamous and Wipeout HD for the PS3, ModNation Racers and Killzone Liberation for the PSP), and 30 free days of PSN Plus (which includes a handful of other free games that will stop being free when your subscription runes out). To access this content, just log on to PSN, access the PlayStation Store, then access the Welcome Back featured icon. You can get your free PSN Plus and download your four free games. Even if you don’t have a PSP, grab the PSP games anyway; they can sit on your drive until you feel like dropping a few bucks for a now-cheap, pretty solid handheld gaming system that will soon be replaced by the presumably backwards compatible NGP.

Be prepared for some errors in the PlayStation Store, though. The service seems to be choked with users looking to get free stuff and catch up on a month of missing DLC, but if you keep trying to access the menu and your choice of game, you’ll eventually get there. I accessed all four downloads and PSN Plus registration pretty quickly, despite the parade of error messages.