Sony has introduced the PlayStation Plus month-to-month video games for January 2026, and the brand new yr kicks off with Need for Speed Unbound, Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, and Core Keeper.
As detailed by PlayStation.Blog, these three video games will likely be accessible to all PlayStation Plus members from January 6 till February 2.
That is additionally a good time to remind PlayStation Plus members that in addition they have till January 5 so as to add December’s video games to their library, which embrace Lego Horizon Adventures, Killing Flooring 3, The Outlast Trials, Synduality Echo of Ada, and Neon White.
2022’s Need for Speed Unbound leads the pack on PS5 and can give racers an opportunity to check out the newest entry within the beloved franchise. Unbound has separate single and multiplayer campaigns and encourages gamers to “race towards time, outsmart the cops, and tackle weekly qualifiers to achieve The Grand, Lakeshore’s final avenue racing problem.”
In our Need for Speed Unbound evaluation, we stated it “hasn’t strayed very removed from the basics of 2019’s Warmth, however its daring new animated model impresses.”
Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed is up subsequent on PS4 and PS5, and it is a attractive remake of the 2010 title that first appeared on Nintendo Wii. On this 3D platformer, gamers change into Mickey Mouse and enterprise to the Wasteland, a realm of forgotten Disney characters. And sure, you do get to come across Oswald the Fortunate Rabbit, who was Walt Disney’s first massive character earlier than Mickey.
In my preview of Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, I stated, “what impressed me essentially the most about Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed is how a lot it appears and, maybe most significantly, looks like a 2024 sport.”
Rounding out the bunch is Core Keeper on PS4 and PS5, a 1-8 participant mining sandbox journey the place you may “harvest relics and assets, craft superior instruments, construct your base, and discover a dynamically evolving world ready to be unearthed.”
Core Keeper is getting a giant Void & Voltage Replace (and a Change 2 launch!) on January 28, 2026, so this can be a nice time to leap aboard. The replace features a new biome known as Breaker’s Attain, a brand new boss named S.A.H.A.B.A.R., an Superior Automation Desk, and way more.
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