Sony Pulls First-Party PS3 Games Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 From PS5 and PS4 as Part of Big PS Plus Clearout

22 games volition beryllium pulled from the PlayStation Plus room adjacent month, including Grand Theft Auto 5, Payday 2: Crimewave Edition, and the past playable versions of first-party titles Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2.

PlayStation Plus is an online gaming work for PlayStation platforms that includes escaped monthly games, limited-time trials, online multiplayer, and member-exclusive discounts. It besides includes a catalog of hundreds of existent and classical games for Extra and Premium members.

As noted by Push Square, the removal of 22 games connected May 20 includes 2 high-profile first-party Sony PS3 games, some acceptable to exit the PS Plus Premium library.

That's due to the fact that some Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 are nary longer purchasable connected the the PS Store, making the PS Plus Premium streaming work the past spot to play them unless you hap to person some games and a moving PS3 inactive astatine home. Both titles are being removed little than a twelvemonth aft they were added to the room astatine the extremity of 2024.

Resistance is simply a bid of alternate past first-person shooters Insomniac developed pursuing its enactment connected the Ratchet and Clank games. Three Resistance games were released for the PS3 earlier Insomniac moved connected to different projects similar Marvel’s Spider-Man and caller Ratchet and Clank games.

While it's antithetic for Sony to region first-party games from this service, it's not unheard of, arsenic demonstrated by the daze removal of some Horizon games — Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon: Forbidden West — successful August 2024. But astatine slightest you could inactive bargain some of those games erstwhile they were removed; Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 volition present wholly vanish for modern consoles.

Interestingly, Resistance 3 and Resistance: Retribution volition stay connected the service. It's besides worthy noting that much caller first-party PS4 crippled InFamous: Second Son is besides leaving PS Plus.

Insomniac's Resistance bid has been dormant for immoderate clip now. In February, Insomniac laminitis and outgoing president Ted Price revealed that determination was a existent propulsion to get Resistance 4 made, but unluckily the crippled ne'er received the greenish light. Resistance, similar Horizon developer Guerrilla's Killzone shooter series, has fallen by the wayside.

Games leaving PS Plus connected May 20, 2025

• Grand Theft Auto 5
• MotoGP 24
• The Sims 4: Island Living
• Resistance: Fall of Man
• Resistance 2
• Walkabout Mini Golf
• Synth Riders
• Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord
• Before Your Eyes
• The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
• The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution
• Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2
• Stranded: Alien Dawn
• The Lego Movie 2 Videogame
• Ghostrunner
• Payday 2: Crimewave Edition
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
• Journey to the Savage Planet
• Portal Knights
• Enter the Gungeon
• Batman: Arkham Knight
• InFamous: Second Son

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