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Sony has announced Uncharted 3, LBP Karting, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown will join the PS Plus Instant Game collection in Europe and North America next week. Replacing LittleBigPlanet 2 is Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (single-player); replacing inFamous 2 is LittleBigPlanet Karting, and replacing Motorstorm Apocalypse is XCOM: Enemy Unknown for the next 12 months.

It all starts next week, and if you don’t have a Plus account yet, you can pick one up for £39.99/$49.99 – which is less than the price of a new game. [SOURCE]

In an effort to make April, which is also Prevention of Cruelty to Animals month, "even more outstanding for players," Naughty Dog will hold double cash events for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception every Friday through Tuesday, the developer announced on its official website.

You can check out the full schedule below. Naughty Dog recently announced downloadable content in honor of April's theme, the proceeds of which will go to animal-related charities. Players can also purchase shirts and weapon skins featuring images of the real-life pets of Naughty Dogs co-presidents Cristophe Balestra and Evan Wells.

At the end of February, Sony and Naughty Dog flipped the freebie switch on Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception multiplayer. Since then, over 350,000 individuals worldwide have downloaded the free client.

The news comes as part of a DLC announcement over on the PlayStation Blog, where Naughty Dog reveals it will offer new DLC every month until June, starting first with "Oddball" avatar accoutrements celebrating Extraterrestrial Abductions Day. Some "Oddball" items include a duct tape mask, a bag for your avatar's head and a burlap sack, also for your head – because nothing celebrates alien abductions quite like a sombrero. [SOURCE]

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception free to play multiplayer may be coming to the PlayStation 3, revealed by the PlayStation blog earlier today. The information was released on an official PlayStation blog entry "The Drop: Week of February 25th 2013 New Releases," under a section titled "Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Multiplayer (Free to Play)." Apart from a quick blurb about Uncharted 3, the entry didn't offer any further details about the possible free to play plans.

Happy New Year! Hope you're all having fun. 2013 will be awesome. The Last of Us launches May 7 and we'll have some big Uncharted 3 announcements very soon.