Sony’s got a three-tiered subscription plan and VFS has renewed its scholarships for women looking to get into the video game industry.

Sony announces new Playstation Plus subscriptions

Sony is combining its two subscription offerings into one.

The initiative gets rid of Playstation Now, which provides subscribers with access to about 1,000 old Playstation games mostly through cloud streaming, and creates three levels of Playstation Plus.

The basic plan is Playstation Plus Essential, which is what PS Plus has been until now. It provides access to multiplayer gaming, two free games a month, and cloud storage for saved games, for a cost of $10 USD a month or $60 USD a year.

For an additional $5 a month or $40 a year, you can subscribe to Playstation Plus Extra, which opens up a library of about 400 PS4 and PS5 games that you can download.

The top tier, Playstation Plus Premium, costs $18 a month or $120 a year and adds more than 300 games to the library, including titles originally released for PS1, PS2, PS3, and Playstation Portable.

Unlike Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass, which is $12 CDN a month for the basic plan or $17 CDN a month for Ultimate, the Playstation Plus plans will not include new games like the upcoming God of War sequel.

Scholarship at VFS for women funded by Vancouver developers

Vancouver Film School’s Game Design program is, for the third year, offering full and partial Women in Game Design scholarships.

Three $10,000 and five $5,000 scholarships will be awarded to women looking to enter the game industry. Recipients of the full ride also get mentors from The Coalition (Gears of War) and Blackbird Interactive (Homeworld 3) as well as six-month paid internships after graduating.

Submissions are due by April 10.