February will be a kid-friendly month for the PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection, with subscribers able to download the PlayStation 4 launch title Knack, Sony announced today.
Knack, developed by PS4 lead system architect Mark Cerny, launched alongside the console to a lukewarm reception in November 2013. But it could be fun to check it out before playing the sequel, which arrived last September and was much better received. The other PS4 game for February is Rime, the puzzle adventure from Tequila Works, which was originally released last May.
PlayStation 3 owners will be able to download Irem’s Spelunker HD, which has no relation to Mossmouth’s Spelunky HD — it’s a high-definition remake of a game that originated in 1983 on Atari 8-bit consoles. They’ll also get Mugen Souls Z, Compile Heart’s 2013 sequel to its 2012 strategy RPG Mugen Souls. On the PlayStation Vita front, the two free games for February are Magnetic Realms’ Exile’s End and Monochrome’s Grand Kingdom. The latter title is also available on PS4 via cross-buy.
February will continue a bonus that began in January: PlayStation VR users can download a free copy of Starblood Arena. That offer runs through March 6.
All six February games will go free for PlayStation Plus subscribers next Tuesday, Feb. 6. Until then, members can still download the January games.
Wonder Woman, West Side Story, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, GoodFellas. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Warner Brothers, United Artists, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers.
Every month, tons of new movies and TV shows become available to stream for free for subscribers to Netflix Instant, Hulu, HBO Now, and Amazon Prime. With so many different streaming services, it can be hard to keep track of them all—especially if you belong to more than one service. Below, we present to you the ultimate streaming guide. We’ll let you decide which service has the best new titles. (All titles arrive Feb. 1 unless otherwise specified.)
Netflix
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould in Ocean’s Eleven. Warner Bros.
Must Watch
GoodFellas
Good Watch
The Hurt Locker
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Lincoln (Feb. 21)
Meet the Parents
Men in Black
Paint It Black
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Winnie (Feb. 26)
Nostalgia Watch
American Pie
Family Watch
Ella Enchanted
Heist Watch
Ocean’s Eleven
Ocean’s Twelve
Ocean’s Thirteen
Not as Good as Office Space But Still Pretty Good Watch
Extract
:hankey: Watch
The Emoji Movie (Feb. 8)
Netflix Originals
Altered Carbon: Season 1 (Feb. 2)
Coach Snoop: Season 1 (Feb. 2)
Derren Brown: The Push (Feb. 27)
DreamWorks Dragons: Race to the Edge: Season 6 (Feb. 16)
Everything Sucks!: Season 1 (Feb. 16)
Fate/Apocrypha: Part 2 (Feb. 9)
First Team: Juventus: Season 1 (Feb. 16)
Forgotten (Feb. 21)
Fred Armisen: Standup For Drummers (Feb. 6)
FullMetal Alchemist (Feb. 19)
Greenhouse Academy: Season 2 (Feb. 14)
Irreplaceable You (Feb. 16)
Kavin Jay: Everybody Calm Down! (Feb. 2)
Love Per Square Foot (Feb. 14)
Luna Petunia: Return to Amazia: Season 1 (Feb. 2)
Marlon Wayans: Woke-ish (Feb. 27)
Marseille: Season 2 (Feb. 23)
Mute (Feb. 23)
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: George Clooney (Feb. 9)
On Body and Soul (Feb. 2)
Queer Eye: Season 1 (Feb. 7)
Re:Mind: Season 1 (Feb. 15)
Seeing Allred (Feb. 9)
Seven Seconds: Season 1 (Feb. 23)
The Frankenstein Chronicles: Season 1 and Season 2 (Feb. 20)
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale (Feb. 18)
The Ritual (Feb. 9)
The Trader (Sovdagari) (Feb. 9)
Ugly Delicious: Season 1 (Feb. 23)
When We First Met (Feb. 9)
Other Series
Atomic Puppet: Season 1 (Feb. 22)
Bates Motel: Season 5 (Feb. 20)
Deep Undercover Collection: Collection 2 (Feb. 15)
El Vato: Season 2 (Feb. 26)
Imposters: Season 1 (Feb. 7)
Sin Senos sí Hay Paraíso: Season 2 (Feb. 26)
Valor: Season 1 (Feb. 6)
Z Nation: Season 4
HBO
Michael Cera, Alison Pill, and Johnny Simmons in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Double Negative/Universal Studios
Must Watch
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
West Side Story (1961)
Good Watch
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (Unrated Version) (2003)
Diner (1982)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
Man on the Moon (1999)
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) (Feb. 7)
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010)
Wonder Woman (2017) (Feb. 10)
Family Watch
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017)
Nostalgia Watch
Freaky Friday (2003)
Alien and/or Predator Watch
Alien (Director’s Cut) (1979)
Alien 3 (Extended Version) (1992)
Alien Resurrection (Extended Version) (1997)
Aliens (Extended Version) (1986)
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Extended Version) (2004)
Predator (1987)
Predator 2 (1990)
If You’re Bored
Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
Gifted (2017) (Feb. 3)
Glory Road (2006)
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
National Security (2003)
Romeo and Juliet (2013)
The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)
The House (2017) (Feb. 17)
HBO Original Programming
2 Dope Queens Four-Part Special (Feb. 2)
Atomic Homefront (Feb. 12)
Notes from the Field (Feb. 24)
Series Premiere
Here and Now (Feb. 11)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Season 5 (Feb. 19)
Chumel Con Chumel Torres, Season 3 (Feb. 19)
American Black Film Festival Short Film Competition Finalists
Amelia’s Closet
Gema
Plaquemines
See You Yesterday
We Love Moses
Estrenos
Desayuno con Tiffany (Breakfast with Tiffany) (2018)
Samba (AKA Sandbag) (2014) (Feb. 2)
Mamá se fue de viaje (AKA Ten Days Without Mom) (2017) (Feb. 9)
Amazon
Daniel Craig and Adam Driver in Logan Lucky. Claudette Barius/Fingerprint Releasing
Must Watch
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967)
Good Watch
50/50 (2011)
3:10 to Yuma (2007) (Feb. 8)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Good Time (2017) (Feb. 11)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Logan Lucky (2017) (Feb. 16)
Manhunter (1986)
Star Trek (2009) (Feb. 14)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Swimming with Sharks (1995)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (1999)
Can You Dig It? Watch
The Warriors (1979)
Nostalgia Watch
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Red Dawn (1984)
Running Scared (1986)
Sabrina (1995)
Cher Watch
Mermaids (1990)
Gunslinger Watch
The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017) (Feb. 13)
Black Spurs (1965)
Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985)
Rollerball, the Good One
Rollerball (1975)
Rollerball, the Crappy One
Rollerball (2002)
Ick Watch
Manhattan (1979)
If You’re Bored
50 First Dates (2004)
American Idiots (2013)
Breathe (2017) (Feb. 10)
Click (2006)
Crash (2004) (Feb. 6)
Danica (2017) (Feb. 6)
Daybreakers (2009)
Gang Related (1997)
Harsh Times (2006)
He Said, She Said (1991)
Hoodlum (1997)
Intersection (1994)
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Man on a Ledge (2012)
Mother’s Day (2016) (Feb. 8)
My Dead Boyfriend (2016) (Feb. 4)
National Lampoon Presents Cattle Call (2008) (Feb. 14)
No Stone Unturned (2017) (Feb. 10)
Pocket Listing (2015) (Feb. 18)
Run the Tide (2016) (Feb. 11)
Slow Burn (2000)
Thanks for Sharing (2013) (Feb. 18)
The Cutting Edge (1992)
The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006)
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
The Haunting (1999)
The Thaw (2009)
Amazon Originals
Absentia, Season 1 (Feb. 2)
GRAND PRIX Driver, Season 1 (Feb. 9)
Human Flow (2017) (Feb. 16)
Mozart in the Jungle, Season 4 (Feb. 16)
Stinky & Dirty Valentine’s Day Special (Feb. 13)
The Tick, Season 1B (Feb. 23)
Thunderbirds are Go!, Season 4 (Feb. 23)
Other Series
The Expanse, Season 2 (Feb. 7)
Hulu
Julia Roberts, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lili Taylor, Annabeth Gish, William R. Moses, and Adam Storke in Mystic Pizza. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.
Must Watch
Blazing Saddles (1974)
The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1967)
Good Watch
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Along for the Ride (2016) (Feb. 12)
Amelie (2001)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
An Ideal Husband (1999) (Feb. 15)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Beach Rats (2017) (Feb. 5)
Confessions of A Dangerous Mind (2002)
Frailty (2001)
Fresh (1994) (Feb. 15)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Lucky (2017) (Feb. 11)
Manhunter (1986)
Nine Queens (2000)
Running Scared (1986)
Sin City (2005)
Star Trek (2009) (Feb. 14)
Swimming with Sharks (1995)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her (1999)
The Two Faces of January (2014) (Feb. 12)
Tom of Finland (2017) (Feb. 12)
Weiner (2016) (Feb. 5)
Cher Watch
Mermaids (1990)
Family Watch
Agent Cody Banks (2003)
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds (2008)
The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover (2017)
The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale (2004)
The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today (2016)
Can You Dig It? Watch
The Warriors (1979)
Nostalgia Watch
Michael (1996)
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Red Dawn (1984)
Sabrina (1995)
Gunslinger Watch
Black Spurs (1965)
Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985)
Rollerball, the Good One
Rollerball (1975)
Rollerball, the Crappy One
Rollerball (2002)
Torture Watch
Detroit (2017) (Feb. 23)
Ick Watch
Manhattan (1979)
If You’re Bored
28 Hotel Rooms (2012) (Feb. 15)
A Date for Mad Mary (2016)
A Taxi Driver (2017) (Feb. 7)
Above Ground Level: Dubfire (2017) (Feb. 20)
Alien Psychosis (2017) (Feb. 27)
American Idiots (2013)
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre (2002)
Birthday Girl (2001) (Feb. 15)
Casi Divas (2008)
Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story (2017) (Feb. 6)
Charm School (2007)
Christmas in the Heartland (2017) (Feb. 13)
Danica (2017) (Feb. 6)
Daybreakers (2009)
Drinksgiving (2017) (Feb. 13)
Gang Related (1997)
Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot (2008) (Feb. 15)
Harsh Times (2006)
He Said, She Said (1991)
Honeymoon (2014) (Feb. 12)
Hoodlum (1997)
Intersection (1994)
It Happened in LA (2017) (Feb. 12)
Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
Love is Thicker than Water (2016) (Feb. 26)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Monogamy (2011) (Feb. 15)
My Dead Boyfriend (2016) (Feb. 4)
National Lampoon Presents Cattle Call (2008) (Feb. 14)
Next (2007) (Feb. 15)
Once Upon A Time (2017) (Feb. 21)
Perfect Stranger (2007)
Pocket Listing (2015) (Feb. 18)
Rebirth (2011) (Feb. 15)
Redline (2009)
Run the Tide (2016) (Feb. 11)
Thanks for Sharing (2013) (Feb. 18)
Slow Burn (2000)
The 60 Yard Line (2017) (Feb. 6)
The Animal (2001)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
The Challenge (2017) (Feb. 5)
The Cutting Edge (1992)
The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006)
The Exploding Girl (2010) (Feb. 15)
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
The Haunting (1999)
The Spirit (2008)
The Thaw (2009)
The Villainess (2017) (Feb. 21)
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) (Feb. 19)
Hulu Originals
The Looming Tower: Season 1 Premiere (Feb. 28)
Other Series
A.P. Bio: Season 1 Premiere (NBC) (Feb. 2)
Archer: Dreamland: Complete Season 8 (FXX) (Feb. 5)
Broad City: Complete Season 4 (Comedy Central) (Feb. 4)
Brockmire: Complete Season 1 (IFC) (Feb. 9)
Cardinal: Complete Season 2 (eOne) (Feb. 16)
Cougar Town: Complete Series (ABC)
Dirt: Complete Series (ABC)
Everwood: Complete Series (WB)
Face Off: Complete Seasons 1-10 (Syfy)
Gary Unmarried: Complete Seasons 1-2 (ABC) (Feb. 8)
Good Girls: Season 1 Premiere (NBC) (Feb. 27)
Nightcap: Complete Season 2 (Pop)
One Tree Hill: Complete Series (WB)
Parenthood: Complete Series (NBC) (Feb. 15)
Perception: Complete Seasons 1-3 (ABC) (Feb. 8)
Real Humans: Complete Seasons 1 & 2 (Endemol)
The Long Road Home: Complete Season 1 (Nat Geo) (Feb. 17
The PJ’s: Complete Seasons 1-3 (ABC) (Feb. 8)
The Voice: Season 14 Premiere (NBC) (Feb. 27)
By The Peninsula Online
DOHA: Petrol prices will go up from tomorrow, February 1, according to the new price list issued by Qatar Petroleum.
Premium grade petrol price will go up by 5 dirhams and will cost QR1.85 per litre in February compared to QR1.80 in January.
Super grade will be costlier by 5 dirhams and will cost QR1.90 per litre. It was QR1.85 in January.
Price of diesel will increase by 10 dirhams in February. It will be QR1.85 a litre as against QR1.75 in January.
Prices had risen in January also. This is the highest ever price for petrol after the Ministry started pegging the fuel prices to the international market.
Yesterday there were many fake pictures circulating in social media giving a steep increase in fuel prices. Please trust only reputed news outlets and official social media handles for such information and before forwarding be sure to see if it is correct or not.
When the first list was announced in June 2016 the premium petrol was QR1.20 per litre, super QR1.30 per litre and diesel QR1.40 per litre.
From April 2016, the Ministry of Energy and Industry had started pegging the fuel prices to the international market.
From September, it is Qatar Petroleum who is announcing the monthly price list.
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Credit: Sony
Sony has finally announced its line-up of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers for February.
It's not a bad list, either---though that applies mostly to the PS4 offerings. The free games this time around include at least one that I've wanted to play since the PS4 launched way back in 2013, as well as a newer game that many gamers may have missed.
(See the free PS Plus games for January here. Today's the last day to download at least one very worthwhile game.)
As with last month, I'm including each game's OpenCritic (or MetaCritic) score so that you have a sense of how each title performed with critics. Obviously this is less of a concern when each game is free, but we all have limited time and limited HD space on our PS4's, so it never hurts to have as much information at your fingertips as possible.
Including review aggregates can also be helpful for one other reason: To show just how low most of these free games score. Come on, Sony, we can do better than this!
Here are all the free PS Plus games for January:
PS4
PS3
PS Vita
Exiles End (63% on MetaCritic)
Grand Kingdom, PS Vita (Also available on PS4) (76% on MetaCritic)
PS VR (Jan 2 - March 6)
Starblood Arena (68% on OpenCritic)
Knack is one of those games that looked really fun but ended up scoring really poorly. And amidst the flood of new PS4 and Xbox One games at the time, I just never got around to playing it. I did play a bit of the sequel at last year's E3 and I enjoyed that well enough, but now that Knack is free I can give it a spin if only to see why it didn't live up to its promise.
I have played, and enjoy, Rime quite a bit, especially for its lovely visuals. It's not a perfect game by any means, but it has some nice puzzling and exploring and for the rock bottom price of free you could do much worse.
On PS3, don't confuse Spelunker HD with Spelunky. The former is generally a much better received game and was inspired by the original 80s' game Spelunker, of which this is a remake. Beyond this I haven't tried any of the rest of these games. I haven't dusted off my PS Vita in ages and I rarely strap a VR headset to my face these days either.
