Sony Reveals the Newest Perks for PlayStation Plus

Beginning today, October 16th, North American PlayStation Plus subscribers are going to get a host of new perks, in addition to some perks already in existence that will stick around past that date. New PlayStation Plus perks have yet to be announced in other territories.

For starters, PayDay: The Heist, the cooperative robbery/crime shooter, will be completely free to download. We liked PayDay when it was released on PS3 a year ago. Additionally, The Unfinished Swan, which we gave a 9.0, will be available early to PS+ users for $15. It’s available to everyone else next week.

But wait, there’s more! A new beta for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale becomes available today for PlayStation Plus users. Players can use either PS3 or Vita, and play in 2-on-2 and free-for-all matches over PSN. The same six characters from the previous beta – Colonel Radec, Fat Princess, Sweet Tooth, Sly Cooper, Parappa the Rapper and Kratos – are the six characters included in the beta.

Finally, the following games and DLC will receive discounts for all users, while Monster World IV and SEGA Rally Arcade will receive steep discounts only for PS+ members.

PS3 Games: Amy, Costume Quest, Dead Nation, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Dead Space 2, Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime, Infamous: Festival of Blood and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.

Vita Games: Plants vs. Zombies and Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack.

DLC: Call of Duty: Black Ops (Rezurrection), Costume Quest (Complete) and Zen Pinball 2 (The Paranormal, Sorcerer’s Lair and Plants vs. Zombies tables).

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Deadwood's Ian McShane Joins American Horror Story

According to Glee, Nip/Tuck, The New Normal and American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy - via Twitter - the great Ian McShane (Deadwood, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) is joining the cast, a bit late in the shooting game, of American Horror Story: Asylum.

We don't know McShane's exact role as of yet, but as Murphy wrote in his tweet, he's going to "tussle" with Jessica Lange's character, Sister Jude. American Horror Story: Asylum premieres on Wednesday, October 17th at 10pm on FX.

Wouldn't it be funny if he just played Blackbeard again?

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Josh Schwartz, Bret Easton Ellis, Catherine Hardwicke team for Copeland Prep, a High School/Monster Series at The CW

In what could be described as one of the weirdest team-ups ever, Bret Easton Ellis (author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho), Josh Schwartz (the creator of The OC and co-creator of Chuck) and Catherine Hardwicke (the director of Thirteen and Twilight) are currently developing a high school/monster drama series for The CW.

The hour-long series, called Copeland Prep, revolves around the students of a competitive secondary school that's turning teenagers into monsters. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ellis has been commissioned to pen the script and executive produce alongside Schwartz and his Fake Empire cohorts for Warner Bros. Television. Hardwicke will serve as an executive consultant.

Schwartz, who has an overall deal with WBTV, already has four shows slated for the 2012-13 season on The CW: Gossip Girl, Hart of Dixie, as well as freshman series The Carrie Diaries and Cult.

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Ryan Murphy Reveals the New Title for American Horror Story: Season 2

Co-creator and executive producer Ryan Murphy has announced the title of the next chapter for FX's American Horror Story - American Horror Story: Asylum.

"When we launched the show last year, we kept quiet about the closed-ended nature of the show because we didn't want to tip off the audience that the characters were not going to survive," said Murphy. "Now that it has been established that each year is a closed-ended story, the time seemed right to reveal what we’re calling the new installment.

"We picked 'Asylum' because it not only describes the setting -- an insane asylum run by Jessica Lange's character which was formerly a tuberculosis ward -- but also signifies a place of haven for the unloved and the unwanted. This year's theme is about sanity and tackling real life horrors."

The new season stars Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Zachary Quinto, James Cromwell, and Joseph Fiennes. Production began in July. As previously reported, none of the returning cast members from Season 1 are playing the same characters.

American Horror Story: Asylum will premiere this fall in October on FX.

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