Sony reached a new deal with streaming video service Epix that will bring its library of movies to both PlayStation 3 and PS Vita, the company announced today via the PlayStation blog.

Epix provides tons of relatively new movies (about 90 days after getting released on DVD) like The Avengers, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, The Hunger Games, and more. You may remember hearing about Epix when the service signed licensing deals with major streaming video services Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video (– meaning if you subscribe to either of those services you already have access to the Epix movie library). And now, the Epix service can be accessed on the PlayStation Network for anyone that already subscribes to a movie package through their cable or satellite TV service.

This is a good move for Sony’s PlayStation 3, and one that will allow it to remain competitive with Microsoft’s Xbox 360, which currently doesn’t have support for Epix.

The PS3 Epix app will be available for free via PSN soon with a Epix PS Vita app to follow later in the spring, according to the blog post.

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