Wed, Sep 30, 2009 | 22:56 BST
Home v1.3 update includes Central Plaza, Neptune Suite and more
During its regular PlayStation Update this Thursday, Sony will release and update for Home, bringing it to version 1.3.
Updates include:
- Universal Game Launching.
- New Emotes and Actions
- More Item Types Including limited use items
- Tons of Improvements such as new categories of clothing, the targeting system, bug fixes, and the ability to determine your cache size.
Also, the Central Plaza has been updated with the new World Map Travel Center, a new and improved Listen@Home kiosk, new leaderboards and rewards to the Saucer Pop mini-game and a kiosk in Central Plaza where you can grab prizes associated with events.
The new Neptune Suite personal space is also being released this Thursday, and its a rather cool underwater dwelling where you can play built-in mini-games like Blast Zone and it comes with its own pet that interacts with your avatar.
There are tons of details on the update over on the US PS Blog, along with videos showing off the Central Plaza updates and the Neptune Suite.
6 comments
#1
No_PUDding
30/09/09, 10:58 pm
OMFG!!!!
/shits
#2
Syrok
30/09/09, 10:58 pm
I don’t get the universal game launching thing. You can just press the menu button and start whatever game you want to play from the XMB right now. .o?
#3
phatb0y
30/09/09, 11:00 pm
Neptune Suite? For a moment there I thought it said Neptune Hall and I was reminded of It Came From The Desert.
Then I remembered it was Home and that was 3GB saved.
#4
Neolucifer
30/09/09, 11:32 pm
@Syrok
theya re talking about game launching from home .
With the few currently working you can basically meet people in home and decide to go together in a game .
#5
Withnail
01/10/09, 8:02 am
@Neolucifer
That’s what it does now. 1.3 is adding universal game launching so you can launch any game, though the ones that aren’t fully supported will not do anything more than that (i.e. it won’t automatically set up the multiplayer for you).
Syrok is right that the advantages over in-game XMB are less clear. Only one I can think of is maybe after the game is finished it puts you straight back into the same place in home, rather than dumping you to XMB.
#6
Gekidami
01/10/09, 8:09 am
Thats pretty much all it is, launch from Home then quit back into Home for every game. For it to work with parties and multiplayer it needs the games to actually be patched.