Category Archives: Home
Thu, Dec 08, 2011 | 14:10 GMT
PlayStation Home goes V1.60
Sony’s announced details of the Version 1.60 update that will go live for PlayStation Home later today. The big change is the number of item placements in your space, up from 50 to 100. Also fixed is targeting in personal spaces, a new help system for new users of the service and more. You can get the full patch notes over on the US PS Blog.
Tue, Nov 22, 2011 | 04:42 GMT
Free movies available through PlayStation Home
Sony has signed up with streaming movie provider Crackle to bring free movies to virtual world PlayStation Home.
Thu, Nov 03, 2011 | 10:59 GMT
PlayStation Home reboot goes live
Sony’s fully rebooted PlayStation Home, as promised back in the summer and detailed yesterday. The redesign will come with four new districts, F2P games on a freemium model and other content. SCEE’s Darren Cairns noted the new look “puts you right at the centre of a world of games,” and that it’ll give “a completely unique way to meet your PlayStation Network friends and play, interact or simply hang out with them.”
Get to it, soldier.
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Posted in: Home, PS3, Sony
Tags: playstation home
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 | 14:33 GMT
PlayStation Home reboot launching tomorrow
Sony’s announced it’s to launch its reboot of PlayStation Home tomorrow morning GMT.
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Posted in: Home, PS3, Sony
Tags: jack buser, playstation home, Reboot
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 | 00:31 GMT
European PSN maintenance on Thursday
Bad news for European Uncharted fans – the PlayStation Network will be taken offline for several hours on Thursday evening.
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Posted in: Home, PS3, PSN, PSP, PlayStation Store, Sony
Tags: psn maintenance
Thu, Oct 27, 2011 | 14:10 BST
Thursday shorts: XIII, PS Home, Uwe Boll, WoW, Kojima
As appropriated from the great scribe and scholar Mr Bartholomew Simpson: Eat my shorts.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Home, PS3, Shorts, Sony
Tags: BloodRayne, Chris Metzen, guinevere turner, hideo kojima, Meryl Silverburg, metal gear solid, PS Home, Thursday shorts, uwe boll, wow, xiii
Tue, Oct 11, 2011 | 00:12 BST
PlayStation Home the “easiest point of entry” for PSN developers
Sony’s social network turned game-space is the best way for new developers to get on board the PSN, according to Home director Jack Buser.
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Posted in: Development, Home, PS3, PSN, Sony
Tags: jack buser
Mon, Oct 03, 2011 | 09:59 BST
Sony did not break Australian privacy laws in response to the PSN breach according to Privacy Commissioner
According to a declaration made by the Australian Privacy Commissioner, despite Sony’s delayed response in informing consumer’s of April’s PlayStation Network security breach, it has been determined that the company has not breached the nation’s Privacy Act.
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Posted in: Australia, Home, Legalities, PS3, PSP, PlayStation Plus, PlayStation Store, Sony
Tags: Legal, playstation network, Privacy Act, security breach, Timothy Pilgrim
Wed, Sep 28, 2011 | 21:38 BST
PS Home will go offline tomorrow to load client 1.55
Tomorrow, September 29 from 8am BST PS Home will go offline for scheduled maintenance, and once back up, client update 1.55 client will be up and running. Improvements to the Home start up flow, wardrobe and furniture browsing, and much will be applied. Full details of the client update can be found here. Other lovely additions and details can be found on the PS Blog.
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Posted in: Home, Sony
Tags: PS Home client 1.55
Mon, Sep 26, 2011 | 19:19 BST
Mysterious Sony trailer teasing new PS Home?
Sony’s released a new live-action trailer which seems to be teasing the reveal of a revamped PlayStation Home.
Thu, Aug 25, 2011 | 17:18 BST
PS Home director believes the future is the free-to-play market
PlayStation Home director Jack Buser believes Home is a “huge differentiator” from other consoles, and that the future is in free-to-play sector – something Sony plans to capitalize on with the service’s revamp launching in the fall.
Tue, Aug 23, 2011 | 09:50 BST
PlayStation Home to reboot as social games platform
Sony is planning to give PlayStation Home an almighty reboot, turning it mainly into a social games platform.
Thu, Aug 11, 2011 | 09:18 BST
PlayStation Home to stream Sony gamescom presser live
Sony’s announced on the EU PS Blog it’s to stream live its gamescom press conference inside PlayStation Home. The event will be streamed inside the gamescom event space in the service from 7pm CET (6pm BST). The space itself will be available to download from 5pm CET (4pm BST) via the Navigator in Home and the What’s New section in the XMB. In case you can’t get in, we’ll be there too with a liveblog. Details on what to expect here.
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Posted in: Gamescom 2011, Home, PS3, Sony, Vita
Tags: gamescom at home
Tue, Jul 26, 2011 | 22:04 BST
US PS Store update: DA2 Legacy, Homefront, BTTF, DW7
Sony has updated the US end of the PS Store, and along with the Fat Princess bundle and THQ sale we already mentioned, there tons more, especially if you are a Dynasty Warriors 7 nut.
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Posted in: America, Canada, Home, PS3, PSN, PSP, PlayStation Plus, PlayStation Store, Sony
Tags: ps store update
Tue, Jul 26, 2011 | 09:28 BST
Tuesday Shorts – Zynga targets China, Dwarf Fortress class, iPad magic, more
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Posted in: 3DS, Casual, EA Sports, Home, MMO, Movies, Nintendo, RPG, Shorts, Social, Strategy, Zynga, iPad, iPhone
Tags: amazon, Battlestar Galactica Online, catherine, cryengine 3, dead island, diner dash, Dwarf Fortress, facebook, Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions, Lethal Enterprise, Neil Burger, NHL 12, Two Worlds II: Castle Defence, uncharted
Fri, Jul 01, 2011 | 00:14 BST
Average PS Home user is “the most hardcore gamer” on the PS3
PlayStation Home director Jack Buser has said the virtual world’s fans are among the most dedicated gamers of the PlayStation 3′s user base.
Wed, Jun 29, 2011 | 22:27 BST
PlayStation Home Welcome Back package detailed
PlayStation Home is finally back after the enormously damaging PSN hack. To help entice users to once again return to using Home regularly, Sony is offering a special Welcome Back package.
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Posted in: Home, PS3, Sony
Tags: Home, playstation 3, Sony, welcome back program
Thu, Jun 16, 2011 | 02:01 BST
Sony’s virtual E3 booth pulled in 500,000 visitors
The virtual Sony booth in Home was a roaring success, attracting over half a million visitors during the week of E3.
Wed, Jun 15, 2011 | 04:12 BST
Granzella working on multiple titles, planning for Vita
Kazuma Kojo’s new studio is already busily at work on new projects.
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Posted in: Android, Home, PS3, PSN, Vita
Tags: Disaster Report, Granzella, Kazuma Kojo
Thu, Jun 09, 2011 | 06:58 BST
PlayStation Home seeing record traffic
PlayStation’s perpetually derided virtual world social network, Home, has suddenly rocketed to record activity levels.
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Posted in: Home, PSN, Simulation, Sony
Tags: jack buser, PSN outage
Fourth Penny Arcade game launching June 7, get Penny Arcade 3 free on Steam today