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Jack Tretton announced the addition of a lot of new games to PlayStation Plus at E3, but left some thinking about how exactly the service was changing. Fear not: it’s business as usual, apparently.

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A dozen games to keep for your entire membership, with more added every month – and all for less than you’ll pay to feed your Starbucks habit, according to Sony digital boss Jack Buser.

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Sony’s head of digital games, Jack Buser, is of the opinion the firm’s console rivals “lost the plot,” during E3 as the event is more about showing great games than trying to “legitimize themselves in the non-game entertainment space.”

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Microsoft’s going to let you use your smartphone to control your Xbox 360, and Sony’s Jack Buser hasn’t ruled out the possibility of PlayStation platforms becoming similarly mobile-friendly.

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Thatgamecompany founder Jenova Chen has said PlayStation games are better suited to a more refined palate. Unsurprisingly, Sony agrees.

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Sony Computer Entertainment’s Jack Buser reckons his team has out bowled both major competitors on the first- and third-party fronts, and took a pot shot at Apple on the way.

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Sony’s announced it’s to launch its reboot of PlayStation Home tomorrow morning GMT.

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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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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.

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The week is half over, and what better way to get over the hump than by getting versed in things small enough to fit in your hand?

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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.

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PlayStation’s perpetually derided virtual world social network, Home, has suddenly rocketed to record activity levels.

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Sony’s just announced at GDC that PlayStation Home has been downloaded more than 19 million times, Eurogamer reports.

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PlayStation Home boss Jack Buser has told Gama that the online service has been a “very good business model for PlayStation, and quite profitable.”

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Apparent six-figure Sony deals are presenting advertisers with a “huge barrier to entry” to PlayStation Home.

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Home boss Jack Buser, speaking at GDC to GI, has claimed that all large publishers are now actively looking at the service.

“Every major publisher is interested in Home,” he said. “Here you can speak directly to the PlayStation audience on the platform that your product is on.

“You have publishers and brands coming into Home looking to engage with an audience, but they also have the opportunity to generate revenue. It’s a model that makes sense for everybody. It’s kind of a perfect storm.”

Home has been used by more than 4 million PlayStation 3 owners so far.

There’s a full interview with the Home team here.

The SCEA PS Blog mixer at GDC next week features tons of games, demos and whatnot. The list of developers attending was confirmed today. It’s pretty damn cool.

Tuesday – March 24

• Sucker Punch will be on hand to to demo inFamous

Wednesday – March 25

• Titan Studios will be demoing Fat Princess
• Insomniac will provide a case study for Resistance 2′s co-op and multiplayer
• Jack Buser will be talking Home
• Media Molecule will be there all day discussing LittleBigPlanet and the rise of user generated content.

Thursday – March 26

• Q-Games’ Dylan Cuthbert will demo PixelJunk and give the audience hand time with it.

It’s gonna be fun. We’ll have dictaphones at the ready.

PlayStation Home director Jack Buser (pictured left) is to talk at the Engage! Expo in New York on March 10-11..

Surprisingly, the Engage! Expo isn’t a huge Jean Luc Picard look-a-like competition, it is in actual fact the old Virtual Worlds Conference.

The Expo “is the event for youth and young adult brands, media and agencies to meet and learn how to combine their existing online efforts with the unparalleled engagement opportunities and new revenue streams of the 2D and 3D Web and Virtual Worlds,” says the official site.

The content of his seminar are unknown but here’s hoping Buser will announce some new features.

Thanks, PS3F.

By Mike Bowden

Home’s here, Sony’s announced in a note on the PS Blog, confirming that the little logo is now available in the XMB of all PS3 owners worldwide.

“Getting to this point has required a tremendous amount of participation, input, care, and passion from the thousands of beta testers who helped make PlayStation Home what it is today,” said Jack Buser, Home director.

“So to all of you that have tested, from all of us on the PlayStation Home team here at Sony: ‘Thank You!’”

Home launched earlier this evening in what appeared to be a smooth roll-out, although the app is experiencing some connection issues.

Jack Buser, US director for Home, has claimed the now-launched social app is unique.

“Something like Home has never been done before,” he told VentureBeat. “It’s a massive undertaking.”

Home launched tonight, apparently smoothly despite some connection hiccups. Buser pointed out that Home is a trail-blazing endeavour.

“When you deal as a platform like this, you’re blazing new paths with technology and business,” he added. “There was a lot of heavy lifting.

“Now we’re rolling it out and it’s something that can’t be experienced anywhere else. It’s not a game. With a game, you create it, launch it and you’re done. Home is a platform.

“A lot of the things will be created by third-party partners. You’ll see a lot of people beyond Sony. We had to do all of those application programming interfaces so they could do that.”

Lots more through there. Hopefully the connections issues will be sorted soon.