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My Brief Surprise Visit To Sony's PS3 Home Beta

Sony's virtual world Home service is still not open to the public. And it's beta is closed to only select people, a group that doesn't include the press. But I recently found myself in front of a PlayStation 3 that had the Home Beta running on it and decided to give it a try.

Now I know why they're not inviting the press yet. Home is still in its good-in-theory phase. In execution it's still lacking. I'm all for Betas having rough edges. That's the point. But I was surprised that the Home Beta doesn't seem to have that something special — the thing that yet makes it obvious it's going to be a hit.

Sorry for the vague terms, but Home is a vague kind of thing. Are you supposed to have fun with it? Or, like most other interfaces, just take pleasure if it works smoothly?

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2:00 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By StephenTotilo
19,675 views, 119 comments

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PlayStation Home To Let Users Virtually Revisit Press And Media Events

Access to Home may be still out of reach for those of us in steerage on the USS PlayStation 3, but closed beta testers recently got a look at the service's new Media and Events Space. That area of the virtual hang out known as Home recently held a "re-run" of PlayStation Day 2008, a product showcase held in London earlier this month, giving beta testers a look at new Sony wares. SCEE has released new screens of the virtual event, giving us a peek into the new Home space, also making us envious of those lucky enough to be addressed via Jumbotron by Sony Overlord David "Dirty Nail" Reeves. Seven new shots of Home in action in our gallery below, with bonus press release right after.

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3:40 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Michael McWhertor
5,857 views, 116 comments

Latest by n/a: so it's second life but with better graphics and not available to the general public yet?????????????????????????????????????????????????? more »

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PlayStation Home Beta Ends In May?

Chalk this up to rumor, but according to at least one PS Home beta tester's account page, Sony's closed beta will be ending on 5/15/08. This date in itself means little. But it could mean that Sony might begin an open beta—or just launch Home once and for all—sometime not so long after that date. Either way, we wouldn't hold our breath for Home to magically appear any time soon in a firmware update...especially since 2.4, expected this summer, has not been rumored to contain Home.

Thanks tipster!

12:20 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Mark Wilson
8,518 views, 45 comments

Latest by n/a: Ok for anyone else who says that its "Worth the wait" so that the finished product will be better, why in a game that is being constantly updated and ever-changing do we need to wait for it to be released? more »

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A New Look At PlayStation's Home

The official Japanese PlayStation web site today launched a new Home section, bringing with a slew of new screen shots of the virtual living space. Is this the new look of home which was on display at Imagina 08? We hope that PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai is happier with this version of the software than the last one. Still looking a bit too sterile to really get me excited, but I am at least intrigued by Home's copious footwear options.

4:20 PM on Fri Feb 1 2008
By Michael McWhertor
7,346 views, 108 comments

Latest by n/a: I was bored at work when I came across this. Can somebody give me more info on this? Introducing the Home Cinema Premium Service simply known as "Ticket™". Similarly named for Home's premium avatar service "Dress™".This is truely a breakthrough service more »

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This Home Logo Looks Like That Home Logo

See that? That is the PlayStation Home logo. You've seen it before, and you'd probably recognize it when you were out and about. That's exactly what happened to tipster Umbrae, who snapped this photo: More »

2:00 AM on Wed Nov 7 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
19,041 views, 99 comments

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Sony Planning Slow Home Roll Out

The GamesIndustry.biz team sat down with Sony's Jamie Macdonald, VP of Worldwide Studios, to chat more about the status of Home for the PLAYSTATION 3 recently. And while MacDonald may think Home "might be one of a number of reasons why a consumers might buy a PlayStation 3 in the first place" he says that gamers (and non-gamers) shouldn't expect a traditional, full featured "big bang launch." He tells GI.biz that we should expect more production "beta" behavior, a la Web 2.0 apps like Gmail. More »

4:40 PM on Thu Sep 13 2007
By Michael McWhertor
3,576 views, 31 comments

Latest by moofrank: During that E3 Kotaku Contest, I put all of my bets that Home would not launch this year. And someone set the odds at 10:1. Pity Sony didn't actually say it, but Home ain't gonna launch this year. more »

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Insider Spills Home Beans

Excited about Home? It's the PS3's answer to Xbox Live's Achievements/GamerCard and lets players create a virtual avatar to wander about a virtual world. There is currently a private beta, but no public one. An insider in the private beta has told game site IGN loads of details. The status report after the jump:
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9:00 PM on Tue Aug 28 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
8,688 views, 59 comments

it's in japanese

Japanese Home Trailer

Home? I'm really excited. The idea of using my PS3 to dress an avatar and moved furniture around actually sounds oddly cool. And in Japanese. Personally, I can't wait. You?

11:00 PM on Mon Aug 6 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
3,263 views, 86 comments

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Phil Harrison Speaks On Madden, Home, Wipeout HD

The kids from 1UP and EGM sat down with Sony Worldwide Studios' king cue ball Phil Harrison at E3 2007 to chat all things PlayStation software related. Of interest to console torch and pitchfork bearers is Harrison's response to questions about Madden NFL 08's underwhelming performance on the PLAYSTATION 3. Phil, why does the PS3 version run a last-gen 30 frames per second? More »

8:40 PM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Michael McWhertor
7,695 views, 58 comments

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Home Beta Updated, Adds In-Home XMB

Not long after a new round of Home beta invites were sent out to PLAYSTATION 3 owners comes word that the beta itself has received some additions. In addition to graphical and technical upgrades, Home avatars can not only walk, but they can run, for, I assume, proper virtual panicking. More »

4:40 PM on Wed Jun 27 2007
By Michael McWhertor
11,018 views, 36 comments

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Sony Hasn't Told Us About Home Yet

The PS3's Home looks like it has great potential. Players can conceivably win achievement-like trophies and display them (see above). Sounds fantastic, but we're still somewhat in the dark. Developers should know, right? Making PS3 games an all. Nope! Tecmo's Yosuke Hayashi just finished up PLAYSTATION 3 title Ninja Sigma, and he's clueless. He explains:

I'm really interested in the concept of Home, but SCE hasn't provided any information to us yet on Home, so even if we had an intention of adapting the game, including Home trophy features or whatever, we currently just don't have the information on how to do it.

Maybe Sony hasn't figured it out or maybe Sony is keeping things close to its vest. Chalk it up more to crummy planning and less to lousy communication. Brian Ashcraft More »

2:00 AM on Fri Jun 15 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
2,742 views, 43 comments

Latest by TheIrishNinja: yeah, im hoping everyone's on the same page with Home as well, tho they might be just including everyone "from (x) point on" for all we know. that chick up top...eh. more »

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The Future Of The PlayStation Network

Gamepro sat down with SCEA's online director Susan Nourai to talk about the evolution of the PlayStation Network, Home and the Cross Media Bar. While details were scarce on some technical details of Home, some interesting tidbits were revealed. More »

6:40 PM on Tue Apr 17 2007
By Michael McWhertor
2,555 views, 43 comments

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PlayStation Store Updates (No GTA IV Trailer Here)

Yesterday's Grand Theft Auto IV trailer sparked a ridiculous amount of internet debate, with fans combing over every frame attempting to glean every minute detail from the minute-long clip. The trailer brought web servers to their knees and eventually showed up on the Xbox Live Marketplace. More »

5:40 PM on Fri Mar 30 2007
By Michael McWhertor
2,990 views, 51 comments

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SplitFish's Freakish FragFX Controller

If it weren't for Chris Kohler and the Game|Life blog, I might've missed what could possibly be the best controller of all time, the SplitFish FragFX game controller. Fortunately, I hadn't yet deleted the e-mail containing this potential gem. More »

8:40 PM on Tue Mar 20 2007
By Michael McWhertor
13,212 views, 31 comments

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Rumor: "Proof" Home Is No Rip-Off?

Rushed Mii clones? The Sims copies? Second Life-ish? Take your pick. But, apparently Sony's concept of Home is a little more original than that. Back in 2005, the following posts appeared on the official PlayStation boards: More »

3:00 AM on Fri Mar 9 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
9,000 views, 76 comments

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NY Times Confirms PlayStation Home, Name Drops Kotaku

The New York Times has confirmed what we've all suspected: The PlayStation Home seems to be very real. Not only that, it is apparently going to hit this fall. For those who missed the hell that broke loose: We previously floated this, tussled with Sony and then kiss and made up. From the NY Times article: More »

7:00 AM on Wed Mar 7 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
4,833 views, 63 comments

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PlayStation Home The Trademark

When we ran the rumor that Sony was planning to unveil an extension of the PlayStation framework in the form of PlayStation Home, it was time to do some sleuthing. One of the first things you do in a case like this is visit the United States Patent and Trademark Office to see what floats to the top. So that's what I did. When "PlayStation Home" didn't turn up, I thought it strange. More »

7:40 PM on Thu Mar 1 2007
By Michael McWhertor
15,223 views, 53 comments

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Rumor: Sony To Unveil PlayStation Home

We just received a very interesting tip that, while juicy and quite believable, we're labeling as rumor for now. As you are probably well aware, GDC executive director Jamil Moledina set Sony's Phil Harrison up for the spike yesterday, claiming that PLAYSTATION 3 owners will be "very happy" when Phil's keynote takes place next week. More »

1:00 PM on Thu Mar 1 2007
By Michael McWhertor
20,027 views, 153 comments