TedTheDog, Home Community Manager for SCEE, has revealed some information about what to expect in PlayStation Home over the next few months. In short, SCEE’s primary focus will be to improve their “output and range of Spaces.” SCEE will first be getting up to date with some of the older space, including Uncharted, Warhawk and Resident Evil 5. Then, some of the more recent spaces will be added, including Guitar Hero. According to TedTheDog, SCEE Home Producer is currently investigating 17 spaces in all but not all will be published.
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Ghostbusters Content Coming to PlayStation Home
Ghostbusters fansite Proton Charging reports that PS3 users will be getting some Ghostbusters-themed content on PlayStation Home. The official press release isn’t out yet, but Sony has apparently confirmed it. The content will range from Ghostbusters jumpsuits for Home avatars to an Ecto-1 that can actually be driven around. The content will also include "a firehall space, some sort of flying Slimer gizmo, movies, and virtual memorabilia".
No launch dates yet, but it would most likely go live around the Ghostbusters game’s June release in North America and Europe. We expect a press release on the exact content soon.
PlayStation Home getting The Godfather II Game Space
In tomorrow’s PlayStation Home update, The Godfather II game space will be launched in the US. The game space will feature a Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Table. To celebrate the launch of this new space, Electronic Arts is holding a virtual Celebrity Poker Tournament on Thursday night (8:00PM EST, 5:00PM PT). All you have to do is thread up your avatar to look like celebrity and head on up the tables for a game.
In other Home-related news, Capcom is updating their Resident Evil 5 Game Space with a new mini-game and some new costumes in the souvenir shop. They’re also going to host some co-op RE5 matches through Home next week – make sure to login on Thursday, April 16, from 6 to 10PM EST or 3 to 7PM PT.
Xi has begun
The world’s first console-based Alternate Reality Game starts today in PlayStation Home. Called Xi , the adventure takes place in a series of secret areas in Home – and beyond – changing day by day, week by week, in real time. Anyone with a PlayStation 3 can join in the fun for free. Over the past few weeks, notices of Xi have been showing up in home for some time, and now we finally know what it is.
To discover the mystery of Xi, simply log on to PlayStation Home and look for the graffiti on the wall in the main square. Find that, and all will be revealed…
Upcoming PlayStation Home content for Europe
As you all know, the European version of PlayStation Home has received less than average treatment compared to North American and Japan, but this is looking to change over the next few weeks. According to TedTheDog, Home Community Manager for Europe, a load of new content is coming. Over the next few weeks, several new Game Spaces will launch including Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Warhawk, which are both already available on the US version of Home. In addition, content for Street Fighter IV, Resident Even 5 and Siren will also be added in coming weeks.
The Home Square will be getting a small update, possibly in this week’s update and Game Launching compatibility will be expanded for certail titles. Once SOCOM: Confrontation releases in Europe, the SOCOM Game Space will also launch within Home. Here is a summary of what to expect, from TedTheDog:
- Street Fighter IV
- The unlockable items are already available in Home and are rewarded for winning online matches in the game.
Purchasable outfits will be available within a few weeks.
- The unlockable items are already available in Home and are rewarded for winning online matches in the game.
- Home Square
- A slightly updated Home Square will arrive in early March, possibly as early as the 5th.
- Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Space
- This is currently being worked on and we hope to release this for you within a few weeks
- SOCOM: CONFRONTATION Space
- This Space is also nearly ready but a specific date for its release is not yet available, but we are expecting it within a few weeks.
- Siren: Blood Curse & Resident Evil 5, Warhawk
- Content for all of these have arrived here and are being prepared for SCEE’s audience now. We will bring you more information on these as it becomes available.
- Game Launching
- Many titles are preparing support for Game Launching but this often requires a patch to their title. It is not our intention to be announcing new releases and patches to other titles here in the Home community but hope to bring you news in the coming weeks.
- Music within Home
- Playing your own music to others within Home is an extremely complex licensing issue that will take time to solve, if it is at all possible. In the meantime we are investigating various ways of allowing you to play your own music to yourself. We are also talking to other 3rd parties about making their music available to you in various ways.
PlayStation Home: Warhawk Command Center Video
As we reported yesterday, the Warhawk Command Center is now live in PlayStation Home. Dylan Jobe, game director for Warhawk, has created a video to walk you through the game space and it’s various features. To promote the new game space, the price of Warhawk and the booster packs have been reduced on the PlayStation Store for the next two weeks. You can pick up the fill game for $19.99 and the booster packs for $4.99 each or $9.99 for all three.
PlayStation Home gets Warhawk Command Center
Today, PlayStation Home will be getting an update adding several new features to the online world. The biggest of these features is the Warhawk Command Center (or Game Space). The Command Center will allow gamers to discuss the game, strategize their next attack (using the interactive sand table), and launch directly into the game. Once the Game Space is live, Sony will be hosting a launch party at the Command Center so drop by if you can.
In other changes, some Street Fighter IV clothing will be integrated into Home too. Items can be unlocked when you perform certain actions in the game. Gamers will be able to get their hands on Chun Li, Ryu, Guile, and Ken costumes.
UPDATE: PlayStation Home updated to v1.10
PlayStation Home will be down from 8:00am today for essential maintenance. Once the maintenance is complete, you will be asked to update your version by downloading a patch that will contain new features and improvements. One of the features added to v1.10 will be the ‘Remove Player’ option in Game Launching. Also, the speed of the login process has been improved and a progress bar has been added to provide visual feedback. There are a number of improvements and bug fixes, details of which can be found below.
New features
- We have added a new ?Remove Player? function that allows the creator to remove people from a Game Launching session. This is complemented by the Block Player function, accessible via the Safe Screen, which can be used to stop people rejoining.
Changes and Improvements
- The speed of the initial log-on process has been improved and a progress bar has been added to provide you with more information about what is happening.
- Items that you have already purchased will now be loaded when you first log-in, reducing the loading time when you enter stores in the Mall.
- Other players? avatars will now load faster when you enter a space.
- The names of Home reward items will now be shown when you obtain them.
- Download priorities have been changed so that certain graphics and images (like thumbnail images and World Map chips) will download more quickly.
- The inventory system (that stores Home Reward items) has been reworked and made more robust. We have also implemented additional safeguards to help ensure that you cannot inadvertently lose any of your items.
- The Chat log window will now always be displayed on top of any other on-screen graphics, except when zoomed in to a video or poster. When zoomed in, the chat window will no longer display.
- The size of the text box has been improved on message boards in Clubhouses.
- The option to ?Block voice chat? has been changed to ?Block chat,? which will allow you to block both voice chat and text chat at the same time. Players blocked with this feature will not be automatically added to the block list on your Friends list.
- The game camera will now go into attract mode once you have been idle for more than 3 minutes.
- The ?Resign sub leader? command has been removed from the Menu Pad. Club leaders will now have to downgrade sub leaders if they wish.
- We have further improved the UI for a variety of systems including Game Launching, Clubhouses and the Store.
- We have made several memory optimizations to improve client stability.
- We have made graphical improvements to particle systems and water effects.
Bug fixes
- Furniture in Personal Spaces will no longer occasionally vanish when you leave lights or lamps turned on.
- Single-seat chairs and sofas can no longer be occupied by more than one person at a time.
- You can now turn lighting objects on/off in your Personal Space.
- Furniture layout issues in Clubhouses have been resolved.
- The ?Refresh Club Menus? option in the Menu Pad should now work as intended.
- Dates will now be displayed on Clubhouse bulletin board messages.
- A fix has been applied to the Home Safe Screen reporting process.
- Your screen will no longer freeze if you leave a game session with the game disc ejected.
- Item names and prices will now display correctly in the Mall.
- Wallpapers will now be displayed properly when you invite friends to your Harbour Studio.
- You will no longer be able to make a phone call to players who have deactivated voice chat.
- You should now be able to use two-seater sofas properly.
[Originally Posted On: 05/02/09 09:33 AM]
UPDATE:
A last minute bug has meant that the new patch was not released during the maintenance window. Currently, there is no ETA on when the patch will be available.
Rumor Alert: PlayStation Home coming Nov 29th
There has been some new rumors circulating the Internet concerning PlayStation Home. According to forum member shadowman540 over at the US PlayStation Forums, a recent advert advertises Home and Pain on the PlayStation Store. Since both the icons are present under the “Featured” section and are the first two icons in the Store, we can only speculate that both games are part of the same PlayStation Store update.
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