Awesom-home writes: Playstation Home is temporarily down for emergency maintenance. Why? To fix the Motorstorm Sphere glitches says the Community Team leader on the Sony Playstation forums.
A summer beach has been added to the Asian Playstation Home.
A SCEE representative has confirmed to GamerZines that "the Batcave Home is exactly the same for Europe," and that "it can be unlocked via the Batman Blu-ray disc". Good news all round, then.
New Red Bull Mini-Game on the way, announced in this new PlayStation Home trailer from GamesCom.
Sony has revealed that those who buy Batman: Arkham Asylum on PS3 can claim a special treat in Home - a Batcave!
Home is finally showing it's rough edges with constant problems with updates and new content. Home is wearing down and revealing why it truely is still in beta.
PlayStation Home received a large update today! Take a look at what the stores are selling inside PlayStation Home today.
European PlayStation Blog writes:
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Awesom-Home writes: Patrick O'Luanaigh, CEO @ nDreams (developers that made Xi) teased us a few days ago by saying they were working on a new space. He's teasing us again with a new twitter post in wich he says that their next space, normally due this week, will be an ARG ( or Alternate Reality Game) just like Xi was.
Awesom-Home writes: "Apparently Playstation home costumes are more popular then we first thought. Some rare items are being sold on eBay at surprisingly high prices. There's even a costume that was sold for more then 60$. I get some people like to have rare stuff, but this is kind of crazy. Second-life crazy. Could you imagine if Square did a rare Sephiroth costume? .. Yeah i know, that would be awesome..."
This week's rumours regarding the supposed forthcoming content arriving into Home. News of the new PAIN space are debunked.
According to Patrick O'Luanaigh's twitter, nDreams will be releasing a new Homespace this thursday! Patrick is the CEO of nDreams, creators of the Xi spaces. Will this be a sequel to the Xi experience, or something completely new? We'll find out soon enough.
Presumably to entice virtual patrons into PlayStation Home, Sony's offering up a free viewing of Criss Angel's Mindfreakon August 6th. As if virtually watching a magic trickillusionshow starring the often farcical Criss Angel weren't enough, the company is enticing folks to watch with a free coffin couch.
Marc Berry from the EU PS Blog writes:
PlayStation Home Community Manager CydoniaX writes: "We're proud to announce another major core space update. The Movie Theater brings you ten times as much exciting content [including from the PS.Blog! -Jeff] with a brand-new 10-screen layout, a new lobby, and the ability to unlock rewards in select screening rooms. Be sure to check out the screening rooms often – you never know when one of them will be giving something away. Stay tuned for lots of exclusive new videos over the coming months, including the future possibility of full-length TV shows or movies, with new features debuting on a regular basis."
Home Manager tells community it's the Home user's responsibility to encourage game-launching within PlayStation Home, not Sony.
Mike Hartnett at Tawkn.com writes: "The spaces just keep on coming as Q-Games has just announced that they will debuting all-new spaces dedicated to the PixelJunk series. We've got the pics as well as the statement from Q-Games for ya!"