Speaking at the Develop conference in the U.K., director of PlayStation Home Pete Edwards said that the users of Sony's virtual world are overwhelmingly young and male.

"Only 80 percent of users fall into the 18- to 35-year-old male demographic," he said, noting that said demographic typically makes up 90 percent of the console audience. According to Gamasutra, Edwards said that since Home's open beta launched in December, between 25 and 35 percent of online PlayStation 3 users have used the service "at least once."

Edwards declined to quantify the number of active users, claiming that the figure is difficult to measure, but said that Home is "slowly broadening the appeal of the console demographic."
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For several days, the Fight Night Space in the EA Sports Complex is online and on various forums users reported that their PlayStation 3 crashes when they visiting the Space. In the Space is a DJ mini-game present where the problems begin. If you are in the neighborhood of the mini-game, your PlayStation 3 will stuck, and you have to reset your PlayStation 3 and log into Home again. Hopefully EA Sports will fix this, so that everyone can play the mini-game and get a lot of T-shirts for their Home avatar.
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Hey Home-bodies,

Locust_Star here jumping in with a quick heads-up regarding today's content update. Long story short: We've managed to push a few extra goodies out the door at the last minute.
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If you're not too busy playing Buzz! or checking out the new Fight Night 4 space in Home, head on over to the shopping mall for all these new items available!
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Mike Hartnett at Tawkn.com writes: "Fans of PlayStation Home will have many reasons to get excited today, as this Thursday's content update throws everything out there but the kitchen sink along with some extras that the Home Managers slipped in at the last second."
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Nofi from TheSixthAxis writes that Sony have just released their first pay-to-play game on the PlayStation Store.
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PlayStation Home Community manager Locust_Star writes: "This Thursday, July 16th, will bear witness to a tremendous content update in the ever-growing world of PlayStation Home. In fact, there's so much set up to go down in-world this week that we can barely fit it all in without breaking our word count agreement. So to keep things cool with our friends here over at the PS Blog, we'll cut out the regularly-scheduled blabbing and get straight to the point."
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PlayStation Home is making money just seven months into its open beta. Pete Edward, director of the PlayStation 3's avatar-based social gaming service, revealed the most recent statistics for the service in a presentation titled "Home: First Term Report" delivered at the Develop Conference in Brighton, UK.

Of the 7 million global users who have used the service since the open beta's launch, 3 million were based in Europe. The average game session length of European Home users stands at 56 minutes and these users have to date downloaded 6 million free and paid for virtual items of merchandise with which to dress their avatars and virtual apartments.

"This is a commercial business," Edward said. "It's up and running, making money and can add significant value to your game IP." In the first month, he said, microtransactions generated $1 million.
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Sony's Peter Edward has revealed seven million people have now signed up for PlayStation Home.

Edward, who is European director for the service, was speaking at the Develop conference in Brighton. He said the figure includes three million people in Europe alone.

However, the estimated figure for those returning to the online space more than once stands at around 25-30 per cent of these numbers, according to Edward, although he pointed out the stats "aren't definitive" and are constantly changing.
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It appears Sony is cracking down on those who are sharing their PSN identification and password to grant select items in PlayStation Home.

PSN game sharing is also labeled as violating the ToS later in the PS Forum thread.

Community Manager CydoniaX stated the following:

Warning details at source link.
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PS3 Attitude writes:

"Within the first seven months, Home has seen seven million users visit the various spaces on offer. Three million of these users are from Europe.

Whilst some of the items downloaded are free, it is clear that Home is doing well as a business. In total, over six million items of free and paid merchandise have been downloaded, which in anyone's language is a great deal of content."
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TheSixthAxis:

We saw it back at 2007's E3; the ability to take a photo within PlayStation Home, automatically saved to the HDD, and placed in a picture frame for your apartment. Then again, Phil Harrison showed us a lot of exciting options within Home, which only some have been developed and released over the course of two years.

Locust_Star, Home Manager in America recently replied to a request about screen capturing within Home: "[It's] a simple feature that I know the devs are working on. My magic 8-ball says [it's] coming sooner rather than later."

So could we expect this as early as this coming Thursday? Visible Home updates seem to occur fortnightly now, so the chances of this becoming a reality are increased somewhat as last week was just another maintenance update.
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This week Europe are getting 2 new Home spaces with inFAMOUS and Socom and the new Killzone apartment which is rumored to be priced at 4 euros.

Along with the apartment is this intimidating Killzone Tactition costume available in Threads and some furniture from the furniture store.

The American Home today got some new Killzone shirts, some costumes for the 4th of July in Threads and a few holiday ornaments in the furniture store.

Hong Kong gets some sweet game-costumes including Resident Evil 5 and Disgaea 3 shirts now available in Threads. New Street Fighter gear is now available and Disgaea 3 objects for your personal apartment!

Check out the crazy amount of Disgaea ornaments and some new Street Fighter 4 statues.

This week, Japan got a silver costume, a bundle of Resident Evil 5 shirts, some digital watches and some new female clothing including a full outfit in a bright turquoise color.
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From the 5th of July to the 5th of August EA in association with Vodafone Taxi GP are offering you the chance to win a trip to the McLaren Technology centre as well as signed Lewis Hamilton merchandise.
To enter simply go to the EA SPORTS Complex on PLAYSTATION Home and post the fastest lap time in the Vodafone Taxi GP game!
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It's always Saturday night in The SingStar Rooms – a brand new party space in PlayStation Home.
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This week in Home, new Helghast costumes for Europe including the Killzone 2 personal apartment.
USA gets some American themed costumes and ornaments for their personal appartments.
Check out story for further details and images!
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PS3-Sense writes: "Today we have a big update for the European PlayStation Home. With two new spaces and teh Killzone 2 Visari Throne Room and a lot of extra's."
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PlayStation.com has sent out a new survey regarding PlayStation Home and TripleChat believes it's a hint of possible new features we could or perhaps should expect from the service within the next year. Remember the old promise of the trophy room and feature length films? Well, the survey has it.

What else does this survey gives us ideas about? Read up on what the survey asks as well as our interpretations after the jump.
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The third major game update for MotorStorm Pacific Rift is available to download right now. One of the many additions include the ability to launch online races from PlayStation Home.
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From PSI:

"Whether you're a first–time user, come back all the time or haven't been back in a while, Sony wants your input on PlayStation Home."
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