By
Ian Dean
posted 3 years, 10 months ago
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Details from the Japanese Home beta test revealed just as many new questions as it did answers. The application, which is designed as a virtual world to customize and meet mates in, will be released for free, hopefully this summer. The 500MB code will enable you to setup and develop an online world inside a thriving gaming community.
Already games such as Devil May Cry 4 have been released with hundreds of embedded
Nintendo's Miis? Oversimplified stick figures. Microsoft's Achievement Points? Too abstract. Sony's finally unveiled its real online strategy, a free service called Home, and it's set to blow its competitors out of the water. Officially revealed during the Sony keynote speech at the 2007 Game Developers Conference, Home is a beautifully detailed network of public lobbies and private spaces that invites players to create a realistic avatar and interact with other players online. And also to