http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/home/g-2007030735622328025 en http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-162309.aspx See people talking to each other, PSP interaction and everything looking rather bright and colourful. Check it out. news Jun 27, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-161190.aspx The dutch website PS3-Sense just posted some screenshots of the new PlayStation Home 0.9.4. They tell us that the maintenance of the PlayStation Network was due to some changes within the Home code (the new client is going live at July 3th). Because Home was consuming too much bandwidth they had to change some stuff within the PSN to let it be able to handle more users online. Check it out after the jump. Off course this is all still a rumour. news Jun 24, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-160327.aspx PS3news.com writes: PlayStation®Home closed BETA version v0.9.4.2: Welcome to the latest update to PlayStation®Home closed BETA which will be available from Wednesday 25th June. Below you'll find information on all the changes and additions but we would also like to tell you about our plans for the next few weeks as we are preparing PS®Home for a larger audience and another change will happen shortly. On about the 10th July we will be moving PS@Home to what will be its long term home and this will entail a new release of this code for you to download. This will also remove all your save data for which we apologise, but this will be the last time that happens and we will also be then setup to expand the beta soon after. We will confirm dates for this next change shortly but now its time to talk you through the changes to PS@Home in v0.9.4.2 news Jun 22, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-159061.aspx Dress will take advantage of a unique avatar system that operates separately from the regular Home interface. news Jun 18, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-158800.aspx Dress used to be, from what we could tell, integrated into Home, giving users the option to design and purchase specfic clothing and such before kitting out their virtual avatar and allowing them to roam freely. Oddly, though, Dress now appears to have it's own game page on the Japanese PlayStation site, suggesting that it's now a stand-alone 'game' and not something incorporated into Home. news Jun 18, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-153405.aspx Fragcast continues it's outpouring of images from the new Media and Events are within Playstation Home with the second for a four-part look at new screens from the lastest build of the service. news Jun 4, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-152818.aspx Qore sounds cool, but there's a few unanswered questions, especially over the presence of betas and demos being included in that particular month's 'issue'. Sure, it's only a few dollars, but if this is the precendence that Sony are adopting TheSixthAxis are not entirely confident it's the best way forward. So, with that in mind, would you pay the $2.99 to get your hands on the Home beta a little earlier? news Jun 3, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-152810.aspx Home Is Still Heading For its 2008 Open Beta Launch According To Recent News Wired Write Sony's long-promised PlayStation 3 virtual world Home is still on track for a 2008 release, although it'll likely stay in beta. news Jun 3, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/home/videos/g-2007030735622328025/v-200805281053540090 video May 28, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/home/news/latest-home-footage/a-2008052811124074088/g-2007030735622328025 Sony recreates recent UK PlayStation Day in Home. A sign of things to come? news May 28, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/home/screenshots/g-2007030735622328025 screenshot May 27, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/home/screenshots/g-2007030735622328025 screenshot May 27, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/home/screenshots/g-2007030735622328025 screenshot May 27, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/home/news/new-home-screens/a-2008052714428314065/g-2007030735622328025 A fresh wander through Sony's virtual world news May 27, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-149953.aspx VG247 has published a note sent out from SCEE to Home beta testers confirming that Ubidays will be the first publisher event ever broadcast within Home tomorrow evening. news May 27, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-149009.aspx SCRAWL: A tipster who choses to remain anonymous sent us in these new screenshots of a new update to the Home closed beta. The beta is now at v0.8.6. The new space is called the Media and Events Space and it seems to be a harness for all PLAYSTATION related events. Screenshots at the link. news May 24, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-147085.aspx PS3 Attitude writes: This video has appeared on YouTube showing what is apparently a forthcoming Sony Ericsson handset, not unlike the Sony Xperia X1 that was recently reported on various gadget sites. The interesting part? Sony's XMB seems to be coming to yet another device... news May 19, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-145938.aspx The new survey is mainly based upon the avatar and decoration for the house and what kind of clothing you'd want or if you'd want any rare items. news May 15, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-145840.aspx Japanese only PS3 free-download game Mainichi Issho, can now upload in-game captured videos to YouTube directly from within the game. According to SCE Japan, this will be the first time in history for a home console to correspond with YouTube officially. You can record videos during the game by choosing Video Camera under the My Items option in the main menu. The maximum length for each captured video will be 10 minutes; after recording you can have the option of upload the video directly to YouTube or save it to the PS3 Cross Media Bar. Users will need to set up their own YouTube account for this. As for Toro-Station, users have the option of recording the news casts, but will not be able to upload them to YouTube. You will also be able to add title and comments for the video from within the game before uploading. For the May 2008 update of the game, Main Menu will be improved, News Ranking History and Special Game Reports sections will also be added to Toro-Station. Total of 67 new items will be added to Mini Games and Items. -- Editor's Note: Above is translated directly from the Japanese Famitsu.com article with no alterations to the order of sentences/paragraph and it's meaning. Mainichi Issho is a free online game exclusive for the Japanese PS3 market since launch. It is a cross-genre game much like the highly anticipated HOME. It contains a customizable avatar cat, with online multi-player mini games and brain training games. A daily updated blog-like news broadcast. Player earn virtual points from playing games and watching news to buy cloth and items to decorate your room and garden. For more details please check Wikipedia for Mainichi Issho. news May 15, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-145321.aspx According to PS3forum industry insider, Sony will be releasing Firmware 2.4 sometime in June around the launch of Metal Gear Solid 4. Also mentioned is that the new 2.4 firmware will include some of the first PlayStation Trophies. *Note that these will be the 2D trophies found on the XMB and not the 3D trophies coming in Home later this year. news May 14, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-144396.aspx VG247: Ron Festejo, Home's creative director, has confirmed that Home will enter its open beta phase in November this year. Home is currently in a closed beta phase, he said, speaking at last week's SCEE PlayStation Day in London. We have between 8,000 and 10,000 users in this closed beta phase. Around July we're going to be expanding on the closed beta phase and allowing more people to gradually come in, and then in November this year we'll be going to the open beta. news May 12, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-143350.aspx David Reeves Says We've realised that maybe we were too ambitious with the non-gaming applications within Home, getting sponsors and stuff like that, he went on to confess. In that sense we were deserting gamers. So, we're concentrating on the gaming by launching games in Home, and attracting people who are into gaming in first - instead of the Nike people, or Adidas people who are into fashion and not necessarily into gaming. news May 8, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/home/news/home-was-too-ambitious-says-sony-europe-boss/a-20080508105140287021/g-2007030735622328025 Non-gaming apps to blame but it's definitely out this autumn, says SCEE boss news May 8, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-143225.aspx Old habits die hard in gaming it seems, as former Xbox boss Peter Moore couldn't resist taking a swipe at one old sparring partner this week, expressing dismay at the ongoing delay of Sony's Home service for PlayStation 3. The EA Sports president's comments came less than 24 hours after PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai apologised again for the latest delay to Sony's ambitious online social networking project, with a release now set for this autumn. Asked by Eurogamer whether, now no longer a direct rival, he was interested in working with Home, Moore said: Yeah; I just wish it would ship. I [previously] questioned it a little bit, whether I'd want to wander around there. Phil Harrison showed me a demo - it's very cool, but let's go already. And so I'm disappointed that it's been pushed back a little bit again. news May 8, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/home/videos/g-2007030735622328025/v-20080220114723156001 video Feb 21, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/home/videos/g-2007030735622328025/v-20070713135913649040 video Jul 13, 2007