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  • PlayStation Home revamped and relaunched

    PlayStation Home revamped and relaunched

    Homeward bound 3 November 2011 14:30 GMT

    Sony's PlayStation Home social gaming space has been relaunched and is hitting PS3s in the PAL district today (3 November).

    The new Home is more game focused, with extra detail to reward the 23 million or so users of the platform.

    New...

  • Sony focuses on Home time for PS3 users

    Sony focuses on Home time for PS3 users

    Social platform gets a revamp 23 August 2011 17:20 GMT

    "Homeward bound, I wish I was homeward bound,"
    Home, where my thoughts escape, at home, where my music's playin',
    Home, where my love lies waitin' silently for me."

    If those words make you think of the PlayStation Network's Home,...

  • VIDEO: PS3's Sodium One shown off in swish demo video

    VIDEO: PS3's Sodium One shown off in swish demo video

    Get a glimpse of the new Home extension 24 December 2009 14:51 GMT

    We've brought you news of Sodium One previously, so when this demo vid showed up in the PlayStation YouTube feed, we thought we'd share it with you.

    Sodium One is an extension to the Playstation Home social gaming environment. Users can step...

  • Playstation Home gets Sodium One MMO

    Playstation Home gets Sodium One MMO

    A "futuristic, action-packed social gaming environment" 17 December 2009 11:54 GMT

    Sony Computer Entertainment has announced an extension to its Playstation Home social gaming environment, called "Sodium One", which has just gone live.

    Users can step into a Sodium "Teleporter" located in the PlayStation Home Central Plaza,...

  • PlayStation Home 1.3 update due September

    PlayStation Home 1.3 update due September

    Adds game-launching functionality, and new objects 20 August 2009 17:38 GMT

    Sony has written a post on its PlayStation blog that reveals that PlayStation Home v1.3 will be arriving this September. Sony reckons this update is "excessive and impressive in quality, extent, and degree". Crikey.

    Universal game launching...

  • PlayStation Home to be core of PS3

    PlayStation Home to be core of PS3

    Predicting more games to start in Home 29 June 2009 22:36 GMT

    Sony PlayStation's social networking space Home, could become a major aspect of the PS3 according to Sony.

    According to gaming website Gamasutra, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Peter Edward has predicted the online virtual world would...

  • Sony announces more support for Home

    Sony announces more support for Home

    Now 24 companies with licences to create Home content 9 February 2009 22:26 GMT

    Sony Japan has revealed a list of 24 companies that have been given licences to create content for PlayStation Home.

    Red Bull was one of the first companies to announce its intentions for licensed content, and has since unveiled the Red Bull...

  • EA announces PlayStation Home plans

    EA announces PlayStation Home plans

    Developing EA Sports branded space 13 January 2009 15:03 GMT

    EA has announced its plans to create a branded space within PlayStation Home, and is currently developing the EA Sports Complex to be launched in the spring.

    "We’re proud to support the PlayStation Home Beta with a very robust offering from...

  • Home team admit virtual world was announced too early

    Home team admit virtual world was announced too early

    But now hopeful for the future 12 January 2009 13:00 GMT

    The development team behind Sony's PlayStation Home have said that they think the virtual world was announced too early.

    Game director Peter Edward has said that developers targeted to make third-party content for Home had their initial excitement...

  • Sony Home update coming this week

    Sony Home update coming this week

    Launches Red Bull Air Race island 9 January 2009 20:40 GMT

    Sony has announced there will be a rather significant update to PlayStation Home this week, one that will bring with it the Red Bull Air Race Island we've heard so much about.

    This island will feature a number of branded Red Bull events,...

  • Killzone-themed Home costumes free with Amazon pre-order

    Killzone-themed Home costumes free with Amazon pre-order

    But for US only 30 December 2008 12:30 GMT

    American gamers pre-ordering Killzone 2 with Amazon ahead of its 27 February release, will get some exclusive PS3 Home costumes as an extra freebie.

    Exclusive to Amazon, the costumes will allow you to customise your Home avatar to look like...

  • PS3 Home chat filtering out LGBT terms

    PS3 Home chat filtering out LGBT terms

    "Gay", "lesbian" and "bisexual" all censored 29 December 2008 12:56 GMT

    Users are reporting censoring issues with Sony's PS3 Home chat function, which seems to be filtering out some words that it shouldn't be.

    To begin with, even "hello" was being censored from the chat, due to the fact it began with "hell"....

  • Research to look into Home as credit crunch-busting business

    Research to look into Home as credit crunch-busting business tool

    Could you be having your meetings via PS3 in the future? 23 December 2008 14:02 GMT

    A group of British academics is set to embark on a new research project to explore the use of the PS3's virtual world Home as a credit crunch-busting business tool.

    The project will look into how Home could be used as a business environment...

  • Sony reinstates Home voice chat with 1.05 update

    Sony reinstates Home voice chat with 1.05 update

    But only in personal spaces and clubhouses 22 December 2008 19:45 GMT

    Sony has today released update version 1.05 for PlayStation Home, it has confirmed on the official blog.

    This version follows on from 1.04 released last week to help with connection issues, but took away voice chat in the process to help...

  • Home launching v1.04 to help connection issues

    PlayStation Home gets update

    But also taking away voice chat 19 December 2008 9:25 GMT

    Sony conducted system maintenance on Home on Thursday, to fix connection issues known as C-931 errors.

    At this time Home will be updated from version 1.03 to 1.04 and news on the official PlayStation forums say it should take around six hours...

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