Talk Playstation 3 News

TedTheDog , Home Community Manger on the official EU Playstation forums, let the community know that in the coming weeks Home version 1.0 (Normally the version format that gets released to the public) will be released on the the Closed Beta community to further test it.
The Patch Notes of 1.0 will be published in the Closed beta forum section so the tester know what they can expect and help plan testing.

After Home 1.0 has been released onto the Closed Beta community, a few days after that invites will be send out to expand the user base in the Closed Beta. The invites won’t go out in one full blow but will be gradually send out over a period of time. And for the first time they will invite non-English speaking tester. Those are English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

Once the invites have been send out the SCEE Home forums will become the Home beta test forums. A date for the Open Beta of Home will then be announced after that. And like Open Beta says, it’s available to everybody (on a PS3) form that day.

One important thing TedTheDog said was

Home Beta is a service that will grow from the foundation of v1.0 over the coming months and years so thinking of it as a start rather than a finish will help you understand where its going and what its all about.

So like Gmail, HOME will continue to evolve.

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As I was just visiting the Home beta site: http://www.homebetatrial.com/ . I ended up on the ‘new’ EU Playstation forum board dedicated to Home.

Does this mean the release of the open beta for Home is near (duh)? Or is Sony just tidying up the EU forum and ‘dead’ sites. We don’t know. But we’ll see. Last time I checked (a few days ago) the original link was still active.

On the official EU Playstation forum, European SOCOM Producer Shijima announced with a post that Europe can expect access to the SOCOM: Confrontation beta/demo as well.

Okay, this is the news you’ve all been waiting for. I’m happy to confirm that Europe will indeed be getting access to the same Beta trial as our brethren in North America! Furthermore, our trial will begin on the SAME date (1st Sept) and will also end at the same time (30th Sept).

You’ll be pleased to hear that it will be possible to play against not only gamers in Europe, but also those in North America, Oceania and Asia too! Access to this “multiplayer demo” varies by country, so keep your eyes peeled for your unique promotional voucher.

Keep your eyes on that thread for any unexpected changes to this plan. Also send us a shout if you know a place which is selling these promotional voucher.

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