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Locust_Star just informed the US audience that Universal Game Launching will be releasing tomorrow to all US Home users. So now instead of just exiting the whole service and playing the game with friends, you’ll be able to do it straight from Home.

That’s not all coming, now there will be a preview option of avatar clothing, and furniture for your space. So instead of spending that hard earned cash, only to find out you don’t enjoy it, you will actually get to preview it.

New Emotes and avatar actions will also be available for users to try out. New item types are available, including the camera. When you take a photo via 3rd Person or 1st person view it’ll automatically save towards your HDD. Some bugs were also fixed in the service.

A revamped Central Plaza has occured, and a new personal space is available. The Neptune space is an underwater space, where you’ll have minigames to play, even a little pet.

One new space is going to debut on the North American servers, the Hot Shots Golf Space.

Most if not all will be available in tomorrows Home update.

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Sony has announced that a video delivery service will be hitting parts of Europe starting this November. Along with a new look for PSN starting September 1. Sony is looking to expand upon their Home service. Adding new dance moves, animations, and new character customizations. You’ll also have a camera to carry around within Home. VidZone is expanding to other countries in Europe, starting with Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and New Zealand. Two new Spaces for Home have also been announced, SingStar, and Audi. Sometime within next month, UK consumers can purchase PSN cards.

Heading to the PSP side, Eye of Judgement and Locoroco Midnight Carnival have also been announced. A digital reader, and comic reader will be available for the PSP in November. With Marvel being the leading partner. Something sounding similar to the PSP App Store have been announced, with games releasing no bigger than 100MB in size. Fifteen being available at PSP GO! launch, and 50 til the end of 2009. PSP 3000 getting new colors, Turqoise, Pink, and Purple. GT for the PSP Go will be FREE to European and PAL consumers who register between the dates of 1-10 Oct. Please Note, that this is only for PSP Go owners.

Eyepet has been priced at 50 euros, which is bundled with the PlayStation Eye Camera.

Heavy Rain, final two characters were revealed. Shelby, a private detective working on the Origami Killer case. Ethan, who is an architect and has to find his son in 4 days. All the scenes within the game will be fully interactive.

Nothing new about the Motion Controller until TGS.

Lastly, Kaz Hirai has taken the stage, and finally unveiled the long denial of the PlayStation 3 Slim. Being available to all territories with the first week of September. It’s 33% smaller, and 36% lighter. With 120GB of Storage memory, the cost will be $299, 299 Euros, and 29980 Yen. Also all current PS3 SKU’s have been slashed by at least $100.

We all remember the Buzz footage for Home a year or two back. But we never heard anything about it. Then when questions were raised, the answer never really came.

No SCE has finally officialy announced that Home will be getting a Buzz! HQ space.

You will be able to partake in a massive 64 man quiz by moving to the square with the right answer. The question are taking from the best content submitted on the MyBuzzQuiz website. The winner’s are decided of four rounds and there are a number of exclusive Home prizes up for grabs.

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If you would ask the PlayStation community about Home, the majority would deem it a failure. Why? Well the service seems to be a ghost of what was shown at the GDC 07. Many feature have (still) not been implemented. And the SCEE covered region of Home is lacking content (game spaces) compared to it’s US and Japanese counterpart. But same can be said vice versa of what they lack and the SCEE region has.

Though Locust_Star and CydoniaX claim that the future looks bright, we had heard similar things in December 2008 from TedTheDog.
PlayStation LifeStyle gather some of the quotes the two managers posted:

Locust_Star

I want to see everything that was promised in the early demo’s of Home delivered – specifically, media streaming objects, trophy integration, user generated content, and game launching being supported by all the new titles (and patched for the classic titles we all know and love). I feel like we’re on track to do all this and more

We’re under a lot of pressure. But we can deal with it. This is an incredible group of people we have here – geniuses, across the board. I firmly believe that. I have the utmost confidence that Home will become exactly what it was meant to be, exactly what it was promised to be, and will enable the PS3 to bury the competition. Given that, I sleep very well at night

CydoniaX

Yes. I know that Home is not going to fail. I know that it will be what you all want it to be. I have empirical proof of that. Unfortunately, I just can’t share it all right now, but it will be shared. There are big announcements coming in the next few months

Absolutely, yes. These next few updates look pretty significant, and I anticipate everything to continue to ramp up. We’re gaining momentum. By no means is the Home of today the Home of tomorrow. One day, you will have more content than you will know what to do with. You just gotta hang in there with us

I see Home a year from now bearing almost no resemblance to the Home of today. This is a baby that’s just starting to crawl right now. It’ll be a varsity basketball player with mad dunking skills a year from now

I don’t have to ask. They get it. We’ve hammered it into their brains. They take this very, very seriously. As said, be prepared for some pretty major announcements in the not-so-distant future

So you still believe?

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Seems a few weeks ago the Japanese version of Home got a new lounge. This one is dedicated to Siren. We can’t tell you exactly what you can find in it, but we hope some of you can tell us.

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Here is a walkthrough video of the Warhawk Command Center which shows you the all important ‘Sand Table’. On the US version of Home you are now able to enter this space and plan your tactics.

On the US PlayStation Store you will be able to get the game for $19.99 untill March 11. Booster Combo Pack will run you $9.99 (All three expansions). But if you don’t want them all you will be able to get each Individual Warhawk Booster pack for $4,99.

So what is the news on a European release for the Command Center?

The content has arrived here and is being prepared for SCEE’s audience now. We will bring you more information on these as it becomes available

Right, why wasn’t this done earlier we ask. This is only more oil on SCEE’s burning (and heavily damaged) reputation with it’s userbase.
TedTheDog is doing his best to keep tempers low but we don’t know if they can wait ‘a few more weeks’ for info or a release.

Were glad to see that Warhawk is setting the tone for what is possible in Home.

The number wouldn’t surprise many people as half of the PlayStation 3 owners has atleast one extra account in a different region. Why? Because of the different PlayStation Store releases.

Nevertheless, SCEI was proud to announce that they have exceeded the 20 million user mark on the PlayStation Network in ‘only 2 years and 3 months from the service launch on November 11, 2006′.
Since the launch the PSN service has expanded to 55 countries and regions around the world.

Adding to that 14,500 diverse digital content and 5,900 movies and TV episodes, managed to get 380 million downloads (some free some, purchased).

And PlayStation Home is doing it’s best to keep up. Thought it’s only 20% (4 million) that has registered to the service, the potential and future looks bright with the upcoming releases of the Warhawk Game Space and the highly anticipated EA Sports complex.

But are these 20 million accounts all PlayStation 2, 3 and PSP owners? No, since several website integrated with the PlayStation Network, posting a comment made registering mandatory. And with this current Digital Age, fanboy activity is very high so they don’t mind creating a ‘fake account’ just bash a certain console.

Sony confirmed they will bring out Warhawk Home Game Space at the Destination PlayStation event. This will be the first game space in Home.

EDIT: Actually this isn’t the first, but it’s one of the most anticipated Game Space for Home. Expect it on February 26th (tomorrow).

The patch is not something big (at the moment) but will deliver some small fixes. They will add the update/patch during the regular scheduled maintenance starting at 8 am (GMT).

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SCE in Asia is bringing something special to PlayStation Home. You will be able to buy chocolate pasted clothing and furniture and a special replica of the Square in Home. Check out the screenshots.

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Most of you probably saw this coming but Home still has glitches in it. I’m talking about the ones where you wander of the map and ‘air walk’. The patch was already delayed yesterday but today it went live.

Proof? GamerRiley a member of TheSixthAxis came with it after discovering it.

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Today patch 1.10 for Home was expected to go live but it seems SCEE encountered some problems. Though the maintenance window went ahead, the patch was not made available.

At this moment it’s unclear when the patch will go live. Many members on different forums are hoping on tomorrow (Friday)

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TedTheDog announced on the official European PlayStation forum that Home will be down from 8 am UK time on February 5th 2009. After the servers pops back up, patch 1.10 will be available. It is mainly a bug fixing patch, which includes fixes like:

• Names of Home rewards will now show when you obtain them
• Items in My Home Space should no longer vanish if you leave lamps lit when leaving.
• Single seat chairs and sofas can no longer be used by two people in certain conditions

Other key improvements are the initial login speed being improved, as the loading speed of characters and some of the graphics.

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With today being Thursday, PlayStation Home has received some upgrades for the European audience. Some new spaces have been introduced into the update. The awaited Far Cry 2 Space, Reuben’s Office, Train Station. There are plans for having leader boards for the Red Bull Air Race. 

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Do you think Sony announced Playstation Home too early? We think so because they announced it more than 1 and half years ago and it’s still not ready for the public. Maybe Sony should have announced it late last year or something, would have been alot better.

Peter Edward, game director says:

Initially, there was real excitement from people, because we were showing something really different and that had a lot of potential. And then there’s the realisation that, well, we probably announced it too early – GDC 07 was a long time ago. I think there was sort of recognition amongst developers of ‘Oh, this is interesting, but there’s still a lot of work to be done.

Whats your opinion?

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