Microsoft showing no love for Home

Aaron Greenberg, Product manager for Xbox 360 was raving about his own product but coming to the competition it seems compliments are a no no.
We al know Home still needs to be launched as Open Beta, but it has picked up a small delay due to technical difficulties.
Aaron Greenberg was quick to jump [...]


More news on tomorrows big day

TedTheDog posted some info about tomorrows release of Home Open Beta on the Official EU Playstation forum.
Home will be offline for a while so don’t try to hammer it. Once its back online we will be running version 1.03 and all those with the current version will be offered a patch. The patch simply supports [...]


Finally we can go Home - again- released soon

After almost two years and three possible release periods, Home will finally be available to the public from December 11th 2008.
SCEE let know that tomorrow, everybody who has registered to the Playstation Network will be able to download Home from the Playstation Store. There was much speculation of when it would be available and in [...]


We’ve got the biggest…

In user-generated content that is acccording to Michael Denny.

Although we’ve had the success in the social genre we want to move that on as well, like finding new experiences with LittleBigPlanet and user-generated content. In the console field that’s an area we can rightly claim leadership to now. We want to look at more [...]


Home gets update to 1.02

TedTheDog let know on the EU Playstation forum that Home will be (actually currently is as we are typing this) down for maintenance while they make some chances to the server. This will take about 30 minutes starting at 11am (GMT/UK).
The update to home is only to support these changes. There is still no word [...]


Playstation Home down due to more items in Shopping Centre

Playstation Home went down this morning as TedTheDog announced on the European Playstation Forums that there has been further changes to the server.
Home will be offline from 7am UK tomorrow for a few hours whilst some further changes are made to the server side.
Once it comes back up we will also be putting some items [...]


Red Bull in Home

Red Bull will be the first company other than game developers to support Sony’s PlayStation Home. Red Bull will have it’s own space, and have a mini game based on their Air races. 
John Beasley, brand marketing manager for Red Bull UK said Home represents an opportunity for brands to create “memorable and rich content”.
“The game gave us [...]


PlayStation Home can be shared with no activation

According to PS3-Sense, PlayStation Home v1.0 can be shared with no activation.
Since the launch of PlayStation Home version 1.0 has been chosen for the DRM on a value to which it can be shared. The service has no activation when you install on the PS3 system and can be shared as often as possible as [...]


SCEE messes up, try SCEJ for Home

Yes were are flooding you with Home stories, no were not doing it intentionally, we just want to you be informed of all the possibility and info we find.
For those of you who have an Japanese account, make sure you check your email. Don’t worry about a language problem. It seems according to 2 [...]


100.000+ mails get caught up, 100.001+ hearts are broken

Like many of their other community members in Japan and North America, the European community waited with for their keys to their home but were left disappointed (again).
I’ve made a series of phone calls and I dont believe its something we can quickly fix so we’ll need the email team together on Monday morning to [...]


More info on Home from SCEE

TedTheDog keeps flooding us with info about Home as were nearing the end of the year.
On the official EU Playstation forums you can find a post of the v1.0 Patch notes. Most important in it was that today (21st) over a hundred thousand (100.001 maybe) invites will be send out across the SCEE region. Another [...]


Finally we can go Home

It took a while, but finally after years of development and testing, Sony has taken the second last step to releasing Home to the public.
As you might have read last week, SCEE announced that they would release the patch notes of Home 1.0 to the current Closed beta testers, this would start the final run [...]


SCEE announce Home release schedule

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 [...]


Playstation Home Theme beta keys being sent out

Remember a while back when you could download a Playstation Home theme from the American and Japanese Playstation Store? Basically if you downloaded this theme you would be entered into the Home closed beta and be selected at random.
Check your emails to see if you have something that looks like this:-
WELCOME TO HOME BETA
Dear PlayStation®Network [...]


Home Beta website change

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. [...]