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The Xbox 360 Version of PlayStation Home

PlayStation Home did pretty well for itself so it would be only natural that the competition got interested in the topic. Microsoft's new project sprung a leak and a survey regarding a new virtual Avatar arcade ended up in the hands of the masses. The idea will be set up for theXbox 360 and it will be very simil...

8 October 2009
15:01 GMT

PlayStation Home Gets Exclusive Batcave Space and MotorStorm Event

Online services are more and more important these days for many video game consoles, which have surpassed their role as a medium not only for games but also for entertainment and online interaction with friends and family. One of the most interesting services is Sony's PlayStation Home, which wants to offer an ...

13 August 2009
13:11 GMT

Home Gets Big Movie Theater and Fat Princess Space

Online services make or break a console these days, as almost every new gamer wants to connect his or her device to the Internet and reap the benefits by enjoying quality experiences and being able to interact with friends or family. One of the ways Sony is trying to draw people to its PlayStation 3 console is the H...

31 July 2009
03:13 GMT

inFamous Space in Home Brings Lightning and Graffiti

Home is one of the most popular online services and has been increasing in both awareness and active people by leaps and bounds ever since it was released in open beta stage at the end of last year. Promising to offer an interactive social network for all PlayStation 3 users, the service has seen a lot of companies o...

2 July 2009
03:00 GMT

Sony's Home Gets SOCOM and Ghostbusters Spaces

Online services are some of the most important features for any video game console out there, as people want to go online and interact with friends in order to play video games or just discuss ordinary things. While there are certainly a lot of services out there, Sony's PlayStation Home is definitely one of th...

18 June 2009
02:44 GMT

Xbox Live Is like an MMO, Nothing like Home, Says Microsoft Exec

Online services are some of the most important attributes for the current generation of consoles as every gamer wants to connect with friends and family and play titles together. Whether it is Xbox Live, PlayStation Home or the Wii Channel, there is certainly something for everyone. But while they keep evolving, som...

12 June 2009
03:01 GMT

PlayStation Home Is Focused on the Community, Not on Profit

Online services are quite important these days for consoles as almost every gamer who wants either an Xbox 360, a Nintendo Wii or a PlayStation 3 intends to connect it to the Internet and start interacting with their friends and family.That's why online services such as Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network are s...

4 June 2009
02:40 GMT

Every Publisher Is Interested in Home, Says Sony

Online services are currently one of the most important features for any console on the market, because a lot of customers are interested in not only gaming, but also in online interactivity. That is why the top three manufacturers, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, are fighting it out online. Among the most interesting...

4 May 2009
02:23 GMT

The EA Sports Complex Is Now Available for PlayStation Home Users

Online services are playing a bigger and bigger role in consoles these days, as a lot of people buy the devices depending on what kind of features they can offer once they are connected to the Internet. Sony has seen this trend, and has launched its PlayStation Home service, which aims at providing a unique and inte...

24 April 2009
02:53 GMT

Sony's Home Sees 5 Million Users Spend An Average of 55 Minutes There

Online services are one of the most important things when buying a console for quite a lot of customers. Whether it is Xbox Live, PlayStation Network or Wii Channel, every console needs to have something that will give it the edge over its opponents.For Sony's PlayStation 3, it is the Home service, which aims at...

27 March 2009
03:46 GMT

EA Sports President Talks about Sony Home

The last few days have been inundated with news from the PlayStation Day Europe event and with various statements from Sony regarding matters as diverse as the new PlayTV add-on for the PlayStation 3, the possibility of adding new external hard drives to the console or the strength of the games line-up that Sony has ...

9 May 2008
08:17 GMT

Nintendo Courts Developers for WiiWare

The consoles are not only competing when it comes to numbers of units sold and numbers of console specific games that appear. The three-way battle that is today's console market is now focusing on the community aspect and on the on-line market for games.Sony already has the PlayStation Store and is poised to lau...

19 March 2008
11:33 GMT

Sony Comments on Leaked PSN List

Game makers keep internal documents locked up tighter than medieval kings kept their virgin daughters. But once in a while, someone (or maybe something?) manages to slip one of these documents out and the world marvels at release dates and schedules that otherwise wouldn't have gone public.Such a document has re...

18 March 2008
11:34 GMT

Insider Leaks Hot Details on PlayStation Home

Finally some details on Home... Apparently a Sony insider has leaked some hot information on Sony's social service to IGN.com. Although Home will leave you with an overall good impression, there are some minuses to the service as well. Not serious ones but still... Just to get you interested in reading on, it ha...

31 August 2007
04:55 GMT

Sony's Sending Its Most Influential Names at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival

To keep it short and simple, those influential names are: Jamie Macdonald, Vice President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios Europe; Paulina Bozek, Executive Producer of SingStar; Peter Edward, Director of PlayStation Home Platform Group. The report says that SCE's trio will discuss what lies in st...

10 August 2007
05:46 GMT

A World of My Own to Make PS Home Look 'Prehistoric'

Every PS3 owner out there is just dying to finally make good use of PlayStation Home. Imagine this: Sony has big hopes with their service, and so, they'll most likely have everything about it tweaked up to the max. One of the most important aspects - when it comes to social services - is of course, how well it a...

31 July 2007
05:52 GMT

PS3 Sales Up 700% Over at Amazon Following the Price Cut!

So, it was the price that was holding it back after all. Of course, many blame the lack of titles as well (myself included) but when Sony cracks that nut, I reckon the PS3 will make record sales. I mean, Punch Jump posts the following: "Sales for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 increased 700 percent at Amazon.com fol...

10 July 2007
06:33 GMT

PS3 Getting 380 Titles By March 2008!

If you thought Sony had a hard time with the PS3 until now, you were sadly mistaken. As it turns out, the company has huge plans for the console and I mean "HUGE." Some 380 titles are scheduled for release by March 2008, including some downloadable ones via PlayStation Network. What, you didn't think they'd...

21 June 2007
06:02 GMT

Porn Will Likely Be Present in Home

Sony's social service, PlayStation Home, which has a beta testing lined up, will allow users to upload whatever content they desire. What would that, undoubtedly imply? Naturally, it would imply porn. Lots of it. The thing is Sony gets off easy with allowing users to do whatever they want, as subscribers will be...

22 March 2007
08:21 GMT

Microsoft Charges Way Too Much with XBLA

Great service that Xbox Live Arcade, isn't it? Users, each with an unique Gamertag are able to play online, keep track of their friends' status, send and receive messages, purchase Xbox Live Arcade games even for their cell-phones, gain and keep track of Achievements, and more. Some games even allow for cro...

19 March 2007
08:34 GMT

PS3 Launch - SCE Australia Boss Optimistic

SCE Australia boss Michael Ephraim didn't mind at all to say a few words about what he thinks of the PS3's current status on the market and how he feels about the launch in Australia. Speaking to IGN, he made some surprising statements (in a pleasant way that is), one of which concerned the total number of ...

15 March 2007
12:05 GMT

10 Tips for Sony to Get the PS3 on Its Feet

In a moment of great inspiration, Gamespot decided to point out 10 things that Sony should do to just sell the poor PS3. If I hadn't read so many bad news about Sony's next-gen console, I'd think that the gaming site was exaggerating a bit. But they aren't. Turns out that Sony should actually fix ...

13 March 2007
11:02 GMT

PS Home - All the Details About It So Far

The GDC hosted a good number of events among which, Sony revealed some of PlayStation Home's features. The upcoming service from Sony has an impressive resumé, but the company didn't answer all the questions asked regarding the service. 1UP did a pretty good job at revealing some of the PS Home's featu...

13 March 2007
06:19 GMT

October Is When the PS Home Service Will Be Ripe

A "third party relations" question-and-answer PDF found on Sony's developer website reveals more details about the upcoming social network service from Sony, PlayStation Home. As most of you may already know, Home will be something like the sim game Second Life. Some features will be available to use even with a...

12 March 2007
11:19 GMT

Nintendo and Microsoft Not Impressed with PlayStation Home

This year's GDC was about many things, but mainly about Sony's "PlayStation Home," which is a fairly good idea to give PS3 users a social network and an avatar creation system. Something like this couldn't go by just like that and it wasn't only the press who had a say at this but also the rival c...

12 March 2007
03:55 GMT

Rumor-Sony Began Working on Home 2 Years Ago

Sony's new service, PlayStation Home may not be that new after all. I mean, it's new for us but not for Sony. It seems that the company has been thinking about it since May 27th 2005. A post made on a PlayStation forum that exact date was dug up by EvilAvatar. It suggests that Sony had plans then for someth...

10 March 2007
08:37 GMT

PS3-Home Website Launched for Beta Stage

By now, everybody knows that Sony is soon launching their social service entitled PlayStation Home. In order to get things started and on track, first of all Sony will launch the PlayStation Home Beta Trial website. This will mean a large scale beta for the service, where you, as a PS3 owner and faithful fan, will re...

9 March 2007
05:45 GMT

PlayStation Home-Probably Another Porn Gateway

Phil Harrison's presentation at the GDC revealed a lot of what PlayStation Home will be all about, when it releases along with the European launch of the PS3. The thing is that the PlayStation Home service may prove to be just another "porn gateway." Even if the service's purpose isn't to access easily...

8 March 2007
04:33 GMT

PlayStation Home Is True

OK, it's true, the thing PlayStation fans have been waiting for, PlayStation Home, exists. Sony's worldwide president has declared some time ago that last year was all about hardware and that starting with 2007, it's mainly about software. And so it seems-the PS Home service is said to launch in autumn...

7 March 2007
10:45 GMT

PS3-Achievements from Sony

Sony's Phil Harrison made a quite intriguing statement yesterday speaking to GDC's executive director Jamil Moledina, saying that PlayStation owners are in for a big surprise and that they will be "very happy" when the idea takes shape: "Basically, you get to make an avatar for your console and this avatar ...

2 March 2007
02:57 GMT


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