Posts Tagged ‘ PlayStation Home ’

PlayStation Home Gets Awesomely Cool with Xi

Mar 24th, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

The folks over at Sony have decided to offer PlayStation 3 owners a great, great surprise and finally deliver the first reason to get addicted to… PlayStation Home. As strange as it might sound, they have started the first console-based Alternate Reality Game, Xi, which is a perfect fit for those who fancy a solid, [...]



Resident Evil 5 Goes Home

Mar 6th, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

PlayStation 3 owners who are at the same time fans of the Resident Evil franchise will be pleased to find out that a new space has been introduced to PlayStation Home today – Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 space.
According to Eurogamer, it has everything you could wish: “he Studio Lot, with a facsimile of the game’s [...]



Sony Announces Home Update Plans

Mar 3rd, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

Tons of new content is being prepared to hit the PlayStation Home in an upcoming update – that’s what we know for sure – but unfortunately not all the plans are detailed. However, thanks to Home’s community manager we now have more info than ever and I must admit that I’m impressed. So let’s check [...]



Sony Announces Home Content Providers

Feb 10th, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

Sony has announced a list of no less than 24 companies that will be allowed to create content for their virtual Homes on the PlayStation Network. It was not mentioned, however, if this means that the companies will also produce content, or they’re simply allowed to (and they might never do so). Also, it was [...]



PlayStation Home Patched to Version 1.10

Feb 5th, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

Starting today, your PlayStation Home experience should be much improved since Sony released a patch for their virtual world, taking Home to version 1.10. Alongside faster load times and various tweaks, Sony also fixed a series of bugs. We have some of the most important changes brought by the Patch 1.10, but you can still [...]



PlayStation Home – PS3 Unlockables

Jan 12th, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

PlayStation Home is a community-based service (or virtual world – call it as you wish) created by Sony for the users of PlayStation 3 consoles. At the moment of writing this service is still in Beta Testing, but according to various reports, everything is going as planned with PSNH. Although the PlayStation Home itself is [...]



LBP Sells 1.3 Million Units, Home Gets Downloaded by 3.4 Million

Jan 12th, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

Generally referred to as the big loser of the current gen console market, Sony is still doing pretty well, as sale numbers show us. So, even though not as successful as anticipated, Media Molecule’s Little Big Planet still managed to sell over 1.3 million units until now, while the recently released PlayStation Home Beta proved [...]



Electronic Arts to Support Home With EA Sports Complex

Jan 9th, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

Electronic Arts is the newest company to go on and try the advantages of being Home – at least from Sony’s point of view. EA has just announced its debut on the PlayStation Network with EA Sports Complex, the new space for fans of Electronic Arts and sports games which will be launched this spring.

According [...]



PS Home Gets Hacked, Sony Prepares Patch

Dec 18th, 2008 | By Calin Ciabai

The highly anticipated release of the PlayStation Home came with it’s fair share of problems and errors, but the general reception of the whole open beta stage was positive. However, Sony did not have too much time to enjoy the success, since various reports noted that the PS Home has been hacked and Sony plans [...]



Sony Say PlayStation Home Will Be a System Seller

Dec 15th, 2008 | By Calin Ciabai

Sony’s sales of PlayStation 3 consoles rarely managed to match, on a monthly basis, the sales recorded by Xbox 360s or Nintendo Wiis, even though big S won the format wars against the HD-DVD and did their best to offer gamers a great experience. The latest release that was supposed to offer a huge lift [...]