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PlayStation Home Beta Ends In May?

Chalk this up to rumor, but according to at least one PS Home beta tester's account page, Sony's closed beta will be ending on 5/15/08. This date in itself means little. But it could mean that Sony might begin an open beta—or just launch Home once and for all—sometime not so long after that date. Either way, we wouldn't hold our breath for Home to magically appear any time soon in a firmware update...especially since 2.4, expected this summer, has not been rumored to contain Home.

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A New Look At PlayStation's Home

The official Japanese PlayStation web site today launched a new Home section, bringing with a slew of new screen shots of the virtual living space. Is this the new look of home which was on display at Imagina 08? We hope that PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai is happier with this version of the software than the last one. Still looking a bit too sterile to really get me excited, but I am at least intrigued by Home's copious footwear options.


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Sony Hasn't Told Us About Home Yet

The PS3's Home looks like it has great potential. Players can conceivably win achievement-like trophies and display them (see above). Sounds fantastic, but we're still somewhat in the dark. Developers should know, right? Making PS3 games an all. Nope! Tecmo's Yosuke Hayashi just finished up PLAYSTATION 3 title Ninja Sigma, and he's clueless. He explains:

I'm really interested in the concept of Home, but SCE hasn't provided any information to us yet on Home, so even if we had an intention of adapting the game, including Home trophy features or whatever, we currently just don't have the information on how to do it.

Maybe Sony hasn't figured it out or maybe Sony is keeping things close to its vest. Chalk it up more to crummy planning and less to lousy communication. More »

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The Future Of The PlayStation Network

Gamepro sat down with SCEA's online director Susan Nourai to talk about the evolution of the PlayStation Network, Home and the Cross Media Bar. While details were scarce on some technical details of Home, some interesting tidbits were revealed. More »

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PlayStation Store Updates (No GTA IV Trailer Here)

Yesterday's Grand Theft Auto IV trailer sparked a ridiculous amount of internet debate, with fans combing over every frame attempting to glean every minute detail from the minute-long clip. The trailer brought web servers to their knees and eventually showed up on the Xbox Live Marketplace. More »

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SplitFish's Freakish FragFX Controller

If it weren't for Chris Kohler and the Game|Life blog, I might've missed what could possibly be the best controller of all time, the SplitFish FragFX game controller. Fortunately, I hadn't yet deleted the e-mail containing this potential gem. More »

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Rumor: "Proof" Home Is No Rip-Off?

Rushed Mii clones? The Sims copies? Second Life-ish? Take your pick. But, apparently Sony's concept of Home is a little more original than that. Back in 2005, the following posts appeared on the official PlayStation boards: More »

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NY Times Confirms PlayStation Home, Name Drops Kotaku

The New York Times has confirmed what we've all suspected: The PlayStation Home seems to be very real. Not only that, it is apparently going to hit this fall. For those who missed the hell that broke loose: We previously floated this, tussled with Sony and then kiss and made up. From the NY Times article: More »

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PlayStation Home The Trademark

When we ran the rumor that Sony was planning to unveil an extension of the PlayStation framework in the form of PlayStation Home, it was time to do some sleuthing. One of the first things you do in a case like this is visit the United States Patent and Trademark Office to see what floats to the top. So that's what I did. When "PlayStation Home" didn't turn up, I thought it strange. More »

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Rumor: Sony To Unveil PlayStation Home

We just received a very interesting tip that, while juicy and quite believable, we're labeling as rumor for now. As you are probably well aware, GDC executive director Jamil Moledina set Sony's Phil Harrison up for the spike yesterday, claiming that PLAYSTATION 3 owners will be "very happy" when Phil's keynote takes place next week. More »