According to a report from Develop, the two had little else to say about the next version of echochrome (obviously not pictured), focusing on the development of the first, 3D title. Yup, that's all we got. How about those Cubs?

2D Echochrome on the way for PlayStation Home [Develop]

Yes, sitting by the virtual fire in your virtual log cabin pretty much sums up the PlayStation community in our book.

According to a report from Develop, the two talked most about Home's game launching capabilities, touted by Sony at E3 for titles like Warhawk and Resistance. The technical details of Home's lobby and matching system are explored more in depth in the full report, but our take is that, whenever Home is released (or sent into perpetual beta) it sounds like the bee's knees.

Sony: "Home is not a social network" [Develop]

Home 'Open Working Beta' Still On Track for 2008 [Wired]

If the libraries are available, then yeah, I would hope that the PS3 version can take advantage of that.

"Would hope"? Heck Phil, everyone would hope that.

Harrison Unsure [Multiplayer]

Thanks tipster!

Darlene has an ideal blend of experience within the video game industry, including in-game advertising, making her a perfect fit for this newly created position. She will be tasked with the important role of working closely with our internal teams as well as our third-party publishers and external advertising agencies to develop business and marketing strategies for our newly formed online advertising group.

Sony Computer Entertainment America Announces In-Game Advertising Business Unit Industry Veteran Darlene Kindler Joins Company as Director of Network Advertising

FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) Inc. today announced the creation of a new in-game advertising business unit. The company also announced that Darlene Kindler, a 25-year consumer electronic industry veteran, has joined the company as director of Network Advertising, effective immediately. Kindler will report to Phil Rosenberg, senior vice president of Sales and Business Development. In this new role, Kindler will be responsible for SCEA's in-game advertising strategy across all PlayStation(R) platforms including PLAYSTATION(R)Network.
Kindler brings to SCEA a wealth of experience in consumer electronics and technical related industries, working for companies such as Nintendo of America, Inc., IREM America Corp., Data East, Inc., 3dfx Interactive and Adscape Media. Most recently, Kindler was vice president of Publishing for Adscape Media, an in-game advertising company that was acquired by Google in March 2007. In her previous role at Nintendo, she was part of the company's early start-up team and was one of the key people credited with establishing a European distribution network for Nintendo.
"Darlene has an ideal blend of experience within the video game industry, including in-game advertising, making her a perfect fit for this newly created position," said Rosenberg. "She will be tasked with the important role of working closely with our internal teams as well as our third-party publishers and external advertising agencies to develop business and marketing strategies for our newly formed online advertising group."
The appointment of Kindler comes on the heels of SCEA's announced partnership in July with Nielsen Media Research. Together the companies are working to develop measurement systems for game network advertising. SCEA will share its game network data from PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3TM) as well as PLAYSTATION(R)Network, which encompasses PLAYSTATION(R)Home. PLAYSTATION Home is designed to serve as a 3D community gathering place for PS3 users from around the world and will present opportunities for SCEA to deliver dynamic, relevant advertisements in game. SCEA will depict brands in various forms within the game, where users would expect to see them in real life on billboards and posters, on shopping bags and soda cans and on images of TV screens. SCEA will continue to explore ways to incorporate dynamic advertising into other online environments.

There was an implication that [banning by machine] is a much superior capability to other online services like Second Life. However, the PS3 has the advantage of being a hardware based system. Also, many online communities do support robust banning systems. Particularly, services that are targeted at children. Since the Playstation Network service is not a "for fee" service, identity and registration information could be weak. Also, banning is kind of a strange response for a service that seems to be focused on selling digitally distributed items (games, movies, music, etc.). It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

The gamesindustry.biz discussion with Edward that PlayNoEvil links to has the original snips on 'branding for mature users' and the 'you complain, we ban' system of policing they're intending on implementing.

Sony's PS3 Home Security, Age Verification, Condoms, Alcohol, and Cigarettes [PlayNoEvil]

Ultimately we know a user's details, we know machine details and we know where they live...so you would have to move house and buy a new PS3 before you could get online again.

EIF: Home abusers can be turned off and banned, warns Sony [gameindustry]

Desperate to get a Wii, Xbox 360 or Playstation 3? Are you half a million dollars desperate?

A savvy home owner is giving out a next-gen system with the purchase of their $485,000 condo in Irvine, California.

YES, for the qualified buyer, as a gift with purchase of property, we'll include in and at close of escrow a FREE & NEW "Playstation 3" OR "wii" OR "xbox 360" for you to enjoy...or you c an give to your kids, give away as a present, or maybe even sell back here on ebay.

That's one pricey peripheral. Brian Crecente

CALIFORNIA HOME, IRVINE PROPERTY w/ ps3, wii, xbox 360 [eBay, thanks Travis]

Phil Harrison had this big announcement of Game 3.0 and I think its great that he's announced that because it will lend legitimacy to what we're doing. But it goes further than that. We feel user generated content is not just something you just let people dabble in, we feel that it is something where you give people the tools to do whatever the hell they want.

Most of us "do whatever the hell" we want right now, and in this saturated market, it may not be the time to start yet another "user-generated content" site . Kim Phu

Secret Atari project revealed [MCVUK]

Well I'm disappointed that you would use those as the first questions. I think Home should be used for a much wider and more beneficial scope than that, but I think that people can express their creativity inside Home in a wide variety of ways and it's not necessarily for us to dictate what that should be. However, if somebody feels uncomfortable about an encounter on Home, it's very easy for them to ban that person from their friends list...

Still, I applaud the folks at Three Speech, who somehow managed to keep the focus on porn potential even after witnessing the delightful LittleBigPlanet. While the rest of us were dreaming of little burlap people bouncing off stars, those guys were keeping it real. Michael Fahey

FURTHER PHIL HARRISON INTERVIEW FROM GDC [Three Speech via Eurogamer]

Lisa Baertlein, a Reuters reporter who occasionally writes about gaming, has an interesting item up today about how support groups are looking to Web 2.0 for new ways to help support returning U.S. war veterans.

The article doesn't get into much detail, but at one point it mentions that this new generation of war vets have different needs.

Those who are working to heal the physical and mental wounds of this new breed of veterans are looking to virtual gathering grounds like MySpace, YouTube and even Xbox Live to help connect like-minded individuals.

Dr. Larry Albers, chief of mental health at the VA Medical Center in Long Beach, California, says young soldiers grappling with the psychological trauma of war are not big fans of group therapy, but they are very computer savvy. Many soldiers use e-mail and Web-enabled video phone services to stay in touch with family at home.

"They are much more comfortable on MySpace than on my couch," he said.

That's a neat idea, a support group in-game. What about the PS3's Home? It seems to me that a virtual apartment could be the perfect place for this sort of cyber support group. Brian Crecente

Web sites for injured U.S. veterans need Web 2.0 [Reuters]

We, and more importantly the Playstation 3, needs to hear more from Harrison. He's obviously very passionate about his console, in a good way and that's always a great thing for gamers.

Recently Harrison met with Sony-backed ThreeSpeech and a gaggle of gamers in the UK to run them through what he showed off at the conference.

Among some of the gems that came out of the event:

* Phil said Sony are looking at ways for people to sell items to one another, however they do not want to become a bank and take on the responsibility and regulations that entails.

* Phil did confirm that the PAL/Euro version of the Playstation 3 currently has over 1200 compatible PS2 titles, with more to be added to the list by the time the console launches. This will be via a necessary firmware upgrade to 1.6 (the consoles were shipped over 4 weeks ago.)

* The Sony PR man said that a new HD camera and mic. with spatial awareness will be coming later in the year. Also downloaded PS1 games playable on the PS3 will happen- but later this year.

I think that EyeToy was very much a missed opportunity for the PS2, or perhaps you could make the case for the device just being ahead of its time. But now, with HD and more robust consoles, I think it's time Sony allows this interface device to spread its wings. Brian Crecente

European PS3 has over 1200 compatible PS2 titles (and rising) [PlayThree]