Developer: SCE Studios London
Publisher: SCE
Genre: Misc
Sub-Genre: Simulation
Release Date: Q3 2008
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Developer: Sony Computer Entertainment
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Genre: Misc
Sub-Genre: N/A
Release Date: Unreleased
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Developer: TBA
Publisher: TBA
Genre: Misc
Sub-Genre: N/A
Release Date: N/A
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Leaked videos of PlayStation Home v.0.83 have just hit YouTube, showing off all the latest additions to Home including; functionality with in-game PSP, bubble machine items, chess, Home theatre, and more.
The first video is an introduction showing off a few new places in Home as well as the In-Home game Chess. The first place the player visits is a clothing store called "Threads" where players can purchase clothing items for their character. While the current clothes in the store are free, having a "checkout" and "confirm transaction" screen makes us believe some clothes will eventually cost money.
After leaving Threads, the player moves upstairs to the chess tables and briefly shows how gamers will participate and play Chess.
The video ends with the player entering a store currently called "Home Stuff", where at this time no items are available. Our guess is that "Home Stuff" will be the store where gamers can purchase specialty items like the recently revealed bubble machine.
Moving on to part 2. The next video shows Home's use of the in-game PSP. Using the functionality of the Home PSP, players will be able to access such things as:
- Community (Message of the Day, News, Handy Links, etc)
- Help (First time in Home, Character Customization, Moving to new locations, Your Home Space, and other step-by-step guides)
- Communication (phone a friend, accept call, reject call, etc)
- Game Launching (Create a game, Join a game, View Player List, Cancel game)
- Locations (My Home Space, Home Square, Game Space, Home Theatre, Market Place, Owned Spaces)
- Settings (Themes (skins), Pop-Up Colour, sound, chat window, controls, communication)
- Personal (Go to Wardrobe, Redecorate Home Space, My Inventory, My Purchases, My Profile)
One thing that's interesting about the Create-a-Game menu is that when selected it seems to pull up a list of games that the player may own. The list from the video includes such games as Call of Duty 4, Virtua Tennis 3, SuperStar Dust HD, Motorstorm, Flow, and a few others. Are these games already using Home integration or can Home use any game you own for the PS3?
The last video in the series shows off a few new things including the new bubble machine and Home Theatre. The player begins showing how to access items and interact with them in the world. In this case the bubble machine.
Moving to the Home Theatre, the player brings up the in-game PSP once again, showing how players can create game sessions, in this case Call of Duty 4. Whats interesting is that while in Home, players can choose how many player slots they want available as well as private slots. When the game creation process is finished, a controller icon appears above the players head and a message pops up stating:
"Session Created
Players may now join your game. You may hide this window and re-open at any time from the Game Launching Menu in the PSP."

Home Japanese Trailer
I can't wait for Home to be launched, i don't mind even if its the public beta.... guess its back to the screenshots again then, lol
Home is actually amazing gfx. Lol it looks real.
Playstation Network's Home will be way better then Xbox Live. There is so much to do in the virtual world. Did you see the movie theater? Now thats cool. I sertinly can't wait for this great PSN exclusive. Sony you have done it agian.
Who cares about a bubble machine. Give us the game already!
Home isnt a game. It IS however still very broken, you do NOT want it in the shape it's in right now.... maybe when we get to version 1.0 but not yet.
I swear these leaks are probably the biggest reason why they havent let it out to more people, just think how many people would be dissapointed to actually get in a have to deal with the Beta issues that these videos don't show.
i saw alot of this stuff on this other youtuber http://www.youtube.com/user/mrjiggaman
this link is better imo and all his other videos
evrey beta has kinks.....
Looking plus and very good songs bar last 1 :P
I'm kinda disslike the loading screen that appears when going from one room to the next.
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Looks great. The only problem I see is the time it takes to "relocate". That will get annoying.
This will either be fun forever, or fun for 5 min.
looks really good..........good job sony!!
Man i cant wait to get this Home thing up and going. I was hyped for it but even more so now. Looking at stores buying clothes and whatever else they will sell will be cool and meeting up in home to play cod will be sweet as well. Man i want it now.
Home looks the bomb.....Can't wait and its free. I think this will be a major selling point for the PS3. XBL is very good but it has nothing like this, I have second life on my PC and it is boring. The way Home brings everything together is very clever I think I may have to quit my job just so I have the time that this clearly deserves when it goes live............
psn id: gingo.... its looking good really cant wait till we can do in game invited/in game messaging
who cares we want the real one we dont want any news about the beta.
btw y is the home icon under the game section as a game???
it should b under network icon..... kinda gay for it to b displyed as a game dnt ya think
I agree, it should be under the network icon. No wonder people keep referring to it as a game. Wait 'till they find out that you can't shoot anybody.
Home + Metal Gear Online will be nice starting a game from the Home community.
I was on the fence until the bubble machine. Now I'm sold!
Also i dont understand why alot of ppl call "Home" a videogame when its an online community that implents games from the ps3 console.
Still waiting for more special homeness, I wonder if Sony will hold a special event for Home?
You have got to be concerned with home, understandably.........What with Phil Harrison quiting being "Home's" main champion and the rumours that the Japeness market do not care for it. I, like everyone else want a release date before everyone starts to lose interest. Come on Sony the UK market are heading for there 1st anniversary, give us some good news soon please.
home, in game xmb, gta4, dualshock 3,mgs 4, and haze, LIFE IS GOOD
@21 I believe Home is going under the Network icon in the XMB. I think that's why they changed the way the XMB was in that update. I also think someone said something about it at a conference somewhere and I'm sorry I don't remember when or where it was. They must have thought it was better under Game
The reason people call it a game is because when they see HOME, they think about playing pool, bowling, arcade games, chess, checkers, chatting with friends with the microphone. Its purpose is to provide an effect way for the community to get together, but most people just see it as a fun RPG game where you walk around and do things with people. Besides the fact that you can't fight or level up, its exactly like an MMORPG technically. Because its so similar like that, people call it a game. It just feels weird to call it a service anyway.
its countinually beating my expeectations and i havent even played it yet!!! Cant wait until its released!
Man i dont want to call Sony a c0ck tease but let's face it, Sony is a c0ck tease. Everytime i turn around there is always something to be anxious about. And another funny note, what if there were homeless people in Home wouldnt that be hilarious!!!!..sad but hilarious.
Man i dont want to call Sony a c0ck tease but let's face it, Sony is a c0ck tease. Everytime i turn around there is always something to be anxious about. And another funny note, what if there were homeless people in Home wouldnt that be hilarious!!!!..sad but hilarious.
home is goin to be so amazing, i cant wait
I love how I was given no credit for posting it for this person!!! Where's console's love?
FYI video 3 of 5 uploading :)
So "just hit youtube" means in this case went up about 5 days ago and already did the rounds on other websites? You really suck, PSU team :)
People call Home a game because they keep seeing it compared to other social MMORPGs like SL. There are simularities but Home does not live off of the same things that SL needs to survive. There is no Selling of land, no rolling hills to explore or tresure hunts, no playing virtual kissy face with social emotes, there is no economic system of trade. You might be able to build content to sell in the future but that's still well in the future and again not the full purpose of Home which is to meet people and play games with them.
@IONIXX :There are random crash bugs, issues with furniture placement, graphical glitches all throughout Home. The general function of the thing works great, it's when you start... doing things that it seems to have the most problems, Buying furniure, starting multiplayer games. the occasional game of chess or checkers (although this one seems like it was fixed in the previous update) sometimes just crossing from one location to another causes a crash, It's all coding issues that can be fixed I'm certain but the devs are so ungodly slow about it that it makes you really wonder how much manpower is really on the project. Since the last update more things are broken than are fixed since the previous version. Granted they added a lot of stuff but none of it is as important as the main functions of Home which remain in a questionable state.
I just hope it doesn't get severly overcrowded in those places.
Nice cant wait
god i was start to think this would be something ver hard to do but ir seems quite easy create a game! you never get bore in home you can go cinema or to your friends virtual home! steel the real live is better.... but this should be a very nice online feature
Give it to me now!! Why cant they just release it!!!
This is actually starting to look intriguing, if they can make it work then i will probably be hooked, hope the pool and bowling games are worth a bez
@Damadoomer - chill out mate no one is forcing you to look at this website.
Who needs home when you have GTA online lool
lol I am "chilled out". I find the news-by-carrier-pidgeon-esque delays on news stories here to be amusing. I'm not angry or anything, it's funny :P
Looking good! Although can't see how to get hyped over a buble machine... Why don't you make a go-kart facility or something Sony?
It looks hot.. And being that Im a grown individual.. Im not going to say the impatient thing like I want it now and when the heII are they going to come out with the beta already.. Sony keep doing your thing and until you get it right.. If Home is going to crush XBL, there is no room for mistakes..Its March already, 9 months to go.. lol
Man, thats uber kewl, I can't wait for ti!
before i thoyht home looked cheap but now home looks pretty ace,sum good graphics and its all for free :)
One the first vid, at 2:26 mins it shows that I have signed on "NYShotgun05" lol. I just found that out plus, i know who the person who made it
Can't wait for this release....
Any One got a link to the Beta ?????? That they are doing this month ?
I love the new look, and redesign. Sweet!
is Home going to be free...................i understand there will be sum extras in HOME that will cost money but my question is ...................will the basic HOME be free for all playstation 3 owners with internet access
bring on the home now!!!!! This waiting beta be worth it!!!
People have already lost interest. I used to be dying for Home last fall when it was supposed to be released. Almost 6 months later I really dont care anymore. Some people might remember that Home was actually DELAYED untill last FALL! I am sure sony is going to limit the heck out of everything you can do for free. I am not going to waist $50 bucks for a virtual house though... Chances are that if you dont like second life, you are going to hate home. Sorry but when you promise so much when you have no intention of delivering, but just to sell consoles, that just pisses me off. Dont expect an open beta for a long time, and dont expect the finished home for about a year. Also when it does role out, dont expect people to actually use it a few months after the release. Again, sorry, but it is VERY hard to become optimistic about home anymore. All I see is an example sonys lack of dedication to owners that xbox fanboys will continue to piss us off with.
Brandonh33. Jesus Hates You.
Brandonh33, speak for yourself. Something tells me when Home is released they will encounter problems like COD4 did. "We didn't know there was going to be that much interest, it bogged our servers," they'll say. I'd spend money on my "apartment", not $50 though. H3ll, if Sony can make money doing things like that more power to them. I'm sure others will do the same.
well im just ready to get it now so i can meet more people
Playstation 3 is just so awesome. Cant wait for this
@Brandon
I'll tell you what I DO expect when Home is released...
...you downloading it with the rest of us doing the robot dance and making an idget of yourself not unlike how you did with your post. Everyone's agitated over the delays, but there's no denying the achievement that is Home. Not only that, but it's pretty stupid to claim that interest is lost after dozens of people before your post had just stated that they can't wait for it. "Misery love company", I guess.
Well i guess this is what you get when you post something even remotely negative about the ps3 on a fanboy site. It is not just my opinion, if you go over to sites like cnet or even the playstation blog there are tons of people that dont even care anymore. I love my ps3, i hate 360 and wii, but there are just some things that we need to realize. Sure i am going to download home and be fairly excited for a while, but sony blew it! I dont like people saying what i said in my previous post and I indicated that in the end of my post! one of the worst things about all these delays are all of the 360 fanboys that wont shut up about it! Home might actually be really cool but that doesnt mean sony didnt blow it.
at least launch the public beta alredy!......can't wait!!! or at least more members for beta testing
This is f u c k ing sweet
I cant wait for it to be released
freakin awesome!!
I think this game is gonna have limitless things to do. I am pretty excited about it. I think my girlfriend will be enjoying it alot more than me. We might have to buy another console so we can both be playing our own games. hahaha
I want the real thing man! Release it to the public!!
GAHH!! Home is a GHUGE reason I invested in my beautiful PS3!!
I wish they'd hurryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!