Home Update: 18/06/09
Expect some mini additions to your virtual world this Thursday.Published 14/06/2009 at 12:00 by BioEye
GAME Moonbase Announced For Home [38]
Home Reaches 12 Million Users [17]
Uncharted 2 Wins More Awards [17]
The SCEE Home Community Manager, known to many as ‘TedTheDog’ recently posted a list of confirmed updates heading our way this Thursday. Check out the summarised list below for the latest info:
New Spaces:
- Everybody’s Golf [more info]
Shopping Centre Additions:
- Estates > “The City Penthouse” [£3.99 / €4.67 *]
- Ligne Roset > “The City Penthouse themed furniture”
Space Updates:
- Clubhouse > “Regular fees” scheme postponed until 31/12/09
- EA Sports Complex Downstairs > Re-download
- EA Sports Complex Downstairs > 8 more seats for users to play racing game
- EA Sports Complex Upstairs > Re-download
- EA Sports Complex Upstairs > Female clothing winnable through Texas Hold ‘Em game
- EA Sports Complex Upstairs > Tweaks to some screens
Miscellaneous:
- Where’s Wally style event running from 18/06/09 to 01/07/09
- Transformers quest continues
* = To be detailed further on the Official EU PlayStation Blog around 18/06/09.
If you’re wondering why Wally is making an appearance, TedTheDog said “Every night from 7-9pm UK time someone will be somewhere in Home. Find them, type a particular phrase and win something very very…… weird”. We’ve since learnt that these people will move about, and possibly from space to space. It’s an insteresting game of hide-and-seek, which could turn out to become very popular. So how will Sony tackle the crowds that surround the ‘person’? “Theres likely to be more than 1 [Wally] person doing it at the same time”.
In addition, if you’ve been on Home lately, you may have realised that the ‘Buzz!’ space we mentioned a while back is not online. This is because on day one of the space going live, bugs were already showing themselves. Sony took the space offline and have since been working on sorting out the problems for about a week. Could the ‘Untitled’ space be the republishing of the Buzz! space? Not likely, the spaces creators, Relentless, are still working on the problem, and TedTheDog told us he “will bring [us] a progress update towards the end of the month”. TedTheDog has also confirmed that it’s not the StageSet, Killzone, Ghostbusters, Uncharted or Siren spaces. Any of these? “There will be a new space, and you’ll be able to read all about it on the blog next week.” New info here.
See the original update by TedTheDog.
Source: Official EU PlayStation Forum
Comments
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matty | 14/06/2009 12:10
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cool home will be packed on a night severs wil probably go down or something
DarthSharkey | 14/06/2009 12:12
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At least Sony are upping their game and eventually starting to add content.
billygoat | 14/06/2009 12:24
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The ‘Where’s Wally’ thing sounds interesting! Also can’t wait for the Buzz space to return, I missed it when it first came out…
toutski | 14/06/2009 12:50
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Anyone buying the city penthouse?
DarthSharkey | 14/06/2009 13:08
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Prob not, the recessions hit me hard.
ANTS101 | 14/06/2009 18:58
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the recession is now mostly OVER!!
BioEye | 14/06/2009 13:11
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If I were to use it a lot, then probably. But I’ve only once had someone over to my apartment, so I don’t see the need right now. For me, anyway.
toutski | 14/06/2009 13:16
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Couldn’t see it at that price…
Snebjnr | 14/06/2009 13:12
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Does anyone actually buy anything in home??
And Wheres Wally? Cool!
BioEye | 14/06/2009 13:14
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I bought a suit last night. That was the first time I’ve ever bought anything.
Problem is, the money in my PSN wallet was just a few pennies below anything purchasable. So, as you can only update it in £5s and £10s, I decided to just throw it at the little things I wouldn’t normally get.
Snebjnr | 14/06/2009 13:17
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Oh well then, I think I’ve bought jeans & shoes and thats it!
lol
Didnt like em on my avatar
wedgehog | 14/06/2009 13:22
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Yeah – each month SONY is making a lot of money from thousands of sales, so someone must be buying it.
A look around HOME confirms this as loads of [insane?] people seem to have purchased new clothing.
kevatron400 | 14/06/2009 14:58
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I’ve never bought anything in home! Don’t really see the point in spending real money on virtual objects for my virutal counterpart!
ANTS101 | 14/06/2009 19:01
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I agree with you Kevatron400.
fauxchet | 15/06/2009 08:42
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I’ve purchased a few items. It’s not too crazy, as they are relatively inexpensive. I also like to think I’m supporting Sony with all the free content they give out. I’ve probably only dropped about $5 on Home though. Not much.
BioEye | 14/06/2009 13:12
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Maybe it’s the inFamous space.
ANTS101 | 14/06/2009 19:02
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Thta would get me back on Home,
Definately!
coolgr33k | 14/06/2009 14:52
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lol random stuff, they should make real stores like the sony shop or argos, would be cool ish. they should also put a few weapons lying around so you can go annoy people lol.
Hicko | 14/06/2009 15:07
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I wish they’d add a special “kick in the nuts” move for people that annoy me!
wedgehog | 14/06/2009 16:15
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Buy real things to be delivered to your house … a HOME gift-shop at first selling T-shorts and mugs etc. Then a SONY store selling playstation games…
Hicko | 14/06/2009 20:18
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I’m sure someone has mentioned that before. It’s a great idea! Should be easy enough to link websites to home. Walk into a virtual play.com to buy something real. That would be great!
haza103 | 14/06/2009 15:01
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Does anyone know when the resi 5 space will be updated with what’s advertised on there? Stuff like the archives, only the game launching seems to work for me.
yogh_wayne | 14/06/2009 17:10
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Of course it’s not the Uncharted space. That one will be released at the same time as Uncharted 3.
paxpacis | 14/06/2009 18:19
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Do you know something we don’t?
theshockwave | 14/06/2009 17:15
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Yup, there is no denying it, Home is improving. Definitely getting better…
Argon123 | 14/06/2009 19:09
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wheres the trophy cabenet…..
BioEye | 14/06/2009 19:54
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See the answer to the second question:
http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/board/message?board.id=b_EN_PS3_Home&thread.id=169903&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
ANTS101 | 14/06/2009 19:11
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The “Where’s WALLY” thing sounds great.
But if there are hundreds, even thousands of lobbies for all the spaces, what is the chance of finding WALLY??
It won’t be a hunt, it’ll be more like LUCK!
You could probably search each space several times for the two hours and not find him
BioEye | 14/06/2009 19:51
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There’s more than one person running about, which should improve your chances of finding them, but you do have a good point.
darknight88 | 14/06/2009 19:22
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Im still not excited by home. Each thing they add is exitinging for 1 min and then it is boring.Sorry to be oe of those pessimistic home followrs.
BryOnRye | 14/06/2009 21:25
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Still haven’t had a go on the Kart racing.
BioEye | 14/06/2009 21:32
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It’s better than I thought it would be. Those karts go fast!
ryanh_666 | 14/06/2009 23:38
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i’ve not been in home since about a week after it opened, and even with the updates im not tempted back yet. am i missing out on something? is it really that interesting now?