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It’s Thursday, and it’s time for another Homerun, the weekly
run-through of whats happening in and around the world of PlayStation
Home. There are a few good things to talk about so let’s go straight
into it, OK?
SCEE has launched a new blog (hoorah!) and one of their opening blog posts announced a brand new game space. Last week
we saw the arrival of the Resistance 2 space with its amazing
mini-game. This time around we hear about Buzz! getting its own Home
reincarnation.
Buzz! HQ is focused around a trivia
quiz with up to 64 gamers. Four coloured zones of the space are marked
out and to complete the questions you must walk into the area
corresponding to the answer you believe is the correct one.
Getting the question right will earn you points and you can compete
to get more than anyone else. A bonus to this game is that all the
questions have been selected from ones written by the community on MyBuzzQuiz.com.
Top players can also earn prizes to give even more incentive to play.
If this space is as good as it sounds and looks, it should be pretty
sweet!
Who needs the real game when you can do it for free in Home?
No release date has been announced so we will have to keep looking
out for a further announcement on this one. Speaking of games, Crash
Commando now supports
Game Launching via a new patch recently released for the game. The list
of compatible games are now growing which is very encouraging.
Content-wise this week, SCEE have provided very little but they
promise us more goodies next week. But what we do get is an updated
Home Square. You probably will notice nothing new except from one
thing: The fish are back! We thought you’d be impressed.
After taking a short holiday somewhere, they have returned into the
river running through the middle of the space. Sony even wants names
for them so we suggest you give your suggestions in the thread on their
forums here.
For the North American side of things, not a substantial content update
but you do get Ghostbusters statues for your apartment and clubhouse as
well as a few shirts.
All should change next week however with E3 and all. But this week we heard in
an interview with Peter Edward from the PlayStation Home Platform Group
that over 6.5 million people have downloaded PlayStation Home so far,
that’s around 30% of all PS3 owners. Other things were also discussed
including that right now making a profit isn’t top priority for Sony.
The assumption is they see Home as a platform to differentiate
itself from the competition rather than to make money directly from it.
As per usual, Xi continues to evolve and the notable edition this week
is Alpha Zone 3. This space is all about Mazes and as we write this,
one maze is currently open.
This maze is quite unique because as you go along, walls rise when
you walk towards them or fall to the ground when you walk away making
navigation just that little bit harder. But what makes it even tougher
is that you will have to solve mini-puzzles at certain sections inside
to progress. Eventually when you reach the end a fragment awaits you
and the whole thing should take no longer than fifteen minutes.
As this space is now open, we get the feeling Xi is nearing the end.
All three of the Alpha Zones are open and the maintenance room appears
to be complete as well. Also notable is that Nineteen out of twenty
four fragments are available to unlock right now. Pretty soon we should
find out the true identity of Xi. But back to reality and we are
impressed with the game and it has been a good way of getting people to
come back to Home while waiting for more content in the universe from
third-parties.
Well that’s it for the Homerun for this week. The next Homerun will
be at the end of E3, where we’re sure there will be a lot to talk about!
Read more: http://www.ps3attitude.com/new/2009/05/homerun-280509/#ixzz0GzqViQk4&B
run-through of whats happening in and around the world of PlayStation
Home. There are a few good things to talk about so let’s go straight
into it, OK?
SCEE has launched a new blog (hoorah!) and one of their opening blog posts announced a brand new game space. Last week
we saw the arrival of the Resistance 2 space with its amazing
mini-game. This time around we hear about Buzz! getting its own Home
reincarnation.
Buzz! HQ is focused around a trivia
quiz with up to 64 gamers. Four coloured zones of the space are marked
out and to complete the questions you must walk into the area
corresponding to the answer you believe is the correct one.
Getting the question right will earn you points and you can compete
to get more than anyone else. A bonus to this game is that all the
questions have been selected from ones written by the community on MyBuzzQuiz.com.
Top players can also earn prizes to give even more incentive to play.
If this space is as good as it sounds and looks, it should be pretty
sweet!
Who needs the real game when you can do it for free in Home?
No release date has been announced so we will have to keep looking
out for a further announcement on this one. Speaking of games, Crash
Commando now supports
Game Launching via a new patch recently released for the game. The list
of compatible games are now growing which is very encouraging.
Content-wise this week, SCEE have provided very little but they
promise us more goodies next week. But what we do get is an updated
Home Square. You probably will notice nothing new except from one
thing: The fish are back! We thought you’d be impressed.
After taking a short holiday somewhere, they have returned into the
river running through the middle of the space. Sony even wants names
for them so we suggest you give your suggestions in the thread on their
forums here.
For the North American side of things, not a substantial content update
but you do get Ghostbusters statues for your apartment and clubhouse as
well as a few shirts.
All should change next week however with E3 and all. But this week we heard in
an interview with Peter Edward from the PlayStation Home Platform Group
that over 6.5 million people have downloaded PlayStation Home so far,
that’s around 30% of all PS3 owners. Other things were also discussed
including that right now making a profit isn’t top priority for Sony.
The assumption is they see Home as a platform to differentiate
itself from the competition rather than to make money directly from it.
As per usual, Xi continues to evolve and the notable edition this week
is Alpha Zone 3. This space is all about Mazes and as we write this,
one maze is currently open.
This maze is quite unique because as you go along, walls rise when
you walk towards them or fall to the ground when you walk away making
navigation just that little bit harder. But what makes it even tougher
is that you will have to solve mini-puzzles at certain sections inside
to progress. Eventually when you reach the end a fragment awaits you
and the whole thing should take no longer than fifteen minutes.
As this space is now open, we get the feeling Xi is nearing the end.
All three of the Alpha Zones are open and the maintenance room appears
to be complete as well. Also notable is that Nineteen out of twenty
four fragments are available to unlock right now. Pretty soon we should
find out the true identity of Xi. But back to reality and we are
impressed with the game and it has been a good way of getting people to
come back to Home while waiting for more content in the universe from
third-parties.
Well that’s it for the Homerun for this week. The next Homerun will
be at the end of E3, where we’re sure there will be a lot to talk about!
Read more: http://www.ps3attitude.com/new/2009/05/homerun-280509/#ixzz0GzqViQk4&B