PlayStation Home Beta Service is Ready to Come
Sony
Computer Entertainment’s (SCE) PlayStation Home Beta service for
PlayStation 3 will become available for all PS3 users on Dec. 11.
Following the completion of the closed beta service, PlayStation Home's
open beta expects to evolve with new features and functionality.
PlayStation Home is a 3D social gaming community available on PS3 that
allows users to interact, communicate, and share gaming experiences.
PlayStation Home delivers visual graphics and rich gaming social
experiences on the PS3 platform.
Within
PlayStation Home, users can create and customize their own unique
avatars and explore virtual community in real time where they can
communicate freely through text or voice chat.
PlayStation Home users will not only be able to enjoy variety of
entertainment content such as mini-games, videos and special events
along with their friends, but will also be able to create their own
community by using the "Club" feature to create clubs with other
PlayStation Home users who share the same interests.
PlayStation Home, available as a free download starting December 11,
will launch directly from the PlayStation Home icon on the PlayStation
Network column of XMB (XrossMediaBar) on PS3.
Users
will be able to experience basic features and services of PlayStation
Home, free of charge. PlayStation Home will allow open interaction among
users, business partners and SCE, and will evolve with additional
features including dedicated game spaces, special events and exclusive
themed items, to further enrich the entertainment experience on the PS3
platform.
For
users in North America, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) will
launch game themed high-definition virtual environments including the
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and Far Cry 2 spaces and the soon to be
released Warhawk, Resistance, Guitar Hero and SOCOM spaces.
In
these environments, users will discuss specific games, plan strategies
and access content and clues that will enhance their gaming experience.
Through these virtual environments, publishers will be able to increase
and extend consumer interest in their game titles via new mediums of
game play.
SCEA is
partnering with Activision, Disney Eidos, Electronic Arts, Lucas Arts,
THQ and UBISOFT, to develop virtual environments among other content for
PlayStation Home.
