PlayStation

Sony Gives PlayStation Home A Massive Theme Park Makeover With MMO-like Gameplay This Fall

PlayStation Home, the digital hang out space for Sony’s PlayStation 3 that opened to the public in 2008, is getting an extreme makeover later this year. Sony’s console social network will be redesigned for the fall, reemerging as an experience that’s part theme park, part online game and part social platform.


March 2, 2011
PlayStation

PlayStation Home To Be Home To First-Person Shooters, Racing Games

This (northern) spring, Sony’s social networking platform PlayStation Home will graduate to version 1.5, bringing with it “real-time multiplayer”. That update is designed to make fast-paced video games, racers and first-person shooters, playable in Home.


March 14, 2010
News

PlayStation Home Now 12 Million Users Strong

PlayStation Home director Jack Buser bragged about the social network’s latest population accomplishment, saying that Sony now has an impressive 12 million users signed up for the service worldwide. Why was Sony broadcasting that particular figure at GDC?


December 11, 2009
News

PlayStation Home Director Wants “Mini-MMOs” On The Service

Having been presented for its first year of public existence as a social platform, PlayStation Home is about to be pushed in a new way: As a social gaming platform.


December 31, 2008
Uncategorized

Home Could Remain in Beta Indefinitely

Jack Buser, director of Home, was kind enough to join us for this podcast.


December 10, 2008
Uncategorized

Sony: Home Very Imminent, This Month Imminent, But Open Beta First

Home will indeed hit a 2008 launch, it’s most recent launch date, but only after going through an open beta, Home director Jack Buser told me in a recent interview.