Welcome back to your all-points BOLO bulletin wherein I give you, the beautiful people of the PlayStation Home community, a head’s up on what to keep your eyes open for in our next publishing update. This Thursday, you’ll see that we decided to start the 4th of July festivities a few days early – and with a serious bang – by shooting some truly explosive content your way.
Up first is the electrifying inFAMOUS game space: The Abandoned Docks of Empire City. This awesome space supports the next level of UGC (User-Generated Content) on the Home platform with its Graffiti Wall mini-game. Here, you can use our graffiti tools to design your own unique art to display to your friends. There’s also a voting feature so that you can give props to the creators of your favorite designs, and a feature that allows you to share your masterworks and check out your friends’ latest and greatest creations – be it simple scribbles or extravagant frescos.
The Abandoned Docks of Empire City also marks a first for Home in that it will broadcast exclusive media developed by Sucker Punch, specifically for the hardcore inFAMOUS fans. And to top it all off, we also managed to squeeze an extra mini-game into the space – a scrolling shooter-type button-masher called Reaper Shock that lets the community compete for high scores on the built-in global leaderboard (and rewards the most highly skilled with some rad reward items to decorate your avatar and your personal space with). For a full walk-through on the new space, check out the story on IGN.
In other news: Ubisoft continues to deliver by patching their hit title Far Cry 2 to support game launching in Home. So be sure to visit the Far Cry 2 space to meet up with new people to launch into the multiplayer version of this groundbreaking FPS, and keep your eye on the official PlayStation Home Clubs and Events forums at PlayStation.com for more details about the special Far Cry 2 game-launching events we have planned for later this week.
Those of you that participated in the epic Hamsters vs. Humans battle a few weekends back will be rewarded with your free aviator helmets (for the guys) and fedoras (for the girls) for doing your part in helping keep Home pro-Human…for the time being at least. We’ll also be making available some limited Independence Day-themed goods, some basketball and hockey gear for you sports fanatics, free G-Force shirts, and assorted other apparel. So be sure to check out the Mall for updates to our stores come Thursday morning.
On top of all this, we’ve managed to work out a few pesky bugs that you have reported to us over at the official PlayStation Home Support sub-forum at PlayStation.com. You’ll notice that your Ghostbusters Firehouse and Loot Sound Stage personal spaces can now support Picture Frames (and that the latter has been patched for voice chat capabilities). As always, we thank you for your patience while we work to optimize your Home experience and encourage you to continue to report any bugs to us using the aforementioned Support sub-forum.
See you all in Home!
Awesome update Locust! Thanks a bunch! :D
Great post!
Great post! :D
Can we get some news on a TRINE release please???
Wow. Keep raising the bar. Really looking forward to this update. And this is just Home! We don’t even know what is to come from the PSN Store.
“for doing your part in helping keep Home pro-Human”
I was afraid that everyone would get the items even if they didn’t participate. Boy, am I glad I showed up for an entire hour hehe.
As far as the “broadcast exclusive media developed by Sucker Punch”, is that a hint at some possible DLC on in the future?
*crosses fingers and toes*
:O
There were prizes for being in the Humans vs. Hamsters Dance off!?
Now i wish i had participated >.<
this keep busy before i get blazblue thought the mail this a great update next fight night game space
Home is looking good!! still need in game music. please with sugar on top! :)
Hmmm infamous space, i’m not much into home but i’ll have to check that out.
Where is the Buzz space !?
Sounds pretty fresh to me!
HAPPY CANADA DAY! To all the awsome Canadians out there!
Killzone game launching? lol
really, can this features just come on release or atleast a week after. Not 8 MONTHS AFTER!
Who cares at that point? who have already made all the friends u would need for that game by then.
Come on, you can do it….why you dnt is beyond me. No pun
Resident Evil was PERFECT!
I know its a beta blah blah, when will the beta end?… I thought so
Wouldn’t it be cool for these space to come BEFORE the game is released.
That seems like the common sense thing to do
Enough complaining. STEP UR GAME UP!
Anything with inFamous is a win. I cannot wait to check this Home Space out
I would just like to point out that these games home space should be release when the game is release and not a month after.
can’t wait for the new outfit that coming
Not too bad. Impressive. Can’t wait to see it. I picked up inFAMOUS after the last blog post on how quickly it sold. Awesome game.
Very nice.
Thanks for the heads up Locust_Star.
An early Happy July 4th to the people in the US.
As well, Happy Canada Day (July 1st) to any other Canadian reading the blog.
i might actually play home again XD
GREAT! more spaces more clothes.
and there are a lot of people who complain about NA Home…
Why don’t men get Fedoras as well? I went to that event for the sole purpose of getting a Fedora for my male avatar.
So lame I can’t rock the Johnny Depp gangster look because Home has to be sexist (no EA Poker bracelets for females still, now this) about items that could be unisex.
Male fedoras will be released at a later time(but they won\’t be reward items).