Playstation 3 and Playstation 4

Filed under: News

By now you’ve probably heard that PlayStation Home version 1.00 is now live for beta testers. Good for them, maybe, but what about the millions of PS3 owners still Homeless? We know the open beta will be out at some point this year, but we’re not sure when, exactly. In the meantime the closed beta is going to get a lot busier, with over 100,000 European beta invites being sent out. Today.

This is in preparation for a load test that will be taking place tonight. Another larger expansion will be taking place next Thursday, as well as another load test. Version 1.00 is definitely an improvement over previous iterations (having the service full of people definitely makes a difference), with Sony firmly stressing that this is the beginning of the journey, with plenty more updates and additions to come.

Update: The beta will expand in the US as well, as a ton of new invites are being sent to American PS3 users. Please join us on Home when you get a chance!

Update 2: Looks like an e-mail snafu has delayed the European beta expansion. Thousands of e-mails that are awaiting eager users are caught somewhere in the interwebs — which means our European readers won’t be able to get new Home invites for at least a few more days. Sorry. Read more here. [Thanks, brampf!]

100,000+ Home beta invites sent out for load test tonight [Update] originally appeared on PS3 Fanboy on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

[Read more →]

Filed under: News

SCEE has confirmed to Eurogamer that the PS3 controller chatpad add-on will be making its way to European stores before its American release in “early December.” Specificially, Europeans will be able to get their hands on the full qwerty keyboard controller expansion on November 28th for the price of £24.99. No price in Euros has been revealed yet.

A touch pricey, but the chatpad will be very handy for those who prefer to text chat rather than using a headset. Games like LittleBigPlanet can only benefit from it, not to mention the imminent Home open beta. Might be worth grabbing just for that.

Chatpad coming to Europe November 28th originally appeared on PS3 Fanboy on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

[Read more →]

Filed under: News

It’s only been a week since we were told that the European Home beta expansion was pretty close and that the open beta was expected “within weeks,” but now TedTheDog has updated us with some more information regarding the current situation. Don’t panic — it’s all good news. Here’s how the whole situation will play out.

Firstly the version 1.0 patch notes will be made available for those currently in the Home beta. They will be published in the closed beta forums, but don’t be surprised if they spill out of there shortly thereafter. A few days after that version 1.0 will go live. Within a day or so of that invitations will be sent out as the closed beta gets significantly expanded as a load test for the servers. The open beta will begin shortly afterwards (a matter of weeks).

So there we have it. We’ll let you know when any of the above actually happens, as usual. Can you taste it? It’s close. We just hope version 1.0 brings some significant updates to the service like, for example, some actual content. Here’s hoping.

European Home situation update originally appeared on PS3 Fanboy on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

[Read more →]