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PlayStation Home Redesign Fuels New Era for the Social Game Platform
FOSTER CITY, Calif., Nov. 2, in the year of our Lord
2011 -- Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA)
today announced that the redesigned PlayStation®Home will be
available beginning tomorrow, November 3, 2011, exclusively on
PlayStation®Network for the PlayStation®3 (PS3™) system for
users throughout the US and Canada. The PlayStation Home
redesign includes a new core experience that features
genre-based districts as well as a wide variety of exclusive
games that cater to each player's interests, style and game
preference.
The PlayStation Home redesign will launch with a number of
free-to-play game titles, based upon a freemium business model,
including:
· PlayStation Home Sports Trivia: Test your sports expertise
against the PlayStation Home community and unlock a series of
themed rewards in this massive sports trivia game, found in the
Sportswalk. Packed with over 10,000 trivia questions, this game
will challenge the memories of even the most die-hard sports
fans.
· RC Rally: Build and customize your own remote controlled car
and race against friends over multiple courses, performing
stunts and tricks and unlocking numerous upgrades along the way.
This fast-paced PlayStation Home original game can be found in
the new Pier Park.
· Cogs: A 3D version of Lazy 8 Studios award-winning Steampunk
puzzle game, Cogs can be found front-and-center in PlayStation
Home's new Hub. Build a variety of machines from sliding tiles
and unlock exclusive PlayStation Home rewards in this
highly-addictive puzzler.
"This is a major milestone for PlayStation Network, and we are
thrilled to bring a new core experience to PlayStation Home
where games are front and center," said Jack Buser, director of
PlayStation Home, SCEA. "Home's community is made up of some of
the most passionate gamers on PS3, and we've listened to their
feedback since Home launched in 2008, finally transforming Home
itself into a game. This redesign marks a new beginning for
PlayStation Home, and players can expect much more to come."
Key features that were unveiled at the announcement of the
redesign included an all-new futuristic Hub that brings games
directly to players with a featured game front-and-center upon
login and integrates an Activity Board that features a robust
questing system, community events and user-generated content.
The Hub will also offer additional navigation, shopping,
socializing and entertainment options. From the Hub, players can
teleport to different genre-based districts and spaces
including:
· Sportswalk: The Sportswalk has an exciting outside-the-stadium
feel with instant major league sports scores, headlines and
highlights and sports-themed games.
· Pier Park: A waterfront boardwalk leads players to carnival,
puzzle, outdoor and arcade games. Take a ride on the Pier Park
Ferris wheel or visit the arcade for more games.
· PlayStation Home Theater: The PlayStation Home Theater
features an ultra-modern architectural design and hosts a wide
range of videos programmed specifically for PlayStation gamers,
including episodes of Pulse and Qore, trailers and interviews
from the PlayStation Blog, and exclusive user-generated videos
in the popular Community Theater.
· PlayStation Home Mall: The PlayStation Home Mall is loaded
with thousands of pieces of content from some of the most
popular games and entertainment in the world. Shop for
PlayStation Home games, extravagant personal spaces, costumes,
clothing items and other avatar enhancements, and tons more in
the redesigned Mall.
PlayStation Home has developed beyond a social network into a
true social game platform:
· PlayStation Home has been a destination for over 24 million
users worldwide. (WW)
· The average time spent in the Home platform is 70 minutes per
session (SCEA)
· Over 230 games ready-to-play (SCEA)
· Over 10,000 virtual items (SCEA)
· Over 70 spaces (SCEA)
· Over 800 community events (SCEA)
· Over 35 partners (SCEA)
For additional information about PlayStation Home's new core
experience, please visit:
http://us.playstation.com/psn/playstation-home/.