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Kazuma Kojo's new studio, Granzella, is hard at work on multiple projects according to Siliconera

The creative designer behind Steambot Chronicles and Disaster Report left Irem earlier in the year, citing a disconnect between fan expectations and management demands. To emphasise PlayStation Home's transformation into a social gaming platform, Kojo's confirmed that he's started work on a new game..

As PlayStation Home continues to grow, Sony's announced that the virtual world has been experiencing record traffic over the past week

Of course, this is surprising because it comes on the back of the PlayStation Network outage. “We’re having record traffic in Home. The week we restored the service, we hit a new record in terms of weekly unique users,” PlayStation Home director Jack Buser told..

Well this is pretty neat: Sony's confirmed plans to stream its E3 keynote inside PlayStation Home

The action kicks off at 17:00PT on June 6th. In addition, similarly to last year, Sony will also be recreating its E3 booth within PlayStation Home. The virtual space — which will open at 12:00PT on June 7th — will allow players to take a tour of Sony's E3 booth and unlock exclusive content in the..

Sony's confirmed that PlayStation Home will be updated to version 1

50 today. The update, which was announced at GDC, enhances Home's engine to aid developers in creating high-performance games for the virtual world. The big example of Home 1.50's new features, SodiumTwo, is not quite ready yet, but Sony is releasing a new Sodium themed personal space to celebrate. We actually got our hands on..

If you wanted to turn your PlayStation Move controller into a plastic representation of a tennis racket, then SEGA's got your back

Posting on the PlayStation Blog, veteran SEGA executive producer, Mie Kumagai, has revealed a bunch of exclusive features for the PlayStation 3 version of the upcoming Virtua Tennis 4. So ok, the tennis rackets look terribly tacky, but the other features are pretty..

nDreams is launching its official PlayStation Home headquarters in Sony's digital world this week, revealing the fantastical floating land of Aurora

The world is packed with mini-games and secret bonus rewards to unlock. It also looks stunning. In addition to the Aurora island, Sony's announced a bunch of other goodies that are launching in Home this week. There's a bunch of tennis outfits to..

Given the financial success of PlayStation Home, we think it would be a glaring oversight to not bring a similarly social experience to the NGP

Thankfully Sony is looking into the idea according to a report in the latest issue of Famitsu. Reporting on the upcoming major Home update, Famitsu mentions that Sony is considering some method of connectivity, though the publication does extend on the..

Sony's virtual world, PlayStation Home, could be getting a fresh lick of paint in the near future

That's according to some leaked concept art picked up by FourPlayerCoOp.com. The new screens demonstrate a cleaner, web 2.0 Home plaza, with a bigger emphasis on gaming made possible through the service's latest update. The art was apparently sent out as part of an SCE feedback survey. The Home plaza..

As part of GDC this week, Sony took to the stage to announce a new milestone update for PlayStation Home

Version 1.50 brings with it a suite of new technology that's set to bring Sony's virtal home closer to the reality we've been dreaming of for some time — a real gaming portal. At present the best experience you can have in Home is by navigating the Midway carnival, Sodium and Novus Prime..

While the headline is certain to smack of desperation to those that took one look at PlayStation Home in its infancy and vowed never to return, we'd encourage PS3 owners to take another look at Sony's virtual world too

Just to clarify: we don't have any financial ties to Home. The thing is, it really has improved. Speaking with Develop, PlayStation Home's platform director, Peter Edward, has said..

We know you're still going to crawl back into your uninformed corner of the Internet and complain about how PlayStation Home is all about waiting in a line to play a game of pool, but that's just not the case anymore

PlayStation Home is awesome. It might not be your particular flavour of herbal tea, but we love the direction Sony's taking with the virtual world. Take this week's update: in North..

We've said it once, we'll say it again, and we'll continue to champion it until it sinks in: PlayStation Home is starting to get really, really exciting

It feels like Home's finally beginning to reach the potential it always aspired to. Spaces like Sodium One are what we won us over, so it's exciting to see more games implemented into Home's overworld. Due this week in the US is Jet Set Games' neat..

Unfortunately, most users who've visited PlayStation Home did so in the service's first month or so online

The original app was admittedly barren, and it's proving a challenge for Sony to convince users to give it another go. On the social network's second birthday, Sony's released an infographic detailing the service's growth. Most importantly, the infographic details the service's growth in..

PlayStation Home has been getting awesome behind the scenes for a while

Today Sony's launched a new client for the virtual world which brings with it new wardrobe support, voice chat and new character status settings. Are you happy, angry or sad? Now you'll be able to tell the world — or at least the small portion of the world using Home. Naturally the client fixes a bunch of bugs too, all of..

We love the big PlayStation Home updates

Mainly because Sony appears to finally be achieving their ambition with regards to the virtual world. And that's meta-games. Dragon's Green is the latest big game to be added to PlayStation Home. It's a mini-golf game with a fantasy twist, and it looks rather exciting. You'll need a ticket to get access to the full nine-hole course, but Sony's offering..

Let your virtual you have a look

There are already some pretty oddball ways to interact in PlayStation Home, but dressing up as a PlayStation Move controller to take part in team tasks probably takes the biscuit. Move's dedicated space opened up in PlayStation Home this week, letting you learn more about the peripheral through your PS3 – though,...

One of the big new additions to PlayStation Home is Oscar's Lobster Mania - a target-practice game that challenges you to toss lobsters into the mouth of a greedy mechanical dummy

The whole thing's a showpiece for how PlayStation Home's developed as a platform; not only does it look great, but it actually plays fairly well too.The contraption's located in Home's Shopping Centre space. It's set to..

You know what we've always thought PlayStation Home lacked: lobsters

Nah, not really, but now that we mention it... Thank goodness for this week's PlayStation Home update then (as detailed on the PlayStation Blog). From tomorrow, the service is set to introduce a new mini-game called "Oscar's Lobster Mania". You'll find the crustacean-based target practice game in the Shopping Centre..

As far as weekly PlayStation updates go, they don't get much better than this week's Home update

As previously reported, the new PlayStation Move events space within Home will allow you to dress up as a glowing wand. The outfits free to those who visit the Home Presentation Podium. Subsequently, those who wear the costume will gain access to a team-based game in which the reward is coloured..