The UNCHARTED 2 adventure continues this week, as the celebrated franchise expands further into the wide world of PlayStation Home with the release of the new UNCHARTED 2 personal space. Situated in the heart of Pokhara, this dazzling personal space harkens back to the action-packed scenes of Naughty Dog’s award-winning title, where Nathan Drake and Co. battle it out with Lazarevic’s henchmen in the war-torn streets of Nepal. A true must-have addition to your UNCHARTED collection, this personal space will be available this Thursday, May 6th in the Estates store in the PlayStation Home Mall. Like they always say, a picture may be worth a thousand words, but a video is worth a million pictures, so check out this video we’ve made for you that shows off this exciting new space.
To celebrate the release of the first ever DLC for what is inarguably one of the biggest titles of the current generation — Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 — the Community Management team will be in the Gamer’s Lounge this Friday, May 7th at 4:00pm PT (7:00pm ET) to launch into the new multiplayer maps of the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package. You make the call as to whether you want to jump into the Bailout, Salvage, Storm, Crash, or Overgrown maps — just let us know when the time comes to set up the multiplayer session. More details, including host accounts, will be posted in our Message of the Day prior to the event start time this Friday.
Also coming this week into the ever-growing PlayStation Home universe (which is currently expanding at the rate of your average supernova) are special items from the upcoming remake of the classic martial arts film The Karate Kid. Available from the LOOT store in the PlayStation Home Mall, these hot new items are essential for fans of the classic film that are anxiously awaiting the June 11th release of this highly-anticipated remake. Be sure to grab yours first thing Thursday morning.
Those of you that, like me, obsessively collect each and every unlockable reward from your favorite PS3 and PSN games in PlayStation Home will be stoked to learn that Rockstar’s upcoming sandbox-style western game Red Dead Redemption (available for the PS3 on May 18th) will unlock exclusive outfits for your avatar upon reaching in-game milestones. We don’t want to spill any beans concerning the plot of this sure-to-be-hit title, so we’re not going to tell you how to earn these rewards just yet but trust me when I say that, if you love Red Dead Redemption, PlayStation Home is the place to be when you are looking for people to challenge to a good ol’ fashioned Mexican standoff in the 16-player max multiplayer.
In other news, Sodium is getting yet another update this week. Be sure to keep an eye out for Vendy – the artificially intelligent vending machine-bot conveniently placed in the Sodium Hub to provide all you scorpion stompers with Vetoxade, the anti-venom needed to stomp the fiendish blue scorpions.
Finally, we want to alert you to a pretty awesome event in which PlayStation Home will play a pivotal role. As the excitement builds for the highly-anticipated release of METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER for the PSP, Konami, Best Buy, and Sony Online Entertainment will feed the frenzy by hosting a code-collecting contest that begins the month before the game’s launch. The CODE HUNT will have contestants 18 and older in the United States scouring locations for elusive Peace Walker codes, each of which gets them closer and closer to the grand prize. Hint: Hunters that visit PlayStation Home should keep their eyes peeled. The contest begins today, May 5th and will end just in time for the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker release on June 8th. Join the hunt now at http://www.konami.com/mgscodehunt and win big (official rules can be found at http://www.konami/user/rules)!
See you in Home!
The PS3 and home are not perfect . There are however two types of people within the community .
1. Those who complain too much to have fun .
2 Those who have too much fun to complain .
I’m glad that I’am one of the latter . If that makes me Deluded…. Well then …. COME HITHER YOU SWEET , SWEET DELUSION AND LET ME EMBRACE YOU TIGHTER !!!!! I dont know what i would do if I allowed flaws to turn me into a miserable , whiny , IMP .
Since questions are getting answered here maybe you can tell us when Tecmo Bowl Throwback is coming to the PSN. No one wants to answer that question. Your buddies at Microsoft released it last week.
i try so often to use home and hope i can find something that will amuse me or keep me entertained, but every time i go in there, theres nothing to do. HOME IS BORING. that place is only good for selling digital clothing, which is not a fun thing.
i have tried so hard to play home. however, the lag is too much for me to handle, and with a lack of any real purpose to it i don’t care about home anymore.
what kind of red dead items are there. I need to get that game now.
Plus modnation racers and 3D dot heros.
I hate the fact that you sold us these Map Packs a force us to play these Dumb@$$ Campers paridise games … why are you punishing loyal subscribers who continue to spend money with you and force us into Demolition and Capture the flag games when all we want is some good old fashioned team deathmatch!!! Screw these other games and the camping idiots who play them !!! and screw you if you aren’t going to do something about this crap!!! I’m sick of cheaters and Im sick of you not doing anything to satisfy those who have been loyal to you !!!
WHY ARE WE GETTING SHAFTED ON STAR WARS COSTUMES I WANT BOBA FETT AND JANGO COSTUMES AND NOT 1 PIECE BS EATHER TWO PICE COSTUMES WITH SEPRATE GLOVES AND BOOTS
Are they going to be optimizing Home’s loading times in a title update again anytime soon. Because I know the lack of integration with the XMB and the speed is one of the main things keeping me out. And the fact that it is so hard to make my Avatar look like myself. Is there an upcoming PSEYE integration where i could take a picture of my face and have my Home avatar have similar features?
Once I realized that we’re probably never going to get any of the media sharing (besides pic frames) abilities, proper game launching (for more than like 10 games) and trophy integration, I gave up on Home. It’s too bad because I actually thought Home had a lot of potential and I actually spent real money in Home on items and spaces like these.
Home is moving in the wrong direction to appeal to me. Although the personal spaces and items are cool, what really appealed to me was the fact that we would be able to share media, launch into multiplayer game lobbies and more PSN integration such as a trophy room. But since they seem to just be focusing on personal spaces and items (and in-Home games like Sodium), Home no longer appeals to me.
But I know Home does appeal to a lot of people, that’s just my opinion about Home and why it no longer appeals to me, so even though I no longer enjoy Home, I hope others do.
“Red Dead Redemption (available for the PS3 on May 18th) will unlock exclusive outfits for your avatar upon reaching in-game milestones.”
This is NOT an outfit for your Playstation Home avatar folks…Only for an in game outfit that increases your shooting skill….
You are mistaken, my friend. These are items that will unlock in-world for your Home avatar.