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Finally: PlayStation Home launching Open Beta tomorrow

Posted Dec 10, 2008 at 2:47AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3 Tags: Playstation Home, Sony

Today, we're kicking off with the best news I've heard in a while. Sony is finally launching the Open Beta of PlayStation Home tomorrow! Yay-ness!

Sony has a lot of things planned for Home, for oldies and newcomers alike. The Central Plaza has been redesigned and now includes a new four-player mini-game called "Saucer Pop." They also have a bunch of events lined up, like parties and tournaments. Some will be announced, and some won't. Why wait for their signal though? Have a dance-off, go start a conga line!

A lot of big brand names are on board with Home so you can expect to see it expand real fast too. Speaking of which, here's a vid of the tropical island Red Bull set up:

Thanks to tipsters Xis, Switching Power, SOOPERGOOMAN187, and Mentality!

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i'm betting the servers will crash once they go live due to all the sudden influx of users. it happened to LBP, it can to home. more so for home because it's free and downloadable by just about everyone with a ps3.

but anyways. yeessssss! that's great news! looking forward to tomorrow! does anyone know what time it's going live? ^_^

# Wait... — RommelTJ 2008-12-10 06:52

You have an office?

# Well.. — FatTrousers 2008-12-10 06:56

I'd imagine it'll be available to download as soon as they do the usual PS Store update.

# office? — trigger 2008-12-10 07:11

of course they have an office. what'd you expect?

i picture a secret moon base. XD

# They say — Xis 2008-12-10 07:32

It will just appear next time you boot up your PS3 and thers goin to be alot of new content for us Closed testers it has new clothes and furnature and also finally reopen gamespaces. The thing is when you will have to redownlpad the central plaza and also they been stress testing the servers with succuss for the past 2 weeks to handle mass usage now 15 mill ppl is a question though

# Heh — Darkthunder90 2008-12-10 07:45

You've just been saving that haven't you?

# @Xis — FatTrousers 2008-12-10 07:50

True, i read all that on the EU Press centre, i meant it'd be available at the same time they did the store update

# Well — RommelTJ 2008-12-10 07:56

You don't really need an office for blogging, and I thought this was an informal gig.

Well then, how do I apply? ;)

# hmmm... — frank_the_bunny 2008-12-10 08:02

i doubt it, they have a ton of people on it at the moment in the private beta and it is fine, so it should be okay :)

# ... — Justingraziano 2008-12-10 08:39

Holy cat without a kitten! This is almost as good as John Yantis being killed in the most brutal way immaginable. Almost as good.

# heh — anhero 2008-12-10 08:41

don't worry, I think everything's alright for them considering they have so many AAA titles to choose from to play with their friend in the most consistent and best online videogame console server. But I have a PS3 so I guess I'll have to keep playing my fairly good games since I won't waste my time on a virtual life...

# Blarg — Covet 2008-12-10 10:01

I wouldnt be surprised to see the headline "Home has been pushed back a week" tomorrow

# Nah... — RexNox 2008-12-10 10:14

Sony's firing enough people to go digital. Between those firings and whatever deal they have with Google...I'm sure there's plenty of money left for Home.

# FLAME ME!!!!!!! — melty3219 2008-12-10 10:48

Nice sony copied "the sims" but added a lame name to it, yeh dats a good way to reel in the sales -.-

Yes i am a fanboi hold the flames pls okay not really flame ahead!

# 1ST :D — melty3219 2008-12-10 10:53

FIRST!!!!

# oh noez! — DiscoStew592 2008-12-10 11:59

Mine did the same thing last year! My friends also did a while ago! I hope the new RRoD isn't the UBDoD! (Unresponsive Blu-ray Drive of Death)

# ! — Matt-N 2008-12-10 12:17

LOL

# There won't be as many people as you think on it. — ValiX 2008-12-10 16:39

Remember that Sony said a week or two ago that in order to use Home (post-beta) you must be 16+

For the Closed/Open beta's you must be 18+

# is it a midnight thing? — naotarou 2008-12-10 17:20

Will they make it available at midnight? Not to sound weird but it's 12:20 am here and nothing new. When do they do it? Or do their updates normally appear at random times.

# ... — blkthunda 2008-12-10 17:37

anhero, those AAA titles you're talking about. Are they those shooters??

# ... — Justingraziano 2008-12-10 17:46

dont give a *****, will still use it and im not 18. and i hope Sony is reading this, if they give me any problems i'll just make a few new accounts with different birthdays and waste there server space. how u like that

Sony, or should i say Ageistny.

# Age — blazekingeking 2008-12-10 18:00

It's 13+ for Open Beta

# wish they Would have told us a Time.. — zzk2001 2008-12-10 18:56

Well i am only To happy to Get my hands on HOME but as i watch the Clock tick by past 12am on this Thursday Dec/11/2008 I still do not see HOME open beta =(

I guess I'll just fall asleep and Hope it will be out by the time I wake up.

# ^^^ i agree — Defektedtoy 2008-12-10 23:34

5:33am and no sign of home yet.

Guess i will have to wait till after work to check this out, all for the better i suppose.

# :S — crtbbc111 2008-12-10 23:44

i have a feeling nothing is coming today !!!!!

# . — marcosatti1 2008-12-11 00:56

It launches at 7am EST... By my watch, it launches at 9pm in Oz, so 4 min to go.

# . — Ron Overdrive 2008-12-11 02:07

Its 8am EST now and still no signs of Home.

# I cannot handle this wait!!!! — DannyDanger 2008-12-11 02:10

I keep checking the PS Store. The anticipation is killing me.

# oh crapp... — ThaLegendKilla 2008-12-11 02:28

too bad my ps3 is @ sony coz of YLOD right now...

# Server Down? — suzumeyeah 2008-12-11 02:38

I managed to download the v1.03 update 4 hours ago from the Japan server, but haven't been able to log in since downloading it. More recently, it gets stuck on the page that says don't turn the ps3 off while its saving.

# ? — naotarou 2008-12-11 02:50

were u a closed beta tester?

# cmon — Steven Breuls 2008-12-11 03:38

I CANT WAIT,

this is a message to sony

RELEASE HOME

xd i'm going crazy

# wow — Binary 2008-12-11 05:36

they finally getting off their lazy ass's and finished home?

# PSN down... — Musachi 2008-12-11 06:38

This might mean they're adding it....

It's nearly 6PM here in the UK & he said early PM which means early evening in Sony slang....

C'mon!!! WE WANT HOME!!!!

# comment — god0fgod 2008-12-11 07:21

You'll probably be disappointed. You can't do much.

# LOL — Xis 2008-12-11 07:34

Attention Whore FAIL!

# home beta is live. — norm851 2008-12-11 10:06

cut i keep getting error C-991

connection to server was lost.

ive never even logged in,

was all happy to download teh 77MB for home

and save just under 4gb for the program to use.

but now i would like to actually PLAY!!!!!

# yes — dragonracer900 2008-12-11 10:35

many have the error, so do i

just hold on, they will fix it soon

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