Saturday, 4 June 2011

Home Weekly - The Return of PlayStation Home

Hello to everyone and welcome to Home Weekly, bringing you the latest news and updates.

Now, since the PlayStation Network is finally fully operational and running at full speed, it seems that SCE have been hard at work delivering the latest batch of content to Home users.

The first update that is noticeable is that Sodium TankTop has now been removed from the center of Home Square. The minigame is now only available as part of the Blaster's Paradise personal space, which can be purchased from either Estates or Lockwood, in the Shopping Centre for £3.99 in the UK and $4.99 in the US. In it's place now stands an exclusive minigame courtesy of SEGA Europe. The free-to-play Virtua Tennis 4 inspired Baseline Battle allows players to take on a team of robots on the tennis court, whilst using skills to try and amount the highest score possible to be in with a chance of winning a Baseline Battle personal space in July.


Another new release is that of the White Knight Chronicles event space. Containing information on both of the new titles, White Knight Chronicles II for PS3 and White Knight Chronicles: Origins for PSP as well as information about the original White Knight Chronicles. The space also displays some of the artwork for the two new games as well as having a quiz, which has the winning prize of an avatar Dragon Knight costume.

As well as all of that, the Stores have received many new and wonderful items. Beginning with the latest content from Konami. The first set of items are part of a Saw II: Flesh and Blood costume set, which allow users to dress up as Billy the Puppet, a well know figure from the series. All of the Saw II clothing items are available from Alter Ego. The second set of items is that of animated clothes which are based around DanceDanceRevolution, all of which are available from Threads.



Following on from that there has also been the Royal King and Queen bundles created, both of which can be found in Alter Ego and both tie in which the recent royal wedding.

The development team behind Space Ace also appear to have been busy recently, having created all matter of items to tie in with the game's release. Digital Leisure have created costumes so users can looks like either Borf, Ace or Kimberly as well as personal space items which relate to the game. All of these items can be found throughout various stores.

And finally as part of the new content update, Heavy Water have released a new set of seven tribal tattoos, which can be purchased from Threads.

Here is the relevant articles relating to this week's content update:
Baseline Battle, White Knight Chronicles and More - James Gallagher - EU Blog
PlayStation Home Update - Locust_Star - US Blog
Heavy Water - Heavy Ink Tattoos

So, that is the last of this week's blog posts and all for this Home Weekly. I am of course randomthings and thank you very much for reading. Have a great rest of the weekend and I'll be back Monday.

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