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New HOME Info Revealed!

July 11, 2007 in News comments 6

Sony has been talking a lot about HOME during their E3 conference today. One of the more interesting details that has been announced is that users playing HOME will be able to boot up any game on their HDD or in their PS3 and go straight to online multiplayer. This includes skipping title screens and legal notices and getting right into the game within seconds. It is currently unknown whether the people you're hanging out with in HOME will be the same people you match up with online using this feature.

As part of Sony's E3 2007 conference, the company announced at last that HOME will allow users to boot into any game on your PlayStation 3 (on disc or on HDD) and play multiplayer games with others. HOME is Sony's online virtual world, where users create a 3D avatar and interact with other Sony gamers to chat, trade media, and play games.

In demonstration, it was not clear if the users that you meet in your realm of HOME are also the gamers you will end up playing with, but the demo did show that HOME will boot games directly to the multiplayer mode. Skipping all of the legal notices and title screens, the game started right up and, within seconds, players were jumping into the game and playing online. According to Sony, this should be a standard feature in online-enabled PS3 games.

We'll be testing out HOME's many features as soon, so check back for more info.
Warsun via ps3.ign.com »
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    Sayyed Jul 11, 07
    Feakin' sweet. I just finished the watching the press conference. They showed gameplay of Killzone 2.
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    Enhance Jul 11, 07
    I was getting pretty excited after reading the title and the first few sentences but then that last one just killed it. The only difference this feature makes is that it skips the title and legal screens. If your not going to actually be able to be matched up with your friends that you were with in HOME then I don't see any point to not just load the game yourself.
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      Warsun Jul 11, 07
      Besides the speed of getting into the game there wouldn't be much point, you're right. Hopefully you will be able to match up with your friends while chilling out in your 'Home'. That would definitely make for a cooler match-making feature than what Xbox Live has.
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    Storm Jul 11, 07
    It was pretty neat how they opened up with this. Didn't they say something about a new Home, Home squared? I think that'll bring more features that we were expecting.
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    Bale Fire* Jul 11, 07
    If you can link up with your friends that would be cool
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    Final Blade Jul 11, 07
    This is awesome playing your game without titles and stuff. How can anyone not like this. This is still early so we might be able to play with our friends.

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