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Home Beta Update Shows Media And Events Space Areas

Linkin Park Fan | May 25, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 
Are you jealous of all the people who get to go to E3? or the Tokyo Game Show? Well in the new update of the Home Beta it opened up a whole new area. It was a media and event space so you can attend stuff like that, from Home! It was only showed of for a brief period of time, but it shows that Sony is really adding some clever stuff.
The Home Beta was recently updated to version 0.8.6. The update contained a Media and Events Space that was only available for a limited time.

Though nothing other than several stylish rooms were available to beta testers the day the area was open, we've heard that upon the launch of Home, Sony will use the space to showcase events such as PlayStation Day and host live presentations.

According to Scrawl, a survey coincided with the reveal of the Media and Events Space that inquired about the space's presentation area, media in the gallery, what kind of content you'd want to see to make your next visit more compelling and so on.

It's certainly a sound idea -- Home is the perfect area for community interaction. Perhaps a year from now we'll be reporting on a presentation given within Home. Until that day though, stay tuned to PSU for all things Home.

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    Red 9 | May 25, 2008
    Now THAT is clever. Kudos to Sony.
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    Zero and X | May 25, 2008
    Wow, attend E3 from home? Thats some cool shit.
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      Red 9 | May 25, 2008
      This could really revolutionise the game convention scene. Now they can still show off their stuff to the masses while keeping the physical E3 smaller.
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    Silver Mirror | May 25, 2008
    I remember they said they were planning this before, glad to see there sticking to it.
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    Final Blade | May 25, 2008
    And people say Sony hasn't gotten off their ass and doing something, come on now this is pure genius.
    I can't wait to get the beta.
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    tallteen86 | May 25, 2008
    Errmmmm, yeah, I was hoping they'd do something like this. I mentioned it ages ago, when I first learned about home, really. Not surprised they're doing it. I even said they could always charge a small entry fee in PS Store dollars....

    I'm sure they'll do mini-events inside custom developer HOMEs as well....
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    iLLmatic | May 26, 2008
    I wouldn't say this is "clever," its really just taking advantage of their own outlet(s). It would be clever if it surprised everyone, but this is just an obviously smart thing to do.

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