Home-Yuuuuuuuken!!

This is cool. I wonder if they'll add some Shoryuken or Bird-Kick animations to the repertoire of dance moves.

Why are Ryu and Ken so pasty though? The Resident Evil 5 theme area looks cool too..

EA Sports invades HOME

Well between this and today's release of the Red Bull sponsored area it looks like HOME might actually be worth a visit this week. The video for the upcoming EA "sports park" looks really promising to me. I wonder what HOME'll be like in a year?

Red Bull's Air Race Island after the jump.


This is cool, but I just wanna go to the docks that I can see outside my balcony window!

All things Home

IGN has an excellent article up explaining the difference between the three main versions of Home - UK, Japan and USA. I like it because it gives you a good idea of what its really like. Of course they forgot to mention that the most fun thing to do in Home is the Body Pop in front of the people playing chess at the mall. Enjoy the read:
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/940/940564p1.html

Home Update... Human downgrade.

As many of you may know Home had an interesting update for users on Thursday (12/18). The good news is that they expanded the facial hair category offering up a bevy of beards! The bad news (or good depending on your experience) is that the voice chat has been indefinitely removed presumably because of the more colorful language used by some of its users. I think this points to a bigger problem with these online gaming communities/experiences... the lack of respect. More after the jump.

I´ve seen this in almost every form of online interaction (involving my game console) that I´ve had. Just play a little Halo and Im willing to bet you´ll hear a whole lot of the ¨n¨ word among other racial slurs. When I first tried out the online play for Soul Caliber, I was matched up against a bright young fellow with the creative gamertag ¨SniperAddict666.¨ I whooped his monkey ass, which prompted him to send me a message in which he referred to me as a ¨dirty cheatin´ jew wetback n*****.¨ I was surprised at how I reacted to this. Mainly because I wasn't offended, rather disappointed. Maybe I´m reading to much into this, but I just don´t like where this mentality is headed. ¨Since you cant actually get to me, I can say whatever I want w/o consequence.¨And No, I don´t consider getting banned as a proper form of punishment because it doesnt change the fact that these gamers lack respect. What say you?

So.... Home is kinda boring.

My thoughts on Home (if the title didnt give it away) after the jump!

So after downllading, installing and spending HOURS to finally connect I ended up slightly underwhelmed. The avatar creator appears to be robust but is actually kinda restricted. Basically, I wasnt able to get my guy to look like me. I walked around the Central Plaza, the Mall, Uncharted themed space "Sully's Bar," and of course my apartment. If it wasnt for the awesome view out my balcony I might never return.
Home looks great. For the most part, it seemed like the hundreds of people I ran into were having fun and I had a blast having a dance-off with Rogelio (the running man is by far my favorite).

Observations:
1)There is an extreme dearth of female Home users which was excessivley pointed out by at least 20 users (male) running around saying "Sausage Fest."
2)The chess set up on the 2nd floor of the Mall is cool but I dont think people should have to wait to play. I got lucky, a table opened up 3 minutes after I showed up. I got schooled by some guy named Mullet.
3)$5 for a couch?! I would have completely redecorated my apartment if the accessories were 50c!
4)Unfortunately, communicating is a bit awkward practically necesitating a headset.
5)and lastly, I cant wait to see what Home develops into.

one last note: i couldnt help but laugh when some guy said to everyone around him at the mall "Hey you guys wanna play Gears of War II?! Oh wait..." quickly followed by "Halo 3 is better than everything on PS3." I probably would of laughed harder if I wasnt trying to fight back tears.