Home open beta begins tomorrow

It's been a long wait, but we're finally all going Home. SCEE has announced that the service will be available to everyone starting tomorrow. From the looks of it, there'll be no firmware update involved. The Home icon should simply appear under the PSN section of the XMB after a system reboot. As for what content you can expect to see once the open beta begins, there'll be plenty more than in the current closed beta, with more coming soon.

The Far Cry 2 game space will make a return and new content, such as clothing from Diesel, furniture from Ligne Roset and the Red Bull Air Race space will appear. Game spaces for Uncharted, Warhawk and SOCOM will follow "vey soon." Watchmen movie content has also been announced via the press release, including "an exclusive video greeting from Watchmen Director Zack Snyder as well as the latest Watchmen trailer. A selection of virtual Watchmen merchandise e.g. T-Shirts with the smiley face logo, Doomsday clocks and character statues, will also be available in the New Year, ahead of an exclusive Q & A event where cast and filmmakers will meet selected press and competition winners fans within the Watchmen themed environment. "

Check back later for some more information about interesting upcoming Home content which might get you excited about the service all over again.

Reader Comments (82)

Finally...

Home has come home. :]

The content looks awesome.

See you all there!

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JaseH.

i'm in the Closed Beta. Home is wonderfull. but here comes the gate crashing of little 8 year old kids saying " i wanna play COD4 !!!!!!!! " and sounding all whiney ... ugh ... well Closed beta was good while it lasted LOL

SO IS IT OUT NOW? (the beta). I checked my XMB and its not there? i just woke up! i check ps3FB everyday and the day i wake up l8 this is here. and cos my time is wrong i cant tell when this was posted :S, so is it 2morrow or 2day? and/ if today how do i access it????

"Posted Dec 10th 2008 4:45AM by Jem Alexander"

Thursday Dec 11 is tmw

it would be nice if they made the game rooms and the bowling lanes bigger. Its hard enough to even get in a game and once everybody gets in you'll never get to play it.

yes, im cool with the one a time thing, but what 4 lanes?? laaame

"The Home icon should simply appear under the PSN section of the XMB after a system reboot."

wow us beta users had to download it but the Open beta appears Magically on the XMB. Am I really the only one who sees the stupidity of that statement?

That icon will just be the link to download home.

Sweet. I'm in the closed beta and got all of the free stuff. If anybody sees me at Home, come up and say hello.

PSN ID: sd619ca

Tru-blu, just wondering you from San Diego?

The people in the open beta get free stuff for a limited time only.

Awesome!

Well, having only been a PS3 owner for almost a week this is great news for me. I'm still putting in a lot of time with MGS4 and Wipeout, anywho... anyone can give me an add, I always welcome the peeps, tag name is F4WMR

I've got a white japanese PS3 so im a little worried this is not gonna work for me. From whats been reported before about it being the region you got it from the region you go into. It says europe and american beta, so I guess japan is not included and im out of luck. I hope somebody can clear that up*coughPS3fanboycough*

Ooooh...ceramic white console. I wish they'd release that in the U.S. Does it have a flat matte finish like the ceramic white dualshocks?

The downside is that you're probably right (in terms of running into Home problems and connecting to the U.S. version). On the upside, you get to mack on Japanese schoolgirls. =D

All joking aside, this region-specific divisioning is a nuisance. So much for meeting players from all around the world...Can somebody explain to me why this is a business necessity?

Everyone needs to calm down. It's still in beta, mind you, so it's not going to be perfect. I'm very excited to finally see this in motion but I'm not expecting a finished product, and neither should any of you.

Thank you for trying to bring some sanity to a world gone mad...

They only mentioned Sony Europe. Does this mean that the American version will launch tomorrow as well or do we still have to wait?

HOME was cool for a little while, I'm in the beta now. But now all the assholes and dumbasses are out in full force and it's just annoying.
I might try it again later, but honestly, dancing for 2 hours is not cool.

Plus, tsk tsk ps3fanboy, I'd read this three times before you posted it.

Is the TIME just after 00:01 thursday?

who knew home is boring thanks for nothing

Regarding all this Watchmen stuff: Is this just Europe, like the trailer in the beta, or can those of us in the US enjoy it too? And we need more info on this Watchmen competition you speak of that will get us into a Q&A. I am sure there are plenty of us Watchmen die hard fans that have quite a few questions for Mr. Snyder.

But purely discussing Home, I am in the beta and have managed to vist the Homes of all the different regions via my many accounts. So, having a special edition ceramic white Japanese region PS3 shouldn't matter as my PS3 is US, but my Japanese account allowed me into the Japanese home, my EU account allowed me into the EU Home, and so on.

There's... no FW update or download required? How the? That either means all the content is streamed (no way in hell), or that Sony snuck most of the data into the OS in a previous update, which'd be odd since someone would have probably noticed the FW updates got bigger.

when i downloaded home for the first time the download messured 73 mgb i think when i opend it it sayed that i needed to have 200mgb dedicated to home then i downloaded all the spaces for home like five coming at an average of 25 mgb each if you do the math that does not add up to 3gb so I think all the other stuff might also have pre loaded (however i am not taking into consideration the vids and music in home so this might be it though kind of hard that three vids and three songs will accupy that much space

cool. and i still my 2nd unused beta code. lol.

Yo!

You got to check out this crazy video. This guy's Xbox 360 nearly EXPLODES while he plays Gears 2.

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plhjrx3zTFg&feature=related

Great... Now imma see people saying: "zomfg how do I play chess/pool/etc.".... THANKS ALOT SONY! It's a Open Beta so CHOSE PEOPLE!

Add me to your list. PSN: ISHOTYA2X

add me as well i need some cool ps3 friends my psn is Andrew120392

I think the update is happening now - I can't connect to Home at all...

9:00am and still no Home. Rubbish.

Was eagerly awaiting a 12:00am launch.

Meh, at work now so I'll have to wait till I get home to try again.

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