Take Me Home

Home for the Playstation 3 has suffered so many delays that it even makes Network Rail look good. Consequently Sony have decided to run a 'real life' beta version to see how its fans respond. The idea is a simple one and ties in with the new Trophy system update. From tomorrow any trophies you earn will result in an actual physical trophy being posted to you for you to display in your own home, but here's the clever bit. The new beta means that you can contact your friends via a device called a telephone and invite them round to see your collection. The system also means that if friends aren't in to receive the invite you can leave a message of your actual voice using some new fangled recording technology magic! Your friend can then respond to this at a convenient time. Once your friend arrives in your home they can browse and compare trophies and converse with you using their voice in real time. You can even arrange to go bowling with them or visit the local cinema to watch a film.

If you prefer to try and meet random people Sony suggest visiting a local shopping centre as an example. Gameov3r did try this but has to admit the feature needs tweaking. Any random people we approached didn't seem remotely interested in our trophies or meaningless banter, some even walked away from us in a manner we could best describe as 'running'.

As a temporary measure I think in general this could work really well and even better news is that to access most of these features you won't even need a PS3.

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PS3 Firmware 2.4 Dated

Firmware version 2.4 for the Playstation 3 finally has a date and that's July 2nd! Bringing with it the much requested feature of using the XMB in game and also Sonys version of achievements called Trophies. A complete run through of all the new features are in the videos below.

Playstation 3 Trophies



In Game XMB



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