Sony is determined to makeHomeinteresting, and has anumber of planned updatesto that effect.Home‘s community manager “TedTheDog” has detailed future updates that might makeHomefun, but probably won’t.
In addition to unlockable costumes and and a newHomeSquare, more game spaces will be available for noteworthy titles such asUncharted: Drake’s FortuneandSOCOM: Confrontation. Playing music to other lost souls in Home is also on the cards, once Sony can navigate the treacherous waters of licensing bullsh*t.
If you’re already some sort of twistedHomefanatic, the new features will probably appeal. None of this is going to convince me to reinstall the thing on my precious PS3 hard drive, however. Hit the jump for the full details, straight from Ted himself.
This weekPatch 1.11This is a minor bug fix release and addresses a problem with Game Launching. If you opened the list of game sessions available at the same time one of the sessions launched it could cause a crash.WATCHMENTwo complete outfits for male characters and black & white t-shirts for male and female characters are now available for free from the Threads store. Some of the items are not quite ready and will follow on as soon as they are.ClothingVarious items of free and purchasable clothing have been addedWhats coming soonStreet Fighter IVThe unlockable items are already available in Home and are rewarded for winning online matches in the game.Purchasable outfits will be available within a few weeks.Home SquareA slightly updated Home Square will arrive in early March, possibly as early as the 5th.Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune SpaceThis is currently being worked on and we hope to release this for you within a few weeksSOCOM: CONFRONTATION SpaceThis Space is also nearly ready but a specific date for its release is not yet available, but we are expecting it within a few weeks.Siren: Blood Curse & Resident Evil 5, WarhawkContent for all of these have arrived here and are being prepared for SCEE’s audience now. We will bring you more information on these as it becomes available.Game LaunchingMany titles are preparing support for Game Launching but this often requires a patch to their title. It is not our intention to be announcing new releases and patches to other titles here in the Home community but hope to bring you news in the coming weeks.Music within HomePlaying your own music to others within Home is an extremely complex licensing issue that will take time to solve, if it is at all possible.In the meantime we are investigating various ways of allowing you to play your own music to yourself. We are also talking to other 3rd parties about making their music available to you in various ways.
