New virtual hangout areas for top titles plus Super Street Fighter IV screens
Sony has opened the doors to two new spaces in PlayStation Home for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Ratchet and Clank A Crack in Time, with a MotorStorm space set to arrive soon. Each space has its own distinct feel offering an interactive area where all of the 10 million online users can get a taste for the title, hang out with other fans, enjoy all-new mini-games and watch the latest game footage.
For developers, it's a chance to showcase their products and creativity to their core audience; the MotorStorm space, for example, is decked-out as a garage-come-industrial warehouse, complete with DJ area, dancefloors and chill-out zones, while offering new merchandise and quest rewards. Game spaces become hubs of interaction between gamers and developers - a meeting place to share experiences, fun and opinions - making it an ideal chance to let a developer know criticisms as well as compliments.
The new spaces join a growing club of titles with their own PlayStation Home areas, each of them very different. The Resistance 2 space is a destroyed Chicago railway station, while SingStar has a virtual nightclub called the SingStar Rooms, which hosted a question-answer session with Dizzee Rascal earlier this year, with Dizzee appearing in avatar form to meet and greet his fans. It's not just games companies that are involved with PlayStation Home either: fashion leader Diesel, energy drink makers Red Bull and furniture-makers Ligne Roset are also all on board.
Meanwhile, we've got some brand new screens from Super Street Fighter IV courtesy of Japanese publisher Capcom. There's eight new characters, massive new multiplayer battles and a whole host of new combo moves to get to grips with when the game ship in early 2010 on Xbox 360 and PS3.
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