The best thing about Sony’s PlayStation brand is that it’s instantly recognized. Most Australians have grown up with a PlayStation 1 or 2 in their home, so the transition to the new PlayStation 3 should be a logical and easy one. However, Sony may be single-handedly making that transitio...

Fighting harassment in the online world is a tricky problem, as is dealing with a diverse community. Sony found this out firsthand when there was a backlash against Home, its free online service, when it was discovered that the very words "gay" and "Jew" were deemed too offensive to be uttered. Now ...

Hey Homelings, Locust_Star here giving you a quick heads up about some rad going ons that will be going down in-world this week. As you may or may not know, Warhawk is getting its own game space in PlayStation Home on Thursday, February 26th. This space is a great example of the next level in Homeâ€...

Sony's excuse for the relatively dismal sales of the PS3 is that it's a "ten-year" console, so it's just ramping up. But Ars took a hard look at that claim, and it doesn't hold up. Essentially, when......

From the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas comes big news for PlayStation Home. EA officially announced its plans to launch the EA Sports Complex in the Home Beta this spring, the first Home space from EA. EA and Sony have been hard at work to create a space that both casual and hardcore gamers...

First, a soundtrack for this article: This is the first in many articles about Sony’s Playstation Home. Today’s topic is about the embarrassing gender craziness. Whatever it is that makes men take a game controller and move it instantly in the direction of female polygons, is beyond me. ...

Ever since PlayStation Home was first announced in January 2007, people have been calling it Second Life for the PlayStation 3. We take a look at what separates these two very different virtual worlds. Having been immersed in Second Life for the better part of two years now, I first ventured into th...

It's not been a good month for Sony. Layoffs, poor holiday sales for the PS3 and a wee bit of hacking over at PlayStation Home surely have the electronics giant hungry for some good press, which has made the newest PR kerfuffle over at the nascent online service quite unfortunate. According to Ars T...

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Sony’s (embarrasingly non-innovative) Playstation-based virtual world, called Home, is experience more shrinking growing pains.  This time, the issue revolves around censorship. From the article: The problem was that the words he was using - “gay...

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Online We trust the collective PlayStation Home-playing community about as far as we can throw them, but we can't help but agree with a recent San Francisco Chronicle article that criticizes the "game's" ridiculously strict chat censorship policy. The article explore...