Need For Speed: World Online Testing Starts in March

According to EA Games, Need For Speed: World Online – the next racing game for Games For Windows – will go into testing in Japan and Hong Kong in March. This new title is online-only and will offer many different tracks and game modes. Players will be able to form teams and take on competition and police. There will be many real-world licensed cars, and the free roaming environment will be the biggest in Need For Speed history. EA Games believes that this title will bring about a new gaming experience never done before in any titles.

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Home Rumored to be Hacked

Sony’s Home is rumored to be hacked. A user who goes by the name StreetskaterFU claims to breach Sony’s servers for Home, downloading, uploading and deleting files. StreetskaterFU provided instructions on how to hack the servers and it seems the changes are local only.

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Sony Comments on the State of Home

For those of you who are lucky enough to live in a region where Sony cares and has access to the community project Home but cant log on, here is a direct quote from Patrick Seybold of SCEA explaining the situation. Maybe this will make you feel better.

“We are aware that some people may be experiencing difficulty in accessing the PlayStation Home beta at present. This is due to overwhelming demand for the service as people access Home for the very first time since it became Open Beta and appeared on the XMB. While we prepare solutions to ease the problem, you may continue to experience difficulties accessing Home. We kindly ask for your patience as we work to meet the incredible demand for this revolutionary service.”

For many, connection error messages have been an intrinsic part of Home’s launch so far.

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Home Servers Are Live

Home Servers Are Live – Enjoy.

Just restart your PlayStation 3 and go to the Network tab in the XMB. Download the client and start exploring Home.

Home Open Beta Available December 11 + Details

Sony announced that its Home Open Beta will become available for all PS3 users around the world on December 11. PlayStation Home’s open beta service will continue to evolve with new features and functionality.

Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO, SCE:

“PlayStation Home is truly a promising network community service on the PlayStation platform, made possible with the powerful combination of PS3’s overwhelming computational power and PlayStation Network that covers many countries around the globe. We are committed to providing PS3 users with exciting gaming experiences with PlayStation Home and together with our partners and users, expand the new world of interactive entertainment as we move forward.”

Home – Open to Everyone by the End of 2008

Jack Buser, PlayStation Home director, has a promise that Home will be open to everyone by the end of 2008.

“Like we’ve said, we’re excited about moving PlayStation Home into its open beta stage this year. Once we make the move to open beta, everyone will have access to PlayStation Home.PlayStation Home is nearing the final stages of our closed beta. Last week we successfully moved to our 1.0 client, which places us on schedule for the launch of open beta this year.”

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More than 100,000 Home Beta Invites Sent Out

Over 100,000 European Home beta invites were sent out today.

This is all being done in preparation for a load test that will be taking place tonight. Expect another load of invites being sent next week.

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Resistance 2 Beta is Over in Europe

Looks like Resistance 2 Beta is officially over in Europe. Players have been getting this email:

Consider this your honorable discharge.

We sincerely thank you for your service in the Resistance 2 Public Beta.

Your dedication, enthusiasm and expert fighting skills have helped us make the game ready for the world. And we know you’re ready for battle when Resistance 2 release on November 4.

Thank you again. See you on the battlefield.

The beta in North America was extended to November 3.

Be sure to check to full game when it finally comes out November 4 and don’t forget to check our Resistance 2 Beta Impressions

Resistance 2 Beta Impressions

I was one of many lucky gamers who got a beta key for Resistance 2 Beta and had the opportunity to test the game first hand.

When I started to downloading the beta I really didn’t think Resistance 2 as a special game. After installing it and playing a few games I was happy to find out I was wrong.

Only Qore Annual Subscribers will Get Access to Home Beta

A week ago we were told that Qore Issue #6 Offers Access to Home Closed Beta.

Today we find out that this is only partially true…
We received an email from PlayStation Underground saying that only annual subscribers of Qore that purchased their subscription until yesterday will get access to Home Beta:

“As an update to the PLAYSTATION(R)3 News email sent on Friday,
October 24th, the special invitation to PlayStation(R)Home’s closed
beta is available only to Qore annual subscribers who purchased
subscriptions by 10/29. Qore Episode 06 purchasers will not be
eligible for the special PlayStation(R)Home beta invitation at
this time. We apologize for the miscommunication.”