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6 years after it was shut down, PlayStation Home has been resurrected by fans | VGC

Players will soon be able to join public and private online lobbies again…

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Destination Home is a non-profit project that has been trying to resurrect Home for a number of years, and has an offline version available for download and play on either modded PS3 consoles or emulators.

However, following collaboration with the PlayStation Online Network Emulated (PSONE) fan group, Destination Home has now managed to make it possible to connect online again.

According to the group, players will be able to connect online to Home and connect to public and private lobbies again by the end of this year.

It also posted this trailer to show the restored online connection in action:

Players have been supporting the project by donating Home data from their personal PlayStation 3 consoles.

This has allowed the group to bring back a number of spaces from the original app, including the Hub, the Bowling Alley and the Playground, as well as the ability to customise apartments.

Much like the PSONE group, Destination Home is not affiliated with Sony, and refuses to take donations or any other money for its work, as it’s purely a preservation project rather than a commercial one.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

 

[Max_Po]

Amazing, is it the same team that is doing WarHawk ?

 

[The Fartist]

Let the female harassment commence!

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Ah took me forever to download with early 1.5mbs DSL, logged on to see almost everything cost money. I never logged in again.

 

[Fahdis]

So is Killzone 2 btw who want to play!

 

[DeadOblivion78]

The loading times on Home were atrocious if I remember correctly.

 

[nush]

 

[p_xavier]

Sony kills the best ideas before its prime time.

 

[Anime-Vix]

The loading times on Home were atrocious if I remember correctly.

It was. That game would be unplayable for me now for that reason.

 

[Skifi28]

Some things are better off dead and forgotten. I hope they realise their mistake before it's too late.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Amazing, is it the same team that is doing WarHawk ?

PSONE also supports a number of other PS3 games, including Warhawk, SOCOM Confrontation, Killzone 2, Twisted Metal Black and Calling All Cars.

It’s currently in the process of trying to add more games to its server, including Resistance, Wipeout HD and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal.

 

[Kurimao]

So is Killzone 2 btw who want to play!

online how? by emu?

 

[Kdad]

Other than GAF, its a last refuge for sane. I'm in! Where my rgb sneakers at?

 

[Kdad]

It was. That game would be unplayable for me now for that reason.

Which is why it should come back now with SSD so you can preload all the assets

 

[Imtjnotu]

This with psvr would be cool now a days

 

[Fahdis]

online how? by emu?

Yes!

 

[ElCasual]

They are doing better job than Sony. Jim is too busy doing PS4 remasters without free upgrade. Bravo

 

[BigBooper]

What a colossal waste of effort on a complete pile of poo.

 

[Drew1440]

Nice! Really hope they bring MAG back online, then my disc will no longer be a coaster.

 

[kevm3]

This and Second Life were pretty much 'meta' before meta

 

[Davevil]

Don't resume shitty project

 

[Panajev2001a]

Why?

 

[ParaSeoul]

Weird they never tried to do it again,Playstation doesn't really have any equivalent to avatars or miis rn

 

[Gonpachiro Kamaboko]

PSONE also supports a number of other PS3 games, including Warhawk, SOCOM Confrontation, Killzone 2, Twisted Metal Black and Calling All Cars.

It’s currently in the process of trying to add more games to its server, including Resistance, Wipeout HD and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal.

Give me Resistance online! That game was so fun I wish I still had it

 

[Drizzlehell]

Even though I don't give two shits about PS Home, I do love when things like that happen. Game publishers are always all too eager to put a bullet in the head of their online-only games without ever releasing any source code or selling the IP, and it's why so many games with even a small but dedicated fanbase effectively get killed off, never to be played again. It's sad.

 

[MHubert]

Weird they never tried to do it again,Playstation doesn't really have any equivalent to avatars or miis rn

Indeed. Lets hope they try something similar in regards to PSVR2.

 

[SteadiestShark]

Home was actually the first thing that I booted up when I first got my PS3 Slim in 2010 so it'd be pretty cool to experience it again.

 

[Alebrije]

 

[STARSBarry]

Do people not realise what playstation home was? It's essentially what Facebook renamed it's company to Meta for and Microsoft are chasing with Mesh. It was an attempt to create a shared 3D space for gamers.

It was way ahead of its time and was the next evolutionary step from things like club penguin. Obviously VR brings a whole new hand of cards to play to the table but the core idea is the same, to create a social space for multiple users within a virtual space. The diffrences from things like Second Life is who was in control where the social space is primarily used by the owner to market to you, which is exactly what Mesh and Meta will be doing.

 

[Hendrick's]

I never understood the point. I logged in once, walked around, saw there was nothing to actually do and never returned.

 

[Trilobit]

I never understood the point. I logged in once, walked around, saw there was nothing to actually do and never returned.

I don't know if I misremember, but when I went to play some pool or maybe arcade in Home I had to wait in a line for my turn. That's when I quickly logged out.

 

[Hypereides]

The PS3 community is definitely doing some great shit.

 

[EverydayBeast]

PS Home was slightly underrated turn and look meta, vr worlds are in early stages ps home was sort of like Facebook

 

[Old_and_Slow]

I didn't spend a ton of time in Home but I enjoyed the time there.

I was all in on Xi, a clue finding ARG that me and some of my friends had fun trying to figure stuff out before the community at large.

Friends and I did use the launcher spaces for some of the online multiplayer. Was an easy way to go into a game already grouped.

I watched a couple of E3's from their dedicated spaces. Live feeds were always smooth to watch iirc.

Nostalgia glasses for sure but there was some good stuff there, even without spending any money (I spent zero).

 

[IntentionalPun]

Do people not realise what playstation home was? It's essentially what Facebook renamed it's company to Meta for and Microsoft are chasing with Mesh. It was an attempt to create a shared 3D space for gamers.

It was way ahead of its time and was the next evolutionary step from things like club penguin. Obviously VR brings a whole new hand of cards to play to the table but the core idea is the same, to create a social space for multiple users within a virtual space. The diffrences from things like Second Life is who was in control where the social space is primarily used by the owner to market to you, which is exactly what Mesh and Meta will be doing.

1) I used incredibly similar software in the late 90s, that was when VR was first being hyped, and people attempted this crap and nobody cared
2) Playstation Home was also an attempt to market to you
3) You aren't "ahead of your time" unless the thing actually catches on lol

 

[STARSBarry]

3) You aren't "ahead of your time" unless the thing actually catches on lol

Touché

 

[ManaByte]

Do people not realise what playstation home was? It's essentially what Facebook renamed it's company to Meta for and Microsoft are chasing with Mesh. It was an attempt to create a shared 3D space for gamers.

It was an attempt to sell digital sneakers and clothing to people. 2K saw that and built a sports franchise around it.

 

[Drew1440]

I never understood the point. I logged in once, walked around, saw there was nothing to actually do and never returned.

It also featured mini-multiplayer games. One I remember was Sodium which was some sort of Wipeout racing style game, there were a few others also which I can't recall.

The concept has been done before. Google had one around 2008 IIRC, Lively I think it was called and it relied on a browser plugin. Microsoft also had one that launched shortly after Windows 95 that was similar to Microsoft Chat but in a 3D like space.

 

[fran.fernandez]

The real metaverse

I remember waiting in a “digital line” to play siren event.

 

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