So, how far has the Home concept come along since the baldy-kept secret that was its announcement back at GDC? Well, the Beta trial is running internally, and, if our impressions of it and revelations made to us by Pete Edward from Sony’s London Studio are anything to go by, there’s a lot more to Home than initially thought - and when it launches, it will be just the beginning. Time for some housewarming…

s we all know by now, every user who registers for Home will be given a ’standard apartment’ to use as their own private space, the likes of which we’ve seen in screenshots, and is still remarkably beautiful by anyone’s standards - but it’s the ‘upgraded’ apartments people are really going to be wanting. Players can position all manner of funky and stylish furniture around and all the objects in the world run with real time physics, so you can experiment with how you plonk stuff around. Pete even hurled a huge plasma HDTV down the stairs to make his point - we loved that the clips that were playing on the TV continued throughout the ordeal!

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