Kotaku.com has put up first impression of PlayStation Home. According to Kotaku, PlayStation Home will be the starting point for any PS3 experience.

?Home starts you out in a central lobby. You use a virtual PSP in this world to access features, but can also just walk around. The main lobby we saw included dynamic advertising on billboards, games you could just walk up to and play, like bowling or pool and even a mini arcade that featured some cool little arcade titles.

You can communicate with others in the lobby by talking, typing, using motions or pre-written phrases.?

Seems like Sony will be creating SIM like environment where everything from chatting to playing video game will be done through interactive environment. Also, the avatars are highly customizable. Every character or player will have private apartment where they can customize it with furniture, wallpaper, and various other customized images. It will be your own private virtual space where you can listen to music, watch videos, and even launch video games.

?The idea, it seems, is that your apartment will become the nexus of your Playstation 3 experience. It is where you can listen to music, look at pictures, watch video, invite your friends over to talk and even go into multiplayer games together to play as a group.
“This could become your clan heaquarters,” Harrison said. “From within home you can launch multiplayer games directly. You can then come back into home afterward and talk about it.”

The PlayStation Home will go into beta this April followed by world wide release in the fall. The best news is that this service is entirely free of charge! I can?t wait to try this out.

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