Home beta starts today + leaked screenshots!

by Colin Torretta { May 2nd 2007 at 2:00AM }

SCEE announced today (May 1st), via press release, that the first phase of the beta test for Home, the 3D, online, avatar based community for PlayStation 3 has begun.

Starting with an initially small group of both internal staff and known beta testers, the test will be opened up to many others at some point during the summer, including those registered on www.homebetatrial.com.

We also got a batch of leaked screenshots proving that Home is indeed live! You can check out this website for additional Home info.

[Thanks, Thomas!]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Colin @ May 2nd 2007 2:25AM

That is one sad little blog you scraped that up from!

-Other Colin

tony @ May 2nd 2007 3:20AM

how can they get people from homebeattrial.com when they havent allowed anyone to sign up yet?it always says keep checking back.

Snootch @ May 2nd 2007 3:29AM

I can see your schizophrenia was never brought up in the interview.

Andrew Yoon @ May 2nd 2007 7:59AM

Honesly I'm not that excited about it >.<
We'll see how it plays out.

Colin @ May 2nd 2007 8:21AM

Any posts signed Colin or -Other Colin are NOT Colin.Torretta as of a day or two ago...

-Other Colin

sean @ May 2nd 2007 11:47AM

pictures are kinda borin. but certain people got an email to join this home beta. a bigger beta will start in the summer.im guessing thats what the site is for

deafraiders @ May 2nd 2007 12:45PM

I am one of the Trialers :)

All good

Draco @ May 2nd 2007 1:36PM

100,000 users eh on that server, I wonder what the average server will allow, and is that 100,000 registered users? am I going to have to queue if the server is full?

Aviator13 @ May 2nd 2007 4:51PM

Tony, the only way you can be invited is if you're part of the GAP at playstation forum, needless to say I'm a GAP and received the invitation to apply for HOME, but haven't received the invitation to download Home yet... :(

European Bob @ May 2nd 2007 6:41PM

Tragically it was me who took those screenshots, I know I shouldn't have but there was an annoying amount of disbelief that
A. the home beta was on.
B. It was the European trialists and f all to do with GAP.

I kept it outside of the "action" of course as that would just be gilding the lily and too much of an insult to the super people at Sony who gave the regular Euro trialists the first bite of the home beta.

These were originally posted at PS3forums.com that's where everyone else got them from.