PlayStation Home Enters Open BETA

At last! Sony's eagerly awaited virtual world for the PlayStation 3 finally enters into Open BETA today. PlayStation Home allows you to create your own personalized avatar and interact with other PS3 users in online environments. The concept of a virtual meeting space for PlayStation owners has been in development for several years... With the PlayStation 3 Console on sale in the US and Japan, and about to be launched in Europe, PlayStation Home was officially announced at the 2007 Game Developers Conference, initially scheduled for release in October 2007. Home has been delayed, twice, while the virtual world has been refined and vastly expanded... Now, more than a year later than originally planned, PlayStation Home is available for free download via the PlayStation Network...

Official PlayStation Home site