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Resistance: Fall of Man

While Home for the PlayStation 3 may have generated plenty of buzz for Sony at last year's Game Developers Conference, its late arrival and the setting in of reality may have made it put a damper on the hype surrounding the service. We've had our doubts that Home may ultimately be nothing more than a prettier Second Life, a glorified 3D chat room, one that only makes getting to the games we actually want to play a bit of a chore. But we've recently learned some very interesting things about how three first-party published games will take advantage of Home's features that have us very excited.

One of the first games expected to shine in one of Home's series of game portals is Insomniac's Resistance: Fall of Man. Resistance is said to provide Home visitors with an interesting room to explore, one that will let PlayStation 3 owners visit unseen areas of the game and tap into bonus content in the form of "intercepted" radio communications between European and U.S. forces.

These hidden transmissions will help to flesh out the Resistance story, giving players a better understanding of the game's conflict. We hear that Home avatars will have free roam of unpopulated levels, not unlike a virtual Resistance museum.

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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

While Resistance: Fall of Man's integration with Home should have bonus content fans excited, old school run-and-gun shooter fans should be pretty pumped about what they may be getting with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune's contribution. We hear that the Home portal for Naughty Dog's PlayStation 3 adventure will follow in Resistance's footsteps, allowing Home avatars to explore the game's levels without the threat of being shot at, a nice feature.

But it's the Uncharted mini-game that has us far more pumped.

According to our sources, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune comes to Home armed with a side-scrolling 2D arcade game, described to us as reminiscent of both Contra and Out Of This World. Sounds kind of like Capcom's 2D remake of Bionic Commando in its execution, full of enemies and exploding barrels to shoot.

Sony is apparently pitching features like these to developers to extend the lives of their titles, using strong first and second party development showcases to prove that Home can effectively market outside of traditional means. We hope they take them up on their offer, because we're definitely excited about the prospects.

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Warhawk

Uncharted and Resistance may have wicked cool feature sets for PlayStation Home, it's actually Warhawk's planned game portal that has us most excited. According to our sources, the Home lobby for the Incognito dogfighter will serve as a "war room" where up to eight players can meet to discuss their strategy for an upcoming match. Sure, you could do that with text or voice chat, but it sounds like the developers have gone the extra mile to make planning your battles even cooler.

Using a three-dimensional "sand table" replication of the level, Warhawk players are said to be able to lay out their strategies in a properly scaled space. They'll even be able to place little army men avatars around the map to envision their formations, something we hope they can also do with teeny tiny Warhawk planes, tanks and Jeeps.

The Warhawk war room is said to also serve as a launchpad for games, thankfully, so jumping into a match shouldn't require leaving the Home interface.

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I think all we can say is WOW WOW WOW.  Give us Home and make it snappy.

Cool. Now let's see Home released.

The more you hear about Home and how it's going to integrate or allow integration with PS3 games just shows how much time has been put into the whole thing. I'm really getting excited about it.

thats pretty damn awesome, im glad i own those three games

i predict home to be released in 21 days

the beta at least

Oh, so you've been to that website too huh.


The sand thing sounds cool and reminds me of playing football when I was younger and drawing plays in the sand with a stick.

Ok guys, spill it. Where did you hear about the 21 day thing. PM me the info if you don't wanna post it.

Give me a sec and I'll get the link for you.

Edit: Here is the link. It is probably fake but many people are talking about it.

Home Beta Countdown

aww... given the slim chance that the site IS real.. I wanted to make it look like I was psychic or something.

Lol, but what if it's wrong (probably it)? Then you'd be a false prophet! Ok, instead of telling us th date it's going to come out on, tell us what the weather will be like when it is released!

somewhere in the world that day it will be rainy

I guess we'll just have to wait and see

I really hope that countdown is real. I wanna check Home out, and I need an avatar who will live in a crappy apartment because I'm too cheap to buy him decent furniture. Sadly though, I'm guessing ManaBurnX's avatar will be a total squater and be at my place all the time....LOL

maybe we can beg Joker to do a background check on the site.. I know he knows how to do those type of things. did it with that one scammy/too good to be true shopping website I posted a while back..

It has already been done and it didn't look promising. It has no connection with Sony and is probably fan made from the looks of it. Just for fun perhaps but it's also a way to generate a lot of traffic to your site I suppose to give it hits in a sneaky kind of way for when you officially open it to be whatever it was meant to be.

Just a heads up but there's about 12 hours or less than 1 day depending on where you live for the "countdown" to reach the end. It is going to end on a Thursday when the PSN is normally updated but I still doubt it. Guess we'll find out soon. We COULD be using home by the weekend! or not...

I'm going to keep my fingers cross Mana, because I wanna get my hands on HOME.

I think the deadline should be up by now. It finished over here last night for me because of the time zone difference. Now we just need to wait for the new PSN update to see what's in it.