New-look PlayStation Home launches

Sony's social revamp for its PS3 social network, PlayStation Home, launches today.
The platform has been given a thorough overhaul. It is now split into genre-specific areas, dubbed "districts", to improve discoverability. Players are able to join multiplayer games immediately from each district, with the recently announced free-to-play FPS Bootlegger 29 available in the Action district, and Adventure themed around Uncharted 3, which launched in Europe yesterday. Also new are the self-explanatory Sportswalk, and lo-fi showcase Indie Park.
In a press release, SCEE head of online marketing Darren Cairns said: "The new revamp of PlayStation Home puts you right at the centre of a world of games. We now have multiple spaces, games and activities themed around the type of games you know and love on your PS3 - and it's free to join in and have a look around."
The revamp was announced in August, and is a natural consequence of the April launch of Home 1.5, which added new developer tools for graphics, physics and multiplayer games.
Sony recently said the PSN outage had positively affected user numbers and game revenue, and the same applies to home: in June, Home director Jack Buser said the service saw a new record number of users in the week the service was restored.

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