Lots of New Home Screens and Videos

The release of Home is slowly crawling closer and closer as the beta continues on. Past to Present recently posted a ton of new screenshots and three videos from the closed beta of Home, which recently saw a major update released.

One thing you’ll be able to ascertain right off the bat is that this looks a whole lot better than Second Life. Having played that very ugly game, I’m thinking Home will be much easier on the eyes.

There’s also a story to go along with the media talking about how everything is currently working. Here’s an excerpt:

The Marketplace area is set up to look like a mall. There is a clothing store, with different items based on if your avatar is male or female. Another store offers furniture to decorate your home. Speaking of your home though, there is also a store that sells new property, with a Summer Home being available, allowing you to have two Home areas at a time (it is unclear how many more will be supported, as only two are available right now). The items are available for “purchase,” but are all free, so I’m not too sure how Sony plans on offering it. There is one store that is yet to be opened, so Im not too sure what it will be…

The newest build brings a lot of issues though. The game crashes quite a bit, either freezing, or totally exiting. I do get lots of connection drops, but Id wager on that being an issue with my school’s wireless being absolute crap. There are some strange glitches too, from couches flying through walls, to the main menu being absolutely unrecognizable, all of which can be seen in the glitch video below.
The site has been really hammered by the online community dying to see new Home media, but that’s why Google caches things. Check everything out here.

via PS3 Fanboy