It’s been two years since Sony sent PS Home live, and apart from being pleasantly pleased with the service’s success, Sony’s releasing all new games exclusive to the social gathering service.
The games will come from Jet Set Games and a sequel from Outso, with more under development as we speak.
Find details below on the titles coming to Home for its second birthday, courtesy of the US PS Blog:
- Novus Prime (Now Available): Created by Hellfire Games, Novus Prime brings a multiplayer space shooter to PlayStation Home. Players can band together to protect their space station. Along with the ability to customize ships and embark on space battles of epic proportions, players can also jump out into zero G and defend the space station from parasitic insects. See the game trailer here: http://bit.ly/elcdNE
- Midway 2 (Now Available): The developers at Mass Media saw a great amount of success with the first Midway game released on PlayStation Home in 2010 and are back again for more with Midway 2. Midway 2 brings nine new games plus the timeless classic, Miz Fortune, to the already robust set of games in Midway. Along with the new games comes 100 new game prizes as well as a new meta-prize for completing all 20 Midway games.
- Conspiracy (Available Early 2011): Jet Set Games is getting ready to release its first ever PlayStation Home game and will take players into a secret world filled with covert infiltration and espionage with its new action/puzzle game, Conspiracy. Conspiracy will have players join different factions as they work to steal goods from enemy corporations. As the rival corporations battle it out, they will uncover the mysteries of the ultimate Conspiracy.
- Sodium 2 (Available Spring 2011): Veteran PlayStation Home developers, Outso, are back with a sequel to their highly successful PlayStation Home game, Sodium One. Sodium 2 is looking to expand on every area of the original game with heavily customizable jet racers, supersonic speeds and a pounding soundtrack.
Home launched in December of 2008 and as of now 17 million worldwide users, with over 200 ready-to-play games and over 60 spaces to experience.
Also, more than 600 community events have been held in Home since then, and over 7,000 virtual Items to collect. The service has over 30 partners developing content for for it worldwide, including Ubisoft, Square Enix, EA, 2K, Paramount, Turner, Fox, Rockstar, Konami and Disney.
Here’s a infographic of Home’s growth for the past two years:
