Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots FAQ

Following this week’s announcements regarding Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots on the PLAYSTATION 3, a lot of questions popped up in the comments area of the PlayStation.Blog. We put together this FAQ to address your concerns:Q: When is the game shipping to retail?A: The game is scheduled to arrive at retail stores [...]

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PlayStation Store Update February 28, 2008

Are your Rock Band drums ready?

Here is the global rundown of the PSN Store updates on February 28, 2008, the day before leap year.

North America

• Game add-on
• PAIN
• Scurv Dogg
• Rock Band
• Nine Inch Nails Track Pack 1
• March of the Pigs
• The Collector
• The Perfect Drug
• Guitar Hero III
• No Doubt Track Pack
• Don't Speak
• Excuse Me Mr.
• Sunday Morning

• Game Trailer
• MLB 08 The Show
• My MLB Music Video
• Blog
• NBA 08 - Amare Stoudemire Bio
• Condemned 2: Bloodshot #1
  
• Lost Planet #2

• Movie Trailer
• Star Trek Teaser

• Theme
• PAIN - Scurv Dogg

• Wallpaper
• Rocketmen: Axis of Evil
  

Europe / Australia

• Game Trailer
• Conflict: Denied Ops - Dev Diary #4
• Haze - Boss Speech

Japan

• Game Add-on
• Minna No Golf 5
• Yukino
• Dark Mist
• The Depths of Darkness

• Game Trailer
• Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
• Armored Core 4 For Answer

• PS One for PS3 / PSP
• Mahjong from Athena
• Umjammer Lammy
• Baroque Syndrome
• Bowling from Nihon Bussan

• PSP Theme
• My Stylist
  

Hong Kong

• Game Trailer
• Assassin's Creed - Cello

• PSP Theme
• My Stylist
  

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PlayStation Store Update

Hey, everyone. Its time again for the PLAYSTATION Store weekly update.Add-on Game ContentPAIN: Scurv Dogg Character ($0.99)Straight from the South Central Seas, Scurv Dogg, the latest addition to the PAIN posse, can spice up your game with some scurvy flair and the horrible manners of a seasoned seadog. Armed with only a bad hat and [...]

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Virtual PSP in PlayStation Home

Here's a quick look at the virtual PSP interface in PlayStation Home v0.8.3. It provides News, Help, Communication, Gaming, and Setup access.

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Destination PlayStation News: MGS PS3 Bundle, Kratos PSP and DualShock3 Release Date

Not every video game event is a press and party extravaganza (like last week’s GDC). As a gamer, you may not have heard of Destination PlayStation - a meeting between Sony PlayStation, retailers, and 3rd party teams taking place right now in Arizona. But the discussions at DPS are generally pretty significant. Here’s what’s being [...]

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PlayStation Home Beta 0.8.3 Update

It looks like PlayStation Home has been updated to 0.8.3. The new features were discussed in this previous post.

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P-Day is upon us!

Gather up all spears and swords; mount the horses and man the catapults; shelter all the women and children: P-day is upon us! Yes kids, Patapon is now available at all your fine retail shops, mega-stores and game stores nationwide. You are but a drive (walk, bike, skate) away from drumming up mighty rain [...]

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Buzz! The Hollywood Quiz Contest Answers, New Trailer

Calling on all aspiring actors, producers and film directors get your star studded trivia hat on cause its time to get buzzing! This is Rob Alvarez, Product Marketing Manager for the Buzz franchise. Hopefully, you had a chance to check out the 80th Academy Awards last night, which took place at the Kodak Theater [...]

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Prototype Gameplay from GDC08

Here are the first videos of
Prototype from Sierra and Radical Entertainment. Watch as Alex Mercer, the Prototype, tears up New York City and it's citizens. He's somewhat a combination of Spiderman and The Terminator. The open world looks massive and the ability to control tanks and helicopters is unexpected. The videos are from 6 month old demos so we're expecting improvements when it's released in September.

Prototype VS The Military

Prototype VS The Infected

Tim Bennison Interview, Prototype Executive Producer Radical Games

Thanks Gamersyde!

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GDC: PlayStation Blogger Lounge Wrap-up (Part 1)

If you’ve been wondering (aloud, some of you), where this Blog’s GDC updates have been - well even the best laid plans can be crushed under the treads of mighty Flu Season. Rest assured, once my temperature drops under 100 F (fingers crossed), I’ll make an effort to get answers to those questions you were [...]

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Lego Map for UT3

Lord Simeon brings us the Lego map for Unreal Tournament III, which is on sale for $49.99 at the moment.

You can download the Lego map here.







Thanks Unreal Playground!

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THE EYE OF JUDGMENT Biolith Rebellion 2 (Set 2) detailed

With 100 new THE EYE OF JUDGMENT cards on the horizon, the amount of buzz generated by the last blog post, and with a lot of questions asked, we wanted to explain some details for Biolith Rebellion 2 (Set 2). But first, check out another wave of cards with some bonus in-progress gameplay footage [...]

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MLB 08 THE SHOW Weekly Update: Road to the Show 2.0

Hi everyone. Eddy Cramm (Sr. Designer) and Aaron Luke (Designer) here to bring you the next installment of our MLB 08: The Show blog posts. This time around we are going to talk about some of the details behind Road to the Show. Coming into this development cycle, we knew we were dealing with a [...]

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PlayStation Store Update

Hey, everyone. Its time again for the PLAYSTATION Store weekly update.Add-on Game ContentRock BandBuild your Rock Band library by purchasing these song game tracks. For song credits, visit www.RockBand.com.Why Do You Love Me - Garbage. ($1.99)Sex Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots ($1.99)El Scorcho - Weezer($1.99)File sizes: 27.6 MB - 32.1 MBPS one Classics for [...]

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Work at Insomniac, play life-sized chess

The Game Developers Conference isn’t just about showing off new games (really, that’s a rather small part of the conference). It’s a place where aspiring game developers can land themselves the job of a lifetime. Like working for Insomniac Games. As if getting to work on the Ratchet and Resistance series wasn’t incentive enough, the [...]

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Is the format war over?

I don’t know how much you gamers have been following the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD “format war”, but since every PS3 owner has a stake in it, I thought I’d share some interesting developments that have taken place recently…If you *have* been paying attention, you’ll probably remember that about a month ago, Warner Bros. threw its [...]

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GTA4 Goes Green

Are you worried about global warming? Well the guys at Rock Star Games are. Here is the Karin Dilletante, the hybrid sedan, available in Gran Theft Auto 4. You can choose to save the environment while mowing down some bad guys.

And no, it's not a Toyota Prius.

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GDC Tuesday: PlayStation Blogger Lounge Day 1 Highlights

Hey all, hope youre enjoying the GDC festivities so far. Day 1 of the Sony Blogger Lounge has been a success, with press from around the world getting their hands on games like flOw PSP, Secret Agent Clank, echochrome, and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Big shout out to those who have stopped by on Day [...]

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Patapost Friday: Get your Patapon BE@RBRICK

Word around Patapolis is that Priestess Meden is built like a brick house a BE@RBRICK house that is. Youve probably seen images of it floating around, and the overall sentiment has can be easily outlined as follows:- zOMG, how cool.- Where can I get one?- How much it be?zOMG how cool.Yes, we agree 100%. [...]

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Warhawk v1.3 Patch details

Im excited to announce our new, and FREE, update for Warhawk the v1.3 Patch!There are 5 key additions in this update that add a ton of value for our current and future Warhawk players. First, Ill cover the 2 new troop items that we are adding to the game. So far, Warhawk players have [...]

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PlayStation Store Update

Hey, everyone. Its time again for the PLAYSTATION Store weekly update.Add-on Game ContentRock BandBuild your Rock Band library by purchasing these song game tracks. (Arguably) Punk Pack 2 includes all three songs. For song credits, visit www.RockBand.com.Truth Hits Everybody - The Police ($1.99)Teenage Lobotomy - The Ramones ($1.99)Complete Control The Clash ($1.99)(Arguably) Punk Pack [...]

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GHIII Aerosmith DLC on PSN tonight

Just a quick heads up - it’s not PLAYSTATION Store Update Thursday, but Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock owners will find something new to play coming to the store this weekend.Add-on content: Aerosmith’s “Dream On” (16.1 MB)The song will show up at midnight tonight (Pacific Time), and stay up until 11:59pm (Pacific Time) this [...]

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Abel and C.Viper from Street Fighter 4

Well we were wrong depending on filenames, Kuri is not the new female Street Fighter IV character, it is C. Viper.

And another new SF4 character is named Abel. He seems to be a faster Zangief.

Watch as someone chooses to be play as C.Viper vs Abel at the AOU Arcade Show in Tokyo. You can also see the characters available in SF4. The only thing we don't see are the bosses that you have to fight at the end.

C.Viper vs Abel

Street Fighter 4 Character

Abel in SF4

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Hot Off THE EYE OF JUDGMENT Card Press: Set 2

Just in case you missed it (or you just got your PS3 this holiday) THE EYE OF JUDGMENT hit stores last year introducing a whole new way to play with your PS3. Combining the best elements of trading card gaming, the new PLAYSTATION Eye, and next gen console tech, EOJ started waves through the gaming [...]

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First Review: God of War Chains of Olympus

Hi All - this is Asad Qizilbash again, Marketing Manager for God of War. So following up from our ‘Gold Rush’ post earlier this week, I wanted to follow up with more great news … We just received our first review score … 9 out of 10 and the Handheld Game of the Month Award. [...]

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PlayStation.Blog @ GDC

As you may well know, next week brings us the Game Developers Conference in sunny (for now) San Francisco. It’s a place where game creators of all types can learn, share, and connect. Sometimes, it’s where a young kid gets his/her big break. They also have a LOLcats page. So, just like with CES, I’m [...]

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Prototype Cell-Shaded Animation?

This new video from Radical and Sierra showing off Prototype seems to be cell-shaded animation. This differs from the previous video which seems bland in comparison.

Now this is all speculation whether the game is headed in the cell-shading direction but it does change the visuals dramatically.

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MLB 08 THE SHOW Weekly Update: My MLB Music + Demo Details

My name is Jason Villa, with some news about how to get your custom music playing with MLB 08 THE SHOW. Each year we try to incorporate features that allow you to customize our MLB THE SHOW franchise to your specifications. Making a soundtrack to satisfy all players, from all walks of life, is nearly [...]

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Buzz Your Way to a New Bravia

Hi everyone! Thanks for taking the time to answer the Buzz! The Hollywood Quiz questions last week. You can find the answers listed below. While we gave you a small taste of what Buzz! The Hollywood Quiz was all about, we thought wed challenge you a little further to see just how up to speed [...]

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New Blog Feature: Post Ratings

Today we’re rolling out yet another new feature to the PlayStation.Blog: post ratings. At the bottom of each post you will now see the familiar 5-star square-rating thing.At first it will display the current average rating, if there is one. To assign your own rating to a post simply move your mouse over [...]

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Weekly Patapost: Valentines Day Demo Download

Goodbye sadness, hello Patapon (demo that is).This is an official announcement for the Patapon demo, and yes, this isnt Groundhog Day; and no, you didnt just have a Memento moment.So, whats all the fuss about? Well since Valentines Day is coming up, we decided that instead of sending each and every one of you heart-shaped [...]

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wipEout PULSE hits North America today

Hello people of America, I’m Paul Tweedle, the Producer of wipEout Pulse, blogging at you from Liverpool in the UK. You have probably heard of Liverpool as the home of The Beatles, but we like to think of it as the home of anti-gravity racing. We’ve been knocking out wipEout games for years now and [...]

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Buzz! The Hollywood Quiz Contest starts now!

Hi all, its time to get buzzing! The Buzz! The Hollywood Quiz contest is on, so the first person to get all 10 answers correct will be the proud winner of a new 37 BRAVIA M series HDTV. If you didnt see my post yesterday, below is a quick rundown of the contest and full [...]

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God of War Chains of Olympus - Gold Rush!!

Hey there lovers of mayhem, this is Eric Koch, Sr. Producer on God of War Chains of Olympus at the SCEA Santa Monica Studios. The great news I have to share with everyone is that Kratos will be in your hands on the PSP March 4th. That’s right people, we are now officially GOLD and [...]

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The New Street Fighter 4 Character Kuri?

Here's the newest Street Fighter 4 character. We believe here name is Kuri, but we're only going with the file name from Famitsu. She may have fast hands like E. Honda, a fireball like Ken and Ryu, or electricity like Blanka - we don't know.









You can see new images of Chun Li, Guile, Dhalsim, E. Honda, Zangief, and Blanka in SF4 from Famitsu.

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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Demo Update

The multiplayer demo for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is temporarily being removed from the PlayStation Network in order to address issues that have come to light. We will be working overtime to correct the issue and expect to upload a new version to the PlayStation Network as soon as possible that accurately reflects the incredible [...]

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Revenge of the PS3!

We spend a lot of our time (well, nearly all of it really) explaining why the PlayStation 3 is the most powerful, best value video gaming console you can buy. Well, the March issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly helps further the cause and explain what’s in store this year, with a cover story [...]

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Coming to PSP: Go with the flOw

Hello flOw fans! We here at SuperVillain Studios are excited to finally let the cat out of the bag and announce that flOw will indeed be released for the PSP on March 6th via the PLAYSTATION Store for PC.With great support from thatgamecompany, weve been able to reconstruct and faithfully preserve the unique experience [...]

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Father of the PlayStation Honored at D.I.C.E.

The airplane has the Wright Brothers. The lightbulb and record player (and about a thousand other things) have Thomas Edison. So who holds a similarly lofty position, “Father of the PlayStation?” That would be Ken Kutaragi.You’ve probably heard his name before - Kutaragi was the man who got the PlayStation ball rolling in 1994, and [...]

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PlayStation Store Update

Hey, everyone. Its time again for the PLAYSTATION Store weekly update.Downloadable GamesGo! Sports Skydiving ($4.99)Go! Sports Skydiving is a skydiving simulator that uses the SIXAXIS wireless controller to twist, turn and pull off tricks. The easy and intuitive motion control allows you to move through the skies into various skydiving team formations or solo tricks [...]

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Go! Skydiving From the Comfort of Your Sofa

Too scared of heights to skydive? No worries, just do it from your couch on PS3!Hello there, PlayStation Blog readers. My name is Josh Miller and I’m the U.S. Producer for Go! Sports Skydiving, a downloadable game that will be available on the PLAYSTATION Store this week.Go! Sports Skydiving is a skydiving simulator that uses [...]

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SingStar is Back on the PS2, and This Time Its

The ’90s! Yep, this disc is dropping on March 18. Youll see from the full track list below, weve got a very eclectic mix of music, as we wanted to try and represent all of the major music movements that happened in the ’90s. Theres something for everyone, and some real classics to boot!With all [...]

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Twisted Metal: Head On - Extra Twisted Edition Video

Hey Ya’ll! Jaffe here again! Just wanted to share some more footage from Twisted Metal: HEAD ON- Extra Twisted Edition with you. This is our Moscow level from the HEAD ON portion of the game and, as you can see, the graphics have been cleaned up and the game is running at a sleek, slick [...]

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MLB 08 THE SHOW Weekly Update: Replay Vault

Have you ever wanted to view a great play over again, or see how your outfielder just threw out your best friends runner at the plate, but unfortunately, you have already moved on in your game? Well, Replay Vault gives you that opportunity to go back and watch those plays again just like they happened [...]

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Color Your PS3 with ColorWare PC

TheClassicalGod has informed us of a profession modding service for the PS3, here are his thoughts:

I was going through this website that I heard recolors devices. I found in when looking into getting my Sidekick LX recolored and noticed that they do the same for PS3s, 360s, even Wiis.

With the exception of the Wii console, they let you either send in your already owned controllers or consoles, or buy directly from them with the color of your choice.

So for those of you that have been waiting for the new colored PS3s to hit shelves, or if you're like me and feel that the original 60GB PS3 was the best released option(seeing as how it has everything from backwards compatibility to 4 USB ports, and external memory readers.), you won't have to wait any more.

From the looks of it, the initial pricing for a PS3 system is $99 for the system and the first controller, as long as they're the same color. Add $10 if you want the controller a different color from the system, and another $10 to have the normally silver section around the disk tray different from the system. $25 for each additional controllers, up to 4 controllers in total.

That's just for the PS3, pricing for the other systems may be different. So, check it out for yourself. If you check out their Gallery, you'll notice that they have a few custom paint jobs, one with an Assassins Creed theme and a few others. I don't know if they offer that to customers or not, but it's worth a look to see how good a job they do though.

Their Prototype section of the Gallery shows that they may be doing this service for Guitar Hero controllers soon as well.

The website is ColorWare PC, check it out for yourself.

PSN ID: TheClassicalGod

Thanks TCG!

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Uncharted: Final Trailer

Greetings all … The Naughty Dogs have received a lot of positive feedback on their Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune trailers. You might have seen this trailer post on IGN last week, and since people are buzzing about it we thought it would be cool to do a Q&A with the trailer’s creator, Taylor Kurosaki. Taylor [...]

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Releasing Two WordPress Plugins

First off, we heart WordPress, it’s been a great platform for us to develop and run PlayStation.Blog. However, like most software, it never does exactly what you want it to do. That’s what makes the WordPress plugin system so sweet. We’ve used a number of plugins to tweak the functionality of this blog, but once [...]

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Motion Capture Event with MLB 08 THE SHOW

Last week, the newest member of its MLB cover athlete fraternity dropped by SCEA’s San Diego Studio for a live motion capture session and some hands-on time with MLB 08 THE SHOW on PS3. MLB 08 THE SHOW marks Philadelphia Phillies star Ryan Howard s first cover for a baseball game, and as you can [...]

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The Twisted Metal Blog is live!

Hey all! David Jaffe here again. Pleased to announce the launch of our first ever official Twisted Metal Blog/Website! Click on the link and check it out!

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Patapost Friday: All We Need is a Miracle

Do you believe in magic JUJU? Youll have to if you want to survive through Patapon but more importantly youll need to know where to find it and how to identify it.As any great warrior will tell you, you must always mind your surroundings, and Patapon is much the same as each level [...]

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New Buzz! Titles to Quiz Gamers in March

With the Oscars coming up, we thought it would be a good time to test everyones Tinseltown knowledge. Lets see if you can answer these:WHICH BLOCKBUSTER HAS THE CHILLING TAGLINE “IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM”?IN “THE MATRIX,” KEANU REEVES IS REVEALED AS “THE ONE,” BUT WHAT IS HIS CHARACTER’S NAME?IN “THE [...]

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Hot Shots Update: Advanced Shot Mode

Now that the cats out of the bag, its only fair to start dealing out some details on the some of the new features youll get to experience in Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds, the reasoning behind the new title and what you can expect from the hours (hours, upon hours) of great golfing [...]

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PlayStation Home Japan Images

Here are some updated screenshots of PlayStation Home from the Japan PSN Home website. You can see more of the Home UI at the website.

From gamesindusty, here are some changes brought on by PSN user feedback:

What had been an enclosed room with a large window showing a lush view has now been transformed into a serene outside space, with plenty of room for people to interact, and tables with fully functional chess and draughts games included.

Additionally the entrance points to key content areas - the Theatre and the Bowling Alley - have been redesigned so that they're much more recognisable.

The Theatre itself, while retaining the same functionality, has had all of the screening areas moved down to the ground floor, after feedback from users that the 12 second walk to go upstairs took too long.

Venables and Festejo also revealed that it was now possible to take your avatar out onto a balcony from your own apartment, and that there would be "around eight or nine" different apartments available at launch, although no new details on potential pricing options for the premium apartments were available.

One of the premium rooms displayed was called Norwegian Lodge, a large wood cabin, much bigger than the basic apartment, and while all of the existing apartment designs were based on real-world locations, Festejo commented that he could see more fantastic options, such as a room in the clouds, becoming available should there be user demand for it.

The reports are saying that Home is on track for a Spring release.

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