PlayStation Home has been one of the running gags in the video game industry. Much like Duke Nukem Forever, we would hear about PlayStation Home, we would see images of PlayStation Home, but we would never get a definite date for when we would get PlayStation Home.

All that changes on December 11th, 2008. Why? Because we’re finally getting PlayStation Home.

Careful not to call it a “release date”, Sony announced that the “open beta” will be available to all PlayStation 3 owners across the world on December 11th, 2008. Sony Computer Entertainment President and Group CEO Kaz Hirai:

PlayStation Home is truly a promising network community service on the PlayStation platform, made possible with the powerful combination of PS3’s overwhelming computational power and PlayStation Network that covers many countries around the globe. We are committed to providing PS3 users with exciting gaming experiences with PlayStation Home and together with our partners and users, expand the new world of interactive entertainment as we move forward.

Well it’s about damn time we finally get our hands on Home. Of course, users will quickly be disappointed with what Home actually is, as opposed to what many fanboys expect it to be, but I’m still looking forward to getting in there and tinkering around.

via Press Release

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