PlayStation Home Nostalgia Grows Thanks To Metaverse Rave Video
A video of a rave occurring in the Metaverse has Twitter feeling nostalgic about Sony’s PlayStation Home social game app. PS Home originally made its beta debut back in 2008 during the early days of the PlayStation 3. It allowed registered PlayStation Network users to create an in-game avatar and interact with others in an online social space. Players would customize an apartment with items from various Sony products or games that friends could visit. Additionally, players could launch certain games from PS Home that other players could join if they owned the same game. PS Home would survive until 2015, when Sony decided to shut down all servers. It would never leave beta, but it retained a small and loyal player base until the end.
The concept of the Metaverse has made its way throughout the gaming industry over the last year. But it wasn’t until Meta, formerly known as Facebook, committed to developing it and exposing more people to it that many developers began investing in the platform and developing NFT (Non-fungible Tokens) assets in games. In recent months, various developers have unveiled NFTs, though some developers, like the team behind S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, renounced NFT plans following controversy.
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Twitter user and NFT enthusiast Alex Moss posted a video of a rave happening on blockchain game Decentraland. In the video, various avatars are standing and jumping around in the game while a video stream plays on several screens. Other users immediately began making comparisons to PS Home and Second Life, another similar social game for PC and Mac from 2003. Some posted pictures of the PS3 game compared to the Decentraland video, adding
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