PlayStation Home Continues To Grow Into Something Rather Amazing With More Meta-Games Integrated Into The World.

We get it now. It's truly time for everyone to give it a second-chance. The service has found its identity, its beginning to fulfill its potential. And that potential is basically meta-games within a bigger world. You may have checked out our report on Home's Carnival space — a brilliant sub-game within the overarching Home universe. This is the direction Home needs to head in, and it seems like Sony agree.

Sony's announced today that they'll be teaming up with Codename, an indie games label, to bring original experiences to PlayStation Home. The games are due over the course of the next few months, and here's a taste of what you can expect.

First up is Dueling Gentlemen created by Odd Gentlemen. In this game "players strategize the right moves on a giant stage in Home's Plaza, to outsmart opponents and win this old-time battle for honor and prestige". It's cool because it takes place right in the centre of the plaza — running with that meta aspect that makes Home exciting in the first place.

Another game set to take place in Home's plaza is Cogs from Lazy8. Apparently, the "gear-based puzzler will also be a dynamic public spectacle". Awesome.

Minor Battle brings platforming capture the flag to PlayStation Home from Peanut Gallery, and finally, Codename themselves are bringing Super Awesome Mountain RPG - a blend of tabletop board games and fantasy RPGs - to the Home environment.

"We're thrilled to be partnering with PlayStation Home to create and develop games that step outside the parameters of traditional game development and we're really looking forward to the creative opportunities that lie ahead," said Founding Codename Partner Jesse Vigil. "Our model of pulling together teams of developers and allowing them to make their creative dreams a reality has only one main tenet — any game created for PlayStation Home is graphically and visually entertaining to both play and watch, at the same time."

See, Home can be neat. Just give it another shot.