Sony Home Update: The Chimera are attacking Home, community volunteer program active

After standing your ground in England in the first Resistance game, then the rest of Europe in Resistance 2, those pesky mutants have now invaded PlayStation Home. Find the new space on the world map and enter the ruined railway station to explore.

Players can stand their ground in Home’s re-creation of the Chicago railway station from Resistance 2 by playing the new mini-game Four Barrels of Fury just up the stairs to the left and check on their friend’s progress on the billboards to the right. The game moves fast so be prepared to shoot down some Chimera ships as they attack the transport ships or try to blast you out the game. The higher your score the better virtual items you can unlock for your avatar.

There’s a video screen near the central plaza of the station teasing the latest in the game’s series: Resistance Retribution for the PlayStation Portable. Players can also launch into their games from this space near the back. In celebration of the opening there will be a Resistance 2 Campaign and Co-Op mission event for players who can challenge their favorite Home community managers or members of Insomniac Games all day. In fact, the home community managers have decided to designate every Friday night from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. (no time zone announced) as the “Resistance 2: SRPA Siege” nights. But to show how awesome this site is check out the video.

Also this week a new volunteer program just launched within the Home world. Home Community Volunteers are made up of regular Home users donating their time and efforts to support Home Community Managements by participating in events as well as offer guidance to other community members. To find out more or to volunteer the Home Community Management team asks users to visit the PlayStation Network forums for more information.

At the mall new costumes at Threads are available for female Street Fighter 4 fans. This week players can purchase Cammy and Rose outfits for their avatars:

Cammy White’s Outfit

• Cammy wig, body suit top, body suit bottom, gloves and boots are 99 cents each.

Rose’s outfit

• Rose wig, suit top, suit bottom and boots are 99 cents each.

At the furniture store located on the second floor of the mall, there are more woodland themed furniture for those who were quick to grab their free Chamber apartment last week and new Street Fighter character dolls to collect.

Character action dolls:

• Sagat character action doll cost $1.99
• M. Bison character action doll cost $1.99
• Vega character action doll cost $1.99
• Balrog character action doll cost $1.99

This week in Xi:The Hub, new information about VeilCorps has been leaked and the once divided group of AlphaTesters have considered rejoining forces to challenge this corporate entity. During the party someone has managed to spray paint graffiti clues in various areas around Jess apartment. Narcissis returns only to be blasted with harsh coldness from Migeul, but she her valuable information about VeilCorps is much needed and she is welcomed back into the group. The information she brought back allowed players to not only hack into Veilcorps computers but to see the making of their candy-coated ad campaign to recruit more VeilCorps employees.

Jess sends another video to the vault thanking players for cracking the code on her wall safe and entering the information she needed into the holopad. Wait? Did she say the game is almost done? No. Not a chance. There are more worlds to unlock within Xi. This has become the most intriguing game I’ve personally played and must admit I’m quite addicted to it. But like most of her videos, there’s most likely a clue hidden within the video (a hint of the next challenges that await players).

Read [Playstation Blog]