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Move over Farmville, Sony wants to own your Wall and Tweets.

March 12, 2010 - If you're like most Facebook users, every time you sign on to the social networking site, you're bombarded with updates about how your friends are doing in Farmville, Mafia Wars, and so on. 

PlayStation Home wants a piece of that action. 

At the Game Developers Conference today, the folks behind Sony's free social platform told a roomful of developers that the tech is now available for them to give gamers the option to update their Facebook and Twitter pages from Home with accomplishments they've earned. Basically, you'd finish one of the mini-games in Home, and the title would offer to let you update your page with your score, the victory in general, or whatever the developer has decided to let you celebrate. 

The other use for this tech would be or turn-by-turn games that are played over a long period of time, like chess. If a game has turned this option on and the users have enabled it, they could get Facebook messages notifying them when it's their turn to make a move. 

There's no word on what the first game to use this "social media optimization" tool will be, but keep an eye out for your friends jabbering about what their avatars just did.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/107/1077291p1.html



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sounds good, i just logged onto home yesterday, the update is very very good, much smoother and quicker



...not much time to post anymore, used to be awesome on here really good fond memories from VGchartz...

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gamer's rejoice, you can now use home as it was promised to be, atleast loading wise.

Its almost perfect, a MUCH better experience than before



 

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^reallllyyyy i gotta try it lol



If I could get my ps3 to go on line, I would check out home but for some reason it's refusing x_x



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Interesting, but useless for me.



Yep Home is much better now....and also good move by sony, they are expanding into what can be a very profitable area



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Pretty cool I guess



hmm cool i need to try it now since yall said it was good



sounds a great idea, although im not really into social website games.