Sony renews PlayStation Home trademark again • Eurogamer.net

Sony has as soon as once more renewed the trademark for its PS3-era social area, PlayStation House.

The submitting – which was reportedly submitted on twenty first July 2021, in line with a Redditor who’s maintaining a detailed eye on the state of affairs – has secured the European trademark up till 1st October 2028. Although little else is out there on the trademark utility’s webpage, it is nonetheless logged as “items and companies”, and categorised as “pc sport software program”.

Although there’s presently no official affirmation both manner that Sony may be trying to relaunch House – or not less than some form of model of it – it is the third such hearsay to have surfaced in as many months, main some to assume it could have one thing to do with “a return to PSVR 2” (thanks, Comic Book) that will dovetail properly into large-scale social occasions, equivalent to these we have seen in Fortnite. Add in VR compatibility, and it may very well be a really thrilling improvement certainly.

In case you missed out on it the primary time round, PlayStation House was a digital social hub the place gamers might chat and hang around collectively and beautify their particular person flats – form of like Second Life and the Sims, however absolutely Sony-centric.

When PlayStation Home closed for good on 31st March 2015, Sony – like many different firms – saved renewing its emblems to be able to shield the model, however a flurry of latest behind-the-scenes motion hints that this will greater than only a bureaucratic paperwork train. Watch this (digital) area, eh?