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If you are one of the users who has been trying to get into home recently, only to find out you need to update to 1.36 and while waiting for the download to start, your playstation instead decides to shut off, your in luck. Whew…

I have a fat ps3, you will notice that when you open up Home it will tell you that you need to upgrade. Dont press anything. On the lower side of your ps3 you will see the yellow Hard drive light flickering or on solid. You have to wait until it is no longer active before pressing (x). For me this took about 30 seconds or so. Once the light was off, the update worked perfect.

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The Hub was recently re-opened on playstation Home as a new area to explore. To get to it there is a small circular grafitti mark that has been placed on a wall in the main central area that connects to all of the rest. When you first enter the hub you will be put on a “quest” or scavenger hunt after a breif introduction, and you will have to go find some pieces of paper.

• The first piece of paper that I found was located behind the three teleporting pads which are directly to your left as you walk down the main entry stairs. There should be a robot like statue back there and the paper is to the left of it.
• The second, if you keep moving away from the main stars toward the corner of the room there should be a plant sitting on the ledge. Move up to it and you should get it.
• The final piece of paper was located near the base of the staircase that is on the far side of the entrance. It is easiest if you are between the staircase going up and the staircase going down to the message board room. There should be a small ledge where you can look at the pillar and find the final piece of paper.

From there the system kept crashing on me so that is where I stopped.

Update (3-25-09)

After collecting the three images I was unable to progress any further due to technical issues so I gave up. I tried again today and noticed on the scrolling information that if you had collected all three pieces of paper and it wouldnt let you go further, than to unregister and try joining again. To unregister you simply need to walk up to a box on the wall near the entrance where you can unregister.

Once I re-entered the Hub and joined again, I was able to complete the first task of collecting the peices of paper and get access to the AFK website. The first puzzle you select the cat and you get the code 17PARIS

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Today on my luch break I was surprised to read on Playstations official blog about a delay for the soon to be released LittleBigPlanet. Apparently a complaint was made about two specific phrases in one of the songs in the game. It contained two phrases taken from the Qur’an, which is a holy book for the Muslim faith. Although I will give Media Molecule credit for being sensative to their consumers and not wanting to be offensive, I do not fully agree with the need to delay the release date.

I have heard speculation that the song lyrics could just be a delay to give more time for a joint release of playstations Home along with LittleBigPlanet, but it is just pure speculation as to whether this is the case. To be honest, at this point I dont care about Home or its release.

LittleBigPlanet was set to hit the shelves on Monday, October 21st, just 3 days away, but has now been pushed back until the week of the 27th. I doubt their will be time or need to recall all the games and redistribute new ones. I think it is more likely that they will use the extra week to develope a patch for the game to be ready as soon as it hits the shelves.

If anyone gets the game and knows what they are looking for, I would be interested to know if it is something fixed in the patch or if they are recalling and redistributing the copies.

Click here to check out the Playstation Blog Article

Update. According to Media Molecules blog, they are going to replace the discs with a newer one and a patch has already been created and is ready to go. This still seems a little overkill for some song lyrics. You can check out their blog post here.

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