Well, after work I straight away go download 1.03 patch for Home... and voila! Got in. It was a fast connection (my Home is US).
Once there, all the locations have to download the patch (except the Studio) and it requires between 16 to 31 MB. New look for Central Plaza - lovely! There's a new mini game called Saucer Pop which is quite fun but hard. If you win the highest, expect rewards. The new place where they play the music is wider now and have 8 new songs to play. You can vote which song you want and the most vote songs will play after the current song is finished. Home Theatre outside of Central Plaza is uplift with better looking but too bad inside its the same. What's new in there? "Twilight" trailer and music video. No more SOCOM crap.
Bowling Alley doesn't have much changes except new advertisement of the wireless keypad. The Shopping Mall outside of Central Plaza looks better but inside is still the same. For those Open Beta owners, grab everything you can now since the items inside are free. Once Diesel Fashion Shop & the new furniture shop is in, you need to pay more. Also a new PSN News was in the Mall that you can watch. There's one hot chick there doing some announcement.
Two new locations are added - Far Cry 2 & Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Go to Far Cry 2 location and you can visit the Train Station and Reuben's Office. Reuben's Office have tons of info about Far Cry 2 plus an interactive map for those of you whom play the game. As for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune you go to Sully's Bar. There, you have 3 other arcade games to play and it's a place to hang out for fans of Uncharted. Other than that, there's nothing much but hang out only. Future upcoming locations like Resistance, Warhawk (which was shown in E3), Guitar Hero & SOCOM will be added in the future.
So far, no problems and no drops. Very happy with it but still the place is boring a bit. Just wish they add more stuff.
yea i saw you playing Home..didn't even DC...sheesh! i tried to join..always got dced by the server. aiyo...