Namco creating gamercards for Home arcade titles

  • Posted August 1st, 2008 at 01:44 EDT by Justin Pinter
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With the release of the Japanese PlayStation Home beta, Namco Bandai revealed four arcade classics as well as openings for three secret titles for PlayStation Home arcade. Alongside the arcade titles, Namco also showed off a new gamercard-like profile system where players can stat track, tag friends, and check online rankings.

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The titles that are playable for users now include Dig Dug, Pac Man, Galaga, and Xevious. Also, Sony has noted that they are expanding their list of arcade games, launching a special Home version of echochrome.

So, now not only can PS3 gamers get the hottest titles from the store or PlayStation Network, but players can jump into Home and play both new and classic titles from various developers for free.

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  1. Marcan21 | Marcan21

    • 1:46am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 1

    as soon as it is free... (first)

  2. Stoffinator | Stoffinator

    • 1:49am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 2

    Good to see th classics free. So you can pay for them on Live or play them in a arcade machine for free ( I suppose) in Home. Lets hope this isn't just for Japan.

  3. RuiyJR | Tseska_922

    • 2:00am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 3

    yeeeey nice

  4. lovelyguy | 15975997

    • 2:01am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 4

    wow its freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  5. SAtrooper

    • 2:30am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 5

    awesome its free. but i think everybody is wondering where the fvck it is

  6. edward_moffet | edd

    • 3:06am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 6

    cool

  7. kora5551

    • 3:07am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 7

    free is good

  8. BayBud

    • 3:25am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 8

     not sure if i would want to play pac-man on the PS3. Purely for economical reasons, the ps3 is expensive to run, if i wanna play pac-man il find an emulator online somewhere.

    Still i guess it will float some peoples boats.

  9. advancednewbie | AdvNoob11

    • 3:30am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 9

    love pacman

    love it free

    sounds good to me

  10. T-Dogg400 | T-Dogg400

    • 3:31am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 10

    As long its free then im alright with this.

  11. Rauland | PPp_Killer

    • 4:18am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 11

    yaay something that's free on the ps3. hopefully there isn't a catch like free 4 the frist minute or free but u have 2 install adware frist

  12. Dave-The-Rave | Dave-The-Rave

    • 6:23am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 12

    Rauland WTF are you on about !!?

  13. angryplaystationdude | sympozium_666

    • 7:37am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 13

    @ Rauland thats a pc exclusive

  14. gingo | gingo

    • 8:18am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 14

    psn id: gingo.... glad to see namco are taking home seriously and are trying their best at giving everyone the best experience they can especially with a gamercard which is awesome

  15. rexdeath | rexdeath

    • 9:06am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 15

    POW!!! take that 360, you have to pay for games like Pacman which is a game you can play for free on the internet and now free on Home.

  16. Staticneuron | Staticneuron

    • 9:25am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 16

    Are people understanding the comments about home being game centric now?

  17. Traveler1990 | NightHawk17

    • 10:50am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 17

    what?namco bandai hasn't forgotten about us ps3 owners?sure could've fooled me

  18. GamesPlayer | GamesPlayer

    • 10:51am BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 18

    It's FREE f*** yeah!

  19. mikeghtmare | mikeghtmare

    • 1:18pm BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 19

    sounds awesome, specially the free part.  Those are old games that most of us wouldn't pay to play but that are a great addition to a free-service.  Now I have something to go into home for :)

  20. shadowrep | Shadowrep

    • 2:50pm BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 20

    this has gotten some intrest back in HOME for me

  21. solid79 | solid79

    • 3:27pm BST - August 1st, 2008
    • 21

    I'll play some Galage. I can remember playing this a a youngbuck.

  22. princevegeta1980

    • 11:57am BST - August 3rd, 2008
    • 22

    That's great news but i hope this doesn't mean that home is going to be delayed because sony wants to add this feature before it comes out!

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