Watch Sony Gamescom event in Home

By Tom Phillips Published 11 August, 2011

Next Tuesday, 6pm UK time.

PlayStation 3 owners will be able to watch Sony's Gamescom conference live through PlayStation Home.

The press event takes place next Tuesday, 16th August at 6pm UK time.

Gamers will be able to enter Home's Gamescom space from an hour before. You'll be able to find it via the Navigator or the What's New section of the PS3's XMB.

We're expecting more info on Sony's upcoming Vita handheld, but what else? A PlayStation 3 price cut? A 3D glasses implant for your eyes?

Can't get home in time? The hour-long talk will be streamed on loop after the event finishes.

Or you can just log on to Eurogamer for the highlights - we'll be in attendance and blogging the whole thing live.

Sony's PlayStation Vita.

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About Tom Phillips

Tom joined Eurogamer in 2010 and has quickly made his mark writing news and columns and coming up with puntastic straplines. Questionable beard. @TomPhillips151 on Twitter.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 10 months ago

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  • BBIAJ #1 10 months ago

    If it's anything like this years E3 live stream, then you won't actually be able to see anything at all!

  • metallicorphan #2 10 months ago

    I thought Gamescom didn't start until Wednesday 17th August

    http://www.gamescom-cologne.com/en/games...

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #3 10 months ago

    bloging is so last week, live video stream EG or im going elsewhere.

  • Malek86 #4 10 months ago

    @metallicorphan: check the press conference dates on that site. Microsoft and Sony are both on August 16th.

    Looks like they are invitation-only events, so I guess they put them before the Gamescom proper for that reason.
    Edited by Malek86 at 11/08/11 @ 12:26

  • DozyKipper #5 10 months ago

    It's all tripe anyway compared to E3.

  • spongebob #6 10 months ago

    So are there other conferences/events as well? I didn't know Gamescom was this important.

  • Mister-Wario #7 10 months ago

    I might give this a try, if indeed the video streams. My internet connection seems to be somewhat lacking when it comes to this sort of thing.

  • metallicorphan #8 10 months ago

    Malek-so that site should say from the 16th and open to public from 18th..not what it says and starts on 17th and open to public 18th

  • KrazyFace #9 10 months ago

    Sounds good, I'll be sure to go have a look. I enjoyed the stream from E3 too (dunno what BBIAJ's going on about) so this should be alright as well. This is what Home was made for.

    *awaits onslaught of "Home's for gay-peadoes-with-no-life" comments*

  • lockload #10 10 months ago

    I heard it may be available on facebook, can eurogamer confirm this pls?

  • lolercopter #11 10 months ago

    Is is not going to work like the E3 press conference?

  • oreillymj #12 10 months ago

    Better start updating Home now to have it complete before next Tuesday.

  • man.the.king #13 10 months ago

    @BBIAJ

    "If it's anything like this years E3 live stream, then you won't actually be able to see anything at all! "

    That's because PS Home is NOT available on XBL, silly!

    @KrazyFace

    "...(dunno what BBIAJ's going on about)..."

    I think you'll find the reason for that in my response above.

  • Arwin #14 10 months ago

    You can have Home up and running from scratch in about 5 minutes with a half decent internet connection. The download is less than 50MB, install-time is tiny (mostly just the reserve hdd space for Home, which you can customise to your own preference or take the default 3GB), start-up time is very good these days, and downloading and transferring to spaces combined for me takes about 30 seconds on average (I have a 3-5MB/s download speed), then usually under 10 secs for moving to a downloaded space.

    I did have trouble getting the E3 stream last time though ... most people that logged in after the conference started I think didn't get a picture.

    I'll be at gamescom this year on Thursday. It's probably the first ever big games-only event I've ever been to, and I'm fairly excited even if there isn't anything in particular that I'm excited for (I'm excited for the Vita, but I've agreed with myself to tamper my excitement for anything not out in the next month or two)
    Edited by Arwin at 11/08/11 @ 21:29

  • Ryze #15 10 months ago

    Hey! at least EG is telling us about this.

    Sony's XMB shows NOTHING relating to Home.

    I'll keep an eye out, and I've FINALLY put my 320GB HDD in place of my 60GB. I may venture and take a look to see if this works.