Gamertell

Sony’s PlayStation 3 Home is expanding new worlds to explore and have added extra features to an existing worlds.

The newest location on the map is the Godfather II Casino featuring two floors of poker tables that can seat up to eight players for an interactive game of Texas Hold’em Poker complete with a lounge area, bar and smokey ashtrays on the table. There are a few video screens that offer a peek at the game in the main lounge and a few screens hanging over the bar. Of course this is only the first of many things to come from Electronic Arts.

According to the PlayStation blog, while players are trying their virtual hands at Texas Hold’em Poker, EA is working with Sony on the upcoming Sports Complex.

According to the video posted below, the complex when completed will have a racing game, golf and more poker games for players.

For a glimpse of the anticipated Sports Complex, check out this video:

For Resident Evil fans, Capcom has worked with Sony to update Home world with souvenir shops and a new mini-game. The new souvenir shop will offer male and female costumes of the game’s main characters, Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar. The costumes are also available at Threads located on the second floor of the mall and cost:

• Sheva’s Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA) uniform costs 49 cents for her wig and BSAA headset, cost 99 cents for her uniform top, pants, boots and gloves.
• Chris’s BSAA uniform cost 49 cents for the BSAA headset, cost 99 cents for his uniform top, pants, gloves and shoes.

In the Resident Evil world players waiting for their copy of Resident Evil 5 can play the new BSAA training mini-game. Just find the butcher in the back of streets of Kijuju near the games launching point and ask to train. You will be given a quest to find as many infected beetles in the area and bring them back to the butcher for a cool item you can place in your apartment.

If you happen to be the proud owner of the game can ask the butcher to launch you into the game and join members of the Capcom staff and PlayStation HOME community management teams in a co-op game on Thursday, April 16, 2009 for a zombie-slaying event between the ours of 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. PST or 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. EST.

Fans of Street Fighter 4 can find action figure dolls at furniture store located on the second floor of the mall. Fans can display one of four of the following action figure dolls in the apartments:

• Chun-li action figure doll cost $1.99
• Ken action figure doll cost $1.99
• Ryu action figure doll cost $1.99
• Guile action figure doll cost $1.99

Another item can now be found in Xi: The Hub if you complete one of the latest puzzles. A new Xi T-shirt will be awarded to players who have searched through Miguel’s Con Cafe’ blog and discover Miguel’s birthday and then type the answer into your holopad to receive the item.

It’s a lot easier than the new quest which is play all three games in Alpha Zone 1 over again, except in expert level for the next butterfly and fragment. I’m not going to lie to you: If you thought playing Maximum Tilt in normal mode was hard, try it in expert level. The motorbike won’t be the only thing screaming as you try to pass the clusters of trees without crashing. It took me three days to beat the score recommended to unlock the puzzle. So I would suggest playing the Hexoplex mini-game race and the new text adventure Corrupted first.

The next puzzle revealed is a task to read a short story called “The Sentinel” by Arthur C. Clarke (which was later made into a film called “2001: A Space Odyessy”) for answers. With each week passing the puzzles and challenges get harder, but if anyone needs a clue or hint, just simply search the PlayStation forums for help.

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