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There are several events taking place in PlayStation Home this week.

Players had been previously invited to to post ideas for future Home spaces (much like the new Backstage with Guitar Hero, Warhawk and Resident Evil worlds). An announcement was posted last night (April 7, 2009) that new Home worlds will be coming soon (most likely based on users’ suggestions).

In the Home World Mall new outfits have arrived and can be purchased at Threads on the second floor. Due to popular requests for new game related items more Street Fighter 4 items have been added for male characters. I’m not sure when the female version of these clothing items will be available but we hope soon.

The four new Street Fighter 4 outfits include E. Honda, Blanka, Zangief and Dhalsim and a Resistance 2 Special Research Project Agency uniform. These items can be purchased with real US dollars using the PlayStation Network Card available at various game and electronic stores.

Street Fighter 4 Costumes include:

• Dhalsim’s upper body, lower body, bracelets, anklets and earrings cost 99 cents each.
• Zangief’s mohawk wig, upper body, red wrestling briefs and boots cost 99 cents each.
• E. Honda’s wig, upper body and lower body cost 99 cents each.
• Blanka’s huge orange spikey hair wig, green upper, lower body with shorts, hands and feet cost 99 cents each.

Resistance 2 costumes include:

• S.R.P.A. Uniform top and pants cost 99 cents each. Uniform gloves and boots cost 49 cents each.

In the world of Xi, a new teleport pad has opened in the HUB. Players who have already solved the first two puzzles now have access to a third area.

Within the new area there are two rooms to explore. The first room is a race against time to complete six mini-games within six minutes total to earn the next butterfly needed to solve the mystery of Xi. New clues have suggested that Xi has spilled out into the real world encouraging gamers from across the world to unit and work together to solve the clues hidden within the videos.

The first video that appeared (seen below) is only part of a clue:

The new game unlocked this week is Maximum Tilt, a virtual motorcycle game that will have players weaving in and out of the woods to keep up with a helicopter using only the Sixaxis controller’s tilt function to glide around trees for a fragment needed to solve the mystery of Xi.

Another game just released today is a game similar to the original text-based adventure game Zork for the Commodore 64 called Caverns of the Bandit King. Before walking into the caverns you might want to ask around for a lamp or you’ll likely be eaten by a grue. In this new adventure you must find the kidnapped daughter of a duke, out smart a group of bandits and get rid of their leader while avoiding capture, a pack of wild wolves and a nasty beasts that want to pick your bones clean.

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