Juggernaut’s Cutteridge Estate made quite a splash when it first arrived in Home, and its latest update has added new features and deepened the mystery of this haunted house. Find out more about this, with input from the developers themselves!

Is SCEJ’s Play Community a step towards more social networking? And, if so, will Home perhaps have a role in it?

You may have noticed a change to Sony’s Terms of Service, regarding arbitration in the event of a legal dispute. Let’s take a look at this in more detail and see what effect, if any, it actually has on the average user.

There are several outstanding third-party developers who have a significant presence in Home. HSM takes a look at one developer, in particular, which has had a truly gigantic impact:

Lockwood.

We have all been trolled in Home. Repeatedly. Yet we need to remember our own maturity and not necessarily have a hair-trigger response to every individual who might be a troll — because they also might *not* be.

As a coda to HomeStation’s recent examination of virtual societies and the impact of sexual and violent depictions allowed therein, join HSM’s discussion on the Supreme Court’s ruling that video games deserve the same First Amendment protections as books, plays and movies.

(Editor’s note: it’s worth noting that video games, like the other aforementioned means of entertainment, are passive experiences. *Interactive* experiences, such as virtual reality, may in time find themselves viewed and treated differently in the eyes of the court.)

There was a time when Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore slept in separate beds. There was a time when Elvis Presley’s music was considered the work of the devil. And, within two generations, we will look back and say that there was a time when we as a culture debated whether to let our government handle the oversight of video game sales.

(Editor’s note: HSM would like to thank Johneboy1970 for an absolutely outstanding guest contribution.)