Over 100,000 PlayStation Home Beta 1.0 Invites Going Out Today

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The open PlayStation Home Beta 1.0 rollout has begun, and it looks like its kicked off in the european region first. PlayStation Home community manager "TedTheDog" posted the following information today, 11/21/08, on the SCEE PlayStation forums:
"Home Beta 1.0 is aimed at delivering a stable base upon which to build the service over the coming months and years and so please remember that this is not a game and it is not a launch, this is a start of a journey.
Timings
Last night v1.0 went live in the beta and our existing testers are now up and running with it.
Today, Friday 21st, over a hundred thousand invitations will be sent across the SCEE region and next Thursday the 27th another larger batch of invitations will be sent.
If you are lucky enough to get an invitation then please note there will be load test event on each of the two evenings.
For everyone else Open Beta will not be far behind." No word from SCEA, the US PlayStation division, on when Home Beta 1.0 invites will be sent out in the US.

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