The New York Times confirmed existence of the upcoming PlayStation Home service. Similar to Xbox Live and the Wii's Mii experience, Home should launch sometime this fall.

Read the NYT article here

Victor note: Check out this paragraph from the NYT story:

The centerpiece, a new service called PlayStation Home, is to become available to consumers in the fall, said senior game industry executives, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans (emphasis added).

Hmm. Isn't that the same thing that led Sony to temporarily blackball Kotaku (which gets credit in the NYT story for breaking the news about PlayStation Home, by the way)? Think Sony is going to try to blackball the New York Times?

I suspect not. What's more, even though Sony wouldn't confirm the rumor to the NYT, they did provide Phil Harrison for an interview with the paper. Because that's how these things work. You decline to comment, but you don't treat the reporter or his publication like some kind of smelly blob you found on the bottom of your shoe.