Is BigFest Sony’s New PlayStation Home?
A Sony trademark suggests the publisher could be working on the next generation of PlayStation Home. In a trademark filed on February 6, 2012 (and published on January 1, 2013), Sony outlines a service called “BigFest” that would bring players together.
The trademark describes a service that involves “hosting on-line web facilities for interactive game play; hosting web sites of others for video and computer games or parts of video and computer games created by others on a computer server for a global computer network.” It also mentions “introduction and social networking services, namely, introducing video game players to each other for the purposes of playing multiplayer games online, participating in online games communities and competitions, and online player networking and social introduction.”