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Watch the Watchmen Trailer in PlayStation Home
More Watchmen content is promised for Sony's virtual world soon.

When Home was first revealed, back in the ancient days of March 2007, one of the features heavily promoted was the ability to watch real-world content on in-game movie and television screens. Now, in the present days of November 2008, some of that is finally coming to fruition, as film marketing company PPC (Picture Production Company) has brought the latest Watchmen trailer to Home movie theaters.
As PS3Fanboy reports, this is only the start of further cross-promotions between Watchmen and Home in the near future, as PPC promised "some very exciting movie related activity next month." Whether any of this will have anything to do with the recently announced game remains to be seen.

All this cross-promotional content comes along with the news that 100,000 new Home beta invites were sent out this week, along with the launch of Home beta v1.0 (via Eurogamer). As a Home community manager announced on the European forums, yet another large batch of invites is planned to be go out next Thursday, with an open beta "not far behind." After nearly two years of waiting, could it be that Home is finally nearing a true, full-blown release? Sure seems that way.

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Kazunori Yamauchi Says Gran Turismo Still Coming for PSP
After four years of delays, Yamauchi says Gran Turismo on PSP "is moving forward."

Think way back to May 11, 2004 -- the day of Sony's E3 2004 press conference, where they first announced the PSP. You may recall they also announced Gran Turismo 4 Mobile, a complete port of the PlayStation 2 game for the PSP that, after years of delays, has still yet to materialize. But according to Gran Turismo mastermind Kazunori Yamauchi, that doesn't mean it's dead yet.
In a video interview with IGN (via Kotaku), Yamauchi was asked about the status of Gran Turismo on PSP, to which he responded with vague yet reassuring statements. "It is moving forward," he said. "It hasn't been knocked off the plans -- it's there." There...where? Yamauchi wouldn't say, as that's as much detail as he gave.

At this point, we have to wonder if a Gran Turismo game on PSP would still even be based on Gran Turismo 4 -- or if it is, whether it would have "Gran Turismo 4" in the title. That game is four years old at this point, so we wouldn't be surprised if Sony gave it a fresher branding, whenever Gran Turismo does finally ship for the PSP.