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A major update to Playstation 3’s Home is bringing a new 10-screen layout and lobby for the theater, a Burn Zombie Burn space, new MotorStorm content and the Fat Princess Quest for Cake event.

The Movie Theater update brings with it ten screens, a new lobby and the ability to unlock rewards in some screening rooms. Playstation Community Manager CydoniaX also says that the coming months will also bring the “future possibility” of full-length TV shows or movies to the virtual space.

The Burn Zombie Burn space includes a crypt, videos from the game and a zombie-infested mini-game.

MotorStorm content will be hitting Home soon too, with the ability to launch a game of Motor Storm Pacific Rift from inside home and a new space that features piles of beat-up cars.

Finally, on Friday Home will launch a Fat Princess Quest for Cake event. There will be eight pieces of cake locked away in cages inside the Home space. To get to them you have to search the area for clues. Once you feed all eight pieces to the princess, you get a reward.

Leading video game publisher and developer Namco Bandai Games America Inc. announced today Namco Museum Essentials, a must-have nostalgic compilation for the PlayStation 3’s PlayStation Network.

Arcade enthusiasts can digitally download their favorite Namco Bandai Games’ arcade classics when Namco Museum Essentials is released in July 2009.

Representing the core of Namco Bandai Games’ timeless heritage, the Namco Museum Essentials collection will keep players entertained for hours in nostalgic glory with Pac-man, Galaga, Dig Dug, Dragon Spirit, Xevious, and the brand new re-envisioned Xevious: Resurrection. The re-imagined Xevious game takes the classic 1982 vertical scrolling arcade shooter and injects visually stunning 1080p graphics and enhanced gameplay for today’s refined shoot ‘em up audience.

Featuring the full complement of PlayStation Network trophy support and online leaderboards, players will also be able to earn PlayStation Home rewards to show off their classic game devotion and compete in the worldwide leaderboards for a top spot on the planet.

Launching simultaneously with Namco Museum Essentials, a dedicated Namco Bandai Games PlayStation Home Destination section will be available to serve as the hub for all the company’s latest and greatest downloadable media. Featuring a virtual arcade where players can access a trial version of Namco Museum Essentials, collect 50 PlayStation Home classic Namco and The Idolm@ster items, as well as view the latest media and trailers, the site will contain content that guarantees to keep fans returning for more.

Namco Museum Essentials for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system’s PlayStation Network will be available this July. For more information about the game, please visit http://www.namcobandaigames.com

The cult-classic sci-fi movie Ghostbusters is coming to PlayStation Home, thanks to “Loot,” a group of developers dedicated to creating branded interactive entertainment products, and Sony Pictures Consumer Products.

Loot (http://www.twitter.com/lootgear) will provide PlayStation Home with  an array of interactive Ghostbusters-branded items – such as figurines, t-shirts, costumes and more – in conjunction with the worldwide release of Ghostbusters on Blu-ray the week of June 16, 2009 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and the simultaneous launch of “Ghostbusters: The Video Game,” the highly anticipated videogame from Atari, celebrating the film’s 25th anniversary.

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Introducing SceneSet, the movie-making add-on for PlayStation Home that will finally allow users to create something exciting within the service.

A small dev team by the name of Loot will be releasing the program later this month, and it will allow users to create short machinima videos using Home’s assets. Locations, characters and items, you can even do stuff in front of a green screen.

Thanks to Kotaku for supplying that info.