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It doesn’t take a Disney vacation home to have a good time at home. All that’s really required is to experience Sony’s new PS3 online experience, Home, set to debut later this year.

Home goes beyond the convenient design of Xbox Live to become a Second Life-style of online avatar community, only with more of a gamer-intensive focus. The design looks appropriately powerful, high-def, and next-gen. The character models are quite versatile and the whole thing takes the concept of “online community” to the next level.

While few have seen it yet, other than in video form, Sony has to be congratulated for thinking beyond what Xbox Live is doing, to offer something far more robust and forward-thinking. Well done!

Just when you thought the series might need to consider funeral insurance, SquareEnix has confirmed that a remake of the original PSone underground hit, Final Fantasy Tactics, has been confirmed to be headed for Sony’s PSP handheld videogame system.

The PSP-bound remake, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War, will add some new content and cutscenes, as well as a cameo by at least one FFXII character, is a welcome revival to longtime fans who fell in love with the Tactics-style game play back when the game was first released on PSone in 1997, just over 10 years ago.

But the good news doesn’t end there: SquareEnix also announced Final Fantasy Tactics A2: The Sealed Grimoire. By nature of the title, specifically the “A2″ designation, this one is believed to be a Nintendo DS-bound sequel to the legendary Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, still the best title ever to appear on GameBoy Advance, for my money. Welcome news!