In a move to make games more "organic" with user-created content, like MySpace and YouTube, Sony has unveiled their much rumored PlayStation Home service for the PS3.

According to the New York Times:

"PlayStation Home is meant to build on and surpass somewhat similar offerings from Sony’s competitors Microsoft and Nintendo by allowing users to create persisting online identities that record players’ achievements in different games. As players progress through a game, they will unlock various virtual prizes that they can then show off to friends and rivals…"

And speaking to Phil Harrison, Prez of Sony's game studios:

“The packaged media approach on its own offers a closed experience,” he said. “You can only enjoy the game experience that the game developer put on that disc. But with the increase in adoption for the Internet and also the increased bandwidth, the Internet has democratized the audience to become content creators, as well as content consumers, and create what I call emergent entertainment. We’ve seen that with things like MySpace and YouTube and Flickr. Now we want to take those kinds of collaborative experiences and make them more central to the gameplay experience."

Also unveiled was the "community-based" game LittleBigPlanet that makes use of Home's user-created content to introduce new characters, levels, etc. into the über-cute title which was developed by Media Molecule, the same dukes behind Ragdoll Kung Fu.