In case you haven’t heard, Sony’s Home, which is set to be released one of these days, is just going to be another place where you can make a digital version of yourself and walk around a big chat room masquerading as a game. However, for those who are still interested in it, some third party publishers have come up with a reason to be excited for Home.

The Sony PS3 feature that no one should have really been excited about has been revealed to have much more capability to entertain than originally anticipated. Naughty Dog, Insomniac and Incog Inc. have all come up with very exciting ways to use Home. Using games Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Resistance: Fall of Man and Warhawk respectively, the developers are including their own features that can be described as much more than perks. The extra materials confirmed range from “we could care less” to “better than steak & a blowjob day.” Well that might be an overstatement.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was already a treasure, but with these announcements there’s more reason to pick the game up and play with Home. The two-fold features are free roam of the Uncharted world and a new mini-game. The free roam option, which seems to be standard, will allow you to drop your avatar in the game’s world and wander freely exploring the lush jungles and dank caverns. The mini-game that will be playable through the Home interface will be a 2-D side scroller that is “reminiscent of both Contra and Out Of This World.”

The features coming from Resistance are only exciting to people who were impressed by the plot and story of this game. Like Uncharted you get to roam freely in unpopulated maps of the game with your Home avatar. The exciting feature – and I use that term loosely - is that in new levels of the game you get to intercept transmissions between US and European forces to get more of the story.

The award for best Home features goes to Incog Inc.’s Warhawk. Incog found a way to not only add a new aspect to the game, but kept in mind that the PS3 needs to start emphasizing multiplayer interactivity. With a new war room option Warhawk will give players a new level of interactivity with the online multiplayer. Players can gather up teams of eight into the Home based room to plan strategies, plot maps and launch the game. The room is said to include “sand table” maps of the level your team will launch to and from there each player will be able to discuss strategy and presumably draw lines in the sand, literally – well virtual-literally.

For everyone who said that Home is just going to be another Second Life and griped that Home will not provide anything besides roadblocks to your games… well you’re still right, but at least the third party developers have your best interests in mind.