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Lockwood Publishing
Lockwood Publishing, Ltd. is a video game developing company located in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire in the United Kingdom. The company was formed in 2009 by Halli Bjornsson and Joel Kemp to publish content for Sony's newly launched social platform PlayStation Home. The content for PlayStation Home was developed by Outso and then published by Lockwood.

PlayStation Home
The initial publication by Lockwood for PlayStation Home included a range of animated virtual items, such as animated t-shirts and glowing neon furniture. Animated items did not have a presents within Home before this time. Lockwood continuously strived to push the boundaries with later releases, such as Sodium One in December 2009. Sodium One's purpose was to create an alternative reality allowing participants to partake in activities to earn sodium credits unlocking further Home content for their avatar. The main features of Sodium One included the Salt Shooter game, scorpion stomping and bartending at a virtual bar called Scorpio's.

Lockwood have expanded outside of the Sodium universe and now have the largest catalogue of downloadable Home content. The most notable successes by Lockwood Publishing include the Dream Universe and Gift Machine which are constantly being updated.

Avakin
Similar to PlayStation Home, Avakin is a social platform allowing users to create their own virtual avatar. Currently Avakin is playable on android devices, Ipad/Ipad mini as well as a range of web browsers for free. Users can expand their experience by purchasing an in game currency called Avicoins.

The initial release allowed users to change the design of their avatar using a choice of clothing items and then participate in a multiplayer game of poker.

Lockwood later expanded the service to include Avakin Life and Avakin StarStyle. The app has been downloaded over 2.5 million times since it's release

Other Notable Releases
Past projects which are still playable within PlayStation Home include Uproar, a multiplayer shooter game and Mercia Fractured Realms, which is a quest based adventure game. Lockwood have stated that there will be no further updates to these games.

List of Home Spaces

Sorted by Release Date- Most recent first

Charity Projects
Lockwood Publishing have a keen interest in environmental conservation and this has been incorporated into some of their releases within Home to raise money for charities.

In August 2012 Lockwood released a companion bundle for PlayStation Home to raise money for the Red Endangered Animal Connection Trust (REACT). In total $2,273 was raised through the sale.

Carrying on from the success of the REACT campaign, Lockwood launched a second set of arctic companions to raise money for the Icelandic Environment Association (LANDVERND).