Little Bits for October 1,2009

Media Molecule’s desire to work with Studio Ghibli is old news by now,but it gives me an excuse to use one of my few pictures from our visit to the Ghibli Museum. Based on some comments I’ve seen,I think I should point out that the NowGamer competition for the custom Mm PS3 [...]

Little Bits for Sept 16 2009

Only a few bits today,as GDC Austin is keeping us busy:

Frugal Gaming Forum is holding a contest,with a Sackboy included in the grand prize. A quick look at Amazon US sees LittleBigPlanet still at #81 after 369 days in the top 100.  The only other (non-Nintendo) console games I see with [...]

Little Bits for September 5,2009

The big news,of course,is the upcoming LBP demo and GOTY edition. A lucky homemade Sackboy who got to go to PAX. Gamers Couch reviews LittleBigPlanet.  A somewhat tardy yet very positive review,while pointing out two legitimate issues with the user content system (instead of just saying “user-generated content is bad”,like [...]

Little Bits for April 27,2009

All of the cool kids in the UK are picking up LittleBIGPlanet for ten quid or so,while it’s still over $30 everywhere I look in the USA.  (But then,sometimes prices are a bit inflated.)  Either SCEE feels that it’s worth discounting to attract people to PS3,or they expect to make back [...]

Little Bits for April 21,2009

Reminder:(unless they’re lying to me again) IFC will be showing the Interactive Achievement Awards tonight at 8pm EDT.  They’re actually airing commercials for it,so I doubt it’ll be pushed back again. Since everyone in the known universe follows Stephen Fry on Twitter,it’s now well-reported that he’s voicing LittleBIGPlanet PSP.  To be [...]

Little Bits for April 18,2009

More info on the upcoming LittleBIGPlanet merchandise keeps popping up.  We’re all keeping our eyes on the Mezco Toyz product pages,and I’ve heard tales of some already earmarking $42 for a direct pre-order of the 4-inch figures,even absent a release date.  Evil Avatar points us to a $34.99 listing at Entertainment Earth,[...]