A Gentle Reminder

…that the “Little BIG Music” album was released today (at least on iTunes).  Buy it!

LBPDPMUZIK

For as long as we’ve been talking about LittleBigPlanet, music has been a big part of the equation.  First the brilliant use of The Go! Team in the original demo; then a whole generation of gamers being introduced to Battles, Jim Noir, Ananda Shankar, and others; and finally the unfortunate Tourmani Diabaté controversy.  I was [...]

The scissors are the barbers

Not sure why I didn’t find this when I first looked, but if you’re curious about the real lyrics to “Atlas” they’re here on Battles’ MySpace Blog [warning: strong language in comments].

Post-Beta Pre-Launch Blues Part Five

More things to see and read while we wait:

Going to be in London next week?  I’m not, but MyLittleBigBlog is giving away two tickets to see Irish supergroup The Script at the LittleBigPlanet space in Covent Garden on Monday.  So go send in an email, and get out of the house and enjoy some culture [...]

Post-Beta Pre-Launch Blues Part Two

First, without commenting directly on the recent unpleasantness, I’d like to give some words of encouragement to our friends at Sony and Media Molecule.  I’ve been part of enough suddenly-delayed releases to know what a horrendous pain it can be.  If any of you have time to read this between frantic phone calls and urgent [...]

Pax in bello – gloria mundi

Lots to report, before anything starts coming in from PAX:

First of all, the LittleBigPlanet News Site is showing off the official boxart for the USA [thanks Brian!].  I can’t decide whether I like the UK packaging better or not.  I like the USA crowd better than just showing two Sackboys, but the use of the [...]

Lovely Leipzig

The video of the LittleBigPlanet portion of Sony’s press conference is up on GameTrailers (part one, part two).  Items of note:

Saved sets of material/clothing/etc in the “My Costumes” section of the Pop-It.
“The planet holds all of the levels: the user created levels, as well as the developer levels on the Blu-Ray.”
The man who comes on [...]

Answers from Edinburgh

The intrepid Gastronomic Gamer has posted his report from the Edinburgh Interactive Festival.  He managed to get almost all of your questions answered, so go on over and take a look.  Just don’t quit reading early; the last paragraph is, to me, the most important.

Music, Sweet Music

Ever since its first showing, a lot of us have felt the strong musical vibe of LittleBigPlanet.  Many gamers became overnight fans of The Go! Team, or Battles, or Jim Noir after the release of a new LittleBigPlanet trailer.  Others have more exotic musical tastes to share with the world.