Post-Beta Blues –Part One

Time to put the PS3 controller back on the shelf and dig into my inbox:

Those of you experiencing withdrawal can pour salt in your wounds by watching some Beta levels you may not have had an opportunity to play.  Wired has a top 10,Media Molecule has their Mmonday picks (1st Monday,2nd Monday).

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PAX and Plush Toys and More

PAX

A games blog over at the Portland Mercury seemed impressed by LittleBigPlanet,and were nice enough to point out something that I think is being largely overlooked:

Unlike most world-building games,this platforming section is robust enough to functionally be its own game,much to the delight of those who don’t have [...]

Good times are coming your way

First of all,if you haven’t yet,go take a look at Media Molecule’s Leipzig photos.  Simply amazing.  And to those who ask “What about lighting?  Can we make dark levels?”,you might spy an answer in this image.

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Lots of Leipzig

The official PlayStation Blog has a missive from Pete Smith,detailing some of the Leipzig LittleBigPlanet experience.  I think it’s pretty popular:

There are over one hundred seats available to play the game from and every one is occupied –plus there’s a queue.

But the most important question is “Will we be seeing more [...]

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 [...]