E3 Press Roundup Vol. 1

The first round (of many) of press coverage from E3:

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Catching up:news and links and stuff

First of all,this music video gets honorable mention for extensive use of They Might Be Giants. GameTrailers’“Bonus Round”Episode 23 Part 2 previews Sony’s E3. LittleBigPlanet was an obvious topic,with the following exchange:

KEIGHLEY:One game I’m really excited about,Brian,is LittleBigPlanet,which I think could be —we’ve had [...]

The reason to own a mailbox (and a right big toe)

When and if the August issue of PlayStation:The Official Magazine hits the shelves near you,it’s definitely worth a read.

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Enthusiasm,Desire,and Withdrawal

The gaming press acts very much like a canary in the mineshaft to us fans. They get to hear about,see,and play games early at the various press events;as well as having access to the developers for interviews. Sure,they can (and have) led us astray on occasion;but it’s better than [...]

The Future’s So Bright…

In this month’s PlayStation:The Official Magazine:

Really.

As previously reported,one of the Media Molecule guys will be on a future episode of the PlayStation Nation podcast. Over on VGEvo they’re taking questions in a forum thread;be sure to get yours in before Monday! We’ve been disappointed before,hopefully this will turn [...]

X-Play Gets Some Access,Banjo Dev Shrugs Off LittleBigPlanet Comparisons

You can check out X-Play’s latest “All Access”segment on LittleBigPlanet,but there’s not much new. It’s just Adam Sessler talking to Alex Evans at the pre-E3 event,which has already been well-covered. There are some interesting tidbits in the visuals (click “more”below),but Alex does say:

The majority of the developer levels we [...]

Watch X-Play Tonight,Read Geekpulp Now

Before their network sells out completely to Microsoft,X-Play will be doing an “All Access”segment on LittleBigPlanet tonight,May 28th. If you can’t watch it tonight,no worries;I’m sure we’ll be summarizing it tomorrow.

In unrelated news,Geekpulp has posted a new LittleBigPlanet preview. Worth checking out for the in-game renderings of [...]

Websites,Wikis,and Five Incredible Details

Note:Fell asleep working on the Trailer Analysis finale;O Blogosphere,how I have failed thee! Will try to finish it tonight.

Good thing there’s much news to report.

Joystiq has a piece on Sony’s community website strategy,with the interesting news that LittleBigPlanet’s fate in that direction is “not decided yet”. No pressure,Sony,[...]

More previews,a word on moderation,quivery lips,a theme,and a music video

First,the preview deluge continues,with 1UP’s Garnett Lee and Kotaku’s Brian Crecente each trying to prove that they love LittleBigPlanet more.

Then Kotaku,with a mildly NSFW title and graphic,reports on the planned moderation for user-created levels:

Folks from Media Molecule told me at a recent event that LittleBigPlanet has a pretty robust [...]

Interview and links from Judges/Gamers Day ’08

First,GameTrailers gives us another interview with Alex.

We have chunks of level that you’ll just be able to win,and use in your level.

We have this awesome VCR control thing that we’re showing today as well;so you can undo and redo and it just looks like it’s rewinding the tape.

Ah-hah,so [...]