Little Bits for August 19,2010

Along with Sackboy Junior’s recent misadventures,there’s a lot going on in the LittleBigPlanetverse:

Here in the States,the Subway sandwich company is running a promotional contest with a variety of Sony prizes,including both regular and collector’s edition LittleBigPlanet 2.  PlayStation.blog details –Subway Fiery Footlong Frenzy site –Subway Freshbuzz twitter page.  [I've [...]

Some Little Bits for August 11,2010

With thanks to tylerburritoALT and Smokeeye123 over on YouTube,I can finally get the music from the new LBP2 Adventure trailer. And since one of the replies about costumes and jumping accompanying the trailer caused a lot of excitement,and has been widely repeated,it’s worth noting Spaff’s reply to the reply:

Before we [...]

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,[...]

Blogging about not blogging

I normally dislike posts like this,but to address the concerned emails:  Yes,we’re still alive;and no,we’re not silently boycotting anything.  Busy times at work and other ongoing projects (which a few of you know about) have made it difficult to attend to the blog regularly.  And I will sheepishly admit to occasionally [...]

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 [...]

High score chasing in LittleBigPlanet?

By now you’ve all seen the Media Molecule blog entry with the patchwork of screenshots showing off the lighting effects.  If not,go look,it’s wonderful.

But let’s take a look at something (warning:large images):

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Thursday Night Tease

Uh-oh,it looks like Sackboy’s been travelling again!

More this weekend…

Largest LittleBigPlanet ads yet

Ahead of the Games Convention in Leipzig,we have this:

Video Gastronomy [updated]

Our friend the Gastronomic Gamer continues to deliver,with nine videos from the Edinburgh Interactive Festival.  I’ve re-ordered them here to push possible spoilers to the end.

First we have costume picking and messing about in the Pod,including an interesting view of some sort of debug menu.  It looks like the demoer chooses “Fill [...]

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.

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