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):

16 Cards of Retailer Education

With a game like LittleBigPlanet, educating people is a major hurdle.  Most of the games press seem to understand now, with notable exceptions, so it seems we’re on to the retailers.  Unfortunately, this is more of an uphill battle, as my attempts to pre-order successfully have shown me.

So it’s good to see that SCEA has [...]

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 [...]

Interview Central

As the days tick away toward “October”, more and more of the fans’ questions can be definitively answered.  Following Gastronomic Gamer’s report from Edinburgh, and the appearance of an answer-laden Sony employee on both sides of the Atlantic, now the renaissance of LBPCentral.com continues as they receive answers to their questions from Mark Healey.  The [...]

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 Inventories”, [...]

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.

The mailbox earns its keep again

Mostly the same article (with somewhat different pics) is available online.  Like most things in EDGE, it’s worth reading the whole thing.  Especially the part where Mark Healey says the game “might be crap”.

It is interesting to see the Media Molecule is still hiring, though.  I would apply, but they’ve seen the limit [...]

E3 Season Press Roundup Vol. 6 [100th post!]

[Edit:  WordPress informs me that this is our 100th post!  Hooray!]

Still treating Comic-Con as part of E3 Season.  In case you missed them, check out Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, and Vol 4, and Vol 5.

Alex on epic 1UP Yours podcast

[Note: The 1UP Yours podcast is rated R, or M, or 18+, or whatever.  Especially this one.  So don't go listening if you shouldn't.]  [Also note: Possible spoilers.]

Media Molecule’s very own Alex Evans made a guest appearance on 1UP’s epic end-of-E3 podcast.  Alex joins the poolside group around 46 minutes in, and we get to [...]