European Unity

Franco-American fans like myself have noticed some similarity between a set of LBP ads being shown in France and those in the UK:

Cullen Family –French,English.

Rock’n’Roll –French,English.

LittleBigPlanet rules in either language,but I would’ve loved to see a French translation of “Play with everythiiiiing!”.

Has anyone seen any other [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

YouTubey Ambiguity

Sony sent out a press release today announcing the launch of their PlayStation YouTube channel. One paragraph in particular caught the attention of the few LBP fans not already camped out at their local video game retailer:

In the future,PlayStation’s YouTube channel will feature a user-generated content section within the channel,as publishers [...]

日本のBundles and the Adventures of LiBits

[Update:It may be Fumitsu who spoiled this Sony TGS announcement. IGN has the story.]

They may have to wait a bit longer for it,but LittleBigPlanet fans in Japan have some additional options for their purchase:

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More Parsons Magic

While the internet’s going Beta crazy,some more has come out of the Game Jam at Parsons:

This appears to be the animation in the winning creation’s creature’s brain..?

MTV’s Multiplayer blog did a time-lapse of Team Awesome building their level. Team Awesome co-won “Most Innovative”;the lighting,the crazy platforms,the high jumps.. can’t [...]

A little viral marketing?

Another quick just-the-video blog post,I’m afraid:

But very very cool.

GameTrailers PAX08 LittleBigPlanet Walkthrough in 6 Parts

More video from PAX. Either start here,or let’s see how the embedding works:

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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 [...]

New Trailer –“Adventures of Sackboy”

[thanks for the heads-up,serendipiddy!]

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