Category Archives: littlebigplanet

Tic Tac Toe In LBP [Lbp]

We were pretty certain the fully functional calculator was the most complex LittleBigPlanet mod around. Surely nobody could top that for sheer intricacy, could they?

Oh Internet, you spoil us. PSN user ‘Cristel’ has gone and implemented a basic Tic Tac Toe engine, armed only with the LBP level creator, a lot of free time and a catering sized carton of WIN.

Unless we are very much mistaken that counts as actual artificial intelligence - albeit of a simple variety. Hell, in a global thermonuclear war situation this mod could save the world, which translates as some serious modding chops.

[Thanks to Laurens Simonis for the tip]






LittleBigPlanet Free Christmas DLC Is A Two-Parter [Littlebigplanet]

Sony and Media Molecule continue to deliver free holiday fun for LittleBigPlanet with this week’s release of half of a Santa Claus outfit, with the rest of the costume due out next week.

Today players will be able to download the first half of the Santa suit, consisting of Santa’s shirt, boots, and pants. Then next week on the 18th, Sony will release the hat and beard that complete the ensemble. I suppose they could have done it the other way around, but that would have lead to an epidemic of naked Santa’s running about all over the place, and no one wants to see that.

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Introducing LittleBigMusic [Littlebigplanet]

The best thing about LittleBigPlanet is, without a doubt, Stephen Fry. But Stephen Fry, sadly, has nothing to do with this post, so we move onto the second best thing about LittleBigPlanet: it’s music.

It’s…well, it’s just not the sort of thing you expect to hear from a video game. And that’s a good thing. As is this! It’s a CD by Daniel Pemberton, who contributes to the game’s soundtrack, and the album’s called Little Big Music: Musical Oddities From And Inspired By LittleBigPlanet.

As you can probably deduce from the title, it’s not a soundtrack per se. While many of the tracks included are to be found in the title, some aren’t, but as B-sides either cut from the game or inspired by it, you’re likely not to notice the difference.

A sample of the album can be heard over on Offworld, with the album due for release on iTunes on December 15.

Only on Offworld: A sneak peek at Daniel Pemberton’s LittleBigMusic [Offworld]


Sci Fi’s Top Ten Overrated Games Of 2008 May Offend [Overrated]

On the Sci Fi channel’s gaming blog Fidgit, actor and game journalist Tom Chick delivers a list of 2008’s most overrated games that is guaranteed to piss off just about everyone imaginable.

The list is comprised of games that many would consider the very best of the year. Braid, LittleBigPlanet, Left 4 Dead, Metal Gear Solid 4, Grand Theft Auto 4 - all presented as games that don’t deserve the praise they’ve received. In his defense, Chick does offer up a pre-list caveat:

Many of the following ten games are great. A few came close to being on my top ten list … I would call a couple of them works of genius.

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Sackboy Pattern In UK’s Leading Knitting Magazine [Cross-Cultural Stiching]

Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet could be the source of the first major commercial cross-over between knitting and gaming as the UK’s Simply Knitting magazine features a professionally created sackboy pattern.

The pattern has been created by “hugely popular” knitted toy designer Alan Dart, and will produce a sackperson accurate down to the fingers. It looks far better than the official toys we’ve seen so far, plus it’s got love in it.

Debora Bradley, Editor of Simply Knitting said, “Sackboy will be tremendously popular and this is the perfect time of year to knit the little chap. Knitting and customizing him means that he will be utterly unique and a very cool accessory.

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Yup, There Are Street Fighter Sackboys [Littlebigplanet]

They’re rumour no more. Having had their cover blown a week early by some Spanish blog, Sony today revealed that, yes, there will be Street Fighter-themed sackboys.

They’ll be made available as part of this week’s PSN update, costing $2 each or $6 for all four. As leaked, there will be four available: Chun Li, Ryu, Guile and Zangief.
LBP + Street Fighter DLC @ PS Store: 12/11/08 [PlayStation.Blog]


Watch Lumines Supernova Be All LittleBigPlanet-y [Playstation 3]

Word broke last night that the PlayStation 3 version of Lumines was getting some cross-promotional help from Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet. Today Q Entertainment released video of the LittleBigPlanet-themed skin in action.

While Q Entertainment still won’t date the game more accurately than “Winter 2008/2009,” the press release says we can expect to play it “this month.” It also confirms that Lumines Supernova will support Trophies — a different story from what we heard at Tokyo Game Show. The addition is more than welcome.


Official Lumines Game Hits LittleBigPlanet [Update] [Littlebigplanet]

You’ve seen enough “game within a game” things for LittleBigPlanet to make you ill. Gradius, Tetris, whatever, it’s been done. But you haven’t seen Lumines, especially one that comes from Q Entertainment.

Yes, Q, the creators of the original, have teamed up with Media Molecule and Sony to launch an official version of Lumines within LittleBigPlanet. It’s due sometime this “winter”.

UPDATE - Lost! In! Translation! Turns out this is just a LittleBigPlanet skin for the upcoming Lumines Supernova. Still cool, just not as cool. Sorry for the confusion!

今冬配信の『ルミネス スーパーノヴァ』が『LBP』とコラボ [Dengeki Online]


Sackbook Is Facebook For Sack People [Littlebigplanet]

If Facebook and LittleBigPlanet got drunk and had an illegitimate offspring it might be Sackbook, a fan-created community website dedicated to connecting sack people with sack places for sack fun.

The creation of LBP fan Chris Warren, Sackbook is a place where players can keep up-to-date on the latest user-created levels, make friends, or simply search offline for stuff they’d like to poke at the next time they visit the game. It uses information from within the game gathered via a PSN user named Sackbook, from which the site updates on a regular basis. Registration is a bit convoluted, requiring you enter your PSN ID and then send a coded message to the Sackbook account, but after that you should be good to go.

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Behold, Japan’s Winning LittleBigPlanet Costume [Littlebigplanet]

For the launch of LittleBigPlanet, there were a number of design-a-sackboy competitions. We’ve already seen some winners, like the plantboy. Now, here’s another!

This is the winner from the Japanese design competition. He’s designed by Mixedlemon, and turned up on the Japanese PlayStation Store today. Seeing as almost everything else that’s turned up on the Japanese store made its way to the West, don’t be surprised to see it later in the week.