LittleBigPlanet [PS3] - Out Now!

[JP]

Some photos from some US toy fair.




Hopefully the pirate means that we'll be getting the pirate levels that were shown pre-release.

[Number45]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/littlebigplanet-sweeps-aias-awards

Eight awards at the AIAS.

• Overall Game of the Year: LittleBigPlanet
• Console Game of the Year: LittleBigPlanet
• Computer Game of the Year: Left 4 Dead
• Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction: LittleBigPlanet
• Casual Game of the Year: Braid
• Fighting Game of the Year: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Handheld Game of the Year: God of War: Chains of Olympus
• Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
• Cellular Game of the Year: Spore Origins
• Role-Playing Game of the Year: Fallout 3
• Racing Game of the Year: Burnout Paradise
• Outstanding Achievement in Game Design: World of Goo
• Adventure Game of the Year: Mirror’s Edge
• Sports Game of the Year: NHL 09
• Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year: Command and Conquer 3: Red Alert
• Action Game of the Year: Dead Space
• Family Game of the Year: LittleBigPlanet
• Outstanding Achievement in Animation: Prince of Persia
• Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction: LittleBigPlanet
• Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering: LittleBigPlanet
• Outstanding Character Performance: Sackboy in LittleBigPlanet
• Outstanding Achievement in Story - Adapted: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
• Outstanding Achievement in Story - Original: Fallout 3
• Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play: Left 4 Dead
• Outstanding Innovation in Gaming: LittleBigPlanet
• Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack: Rock Band 2
• Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design: Dead Space

[Matt]

All well deserved, LBP is brilliant.

Not sure I'd call Braid a "Casual" game though

[Ouenben]

I'm quite surprised by LBP getting Family game of the year!

[Ouenben]

And some more IGN cherry-picked levels...

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/953/953315p1.html

IGN need to get with the times of embedded videos. I don't want to open a new page everytime I want to look at a video they reccomend watching

[Number45]

Damn straight. I also hate the fact that their "Download Now" links dont... download... now. Ugh.

[JP]

[Number45]

http://www.mediamolecule.com/2009/02/25/shiny-new-search-features/

New search options:

In addition to the Author search (put @ in front of the search word to search by Author) there are now some more new search methods.

Search for words in Level Title only

To search for words in Level Title only, put a $ in front of the search word . For example, to search for levels with ?Frenzy? in the Level Title type:

$frenzy

Search for exact words

To search for exact words, use single quotes, like this:

?frenzy?

This will search ONLY for the word ?frenzy? in Level Title and Level Description (so no fonzy, friendzy, fencey, frendy, frondy, fwendy, etc,etc).

Search for phrases only

To search by phrase, say, ?The Mighty Tower of Ultimate Doom?, use double quotes, like this:

?The Mighty Tower of Ultimate Doom?

This will search only the Level Title & Level Description for exactly that phrase.

Combine Searches

If that?s not enough for you (whaa?!?) you can even combine searches! What do I mean? Well, say I wanted to search for ?Marks Multi Mega Marvellous Mashing Machine? by ?MarkLovesMashing9988′, I?d type in:

$Mashing @MarkLovesMashing9988

Which will search for all levels with ?Mashing? in the Level Title that also has ?MarkLovesMashing9988′ as the author.

Or I could type:

?Mashing Machine? @MarkLovesMashing

Or.

$Mashing @Mashing

I could go on, but I think you get the idea?

On top of all that, the default search is now less fuzzy. So, what you search for will show less results but be of a higher quality. Basically, it?ll find less but what it finds will be a more exact match to your search word.

[JP]

News on the next update.

CORNISH YARG (aka 1.12 game update)
We don?t yet have a fixed release date for this update, but it has now finished primary development so won?t be too much longer. Additional fixes, particularly for online connection reliability and save game/profile size problems are already well into development and we?ll bring you more news on that just as soon as possible.
This update addresses several outstanding issues with the game:

• There is a new music player which lets player?s choose their own music from the XMB to play during create mode and in their Pod
• Improved decoration mode makes it easier to customize your Sackboy

New options to help prevent profiles becoming full of unwanted community objects:

• Option to delete all (unhearted) community objects and photos
• Option to select whether to automatically collect community prizes and photos
• A number of improvements have been made to make profiles more robust and to recover from certain errors
• We now support Japanese and Korean IME for text chat.
• Emitter prediction has been improved (this should help fast-moving projectiles e.g. in MGS levels)
• The player proximity switch now has a ?require all? option in it
• An option has been added to cycle between various level information when viewing community levels on the earth
• Various LittleBigStore improvements

New LBP Shirt at Hot Topic!
Since you sold Hot Topic out on the last shirt we told you about, they went ahead and got another one! Go online can score this one quick or visit your local Hot Topic on this list. FYI, they usually sell the S-XL size tees at $19 each and XXL at $21.

[ne0star]

So is this actually coming to the PSP in its own title or simply as functionality to connect to the PS3 version?

[Number45]

Full PSP version of the game I believe. Obviously there will be concessions, but they've said the core of the game will remain intact.

[ne0star]

Cool cheers

[Darwock]

Very hard to imagine how the creation aspect will survive with the PSPs limited memory.. unless a 8gb memory stick is mandatory or something?

[Number45]

http://www.mediamolecule.com/2009/04/30/free-sackboy-for-every-man-woman-and-child-of-the-uk/

Get your requests in!!

[Darwock]

Done, but why do you need to subscribe to the youtube channel if you can send an email instead? There's no connection between the two...