StalkingSilence of PSLS writes:
"This kind of news is always great to hear. Two of our friends from LittleBigPlanetoid have announced today that they have been appointed as community managers for LittleBigPlanet! That's right, they now are full-time employees at Media Molecule and working hard to manage all of us - the LBP community. I'm sure it can be a tough job at times, but we'd be lying if we said we weren't jealous.

Maybe Tom and Spaff can fill us in with the announcement of two new patches in the near future as well (say a deep-fried Mozarella patch or a creamy Port Salut patch?)."
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LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3 has hit a milestone with a community of nearly two million players worldwide, says Sony.
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Slashgamer Writes: It's no secret about my love for LittleBigPlanet. If the game has something new to offer, I'm going to post it and this is one of those things. While checking out some stuff on Sony's flickr page, I encountered this shirt. Apparently Sony is selling or planing on selling these SackBoy embedded t-shirts at various locations.

While trying to find out where they were being sold I found a list, which is featured after the jump, that shows the locations and how many each store received. After doing some quick research, I noticed each one of these 'malls' have a Hot Topic inside them. So we're guessing they should soon, if not already, be available at a few Hot Topics."
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GamersDigest writes;

"LittleBigPlanet, the best-selling title from SCEE allows players to build their own levels and share them via PlayStation Network. Nearly two million players worldwide have joined the LittleBigPlanet community since its launch in November 2008, where they, rather than developers, drive the experience by creating game content to share with others.

LittleBigPlanet teaches players to create as they play. Sackboy is your very own customisable character; a walking toolbox of building skills and materials that allows players to create new objects, landscapes, puzzles, characters, weapons, prizes, narratives and more. Players can also upload their own photos and media into levels straight from their PS3."
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To celebrate the release of SackBoy in Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds, we're putting together the first official LittleBigPlanet golf course where each hole is designed and created by the LBP community.
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Kotaku: "Peter Molyneux still wouldn't give up the goods on his new game at the "Lionhead Experiment Revealed" panel, but he did give us a glimpse into how Lionhead let LittleBigPlanet slip through their fingers.

The studio that brought us Black & White and the Fable games has a creative process called "experiments" where anybody in the company can take a stab at developing a game mechanic or a piece of technology to be used in a future Lionhead game. The process sounds a bit more rigorous than Bungie pre-Halo 3; but it yields some pretty interesting results.

Molyneux showed off some of these experiments - ones that worked and ones that didn't quite pan out. We saw two prototypes of the dog from Fable II: the first was a rewards system where you could pet the dog a la Nintendogs (which Lionhead eventually chucked; and the second was a mechanic of having the dog run ahead of the player instead of following behind (the status quo in the final game).

We also saw a host of technical developments - like an aging system that applies a layer of wear and tear to everything in the world (murderizes the rendering rates), and a one-button combat system where the computer decides how the character attacks based on proximity to a target (which sort of made it into Fable II).

But the most interesting thing was a "tech demo" called "The Room" - made with love by Alex, Mark and Dave. As in Mark Healey, Alex Evans, Dave Smith - three out of the four guys that formed Media Molecule which went on to make LittleBigPlanet."
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If you're a PS3 owner lucky enough to live across the pond, good news. Amazon has singled you out for savings.

Exclusive to the UK, Amazon has slashed more than 50% off of several PlayStation 3 games including LittleBigPlanet, Grand Theft Auto IV, Mirror's Edge and Tomb Raider Underworld.
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BeefJack writes: "It's not often that a politician sings the praises of the video game industry, which is why a big deal should be made of it when it does happen.

Edward Vaizey, a Conservative MP, has requested the motion that the UK government recognise the importance of the UK Video Game Industry and in particular those games created by UK developers."
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Mark Valledor from US Playstation.Blog writes:

"Today's post is going to get chessy….or Cornish Yarg-y, the code name for the 1.12 LBP game update. Check out some of the new things to expect with the update plus some other bits and pieces!

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..."
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David Smith, technical director, Media Molecule, delivered a talk at GDC on Thursday on the complexities and rewards of implementing physics in LittleBigPlanet -- with his main thrust being that although it's challenging to conform to player expectations, physics add to games in surprising ways.

When it comes to physics, says Smith, "The important thing isn't the answers we chose, but the questions that we chose to answer."

To that end, he posed several questions, and then answered them -- but was careful to note that you will have to answer these questions yourself, for your specific game.
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EuroGamer Writes:

"In a candid Game Developers Conference session, Mark Healey and Alex Evans - leading lights of LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule - revealed that the studio wants to develop the game much further.

"We want LittleBigPlanet to be something that enables people to make games, not platform game levels." Healey said the moment he'd got a working version of Tetris up and running in the game was when he'd proved to himself that the team was on the right track."
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Kodu's lead programmer, Matt MacLaurin, has said that comparisons of its upcoming XBLA game to LittleBigPlanet are caused by unfamiliarity with the genres, describing Microsoft's title as a "programming language" rather than a level-editor.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz MacLaurin said that the two titles represented "a new wave" and that the industry has "some catching up to do".
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Alex Evans, co-founder of LittleBigPlanet, talks about the games business model, future DLC and patches.

PushSquare.com: "When prompted by Geoff Keighley on the development of an LBP sequel, Alex Evans, founder of Media Molecule, answered "the whole team is working on LBP, whether that comes out in a sequel or DLC isn't an issue. We're just doing whatever we'd be doing anyway and the way that comes out isn't really important.""
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Playstation LifeStyle has just created a unique forum for user-made LittleBigPlanet levels to see just what kind of talent lies within their audience. Click on the link for more details!
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Since its launch last October, LittleBigPlanet has made a tremendous impact on the game industry and overall gaming community by allowing players from across the globe to interact through the LittleBigPlanet online community via shared levels and objects, rankings and user comments. With over 646,135 levels*(1) created by users alone, the worldwide LittleBigPlanet community continues to grow exponentially to encompass 1,934,700 total users*(2) in the LBP online community with an average of 35,373 user-generated levels*(3) uploaded each week in the short period of time it has been available.

Recognized for its unique, groundbreaking and genre-defying abilities, LittleBigPlanet continues to receive accolades from the game industry's key media outlets, which include IGN (Best PS3 Platform Game of 2008, Most Innovative Design), GameTrailers (Most Innovative Game of 2008), GameSpy (Best PS3 Game of 2008) and GamePro (Game of the Year 2008), to name just a few.
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Mark Valledor: "This week's Sack it to Me post is full of interesting flicks, crowns, and LBP invading the Game Developers Conference. Check out some of the details below."
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Joystiq.com writes: Occasionally, game developers launch press releases for no other reason than to proclaim how totally awesome their games are. One such release just landed in our inbox courtesy of Media Molecule, describing the many accolades that have been bestowed upon LittleBigPlanet -- though we were more interested in a few statistics hidden in the print: Altogether, LBP's 1,934,700-strong online community has produced an average 35,373 levels a week since the game's release, for a whopping total of 646,135 user-generated levels.
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The founder of Media Molecule, Alex Evans, said in an interview that the producer of LittleBigPlanet has at least two projects between hands. One is a PC version of LBP that, however, is not running well and nothing can ever be released.

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Gamerdeals.net writes:

"BestBuy is set to offer a free game with a PS3 console starting this Sunday, March 15, 2009.

For a limited time, you can get the innovative fun of LittleBigPlanet, the swing-for-the-fences MLB 09: The Show, or the sci-fi shooter sequel Killzone 2 free when you order a PS3 system.

Valid 3/15-3/21."
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Greetings LBP friends. If you have been keeping up with the internets or our Blog you should know that SackBoy has been seen puttering around all over these days. Whether he's in England winning awards for Media Molecule at the BAFTA or swinging clubs in other games, you'll never know when you are going to see him next. Now we know its been all quiet on the DLC front lately, but since all good things come to those who wait, here are the details on where SackBoy is going to be next!
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