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.

More on LusoGamer.
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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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GOONL!NE: A little hertage here might be going on if this is right.

In the newest trailer from Ragdoll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic, it appears that Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet will be appearing in the game."
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After a little delay we're back with plenty more content to bring some new themes to your LittleBigPlanet! From St Patrick's Day to Killzone and beyond we've got something for everyone hitting the PlayStation Store over the coming weeks.

March 12 : St Patrick's Day costume : FREE (available for one week only)
Put your Sackboy in the mood for March 17th with a suitable outfit to celebrate with.

March 19 : Killzone Mini-pack
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1Up: Sony still isn't prepared to make every one of their high-profile releases available day-and-date online and retail, said PlayStation Network senior director Susan Panico at today's webcasted Morgan Wedbush Morgan Securities New York MAC conference.

SOCOM: Confrontation and Gran Turismo 5: Prologue were two PlayStation 3 releases made available online via PlayStation Network and at retail last year. LittleBigPlanet and Killzone 2, two other PS3 releases, were not.

"One of the things we found, though, was that the Blu-ray disc experience for marquee games like that [LittleBigPlanet] currently just work better because the consumer wants to go in and get that physical product," explained Panico to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. "They want to go in and get the extra goodies that they get on the disc."

There's another reason, though, one we've heard many times before.
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LittleBigPlanetoid writes: "The first screenshots of the rumoured Sackboy DLC content that is coming to Hot Shots / Everybody's Golf have hit the web. Suffice to say, Sackboy looks freaking awesome!

This could be a reason to actually get Hot Shots / Everybody's Golf if you have not already…

This DLC pack with Sackboy is available in Japan from tomorrow. We'll post news of release dates in Europe and North America when we hear of them…"
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PS.Blog, Mark Valledor says "Admittedly, this week's update is a bit on the light side - mainly because we have some great stuff that we have to wait until next week's post. But instead of not posting anything, we thought it would be best to at least update you on a few things…

MediaMolecule Podcast
As a new feature to the MediaMolecule.com site, Media Molecule has just posted the first of many podcasts. It's a new endeavor, so they're looking for feedback - so if you have any, comment away..........."
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LittleBigPlanetoid writes "Eagle-eyed LBP fans have spotted that following the 1.10 patch which came out today, an 'Ancient Monkey' costume has appeared in the icon for the 'design a Sackboy competition winners' section of the LittleBigStore.
It's highly likely that this costume will be free when released, as all the other 'design a Sackboy competition winners' have been free. Everyone loves a freebie right?"
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LittleBigPlanetoid writes "Patch 1.10 is now live, and weighs in at 22Mb. It went live early this morning (GMT time).
As far as we know, it's a data patch (as opposed to an updates patch - a cheese). Data patches contain new costume data, allowing you to see those costumes when you're playing online, for example."
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LittleBigPlanetoid writes: "But it works both ways, and Sackboy is starting to find his way in to other games. A Little Big Planet PlayStation Home space is already in the works, Sackboy PSN avatars are coming soon and don't forget that last December it was rumoured that Sackboy will be coming to Hot Shots / Everybody's Golf 5.
The most recent appearance of Sackboy's friendly face is in SingStar (yes, we play SingStar and love it very much). It's been live for some weeks now, but you can buy a Little Big Planet wallpaper from the SingStore (99p in the UK).
The wallpaper theme allows you to play SingStar with Little Big Planet background music, an animated background of various stickers moving in and out, plus of course: Sackboy's smiling face…"
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Chris Hinojosa-Miranda // Associate Producer, SCEA writes:

"It brings me great pleasure to inform you that yesterday marked the anniversary of a very special day in Patapon history…P-DAY.

It was a year ago (plus one day) that millions of spear-wielding, music-loving, monster-fighting, stew-making, desert-crossing, drum-beating Eyeballs invaded homes across America with their hypnotic mind-altering songs. It was on that day that the skies darkened with spears and arrows; it was this day that Zigoton blood saturated the earth. Many Patapon's fell during the great battle for Earthend… and those who survived… well you know how the story ends.

So to honor this great and momentous holiday, this Day of days, we here at SCEA feel that its only fair to officially announce that the tribal drums of war have started to beat once again… the dark hour of dance-battle is upon us…

Patapon 2 is in the horizon! Oh-Yeah!"
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LittleBigPlanetoid writes: "Need we say more? Oh OK then fine, The US Playstation blog today confirmed these new costumes, to coincide with the release of Patapon 2! Geif!"
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Mark Valledor, Marketing Manager for SCEA, writes:

"As promised from this week's Sack it to Me post, we are introducing more ways for our LBP Community to obtain the rarest of rare DLC - the Community Prize Crown. Up until now, the only time we (SCEA) offered up the Crown was as a prize for a few of our LittleBigChallenges. With our fan base becoming more and more active, we wanted to give our LBP Community members more chances to be "crowned". Here's how:

First off, a few notes: in order for us to contact you, you must have a PSN account in the US, and have opted-in for marketing materials (under Notification Preferences in PSN Account Management.)"
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Retailer Amazon.com on Thurs. price cut Sony Corp.'s LittleBigPlanet for the Playstation 3 to under $47 in a new round of video game discounts.
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Following on from the big announcement that Sony is working on a Playstation Portable version of Little Big Planet, Sony has been keen to point out today on its official blog, that this will not affect the continued content support for the Playstation 3 version.
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Taking place on Thursday April 23rd at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London, this year's MCV Industry Excellence Awards will be the most hotly-contested ever, with 17 accolades up for grabs, across a diverse range of categories covering the entire industry.

Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sega and Activision will battle it out for the Games Publisher Award, whilst individual titles Guitar Hero World Tour, GTA IV, FIFA 09, Fallout 3, Wii Fit and Call of Duty: World At War compete for Game Campaign.
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