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Creators Are Happy With LittleBigPlanet Sales

LittleBigPlanet will probably be remembered by a lot of people as one of the most innovative games of last year. It gave players the opportunity to test out their imagination and create levels for this addictive puzzle platformer title, which could then be shared via the PlayStation Network with other people.Despite ...

5 January 2009
09:01 GMT

Some Companies Are Happy with Their IPs in LittleBigPlanet

LittleBigPlanet is one of the most innovative games that have appeared this holiday season. It won over quite a few people with its interesting puzzles but didn't really get off to a great start in terms of sales, as Media Molecule, its developer, and Sony, its publisher, hoped it would. However, as the holiday...

30 December 2008
02:58 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Sweeps Edge Awards

Edge, the videogame magazine published by the Future media group, has announced the recipients of the 2008 Edge Awards, presented each year to those titles influencing the industry and changing players’ expectations.The big winner of 2008 is the PlayStation 3 exclusive LittleBigPlanet, created by Media Molecule...

28 December 2008
05:26 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Gets Metal Gear Solid DLC for Christmas

LittleBigPlanet is probably one of the most innovative games that have appeared this holiday season. It provided a unique twist to the usual puzzle platformer genre, enabling players to create their own levels via the unique tools that were made available by its developer, Media Molecule. Also, as Sony, its publishe...

23 December 2008
15:01 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Receives New Updates

Among all the holiday titles this year, one particular game really stands out from the entire bunch of shooters or Role Playing Games, LittleBigPlanet. Media Molecule's puzzle platformer has promised to deliver gamers a completely innovative experience, in which they can create their own levels, using the tools ...

22 December 2008
11:01 GMT

Media Molecule Promises Innovative LittleBigPlanet DLC

There have been quite a few high-quality, triple-A titles that have appeared this holiday season, which led a lot of industry analysts to state that 2008 has been a great year for games. We've seen quality shooters like Resistance 2 or Gears of War 2, but also RPGs like Fallout 3 or Fable II, though a very surpr...

18 December 2008
13:01 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Brings New Goodies for Its Users

LittleBigPlanet is certainly one of the most innovative titles that have appeared this year. It won over the hearts and minds of quite a lot of people when it was first introduced by Sony, and, although it didn’t have a good start, it still hasn't lost the confidence of the Japanese company, which expects ...

17 December 2008
09:01 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Is Getting a Massive Patch

LittleBigPlanet is certainly one of those videogames that can be very successful in the long term if the publisher and the developer take the time to invest the resources needed to create a true gaming community around it. And Sony and Media Molecule are apparently ready to give the title a chance with the level of s...

12 December 2008
06:07 GMT

Knit a Real Life SackBoy This Christmas

As reported yesterday, LittleBigPlanet, one of the most interesting videogames launched for the PlayStation 3 in 2008, is definitely among those titles well suited to be played with the family this Christmas. Now, a United Kingdom based magazine is offering gamers a chance to create a real life SackBoy that they can ...

10 December 2008
19:31 GMT

Games for Christmas: LittleBigPlanet

As Christmas approaches, many of us will have more time to play games. Yes, Christmas is all about going back home and hanging out with family and old friends, enjoying good meals and nice drinks. But between the meals and the presents and the, hopefully, snow, there’s certainly a bit of room that can be dedica...

9 December 2008
20:21 GMT

Sony Is Improving LittleBigPlanet Level Moderation

LittleBigPlanet appears to be one of the most hyped up titles this holiday season as Sony promised that the puzzle platformer would give PlayStation 3 users the most numerous creativity options they could think of.The game emphasized the fact that players, through their SackBoy or SackGirl characters, could create th...

4 December 2008
11:01 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Might Receive Street Fighter Costumes

The PlayStation 3 has suffered for quite some time from lack of quality games, though titles like Resistance: Fall of Man, Motorstorm, Uncharted or Metal Gear Solid 4 have struggled to show that, first and foremost, the PS3 is a gaming console, and then a media hub.But now it seems that things are beginning to look u...

2 December 2008
02:22 GMT

PlayStation 3 Celebrates Thanksgiving, Offers New Goodies

Thanksgiving will take place tomorrow and people in North America can hardly wait to celebrate one of their country's most important holidays. Turkeys are now becoming more and more scarce as families gather to honor this very special day.Sony hasn't neglected this holiday and is really pulling out all the ...

26 November 2008
07:01 GMT

Sony Says LittleBigPlanet Gets Better as Time Goes By

LittleBigPlanet was a hyped-up game that totally changed the way we looked at other titles. The fact that you could create your custom levels and interact with the environment in every way possible made quite a lot of players buy it, but the sales figures didn't really make it a very successful title for the Pla...

24 November 2008
09:01 GMT

Sony Is Proud of LittleBigPlanet but Thinks It Can Do More

LittleBigPlanet was supposed to be an innovative title which would make PlayStation 3 users very happy with their console. It was designed to be a very popular game, which would push the sales of the Sony made device up the charts, and make it a clear winner in the following holiday season.Unfortunately, all tha...

20 November 2008
15:01 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Celebrates PlayStation 3 Birthday with Contest

The PlayStation 3 has just turned two years old, celebrating the first launch of Sony's console in Japan, which took place in the middle of November. A lot has happened these past two years, and although the Japanese company hoped that the PS3 would dominate the market, like its predecessor, the PS2, such a thin...

19 November 2008
03:45 GMT

Nintendo Talks About User Generated Content

Nintendo has always been a popular company, largely due to the fact that it brought titles that appealed to a wide variety of gamers and gave players a great experience. Although some people say that, in this endeavor, the Japanese company lost track of the hardcore gamers, efforts are being made to keep the interest...

17 November 2008
15:01 GMT

Video Game Awards Nominees Have Been Announced

As the holiday season draws near, most videogames-interested media entities, from gaming magazines to sites, tend to get ready to announce the awards for 2008 for the games they consider the best of their categories for the year that is coming close to an end. Spike TV, the cable network channel that offers substanti...

17 November 2008
03:57 GMT

Sony Issues LittleBigPlanet Deletion Rules

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has decided that the use and abuse of LittleBigPlanet cannot continue, and has decided to issue a document offering players who use the level editor a very clear set of rules that are designed to make sure that no more levels need to be deleted.There are more than 84,000 levels crea...

14 November 2008
05:26 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Level Moderation Policies Make Users Angry

LittleBigPlanet was hyped up as a game which took user creativity and content sharing to new heights, largely due to the fact that players could change the environment of the game with their own SackBoy or SackGirl character.Media Molecule, the developer, and Sony, the publisher, both said that players would have fre...

10 November 2008
15:01 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Will Not Have an Image Importing Feature

LittleBigPlanet is finally getting on its way, now that the European release of the game is ongoing, following the recall prompted by Qu'ran verses played over the music it featured. North America already has access to the game and its servers, which were down following serious overload in the first days, as th...

5 November 2008
12:11 GMT

Boku Is Microsoft's Answer to LittleBigPlanet

Microsoft Research has unveiled something called Boku, a game/editor for the PC and the Xbox 360 and aims to allow users to create their own gaming experiences in a way not too different from the LittelBigPlanet videogame Media Molecule has created for the PlayStaton 3.The tool, which is still in development, has bee...

3 November 2008
21:31 GMT

LittleBigPlanet DLC Coming to PlayStation Store This November

LittleBigPlanet is a very popular game which gained a lot of critical acclaim due to its innovative gameplay and the fact that you can create your own levels to share on the PlayStation Network with your friends.The level of customization is really amazing, players having the ability to completely manipulate the...

31 October 2008
10:01 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Still Has Server Issues

Sony is saying that there's still no clear explanation for the issues that LittleBigPlanet seems to be encountering when going online. On Monday, the people at Media Molecule were very proud when the servers for the game were switched on, enabling players to put levels online and to collaborate on design. On Tue...

31 October 2008
06:34 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Launch Dates Pushed Back

Sony is now saying that its flagship title LittleBigPlanet will arrive in North America on October 27 while in Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the game will come “no later than the week commencing Monday 3rd November”.The delay was caused by complaints from various Muslim groups regarding some of t...

21 October 2008
21:11 GMT

Spore Developer Really Likes LittleBigPlanet

Will Wright is one of the biggest creative minds in the gaming industry, having brought to the market huge hits like The Sims and the more recent Spore. All of his titles have focused on the creativity of the player and he has exploited that, making the games as addictive as possible for every kind of gamer, be it ha...

21 October 2008
04:02 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Bundled with PS3

Australian customers are in for a treat from Sony. The company has staged a media event to announce its results for the year and to show off its latest promotions regarding the upcoming Christmas period.Sony is saying that all those who buy a PlayStation 3 beginning with October 23 will also receive a copy of LittleB...

17 October 2008
15:01 GMT

PlayStation Channel Debuts on YouTube

Sony is really eager to get news regarding its gaming consoles and the video games it is developing to potential customers and apparently the content that's available on the PlayStation Network is not enough anymore. The company has decided to partner up with YouTube, the biggest videosharing site in the world, ...

15 October 2008
15:31 GMT

Gamer Uses LittleBigPlanet Level to Propose to His Girlfriend

Gamers aren't regarded by the general media as romantics because their competitive nature and will to win every game make them look like people with no social life or the ability to be romantic and care for someone else. However, when you have a game that brings creativity to new heights, like LittleBigPlanet, t...

13 October 2008
03:26 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Beta Custom Levels Making It to Final Version

It seems that this fall is a season for videogames which target the imagination of the players. Spore has sold well on the promise of allowing you to imagine, design and then play with creatures and now LittleBigPlanet is getting ready to launch, promising to permit players to design any adventure they wish.At the To...

10 October 2008
22:31 GMT

No Price Cuts from Sony This Holiday Season

If you are one of those people who have stalled buying a PlayStation 3 because of the price and because of the upcoming holiday season, which will be filled with price cuts and wonderful bundles that just might make it worth it, well, in the past years, things might have gone that way but you're wrong this time ...

9 October 2008
03:26 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Might Come to the PSP

LittleBigPlanet is certainly hot property when it comes to PlayStation 3 games. Sony is probably expecting the Media Molecule designed game to drag the sales of the PS3 up come Christmas, alongside the release of Fallout 3 and Resistance 2. And if it does a good job, then Sony might just need the same game to salvage...

6 October 2008
15:41 GMT

People Are Selling LBP Beta Keys on the Internet

We recently reported that Sony wants to test the dedicated servers which its blockbuster title LittleBigPlanet would be getting on launch day and released a beta of the game. Also, as a token of appreciation for all the support the developers got during the making of this game, they released several thousand beta ke...

30 September 2008
03:13 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Not Getting Online Creation Tool on Launch

It seems that one of the most interesting features of LittleBigPlanet will not be available when the game launches. Sony says that the online multiplayer version of the level creation tool which is integrated in the game will only get to players as a patch which will be released after the game is out. The offline cre...

29 September 2008
05:31 GMT

Sony Offers 25,000 Free Beta Keys for LittleBigPlanet

As we said on previous occasions, LittleBigPlanet is one of the most anticipated games for the PlayStation 3, and with all the hype going around, the little time left until its launch seems like an eternity for the fans. In order to ensure that everything will run smoothly when the game launches, Sony wanted to test ...

26 September 2008
04:47 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Trophies Detailed

LittleBigPlanet is going to be out on October 21 and the game is seen as one of the major reasons to get a PlayStation 3 this fall. Recently we have received news of the Trophy list for the game and we've got them all lined up for you to see.Most of the Trophies in the game are Bronze ones. You get one for compl...

24 September 2008
16:21 GMT

Get Your SackBoy Creation into LittleBigPlanet

Media Molecule announce the launch of a contest which is aimed at choosing three SackBoy costumes that will be offered for free in LittleBigPlanet. There will be one SackBoy or SackGirl chosen for North America, one for Europe and one for Japan; the deadline seems to be September 30, at least for the North American p...

8 September 2008
16:51 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Beta Is Coming

Sam_Protagonist, who is a developer on LittleBigPlanet, has posted on the PlayStation forums confirming that the game will get a beta in early October, as it nears its launch date. While the beta is announced, it's not clear what you need to do to get in. The developer has said that "If it will be possible ...

4 September 2008
05:07 GMT

Pre-Order Goodies for LittleBigPlanet

Media Molecule and Sony are revealing the details of the pre-order campaign that will target their LittleBigPlanet game. From the way the Sony PlayStation blog entry is formulated, it would seem that the publishers intend to make it so that each major retailer has a different promotion tied to LittleBigPlanet. There ...

7 August 2008
03:13 GMT

Game Critics Awards for E3 Decided

The Game Critics Awards is a group of journalists part of 36 North American media outlets. They are game columnists in charge of scouring the floor of E3 to see which releases are the best of the show. Of course, once their deliberations are complete, they are ready to share their knowledge with the masses. The award...

6 August 2008
03:45 GMT

PlayStation 3 Drives the Sony Games Division to Profit

Overall, Sony is not doing very well in 2008. Its net income came crashing down, reaching just about half of what it was one year ago (330 million dollars). Even if the operating costs have not gone up, a combination of competition, strong yen and problems at the Sony Ericsson joint venture have affected profits. The...

30 July 2008
03:13 GMT

LittleBigPlanet User Generated Content Will Be Free at Launch

Yesterday David Reeves, who is the head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, talked a bit about LittleBigPlanet, one of the most eagerly expected games for the PlayStation 3 which is coming in October. One of the most interesting things he had to say was that the user generated content related to the game might be ...

23 July 2008
04:12 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Can Make You a Millionare

Adding to the already extensive hype surrounding LittleBigPlanet, the upcoming game from Media Molecule for the PlayStation 3, David Reeves, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, has stated that he sees a possibility for user-generated content for the game to be monetized. Jokingly, he even said that w...

22 July 2008
03:11 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Beta Might Be Public Soon

Get ready to join the beta group for LittleBigPlanet. In a recent interview with Eurogamer, David Smith, the co-founder and president of Media Molecule, the company behind the headline title for the PlayStation 3, has stated that he wishes to create a beta that will include as many people as possible, in order to off...

7 July 2008
17:56 GMT

PlayStation 3 Cost Sony 3.3 Billion

Sony has filled a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission which details the way the PlayStation 3 has shaped how the company views the console manufacturing business, while also revealing some very interesting figures regarding its cost and how Sony plans to turn it into a profitable one.Apparently, the to...

1 July 2008
18:11 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Will Have Private Level Sharing and Customizable Characters

LittleBigPlanet is being billed by Sony as one of the most interesting games set to arrive on the PlayStation 3 gaming console this fall. Even the developers are saying that their primary fuel was "just... ambition... we didn't know we'd succeed" and that they are surprised by the extent to which Sony has p...

30 June 2008
19:06 GMT


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