Posts Tagged ‘LittleBigPlanet’
By: Jon Christensen on December 3rd, 2008 am31 4:20 am
Here is a pretty sick deal. If you head over to Amazon right now and purchase the 160GB PlayStation 3’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune pack ($499), you’ll get LittleBigPlanet for FREE!
So not only do you get Uncharted, which is easily one of the best games to come out for the system — you get maybe the best game of the year in LittleBigPlanet. If I already didn’t buy my system on launch, I would be all over this.
If you’re on the fence with this one — act now because there is only 500 of these puppies available.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 30th, 2008 pm30 9:12 pm
Everyone wants to get in on the LittleBigPlanet craze (well the craze is at least in my head). First we had Konami allowing Metal Gear skins to be available as a DLC for the game. And not to long ago we heard rumblings that disney might be lending some of their famous characters as well.
Now, according to a spanish site, Capcom wants in. The website published pictures of SackBoy dressing up as four separate fighters from their series Street Fighter. Not a bad idea from Capcom considering they just released Street Fighter II HD and right around the corner is their forth installment of the franchise.
Obviously from the picture above, SackBoy will be playing as Ryu, Guile, Chun-Li and Zangief.
As of right now, a price has yet to be listed, but if it’s anything like the Metal Gear Skins; it should be about $1.99.
(via ripten)
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By: Jon Christensen on November 21st, 2008 am30 3:24 am
People who complain about the level editor in LittleBigPlanet just need to bash something that they don’t have. Of course it’s nothing like creating a mod on a PC, but that wasn’t Media Molecule’s intention. Remember, not everyone is hacker savvy enough to create a Simpsons virtual world while using the Quake engine.
MM’s goal was simple, to have everyone play with a level editor that is easy to use but yet have a lot of depth to it and let the player use their own imagination to create a 2D level. Not to make it complicated and only have a few people enjoy it; we do in fact live in a casual gamer world now. However, I really don’t think the developers thought they would have seen some of the amazing levels that have appeared on PSN. And the video up top is no exception.
A user had the crazy idea remaking Duck Hunt using LBP. Even though it’s not perfect, it’s still incredible nonetheless.
I’m pretty sure the crazy PC gamers and fanboys of the 360 will still say it sucks — but screw them. This is pretty awesome stuff.
Now the BIG question; how long will Media Molecule delete this level from existence?
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By: Jon Christensen on November 19th, 2008 am30 1:31 am
A few months ago we reported about a contest that Media Molecule was holding. The point of challenge was to see who create the best concept of a new SackBoy in LittleBigPlanet. All the contestants needed to do was download a sheet with a sketch of SackBoy on it, and design what you’d like see him wear.
Media Molecule went through every submission and announced the verdict today. “nedbu1ou5” of Pennsylvania was declared the winner and had our favorite Sony mascot wearing a TV on his head (pictured above). Pretty creative stuff. However, Media Molecule butchered it and the final concept (below) is actually worse than the original idea.
“nedbu1ou5” version had color to it, we loved how the texture of SackBoy looked like snow from a non-broadcast television station. Media Molecules is just a boring old SackBoy with a tube on his head — cute but the other one is defiantly better. Hopefully they’ll add on the original ’static’ texture later on.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 17th, 2008 pm30 11:55 pm
Many people who think of the creators of LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule is some how owned by Sony. But the fact is the company is an independent game studio made up by a bunch of people from Lionhead (Fable). So since SackBoy’s game was released last month, the company was allowed to developed for any system, including the Wii and/or Xbox 360.
Although, according to psbeyond, Sony has possibly snagged the rights for three more titles made by Media Molecule to be sold exclusively for the PlayStation 3. If ends up being true, obviously Sony saw huge amounts of potential with the company after their last successful game LBP. Although, it is a little strange that Sony didn’t outright by MM, generally Sony would purchase a team after they worked so closely together. However, we think maybe it was Media Molecule who decided not to be affiliated with Sony and not the other way around.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 10th, 2008 am30 2:33 am
One of the most appealing aspects of Sony’s hit LittleBigPlanet is the ability to create a world and share it with the millions of people who own the game. It was a game that was solely based upon a online community — where players were encouraged to participate.
When the game was announced, everyone had the same thought — create a level from a game we loved from the past. When the beta was released over a month ago, that’s exactly what people did. We were seeing level’s inspired by classic games like Super Mario and future anticipated titles like Mirror’s Edge. Not only that, people were making levels that were completely original, for some — the game was a dream come true. The beta ended with absolutely no problems with players re-creating games in their own vision.
Apparently that has changed and the once happy LBP community, which was growing by the day — has turned ugly. Media Molecule along with Sony have been forced to moderate certain levels that were labeled offensive and/or violated copyrighted infringement. However, when we mean ‘moderate,’ we mean completely deleted. They even went further than just removing it from the online portion of the game, they actually went as far removing the level from the PS3’s HDD. Meaning, if you created a level and Media Molecule felt the need to ‘moderate’ it, you can’t even play it offline. This is something that is really crappy for people who spent hours of their own time and now can’t even access it. And it might even be unacceptable…
While we understand certain aspects need to be delated from the online community because of copyrighted martial, like using a name from a game — we think going as far to delete the full level from a users HDD is completely wrong and honestly, being to much like a ‘big brother.’
After the jump, read what Media Molecule had to say about the situation and some information we received from E3 regarding this story. (more…)
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By: Jon Christensen on October 31st, 2008 am31 2:10 am
Already bored with all the costumes that you can make your SackBoy wear? Thankfully, Sony and Media Molecule have your back. The Sony blog has confirmed that on November 6th, they’ll be giving away two free downloads that will feature a ‘pumpkin head‘ and a ‘astronaut,’ skin.
However, the free love seems to end after that because each additional download will cost .99 cents. And what’s even more crazy is the ‘Metal Gear‘ skin we announced awhile back will cost $1.99 each. As much as I love the game, I can’t see myself spending that much for just a skin. After the jump, check out the pictures. (more…)
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By: Jon Christensen on October 30th, 2008 am31 2:19 am
SackBoy has come in second place. Well the driver (Joey Logano) of his car came in 5th place at Nascar’s Memphis Motorsports Park. Thanks to Gamestop who put LittleBigPlanet on the car to promote him, we could have put Nascar on the TV and not have been bored for more then two minutes. I’m not expert in Nascar, but because of the finish — SackBoy and Joey Logano are in first place in the Nationwide Series owner standings and we think that’s a good thing. Congrats!
After the jump, check out more pictures. (more…)
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By: Jon Christensen on October 28th, 2008 pm31 3:04 pm
Yesterday we announced that the LittleBigPlanet servers were up and running. What we didn’t tell you; was that it was running like sh*t. We checked briefly to see if it was online, but we honestly didn’t check to how well it was working. However, we did later that night and boy was it laggy.
Then late last night, Media Molecule had no choice, they shut down the servers so no one could play with Sackboy online because it was just that unplayable. Here is what Media Molecule wrote on their website:
“Great gremlins and ghosts! The servers are down while we try to fix the glitching issues some players have experienced. They will be back online as soon as we have fixed the problem. Keep your browsers pointed at this post for updates.”
Because they said “Great gremlins and ghosts,” we officially forgive their errors. But our sympathy won’t last long — so just get those servers working!
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By: Jon Christensen on October 27th, 2008 pm31 3:19 pm
If you bought LittleBigPlanet over the weekend hoping to jump online and check out user created levels, only to be disappointed because you got the message saying the servers are not up. Then you should be happy to know that Media Molecule and Sony have officially put the servers up and the game is now online.
So turn on your PS3 and checkout out the endless levels created by people and make sure you check out some of the ones we showed off the past few weeks. And if you have anything interesting that you’ve made — shoot us a email at slashgamer@gmail.com and video and maybe we’ll feature it.
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By: Jon Christensen on October 24th, 2008 pm31 9:06 pm
Can I get a wahoo!? Gamestop have been calling their customers who pre-order LittleBigPlanet, to let them know the anticipated game should be arriving tomorrow afternoon. This is fantastic news, especially since most of us thought we would be getting our hands on the game this Tuesday. So three days before the release is defiantly welcoming news and makes the delay a tad easier to deal with.
It’s also been reported through various forums that Gamestop as well as other companies have already received their shipment and began selling their copies earlier in the evening. I can’t wait to start playing — it’s been almost two years in the making.
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By: Jon Christensen on October 23rd, 2008 am31 5:40 am
If you visited /gamer more than once, than you probably know my small obsession with LittleBigPlanet. I’ve come to a conclusion that I’m addicted to the game and it’s not even out in stores yet. Over the past week or so, I’ve forced myself to post as little of the game as possible because I understand over the past few months, I wrote way to much about it. But today, I came across this video which features Sackboy and I just couldn’t contain myself — I had to post it.
Zach Schumacher has created what could be my all time favorite level I’ve seen up to this point in LittleBigPlanet. And trust me, I’ve seen a lot. Not only did Zach create one of the more original levels that happen to look fun to play, and trust me again — there is a lot of crap out there, he did something I find so unique. He somehow remade Radiohead’s song ‘No Surprise‘ with the in-game music.
Now, if some of you are not impressed by his work because you haven’t followed the game to closely, let me tell you a secret — THERE IS NO MUSIC MAKER IN THE GAME. We contacted Zach and he told us how he did it:
“I actually had to recreate the song in LittleBigPlanet using a system of sensors which activate speakers playing individual notes. The notes are triggered when a ‘needle’ that follows the cloud passes over the sensors. It took a lot of planning, patience, effort, and thermometer space to build it, and as far as I know, my level was the only one with player-created music AND gameplay.”
This is truly for me — the best overall level in the game and for a couple of reasons. One, I love LittleBigPlanet and two, Radiohead is my all-time favorite band. I’m not going to lie, this whole level just boggles my mind, how on earth can some do this!?
After the jump, I’ve included the real ‘No Surprises‘ music video so, in case you’re not familiar with the song — make sure you check it out first. (more…)
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By: Jon Christensen on October 19th, 2008 pm31 11:36 pm
Media Molecule posted a statement regarding their goof for letting passages in the Qur’an in their HIGHLY anticipated game, LittleBigPlanet. While Sony ultimately decided to delay the game, Media Molecule wanted just to release the game and have a patch available on the first day. They wrote about it on their site:
“So within 12 hours of hearing about this issue involving a lyric (in Somalian, I believe!), we prepared an automatic day 0 patch and had a new disc image ready; however a decision was made within Sony that the right thing to do for quality and support of people with no on-line was to replace existing discs.”
We understand Media Molecule just wanted to finally launch the game after years of developing, Sony really had no choice but to delay the project. Since the game was announced at GDC 07′ in San Francisco, the game received nothing but praise. And if they made a decision to sell the game the way it was, they would have to deal with a whole religion giving them negative press — something Sony wants to stay away from. So as mad as we are, Sony made the right choice.
The game was supposed to be sold in stores this Tuesday but has been pushed back one week (10/27).
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By: Jon Christensen on October 18th, 2008 pm31 2:15 pm
Sony has officially delayed the worldwide release of LittleBigPlanet. As well as recall any copies that have already made its way into the back of stores for the launch — which was slated for October 21, 2008. The highly anticipated game will now be released on October 27 in the United States because an in-game song recited a passage from the muslim holy book the Qur’an.
The song to cause the delay is called Tapha Niang (top) from a devout Muslim musician named Malian kora player Toumani Diabate. The controversy surrounding the lyrics when translated in english says, “Every soul shall have the taste of death” and “All that is on earth will perish.”
The translation came from a Muslim gamer who has the user name Solid_08 on the SCEE PlayStation message boards. The post has since been removed, but thanks to edge-online he also wrote,
“We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Qur’an deeply offending…”
This was a HUGE goof on Sony’s part, as much as I am disappointed that I’m going to have to wait another week for the game, Sony should have realized there were Muslim lyrics and people of that faith do become offended when it is used for commercial purposes.
If you feel the need to comment below, please reframe from writing about your religious beliefs.
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By: Jon Christensen on October 14th, 2008 am31 3:01 am
Two of the biggest games of the year have collided thanks to LittleBigPlanet. EA’s Mirror’s Edge has been ‘remade’ in the LittleBigPlanet level editor and its pretty damn creative.
Although the video is shaky and grainy, you certainly get a good idea of the level. And the one thing that sticks out from the level are the colors. The creator of the world even had the color red guide the player while going through the level, just like what Mirror’s Edge does — pretty awesome stuff. After the jump, check out more videos relating to Mirror’s Edge and LBP. (more…)
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