The Valentines Goodies Pack goes on sale in Europe today, £2.39 / €2.99, and like the previous Festive Goodies Pack, it includes a whole bunch of new stickers, materials and decorations to get creating with. Incidentally, the U.S PlayStation Blog yesterday said this pack was ‘free’, though we think that surely must be a mistake, so we’re expecting a $2.99 price tag when it hits the U.S store later today.
Let’s take a look at what you get for your money…
12 Stickers
- Rabbits
- Kitten
- Blue eye
- Diamond Ring
- Cupid
- Boy
- Girl
- Butterfly wing
- L’amour
- Heart
- White Dove
- Pink Ribbon
7 Decorations
- Blue heart
- Pink heart
- Cupids bow
- Cupids arrow
- Cupids wing
- Kissy mouth
- Red rose
5 materials
- Valentines fabric
- Rose basket
- Valentines wrapping paper
- Candy box
- Chocolate bar
2 costume items
- Heart shaped glasses
- Tango rose
1 Object
- Cloth kitty*
* Still need to double check that, ahem
All in all, there are some great pieces in this goody pack, we especially like the chocolate bar material! Tasty, tasty, very very tasty.
Fingers crossed for an Easter Goody pack!
An LBP session has been added to this year’s Game Developer’s Conference in San Fransisco. Entitled Media Molecule: ‘Winging It’ - Ups, Downs, Mistakes, Successes in the Making of LittleBigPlanet, the session will be delivered by Mm studio founders Mark Healy and Alex Evans.
Mark Healey and Alex Evans will discuss the processes behind the making of a game designed to bring creativity to the masses. MediaMolecule was founded around the concept of ‘creative gaming’, and LittleBigPlanet (LBP) is their first take on this very broad idea. They’ll discuss the choices, as well as routes they rejected, in the effort to make game creation fun.
The talk will also include some examples of the surprising ways that small creative building blocks, whether delivered as DLC, or user created, can be combined to create a wide variety of games. It’s these building-block extensions that will hopefully keep the future of LBP as fresh as its past.
Interesting stuff, surely a must for you developers out there, in between coffee and keynotes.
A while ago we wondered if anyone had been inspired by LBP to get out the scissors and glue, and asked people to send in any creative bits and bobs they had made, boy did we open the floodgates…
Below is a selection of the things we’ve been sent, apologies if we missed out something you’ve sent in, there’s rather a lot of it, give us a gentle nudge in the comments and we’ll find any missing ones!
First of all we’d like to point you in the direction of this Flickr pool of handmade Sackboys, run by members of Ravelry an online textiles community. There are so many examples of awesome sackboy in there, there’s simply not enough room to fit them all on here, so here are two that caught my eye… check out the Flickr set to see the rest!
Next up is this super cute and super fluffy sackboy from Keren, who says “Hes a lifesize (8cm) needle felted sackboy made using wool and a special barbed, very sharp needle” Ouch!
New yorker Elizabeth shared her love of LBP with us by sending us some shots of her two home made shirts, and also window decals that adorn various parts of her house, most notably her fridge and lightswitch. We really love that angry Sackboy guarding the bottom of the fridge!
That’s all from this roundup, although I’m fairly sure more sackboys are sitting in our inbox going unnoticed. Anyone else made anything? Let us know!
To celebrate the release of the Valentine’s mini pack on PSN this week, Mm and Sony have created this romantic wallpaper for use on your PS3. We’ve also resized it a bit to fit on a PC / Mac desktop, aren’t we kind?
The wallpaper will be released officially through the Media Molecule site tomorrow morning, but has been supplied to us and other fansites early through the Sony / Mm fansite program (thanks Sam!) - so get it whilst it’s hot!
Download the wallpaper in 1080p for your PS3, or for your PC / Mac in either Widescreen (1920x1200) or 4:3 (1600x1200), and also a larger version of the poster image we used above. Anyone out there got the skills to make some PS3 icons to go with it?
Update:Mm have now updated their Flickr feed with more of these lovely wallpapers, and they should be on PSN too!
Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, the legendarily harsh games reviewer from The Escapist Magazine’s Zero Punctuation has reviewed LittleBigPlanet. We’ve secretly been hoping for him to review LittleBigPlanet, and it’s finally arrived. Brace yourselves.
Contains swearing (duh!).
We’re simply not going to comment on this review, as all of Yahtzee’s reviews are, amongst other things, pure 100% flame bait; so we’ll kindly decline the offer to make any remarks about the review whatsoever and save typing out the words ZOMG, PS3LOL or WTFBBQ.
Doh, too late, just did it.
Though, if you’re new to Zero Punctuation, then we suggest you watch the Super Smash Bros Brawl review and then the mailbag showdown which followed it.
The GTA IV review was good too, though once we start listing the good reviews, we’ll be here all day. Go watch them all.
LittleBigPlanet has today been awarded a Platinum Sales status by industry group ELSPA, meaning the title has now sold over 300,000 units in the UK.
300,000 units in the UK alone, for a new IP launching during the busy Christmas period - is really great news. It comes just a few weeks after it was revealed that sales in North American had reached 610,000.
Christmas is always a competitive time of year to launch a game. Recent sales figures for multi-platform titles Mirrors Edge and Dead Space - both also new IP’s, show they’ve shifted just over 1 million units last year. LittleBigPlanet has surged past 1.3 million unique users playing online and is rumoured to be at the 2 million sales mark worldwide. An impressive feat for a new IP, exclusive to a single platform.
Via EDGE Online
SCEA Community lord, Sir Sam_Protagonist, popped into the official forums today to give us word that patch 1.09 is in testing and isn’t too far from release. 1.09, also known as Edam, is set to contain a selection of major bug fixes, and Sam breaks them down for us below:
- “Failed to save profile” message will now display when a user’s profile is full
- Object capture bug where connectors would be deleted when an object is captured is resolved
- “Failed to load profile” issue will no longer cause players to exit to the XMB
- Text will now show correctly in the text chat window
- Slow rewinding due to moderations checks is resolved
- Save file corruption causing the game to crash when placing any object in an emitter has been resolved
Whether this is the full list or not is unkown, but the sooner this patch comes to town, the better!
[UPDATE]
We thought this article needed something appropriate and we think we’ve found it. Edam, Tarquin, Edam.
(Posted by Tom who has a thing about chins. Anyone who plays SingStar online will know his chin very well…)
The community-created craftwork is storming the Planetoid like a Trans-Europe Express. Today we’re checking out a lovely papercraft Sackboy designed by Zelas on DeviantArt. He’s been on the interwebs a while now, but we thought he needed highlighting once more.
The great thing about this design is that it’s super-easy to make. Simply print out the PDF design, cut it out and glue the labelled tabs together. Et voilà! Your very own papercraft Sackboy!
We think he’s super simple, super cute, and generally super - thanks for asking. Check him out:
The perfect companion to any desk!
Once you’ve printed out the 3-sheet cutout, all you need is some scissors and glue!
Download the PDF and get creating!
Much love goes out to the creator of this lovely Sackboy papercraft pattern, Zelas - you can find him on diviantart and also on etsy.
Keep sending in all your great home-made creations! Contact us to send in your photos.
Update:Regular reader Redswipe posted in the comments to this article after completing his own version of the papercraft sackboy, check it out!
The sneaky observant 20:20 vision folks over at the Playstation Lifestyle blog noticed something special in the background of one of the photos on the Media Molecule Flickr Stream - a big whiteboard with what appears to be the cheese patch release schedule.
The text doesn't tell us *much* more than we already knew, and knowing this industry, this is about as reliable as that guy that stood you up last year, HOWEVER, and it's rare for us to warrant the use of all caps like that, the board does contain some UBER SECRETS. See there we go again.
| Patch number | Patch name | Patch type | ? | ? | ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBC | Jarlsberg • 2000 AD |
Data | Legal | - | - |
| 1.09 | Edam • Priority Bug Fixes |
Code | n/a | In test | n/a |
| TBC | Cornish Yarg • Tutorials • Online Create |
Code | 23 January 28 January |
End Jan? | |
| TBC | Leerdammer • (TCP/IP) |
Code | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| TBC | Stinking Bishop • Arcade Pack |
TBC |
If this board is to believed, Online Create is scheduled to appear along with Cornish Yarg, officially scheduled for mid-March, and some new previously unknown patches have appeared.
The new patches are named Jarlsberg, a mild cow's-milk cheese with large irregular holes, which appears to contain something related to British Sci-Fi Comic 2000AD, and Stinking Bishop, a soft washed-rind cheese, that will contain something known as the "Arcade Pack".
One interesting note is that just out of sight we can see 1.08, which is listed as a data pack rather than a code pack, a patch we know contained only costumes. The 2000AD Jarlsberg patch is also listed as a data patch hmmmmmmm.
Your guesses are as as good as ours, but many, many things spring instantly to mind as to what these patches could contain, especially for the Arcade Pack - leave your thoughts in the comments!
Many thanks to everyone who sent this in - Barnsey313, Stalking Silence, CJSgamer, and MrGrey from LittleBigLand.
[UPDATE]
Media Molecule have now removed the photo from their photo stream, adding it to their private collection. However, you can see the original photo of 'super-serious' Media Molecule Art Director Kareem Ettouney here. For camera meta-data nerds, the photo was taken on January 23rd at 18:21 with a Panasonic DMC-LX3 at a shutter speed of 10/500 at f/2.8, 400 iso, although that information is truly gratuitous.
The LittleBigPlanet community has been creating an astounding amount of community levels since launch and the latest figures being reported from Sony, show that there are over 350,000 community levels to date. That’s a lot of levels.
On average, that’s a brand new level being submitted every 30 seconds. Tick-tock, there goes another one!
Of course, the difficulty with having so many levels is actually finding the ones you like, and with the latest features in game allowing for searching through tags, keywords, ratings, users and other parameters - that whole process is much easier now. Which is a good thing, when there are ‘over 9000’.
Via Electric Pig (we’re not sure what an Electric Pig is exactly, but we want one. It sounds like Spider Pig but even more awesome)
Well, it’s not surprising really. LittleBigPlanet players snapped up the MGS4 DLC goodies like nobody’s business during January, firmly placing both the premium level pack and the costume pack at numbers 1 and 2 respectively for January’s top downloads from the PS Store.
Awesome sauce. Everywhere.
It’s also interesting that the list, revealed in the latest episode of U.S downloadable PSN gaming show Pulse, features 6 items in the top 10 that are related to LittleBigPlanet. The game is seriously hammering the nail of DLC and additional content - the flag-bearer, if you will.
LittleBigPlanet: All your DLC belong to us.
Via PS3 Fanboy
A 400 page LittleBigPlanet desk-calendar has been produced by some clearly sensible people in Poland, at Sony Computer Entertainment Polska.
Sent out as a promotional item, It features all all the things you’d expect to find in a calendar, but it’s the frankly awesome never-before-seen cripsy clean big renders that make us drool and want it like no other calendar we’ve ever seen before. Check it:
Super shiney happy cover
It’s a wowboy!
International talk like a pirate day isn’t until September 19th, btw.
Incidentally, if anyone at ‘SCEP’ (or anywhere else for that matter) has one of these lying around, feel free to send us one. Pretty please.
More about it over on the Kotaku article
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