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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
Yes, that is exactly what they said. Sackcake.
A Geekologie reader named Kelli made this cake for her friends birthday party:
I made the cake for my friend Marchelo’s birthday dinner last night, and everyone loved it! It was a basic lemon pudding cake with chocolate fudge frosting, all in all 2.5 cakes and 3 cans of frosting went into this creation!
She’s done a fine job at recreating Sackboys loveliness with soft spongey goodness, covered in glistening chocolate. Oh how we love you, Sackboy…
The create mode starts. With a pile of cake material.
...Skip to the end! The ‘eat’ mode starts. With the head.
Great cake construction work there. Perhaps Sony could start producing their own Sackboy cakes and sell them down at the local supermarket. Heck, in the UK you can get Super Mario cakes at Marks & Spencer, why not Sackboy?!
Be sure to check out the complete Sackboy cake photoset on Picassa.
Thanks to Twitterer Redswipe for sending this in. [Via Geekologie]
Within a few weeks of LittleBigPlanet being released, the world was amazed to see a working 8-bit calculator created in the game by user Upsilandre.
Well, a similarly amazing creation has just popped up in our Big Book of Little Levels from PSN user vinizu, who has managed to create a fully working Electronic Beat Sequencer. We’re kind of gobsmacked at this, but see for yourself in this video just exactly how complicated it is…
The level allows the player to assign different sounds that are played in sequence. Sounds are assigned by placing different coloured blocks in to any one of 8 different positions in the beat sequence. Sounds so simple, eh?
Mad respect goes out to vinizu, the creator of this level. Amazing!
Media Molecule have just released a great ‘LBP Tips Special’ video, showing exactly how to nail those survival challenges. The video ties in with the Media Molecules level picks for this week…
Be sure to check out the in-game news, as there are four great survival challenges showcased, all helpfully linked to so they’re super-easy to find and play. We played them earlier - they’re great!
You can read more about the tips video on Media Molecule’s original blog post.
If you’re one of the many people who like ninjas (and obviously, LittleBigPlanet), then you might be interested in these T-Shirts which we noticed pop up on angryninja.com. They’re fan made and totally unofficial but they do have a certain appeal. The smiley happy face on Sackboy as he slips through the night in his ninja robes is, for some people, going to be worth the $21.95 asking price.
Tenuous link: Did you know that Will Smith is producing a new Karate Kid movie,
and his son is playing Karate Kid? Crazy times.
So, if ninjas are your thing, check out the Happy Ninja Sackboy T-Shirts on zazzle.com. If however, ninjas are not your thing, then you’ll have to wait for the day that the robot/pirate/zombie Sackboy t-shirts arrive…
A fellow LittleBigPlanet fan, Leigh, has contacted us to let us know about his craft project he’s been working on.
It’s pretty straightforward: The project is to recreate Sackboy’s control Pod from the LittleBigPlanet main menu.
We think Leigh has done a great job, and he even manages to sneak some stickers in there.
Complete with Pop-it and sticker menu!
Good work Leigh! You can see more of his work on this rather fun project in his Flickr album.
Has LittleBigPlanet inspired any other community members to get the paper and scissors out, to start creating? If it has, let us know.
You may have noticed by now that Media Molecule name their patches after cheeses, the last one being called Roqueforte and the one before that Emmental. Today Mm have posted a look at their cheeseboard, a pungent selection of forthcoming patch snacks, the first of which, Edam, we should see some time in February and features some quite major bug fixes. Cornish Yarg, a cheese described as having a creamy and soft outside and a crumbly centre, will include new creative abilities - could this include the much desired image import tool? We certainly hope so!
Edam contains a set of bug fixes and is currently in testing. We are hoping for this to be out into the world by mid February (fingers crossed). Specifically the fixes are:
* Failed to save profile’ message not being displayed when a users profile is full.
* Object Capture Bug: switch connectors being deleted when an object is captured.
* Failed to load profile issue :where the user is thrown out to the XMB due to a texture that is not registered in their profile being present in their pod.
* Text not displaying in the text chat window.
* Slow rewind due to moderation check.
* Save file corruption which caused the game to crash when placing any object in an emitter in any level.Cornish Yarg contains many fabulous things, most excitingly new creative abilities – woo!! This will be a big delivery and so we want to make sure that it gets to you without any bugs and so we are planning very extensive testing which may involve some of you guys (more details out soon). This has only just started the testing process which usually takes 6-8 weeks minimum. Further announcements will be made in February.
Leerdammer: This delivery will really help people who are experiencing issues with lagging/packet loss. This improvement is still in development, which means it will be out after Cornish yarg but we aren’t sure when, rest assure Amy is hard at work. Announcements will be made throughout feb.
With no mention of a patch coming closer than February, we wonder what today’s scheduled server maintenance will bring… stay tuned!
It’s been a while, but the time has come for us to release our second Designer Sticker Pack! This month, talented illustrator Will Scobie gives us 11 exclusive stickers to download for free in LittleBigPlanet.
View the full feature for details on how to get these exclusive stickers
LittleBigPlanet has today been rick-rolled.
PSN user jjmusicman today unleashed his epic video of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. Yes, the sack-roll has come to town.
It's arguably the best LittleBigPlanet Machinima that has hit the web to date. Massive congrats to jjmusicman for the great work!
[UPDATE]
Some crazy hardcore LBP fanboys have created an official place to get Sackrolled! Check out www.sackroll.com (the site should be available worldwide within 48 hours)
The creator of Sackbook, Chris Warren, has updated his blog with word that his incredible social networking site that pulls data straight from the LBP servers, will be back this year (fingers crossed), and teases us with some new features he has been adding behind the scenes.
Sackbook opened its doors at the start of December last year, but was only open for a short time before Sony’s lawyers shut it down, to make sure nothing untoward was going on with the way it extracted data. There is no official word on the re-opening of Sackbook, but Chris seems fairly positive that 2009 will be his year.
For those waiting for an update on what’s happening with Sackbook; I’m afraid I can’t give any firm timescales as to when the site will be up and running - things move slowly at this time of year (everyone is too full of good nosh). However I have been using my time between scoffing turkey sandwiches and mince pies productively to get some funky new features on the site.
MuffinMan71 over on the LittleBigWorkshop forums reports that today he received a notice from Sony informing him that Marvel had taken offence to one of his submitted costumes, and it had subsequently been removed. After some research he notes that the offending costume appeared to be of ‘The Thing’ and that other Marvel based costumes had also been removed from user profiles.
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Whether Marvel will take this further and start asking Sony to moderate costumes in-game instead of just the online galleries is unknown, but if they did try anything, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time. In 2004 Marvel sued NCsoft, publisher of Super Hero based MMORPG, City of Heroes, citing IP Infringement. In 2005 the lawsuit was dismissed.
So how far Marvel will go is unclear, but one thing is… at a time when other companies are explicitly asking for content based on their IP NOT to be moderated, it seems that some companies still don’t get it. Of course It is possible that Marvel are preparing to create some official costumes of their own, as predicted in our top 20 run down, but even then this over-active protection of IP, and direct wrist-slapping to their own fanbase, seems over the top, rather pointless, and far more likely to damage their brands in the long run than it will strengthen them.
So. You just got LittleBigPlanet. Maybe you were one of the hundreds of thousands of people opening up the game on Christmas Day, or perhaps it was a birthday present, or gift from a persuasive friend.
Either way, one thing is clear: You’re a noob. And you probably have noob questions. So, the Planetoid is here to give you some answers to those common questions that are tormenting your mind, helping you to get on your feet and running around. Let’s get started.
