We ran silent last week, but are back with a vengeance, check out all the great ways we are kicking off summer LBP style!

THE OFFICIAL LBP GOLF COURSE WINNERS!

The judging is FINALLY complete! After reviewing a ton of entries from all over the world, Media Molecule has finally chosen the ultimate LBP golf course! Take a look at the level list below and be sure to play them in order to get a full round of LBP golf.

A generous golf clap to all the entries, thanks so much for your patience! Congrats to the winners below — a LBP Prize Crown is in your future!

North America
Driving Range : LBPGolfNA - Driving Range by QD0e1
Hole 1 : LBPGolfNA - Par 5 by GrittyLink
Hole 2 : LBPGolfCA - Par 4 by FULLGORR
Hole 3 : LBPGolfNA - Par 4 by JKthree
Hole 4 : LBPGolfNA - Par 4 (single-player only) by Mikestra
Hole 5 : LBPGolfCA - Par 4 by Mad_Child770
Hole 6 : LBPGolfNA - Par 4 by doppler73
Hole 7 : LBPGolfNA - Par 4 by Elvenbane
Hole 8 : LBPGolfNA - Par 5 by Reverser
Hole 9 : LBPGolfNA - Par 3 by DarqThornz

Europe
Hole 10 : LBPGolfEU Par 4 by kockle
Hole 11 : LBPGolfEU Par3 by marquise126ace
Hole 12 : LBPGolfEU Par 4 by tin-cup-70
Hole 13 : LBPGolfEU Par 4 by Marik82
Hole 14 : LBPGolfEU Par 1 by The_Killian
Hole 15 : LBPGolfEU Par 4 by AliBoy1
Hole 16 : LBPGolfEU - Par 5 by Mephistofes
Hole 17 : LBPGolfEU Par 4 - Sack-Swingers Golf Competition by TOM_TOM1993
Hole 18 : LBPGolfEU Par2 by fananyone
Clubhouse : LBPGolfEU - Clubhouse by potormon3000

NEW LBP TEE AT HOT TOPIC!

Check out the newest addition to the LBP wardrobe now on sale at Hot Topic. Be sure to score this tee before it sells out so you can remind everyone that Sackboy means “LOVE.”
Click this link if you want a list of where they are available!

LBP DLC This Week

FREE SUMMER SOLSTICE Costume!

Summer is upon us and to celebrate, we are hooking you up with this free costume for one week only. Back in the day the ancient Druids used to celebrate the beginning of the hottest season of the year, so dress your Sackperson up in this great get up including a very sweet, extra long beard (Don’t trip over it!).

“ARTIST” STICKER PACK- Jon Burgerman $1.99

If you haven’t heard already, Mm is teaming up with some of their favorite artist for a series of Sticker Packs! The first in the series is from artist Jon Burgerman, a great artist whose work can be seen on shirts, toys, and galleries all around the world! Now you can have his art all over your levels! Be sure to visit MediaMolecule.com to read an interview and to check out more of his art!

VOTE FOR SACKBOY!

Visit Gametrailers.com today where they are holding “Gamer’s Choice 2009,” and place your vote for Sackboy as the Favorite New Character. He may be going head to head with Nico from GTA IV, but we are confident Sackboy will overcome!

Team ICO Pack available now!

For those of you who saw the fun teaser trailer last Friday on www.mediamolecule.com, you know that the Team ICO pack is hitting the store this week. A set of five costumes, plus some stickers and sound effects, all based on Team ICO’s classic and widely loved PlayStation games ICO, and Shadow of the Colossus.

Over the course of the week Media Molecule revealed the costumes, and took a closer look at the games that they came from. You can read each individual post and look at the costumes in more detail over on the Media Molecule blog.

The Team ICO Pack is available right now on the PSN Store and costs $5.99

Team ICO Pack contents

• Ico: Hat, Tabard, Trousers (pic)
• Yorda: Dress, Wig
• Wander: Wig, Tabard
• Gauis Colossus: Head, Torso, Feet, Skin
• Quadratus Colossus: Head, Wander doll, Hooves, Skin

This pack also contains a selection of stickers, and some new sound effects.

Each costume is also available individually for $1.99 as well!

LBP at E3 2009

LBP was well represented at E3 this year. LittleBigPlanet PSP made a sweet debut on the PSPgo and was playable for the first time at the show earning great impressions and award nominations from both IGN and 1UP! As many of you know this title will offer the complete LBP Experience, now letting people Play, Create, and Share on the go and I’m sure you’ll agree, it’s looking amazing on the PSP. If you didn’t see the trailer yet, here you go:

Check out David hanging out with Qore host Veronica Belmont-

Lucas ended up doing some interviews with some fansites.

Overall, it was great to have these two representing our community and can’t wait until our next event to invite more of you out.

Sackcast

Sackcast is a new community podcast, and they released their first episode last week. In the premiere episode, the guys discuss some community levels, ideas for their own levels, and answer a few questions from the Mm community team. Check it out below, oh and don’t forget to head over to their website too!

LittleBigHouse

At the start of last week we received an email from a very proud father. His Son Ben had been tasked with decorating his house as part of a town Gala. He chose to decorate his house LittleBigPlanet style – check it out! Ben will be crowned for his creative efforts, we should probably get him to come and decorate our office.

LittleBigPodcast Interviews Media Molecule!

To celebrate their 20th Episode, our friends at LittleBigPodcast scored a great interview with Media Molecule. Take a look!

We are kicking off the week with some fun news bytes as well as introducing a great new program we are launching this week called “the patch”. Great week to all!

LBP Originals on THE PATCH

As most of you know, we’ve been spending the past few months touring and showing LittleBigPlanet at various promotional events. We’ve had the pleasure to meet a wide variety of great personalities from artists, to athletes, to musicians and allowed them to get their hands on LBP Create tools. Some provided great inspiration, some were extremely hands on, and in the end we came up with some great creations together, levels that in one way or another say something about what they are about. This Friday, you’ll be able to go online in LittleBigPlanet and check out a new hot spot destination on called “the patch”.

On “the patch” you’ll find LBP Original levels created by inspiring individuals and interesting personalities. For our first showcase, we are spotlighting Joe Vaux, Sarah Burke, and Nathan Cabrera. Throughout the week, you’ll hear from several of them and their own experiences creating their LBP Original, so stay tuned the rest of the week and find out what other personalities you’ll find on “the patch”.

PREPARE TO BE JUDGED WALLPAPER

Judge Dredd is getting closer to LBP and to celebrate Media Molecule is hooking you up with some cool wallpaper for your computer.

SACKBOY SPIDER?

We found this online and we thought it was a photoshop job, but this is an actual spider. We couldn’t help but be reminded about our favorite character. As much as we love Sackboy, not sure if I want to catch this guy in my kitchen…or anywhere.

DRESS-A-SACKBOY FLASH AP

For those of you who want to have a SackBoy fashion show, be sure to visit LBP fan, Takorii and make your own LBP outfit on the fly.

THERE BE MONSTERS IN LBP   

Monsters are invading LBP this week with a new Creation Kit plus new spooky costumes!

May 21st : Monsters Kit : $3.99

The Monsters Kit arrives and is the first of a new kind of content pack we’ve got heading your way in the coming months. Described broadly as a Medium pack, the Monsters Kit contains a large amount of creative goodness for you to use in your own level designs. It also includes a gallery level showing off the contents of the kit.

• Ready made pieces : Rotary Saw, Mannequin Head, Mannequin Legs, Mannequin Torso
• Primative material : Orange fabric, fish scales, reptile skin, eggshell, Chesterfield
• 26 Monster decorations including witch nose, tentacles, splat, rusty nail and much more
• 96 Monster theme stickers
• Horror sounds : A goodly number of suitably grim sounds to help with your creations.
• Music : “Party Ghouls’ Music” (interactive track)

May 21st : Monster Costume Pack : $2.99

To accompany the Monsters Kit come four fangtastic costumes that are sure to entertain. These costumes are also available individually for $0.99 each.

• Sackula costume : Count Sackula hair, Count Sackula legs, Count Sackula jacket and cloak
• Bride of Sackula costume : Bride of Sackula hair, Bride of Sackula legs, Bride of Sackula dress, Bride of Sackula cloak
• Werewolf : Werewolf head, Werewolf torso, Werewolf tail, Werewolf trousers
• Zombie : Zombie torso, Zombie legs, Zombie skin

Spring is in the air and we've some fun stuff this Friday and some hints on things to come.

LITTLE DAFT PUNK

Whether you dig Daft Punk or not, check out this great video and bob your head a bit to kick off the weekend.

About the internet buzz regarding Judge Dredd possibly enforcing justice in LittleBigPlanet…

• Thor costume : Thor's helmet, beard, belt and wristguards, legs, Thor's Hammer
• Valkyrie costume : Valkyrie helmet and braids, Valkyrie jerkin and cape, Valkyrie boots
• 10 Norse theme stickers

Greetings LBP'ers, today on Sack it to Me our SackBoys can walk like Egyptians, Media Molecules gives us the sweet low down on the recent Creator Pack, and we see how the a little fox's struggle for a LBP Crown goes bad.  Enjoy and have a great weekend!

QUEST FOR THE CROWN
This LBP "Fanamation" by Sarah Miscavage shows little fox's search for an LBP Crown will make some of you laugh.  Wouldn't be surprised if Sarah has a crown waiting for her in her future.

Some people were confused about how to access the new creator pack content once it was installed, so Mm made a video showing the sweet in-game tutorials made for the new objects.  (The Infinite-Life Checkpoint tutorial is just ruthless!)  Remember that Creator Pack 1 can be downloaded for FREE from the in-game store, right now! Once downloaded, you can play the following levels by going to the LittleBigStore and finding the creator pack queen icon.

Don't forget Kai, Nariko and Stickers in the Heavenly Sword Mini-Pack ($2.99)

"Hey Mark...I got Nariko already and I'm not really a into Egyptian myth ever since those "The Mummy" flicks.  What I do dig are characters from Norse Mythology?"

Great weekend to all!

Happy Wednesday LBP’ers! Today we got a few cool news nuggets from the world of LittleBigPlanet including tips from MM, in-depth GDC interviews, and some relaxing musical numbers. Have a great week!

LBP TIPS SPECIAL- Switchers
Danny and Mark present the second episode of Media Molecule’s official Tips and Tricks series. This time – switches! The video includes one shot switch mechanisms, counting mechanisms, delay mechanisms, multi-task switches and simple logic test mechanisms.

GDC INTERVIEW- Lessons Learned from Creating LittleBigPlanet
Guardian Games Blog did a cool interview with Alex and Mark at GDC a few weeks ago. For anyone who is interested in what goes in to creating a game like LBP, it’s a great piece to watch.

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CORNISH YARG (PATCH 1.12) and MONKEY KING COSTUME REMINDER
Per our update last week, the next LBP content patch is hitting your consoles tomorrow with a new music player, improved decoration mode, and tons of upgrades and options. We can’t forget the winner of the Asian LBP Costume Competition - THE MONKEY KING hits the PS Store tomorrow as well!

 

Hey guys,

Welcome back to another episode of "Sack it to me".  We have a quickie today, but a good one...

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LittleBigPlanet Content For April

It's that time again! Here's the scheduled release dates for additional LittleBigPlanet content for the rest of this month and the start of May.

Those of you who keep an eye on these updates will notice that the Heavenly Sword mini-pack has moved back by two weeks, however in its place is the extremely cool Rag Doll Kung Fu costume pack which now launches on the same day as the game comes to the PlayStation Network Store.

The big news for April however is that the 1.12 "Cornish Yarg" update is being released which provides some new features along with some fixes to problems reported by the community. Also included in this update is Creator Pack 1 which contains some very cool new devices, gizmos and tools to help you build your levels. Should the date for the release of the Cornish Yarg update change we'll inform you ahead of time, but right now it's looking good to go for April 16th!

For those of you that love more info, check out MediaMolecule.com for details in detail, of the detailed detail...

April 9th : Rag Doll Kung Fu Costumes : $5.99
To coincide with the release of Rag Doll Kung Fu on the PlayStation Network Store we've put together some great costumes and themed stickers. Contains :

• Hero costume : Hero hair, jacket, trousers, skin
• Master Hip costume : Master Hip trousers, shirt, hair, skin
• Master Sin costume : Master Sin hat, jacket, nails, trousers
• Master Tang costume : Master Tang hat, moustache, jacket, fish, trousers, skin
• Sung Ling costume : Sung Ling hair, top, trousers, skin
• 36 Rag Doll Kung Fu theme stickers

• Patapon costume : Patapon skin and head-dress, Patapon Axe, Patapon Bow, Patapon Sword

• Monkey King costume : Monkey King Crown, clothes, tail, staff, skin

• There is a new music player which lets players choose their own music from the XMB to play during create mode and in their Pod
• Improved decoration mode makes it easier to customise your Sackboy
• Option to delete all (unhearted) community objects and photos
• Option to select whether to automatically collect community prizes and photos
• A number of improvements have been made to make profiles more robust and to recover from certain errors
• We now support Japanese and Korean IME for text chat.
• Emitter prediction has been improved (this should help fast-moving projectiles e.g. in MGS levels)
• The player proximity switch now has a ‘require all’ option in it
• An option has been added to cycle between various level information when viewing community levels on the earth
• Various LittleBigStore improvements

• Infinite lives checkpoint
• Visibility tweak option on certain joint objects (to hide these in Play mode)
• Global settings object (to trigger lighting changes)
• Tetherless jetpack
• Angle range proximity switch (additional functionality on proximity and magnetic key switches)

• Nariko costume : Nariko sword, wig, dress
• Kai costume : Kai hat and hair, dress, gloves, boots, skin
• 27 Heavenly Sword theme stickers

• Anubis costume : Anubis mask, Anubis robes
• Sekhmet costume : Sekhmet mask, Sekhmet robes
• 10 Egyptian theme stickers

• Thor costume : Thor's helmet, beard, belt and wristguards, legs, Thor's Hammer
• Valkyrie costume : Valkyrie helmet and braids, Valkyrie jerkin and cape, Valkyrie boots
• 10 Norse theme stickers

Happy Friday to all take a peek at some happenings in the world of LittleBigPlanet!

Sack's Anatomy
Many people wonder what SackBoy is made of on the inside.  Is it cotton stuffing?  Pure creative energy?  Who knows?  While this might be a point of speculation and debate, that didn't stop Jason Freeny from making his own guess and doing this great render.

Check out his other anatomy images as well!

AROUND THE WORLD in 80 SACKBOYS
Check out this new promotion that our friends across the pond is doing via their new YouTube channel.  While I'm not sure if us US folks can participate, you have to love the video.

PATA-PATA-PATA-PON!  New costume, 3 Weapons, Get your Pata-On!

GET YOUR BUZZ ON YET?

    

KILLZONE Mini-Pack-  When did futuristic warfare get so cute? 

FORE!  The Golf Course Challenge 

 

Just in case you missed it, earlier this week we kicked off the next LittleBigChallenge to celebrate SackBoy getting integrated into Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds.  For all of you searching for Prize Crown glory, tee up and get creating!

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