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Christmas Day is but one sleep away now, so hopefully your presents are all wrapped and under the tree, your stockings are hanging up over the fireplace and you are all ready for your annual visit from everybody’s favourite jolly old fat man!

Before you all head off early to bed though, we have some festive cheer to spread around the LittleBigPlanet community including some wonderful levels and a few other treats for everyone.

Sackboy’s Winter Wonderlands

With Christmas approaching, the LittleBigPlanet community have been out in full force with their festive creations to bring some holiday cheer to the Sackfolk across LittleBigPlanet.

There’s lots of cheer to spread around this festive season, so head on over to our list of Winter Wonderland levels to find all sorts of fun and frolics for the Sackboys and Sackgirls of LittleBigPlanet, young and old!

Pick Up Your Festive Goodies!

Time is running out to pick up all of the seasonal content for LittleBigPlanet! If you want to add some festive cheer to your creations or even just want to add a bit of a snowy touch to your levels, then you’ll definitely want to pick up these exclusive packs.

The Festive Minipack, the Santa Costume and the Winter Creator Kit are all available now but time is running out to download these great packs because they will be gone in the New Year and if you miss them now, you will have to wait another year for them to return.

A LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Christmas Countdown!

Over the last week, a group of creators on LBPCentral.com have published a wonderful series of Christmas and Winter themed levels.

So head over to the Vita Christmas Countdown and check out the great levels that were published this week!

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks – Holiday Edition!

Whip up a mug of hot cocoa and put on your favourite fuzzy socks, because we’ve got a LittleBigPlanet Karting Holiday treat for you this week too! Including a wintery race through snow-capped mountains, three separate Holiday Wonderlands, and even a Christmas carol, these tracks are sure to set the mood for the season for even the fastest of Sackfolk! Enjoy!

CHRISTMAS WONDERLAND By ChimpFinger

Winter Epicness By Tony_Too

Wintery Wonderland By Lelack

A Christmas Carol By LeiLacBP

Christmas Wonderland By Ferkel

Stocking Fillers

If you’re really looking to add some festive cheer to your Sackperson’s life, then you’ll want to check out the LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross-Controller Pack and the Marvel Costume Pack 5 that were released on the PlayStation Store last week!

Since it’s the season of giving, we’ve even put together a brand new wallpaper to celebrate the release of the LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross-Controller Pack for you all.

We also released a brand new Marvel Heroes wallpaper last week, so if you happened to have missed it, we’ve got it here again for you today.

The LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross-Controller Pack and Marvel Costume Pack 5 are available now, so be sure to head over to the PlayStation Store to get these great add-ons for your game today.

Oh and don’t forget to keep an eye out for Marvel Costume Pack 6 and plenty of brand new DLC releases for LittleBigPlanet in the New Year!

Put on that Christmas Music!

If you haven’t checked out the Craftworld Christmas Collaboration just yet, then what are you waiting for? This great level is offering a great collection of seasonal tunes for you to pick up and add to your own levels, which is truly in the spirit of the season.

When you’re looking to crank up the Christmas jukebox this year, be sure to load up this great level and add some quality LittleBigPlanet Christmas tunes to your day!

Craftworld Christmas Collaboration: Music Giveaway! By CraftworldCollab

See You in the New Year!

Just one final message from the LittleBigPlanet Team and myself to say thank you for such an amazing year, we have seen plenty of exciting new developments for LittleBigPlanet with the release of two brand new games and some fantastic DLC releases throughout the year!

This is only possible due to our continued support from our amazing community and we cannot wait to see what our amazingly creative community will bring to LittleBigPlanet in 2013.
Merry Christmas from all at the LittleBigPlanet Team!

LittleBigPlanet Karting is packed to the brim with opportunities to customize the way you play, from dressing up your Sackperson in the latest Sack styles to decking out your Pod with all the trappings of home. With that in mind, we’ve collected this list of handy tips and tricks that you can use to get the most out of the huge breadth of customization options available to Karting fans. Fancy yourself the creative type? Leave your own tips and tricks in the comments!

Basic Customization

• Stickers and Decorations can be positioned using Left Stick and rotated / resized using Right Stick. Using the two together allows you to place them pretty much wherever you’d like – with one exception…
• While in the Pod, your Sackperson and Kart face forward by default – which means, normally, the back of both would just be out of reach. However, we included a feature that allows you to rotate them using R1 and L1 (Right Stick when the Popit is open), so you can customize those hard-to-reach locations just as easily!

Sackperson

• Trying to customize your Sackperson but his Kart is in the way? Press Square (while in the Pod editing Stickers and Decorations) to prompt him to exit the Kart and stand on his own feet. He’ll even hold still for you while you decorate him!
• Feeling uninspired? Try the “Random Character” feature in the Characters Popit menu – it’ll instantly choose a random selection of clothes, accessories, and other items for your Sackperson to wear.

Karts

• You can apply Stickers and Decorations to any location on your Kart’s body. Used in combination with the previous tips, this allows for a plethora of Kart customization possibilities: paint jobs, mufflers, even spoilers!
• You can customize the sound of your Kart just as easily as you can its look. Simply head over to the Kart Sounds page in the My Karts section of your Popit to fine-tune the sound of both its engine and its horn.

Pod

• Although the game camera doesn’t usually move in the Pod, while placing Stickers and Decorations it will automatically adjust to allow you to see what you’re working on. Use this to your advantage – it allows you to customize more of your Pod than you would be able to otherwise.
• The openings on the left- and right-hand sides of your Pod are actually solid windows, which means you can easily apply both Stickers and Decorations to them. Keep this in mind – it allows for much more variety in your Creative efforts.

Popit

• You can “Heart” any Popit item (Stickers, Decorations, etc) and they’ll automatically be added to a dedicated Favorites menu in your Popit. This saves a lot of time, especially if you find yourself using a certain Popit item regularly.
• Popit items are already categorized for you, but you can also create custom categories and assign Popit items to them. Simply press Square on any item and choose the appropriate Categories option. With this feature, you can essentially customize the layout of the entire Popit.
• The far-right page of the Popit is dedicated to the PlayStation Eye – if you have one, you can use it to take pictures, turn them into in-game Stickers, and then place them on your Sackperson, Kart, or any other Sticker-able surface you want. (This is also a great way to add custom colors, patterns, or other options to your Creative palette.)

Miscellaneous Tips / Tricks

• If you’d like, you can actually customize the look of both your Earth and your Moon as well. While in your Pod, grab hold of the in-game Dualshock and head to Me > Decorate. From there, you can use Materials to alter their basic appearance and Stickers & Decorations to fine-tune their look further.
• Almost everything that you can customize – your Sackperson, Kart, Pod, Earth, and Moon – can all be retained via their respective Save options, so don’t worry about losing your work if you want to try something new.
• If you make a Sticker big enough, you can use it to apply certain colors to your Sackperson, Kart, and other customizable items. This allows you to use one or two colors from the sticker without showing the full design, making it a really useful tool for deep customization.
• Want to get right to customizing? You can pick up the Timesaver’s Pack for $2.99 from the PlayStation Store to instantly unlock all Stickers, Decorations, and other in-game items!

Institute of Play: Playmakers

Playmakers looks into the latest innovations for creating and learning. Some time ago they paid a visit to Media Molecule to take a look into how LittleBigPlanet is leading the way in community development and community game design.

Take a look at this video from their visit and you’ll be able to hear some of the Molecule’s very own insights on just how LittleBigPlanet is a new and exciting learning tool that has helped develop a community full of game designers and reviewers.

To read more about Playmakers and their visit to Media Molecule, take a trip over to the Playmakers website.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

This week’s Mm Picks include an incredible arcade shooter that will see you taking on waves of enemies and facing challenging bosses, a rather retro ball-rolling maze that will see you trying to roll your way to the exit, and finally, we have a curling mini-game that’s fun to play with all your friends.

Craftworld Aleste クラフトワールドアレスタ By Stellakris

That A-Maze-Ing Way (1P) (Updating) By D_1998_BR

Space Curling [jpn] By wakityan

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks

We’ve got a fantastic array of LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks for you this week, including a slick race through a temple dedicated to scorpions, a moonlight drive through a royal manor, and even a romp through a futuristic, geothermally-powered city (yes, that means magma!). It’s exciting stuff!

Scorpion Temple By prob_alex

Seventh Heaven By leklack

Moonlight Manor By Breezy-The-Pro

SKATEPARK!! By gabyclank

Magma City Xtreme By patof-103

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Game Update 1.02 – “The Online Patch”

On December 4th, the latest update for LittleBigPlanet Karting went live. Important changes and improvements include:

• Numerous online syncing improvements
• Repaired crashes / locks related to playing online
• General performance fixes (online and offline)
• A number of Controlinator-related fixes (some related to online syncing)
• General navigation improvements for the “Monster Trucks” Story Mode track (in The Progress Emporium)

Want to discuss this update and the recent fixes further? Then head over to GetSatisfaction and let us know what you think.

LittleBigPlanet Karting Fansite Kit

The LittleBigPlanet Karting Fansite Kit has arrived! Featuring a comprehensive set of in-game images, fonts, icons, renders, screenshots, and more, this is the ultimate collection of LittleBigPlanet Karting content. Interested? Download it here!

The Festive Minipack and Santa Costume Return!

What a whirlwind year this has been for LittleBigPlanet, we recently released two brand new games and we’re now heading into December, which can only mean one thing — Christmas is on the way!

To help kick the festivities into gear, we will be re-releasing the Santa Costume and Festive Minipack this week, which you can use to help craft your own Christmas creations.

This is just the beginning of the fun though! The Winter Seasonal Creator Kit will be seeing a release later this month too and we even have a couple more surprises for everybody to look forward to… More news on those soon, so stay tuned!

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

The Mm Picks this week include some classic platforming fun which finds Sackboy in A Sticky Situation, a real-mind bending journey through reality in Gap the Mind and a wonderful puzzle game in Drop Puzzle.

“A Sticky Situation” By cdcUS97

Gap the Mind By se-mi92

Drop Puzzle (1P) By simora2873

Seasonal Spirits Crown Contest

Whilst everybody is getting ready to join in the holiday cheer, the folks over at LBPCentral.comand LittleBigNetwork.com are doing things a little differently this year and are working on putting together a particularly Creepy Christmas with their new Seasonal Spirits Crown Contest.

The rules are fairly simple, just create a new level featuring a real mash-up of Halloween and Christmas themes, and then let the fun begin!

For full details on this new contest, head on over to LBPCentral.com or LittleBigNetwork.com now.

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks

Over on LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, we have another great community level for you to play. Skanda Heaven by o-tera brings 8-bit gaming back to your Vita. This level definitely deserves a download and play!

SKANDA HEAVEN [INTRO] By o-tera

SKANDA HEAVEN By o-tera

Create Your Winter Wonderlands!

It’s December now and you have just picked up your Festive Minipack and Santa Costume, so all that is left to do is to decorate LittleBigPlanet with some holiday cheer.

Over the next month, we will be featuring some especially themed Winter Wonderland Mm Picks and Team Picks, so be sure to start working on your holiday creations and send them our way. We also want to see your decorated Pods, Planets, Moons or anything else that you have carefully crafted for the holiday season.

If you put together anything special for the holidays, be sure to tweet us @LittleBigPlanet with your creation and we may just feature your creation later this month and you could find yourself the lucky recipient of a Rare LittleBigPlanet Cap for getting into the festive spirit! It is the season of giving, after all!

Gravity Rush Costume Pack DLC Out This Week!

We have a brand new costume pack coming out this week containing Alias, Unica, Raven and Kat from Gravity Rush by our friends at SCE Japan Studio.

All of these costumes are available individually, or you can buy the full pack to receive a set of bonus stickers. These costumes will initially be available for LittleBigPlanet 2 and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, with support for LittleBigPlanet Karting being added in the near future.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

It’s mini-games galore this week in the LittleBigPlanet 2 Mm Picks. We’ll see Sackboy being put to the test with some combo chaining, gold blasting and even more completely madcap fun! If platforming is more your style though, then perhaps you would prefer to be swept away in It’s Blowin’ Wind instead!

Descending Chains By snlffon

It’s Gold Blastin’ Time! By Der_GamEr_1994

- It’s Blowin’ Wind - By ojda_moment_guy

RanSack 2vs2; Minigame Co-opalooza! By SpacePirateKhan

Don’t Forget LittleBigPlanet #Queuesday!

Every Tuesday is LittleBigPlanet #Queuesday! That’s the day to tweet us @LittleBigPlanet your LBP.me links to your favorite LittleBigPlanet levels!

Whether you find a great level on LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita or LittleBigPlanet Karting… We want to hear from the community, just which levels are your personal favorites.

If you tweet us a particularly great set of levels that we enjoy playing, then we may just return the favor by sending an ultra-snazzy LittleBigPlanet Cap your way, so be sure that you don’t miss out on the fun every Tuesday!

LittleBigPlanet Karting is now out across the globe, and the community have already jumped straight into the brand new story to help Sackboy in his latest adventure against the Hoard. Some have even put their Karting creative skills to the test, and have begun publishing brand new LittleBigPlanet Karting levels for all to play.

To help you find all of these creative wonders being published, we have a brand new website that will be joining our other LBP.me sites. Stepping on to the podium is…

LBP.me Karting is your pit stop for all of your LittleBigPlanet Karting community needs. You will be able to see the latest activity of your friends, popular levels and all of the latest community creations for LittleBigPlanet Karting!

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

After our Halloween Hauntings at the end of last month, things have begun to return to a certain level of normality on LittleBigPlanet, with these two LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks that helped round off an otherwise creepy week.

– DEAD ZONE — (MENU) By Solid_snake-38

Mouse Maze (1P) By mANxxbEaRxPiG

Victor Ludus Community Collaboration Level

What happens if you ask thousands of people on the internet to contribute to a level and give them the power to decide everything from gameplay to story and setting? Well, you get The Blank Zone!

This amazing level was created in collaboration between all of you and Victor Ludus over the last few weeks. In those past weeks Victor asked you to come up with a story for his level, as well as the setting, what kind of enemies you face, and a whole lot more. And now you can finally play the level in LittleBigPlanet PS Vita. Queue it up right here!

The Blank Zone by VicVita1

Can you restore colour to the Blank Zone? Rid Sackboy’s pod of the attacking Virus and bring colour back to the universe!?

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks

This week we have three brand new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Team Picks for you! Download them to your PS Vita and check them out!

Requiem For A Pachyderm By Elvenbane

Timeless By MrObycyek

Nocturnal By TheNotorious-187

Last Chance to pick up your LittleBigPlanet Karting Rare Jersey!

Time is running out to pick up the extra-special and very limited LittleBigPlanet Karting Rare Jersey! When the PlayStation Store updates next, it will be gone for good — it won’t ever return. So head over to the PlayStation Store today and don’t miss out on your chance to add this appealing attire to your Sackboy or Sackgirl’s wardrobe.

Don’t forget that this costume and all of our other costumes are cross-compatible across the LittleBigPlanet series. This means that your Sackperson can wear this Rare Jersey in LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and LittleBigPlanet Karting whilst they celebrate the release of a new LittleBigPlanet game!

You heard correctly:LittleBigPlanet Karting is finally launching today! All of us at United Front Games and Sony San Diego Studio have been hard at work on this game for nearly two years, so we’re very excited to finally see our fans get their hands on Sackboy’s new karting adventure.

In LittleBigPlanet Karting, visitors known as the Hoard have arrived from far, far away on speedy go-karts and seek to steal Craftworld’s most precious prizes. Now it’s up to you to hop in a kart, beat back these otherworldly invaders, and reclaim Craftworld once and for all! Before you take the wheel, though, we have some launch goodies to share with you.

In celebration of LittleBigPlanet Karting’s launch, we have a brand new trailer we’re ready to show off. From a new single player journey, to racing and battling online in the multiplayer mode, to creating and customizing your own levels with an expanded set of unique creation tools, it’s clear that LittleBigPlanet Karting offers players a virtually endless set of gameplay possibilities. Not to mention, for the first time ever in LittleBigPlanet’s history, Craftworld is now expertly re-created in a stunning 3D world. Don’t take our word for it though; check out the trailer to see for yourself.

No LittleBigPlanet game is complete without a rare week-one shirt, and LittleBigPlanet Karting is no different! This time around, we’ve opted for a design that celebrates LittleBigPlanet Karting’s Canadian heritage, designed by Karting’s Canadian based developer United Front Games.

This jersey will be available for one week only (starting today) at $4.99, so don’t forget to snag yours before the opportunity is gone for good!

If you haven’t picked up your copy yet, you might want to consider a trip to Target. The North American retailer is offering a special exclusive free gift with your purchase. When you buy LittleBigPlanet Karting at your local Target (or online!), you will receive a Target-branded racer costume and kart as a free download and then you’ll be off to the races sporting Target’s iconic red bullseye. Remember, this DLC is exclusive to Target only – you won’t see it anywhere else!

That’s all from us today. We’ll see you all online and we can’t wait to see all of your amazing creations once you start experimenting with all of the create tools. LittleBigPlanet Karting is available now across North America. If you haven’t picked up your copy yet, what are you waiting for? Pick up your copy today!

Last week, Steven shared with you the wonderful LittleBigPlanet Karting Story Trailer, which tells you a bit more about the The Hoard, the venomous villains which have travelled on speedy go-karts from far, far away to seek out and steal Craftworld’s precious prizes.

This week, in celebration of Halloween, the team is ready to present a brand-new LittleBigPlanet Karting trailer befitting the spookiest of nights! Dressed up as a vampire, hands gripping a wheel of bones, Sackboy and his racing buddies rev their skull karts’ engines… to battle each other in a race through a mystical and spine-chilling version of Craftworld!

LittleBigPlanet Karting hits the streets on November 6th in North America, so make sure to pre-order your copy from GameStop if you’d like to secure the Headstart Pack (a GameStop exclusive) as your pre-order bonus!

LittleBigPlanet Karting Video Contest Winners Announced

We’re excited to announce the winners of the official LittleBigPlanet Karting 2012 Video Contest! We had tons of submissions, so we narrowed them down to a final Top Ten that we felt best showcased both the community’s imagination and the overall creativity of the game. We put each entry through a rigorous judging process and they all received thousands of votes, but in the end the winners were clear. Drum roll please…

The Grand Prize winner is Todd Doldersum! For anyone who saw Todd’s entry, Fueled By Imagination, you know why it won. It’s a great video that truly captures the ethos of LittleBigPlanet Karting, and we’re thrilled that it’ll be running on TV as the official fan-made commercial for the game.

Now for the 2nd Prize winner — the winner of the public vote — put your hands together for Daniel Mitchell! We loved his entry Rocket Chair Race, and clearly you did too. We just can’t help but smile when we watch it. (And we appreciate the nod to cats with laser eyes too.) Nice work Daniel!

Finally, we want to give a huge thanks to all who participated – without awesome folks like you, events like this simply wouldn’t be possible. We’re very happy to have you in the LittleBigPlanet Karting community.

The Halloween Pumpkin Mask Returns!

It just wouldn’t be Halloween without Sackboy’s favorite pumpkin headwear! This means that the Halloween Pumpkin Mask will be returning to PlayStation Store this week.

This free costume piece will be available for one week only, so be sure to head to the store and pick up this popular costume for Sackboy’s Halloween adventures.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

Sackboy has a grand adventure ahead of him in Acid Rooms: Dr. Acid Quest, a multi-level epic filled full of great gameplay and platforming fun for him. Alternatively, he can hop into a mine cart for a thrilling ride in Minecart Goldrush!

We also have two fun games that see you taking on the form of a dot to avoid the rest of the dots on the screen in a madcap mini-game that will keep you coming back for more, whilst we finally have a day in the life of a fly for you to play through in Born to fly.

Acid Rooms: Dr. Acid’s Quest (1P Only) By CRASHER360

Minecart Goldrush [1P] By comishguy67

. By BladeBison

Born to fly By The_Cazarian

Halloween: Time for the Sack-Dead to Rise!

You may have noticed by now that things are getting a little darker on LittleBigPlanet…
The LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks have been featuring some downright spooky levels filled with plenty of Halloween frights!

There’s plenty more frights and surprises on LittleBigPlanet at the moment, so if you feel that your Sackperson is brave enough, queue up the levels in this Halloween Hauntings LBP.me List and check them out when you’re next playing LittleBigPlanet 2! Oh, and make sure that your Sackperson is wearing a suitably creepy costume, since it’s Halloween after all!

There’s still time to get into the Halloween spirit though! If you have a Spooky Level, Halloween Costume or Creepy Pod that you want us to take a look at, tweet it to us @LittleBigPlanet to share your creations with the LittleBigPlanet community.

LittleBigPlanet Karting‘s newest trailer is here, and it’s all about Story Mode. In LittleBigPlanet Karting, LittleBigPlanet is again under siege, this time by a group of ne’er-do-wells known as The Hoard. These venomous villains have travelled to Craftworld from far, far away on speedy go-karts to seek out and steal its most precious prizes – and it’s up to you to stop them. So grip the steering wheel, put the pedal to the metal, and beat those Greedy Gregs back to where they came from!

LittleBigPlanet Karting Video Contest: On your marks. Get set. Vote!

We have chosen the top 10 videos of the LittleBigPlanet Karting commercial entries and want you to help decide who will take 2nd place. While the grand prize winner will be chosen by our expert judges, we want the LittleBigPlanet community to join the race and decide which video will win the $5,000 prize. The more popular you make a video, the better chance it has at winning!

Don’t forget to head here by October 25th and vote for your favorite!

Sackboy Gets Ready for Halloween!

There’s just over a week left to send in your submissions for our LittleBigPlanet Karting Pumpkin Carving Celebration. If you haven’t already, be sure to head down to your local store, pick up a fresh pumpkin and get involved!

Don’t forget that once you’ve finished, head on over to our Official LittleBigPlanet Pumpkin Celebration Page and submit those pictures to us, so that we can share them with the world.

Oh, and always remember safety first! Children must have adult supervision when carving and crafting their pumpkin creations!

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

This week in the LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks we feature a rather unique silent movie from camel504 called Message in a bottle, two fun mini-games that will test your reflexes and we see Sackboy return to The Wilderness in Bunker of Whoop!

Message in a bottle
By camel504

Sticky Tongues
By AngeloMattei

たし算？ かけ算？ はや押しバトル！！ Quick Calculation Battle !! By tksksmz2

Bunker of Whoop! By Breezy-The-Pro

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks

Our newest LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks feature two very different levels. One is an original puzzle game and the other one makes great use of the Vita’s built-in camera. So take a look at these wonderful portable games next time you play LittleBigPlanet PS Vita.

Real Big Planet By
horiiiiii

Emotionally Unstable By
NinjaMicWZ

We always love to play awesome levels, so if you find any or made one yourself send us a Tweet @LittleBigPlanet with a vita.lbp.me link to the level.

Halloween Hauntings on LittleBigPlanet!

Halloween is fast approaching and we really want to see the LittleBigPlanet community getting into the Halloween spirit! So get working on those creepy creations and get them published before October 31st! Spooky levels, costumes, pods, music, objects… We want to see them all!

If you have something you want to share with the LittleBigPlanet community, make sure to send us your creations by sending a message to @LittleBigPlanet on Twitter and we’ll feature some of our favorites over the next couple of weeks.

Don’t forget that Sackboy’s Halloween Pumpkin Costume will be re-released next week in celebration of Halloween and we’ll also be featuring some of our favorite Halloween and Spooky Community Levels on the Mm Picks throughout the Halloween period, so be sure to check them out if you feel that your Sackperson is brave enough!

Tuesday is now #Queuesday

Working with the rather brilliant Chimpanzee and his RocketCheetah blog, we are proud to announce that Tuesdays for LittleBigPlanet will now become #Queuesday. What does this mean exactly? Every Tuesday, all you have to do is Tweet us @LittleBigPlanet with your favorite levels, and include those handy LBP.me links along with the #Queuesday hashtag.

That’s it — just share a bunch of your favorite levels with the rest of the LittleBigPlanet community on Twitter! If we see a #Queuesday list that we like, and we retweet it from @LittleBigPlanet, then we’ll also send one of our popular LittleBigPlanet Caps your way for your Sackboy or Sackgirl, to show off their community spirit.

So don’t forget that every Tuesday is now a LittleBigPlanet #Queuesday — we can’t wait to see all the great levels that the community will share with each other.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

Your weekly LittleBigPlanet 2 Mm Picks include a brilliant 2D platformer starring the loveable Charlie as he travels through his drawn world, two fun mini-games where you’ll keep coming back to improve your score, and a multiplayer challenge that will determine which player is King… Ahem… I mean Fool of the Hill!

Charlie’s World [2D-Platform] by DICEBONE-21

Blocker: Prime by Robo_Ranger

UNBLOCK ME (1P~4P) JPN by ryouko-y

JK’s: “Fool on the Hill” by JplusK

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks

This week we have another selection of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita community awesomeness for you.

This time we feature a neat wooden platformer, an impressive calculator, and a cartoonish puzzle game.

[JPN]木の王冠 Wooden Crown by taka061

[関数電卓] Little big mathematical calculator [JPN] by physicslike

ant guy – ant route puzzler by camel504

We always love to play awesome levels, so if you find any or made one yourself send us a Tweet @LittleBigPlanet with a vita.lbp.me link to the level.

Halloween Pumpkin Carving Celebration

For LittleBigPlanet Karting‘s approaching November 6th release, we’re hosting a Pumpkin Carving Celebration!

To participate, simply head to a nearby store, pick out a pumpkin, then take it home and carve something LittleBigPlanet Karting-related into it. Our logo, Sackboy, his Kart – whatever you’d like! Safety first! Children must have adult supervision while carving their pumpkins.

After you’ve finished, take pictures of the awesomeness you’ve created and use the form on the official Celebration page to send them to us. Come Halloween, we’ll gather all of the submissions (yours included) into one big photo album and share the results with the world!

We’re looking forward to seeing all your pumpkin-y goodness!

Community Spotlight – LittleBigPlanet Nursery

Following our LittleBigPlanet Cap Challenge last week to tweet @LittleBigPlanet with a screenshot of your Sackperson wearing the Launch Spacesuit in LittleBigPlanet 2 or LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, we put the word out that we would award further LittleBigPlanet Caps for anything tweeted our way that catches our eye.

And @LasseLund did just that! Presenting the LittleBigPlanet Nursery:

We were so blown away by the sheer awesomeness of this nursery that not only was Lasse awarded the LittleBigPlanet Cap, we also sent a Rare Prize Crown his way to commemorate this wonderful nursery that’s waiting for their new arrival!

To check out even more photos of this LittleBigPlanet room, check out the album here.

Oh, and of course, a big congratulations to Lasse and his family. Their new bundle of joy is due later this week and we already know of a few kids (and a good number of grown-ups) within LittleBigPlanet’s extended family that are rather jealous of the bedroom awaiting the new arrival. ;)

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

We have a new batch of LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks, which include an amazing 2D platforming adventure starring Blobby, a rather calm and serene movie called aRise, platforming fun in Bob’s Heart Shenanigans and a music album by LittleBigPlanet’s very own band within the community, Pandaz.

Blobby By Art-in-Heart

aRise By puttatittut

Bob’s Heart Shenanigans[1P Recommended] By tendon119

Pandaz 1st album “トラベル・デイズ／TRAVEL DAYS” music gallery By Pandaz-LBP

LittleBigLand.com’s Touch & Tilt Rare Prize Crown Competition

It’s competition time! Rare Prize Crown competition time to be more precise!

The crew from LittleBigLand.com has set up the very first LittleBigPlanet PS Vita create competition and you have a chance to win a Rare Prize Crown and a super special LittleBigLand pin to stick on your LittleBigPlanet PS Vita profile.

As the name suggests, your mission for this competition is to build an awesome level that includes two of the new features of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, Touch and Tilt.

Already got an idea? Then head on over to LittleBigLand.com for all the details on how to enter this competition!

The Pirates! Minipack Docks at the Store

This week will see the release of The Pirates! Minipack on PlayStation Store, containing a variety of costumes from The Pirates! Band of Misfits.

The Pirate Captain, Cutlass Liz and Black Bellamy will all be coming to LittleBigPlanet 2 and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita this week. Not forgetting that they will also be taking to the track too, when LittleBigPlanet Karting releases next month. Best of all, you only have to purchase The Pirates! Minipack once and you’ll have access to these costumes across all three games!

LBPC9: Locomotion Commotion – Rare Prize Crown Contest

The LBPC Contest Crew is back with a brand new Rare Prize Crown contest: LBPC9 – Locomotion Commotion.

To enter, build a motion-oriented level for your sackperson to navigate. A level where all the obstacles are powered by kinetic energy; where starting from a single power source, the obstacles are set in motion and that motion is passed on in an ever-evolving chain reaction.

It’s a chance for you to amaze with feats of engineering; make people gasp at your Rube Goldberg-esque inventions, well-oiled clockwork or magnificent steampunk contraptions. Sounds like just the right kind of challenge for our creatively minded community!

The contest is for LittleBigPlanet 2 levels only, and the winner will be awarded a Rare Prize Crown and the LittleBigPlanet Central Pin! For more details and the full rules of the contest, hop on over to LBPCentral.com

Announcing The LittleBigProgressive Contest Winners!

Thank you to everyone who entered our recent Progressive LittleBigPlanet Create-A-Level contest. Our level — LittleBigProgressive — has been played by nearly 55,000 people to date, and the levels specifically created by the community for the contest have been played by more than 34,000 of you.

We played a variety of creative entries, from platformers to shooters, racers, to pinball and even a “3D” Flo Simulator, a Diner Dash-esque arcade game and numerous “commercials” complete with voice-acting.

Well, the wait is finally over and we can now announce the winners…

The Grand Prize winner is “Flobot Loves Bundler” by VERBAL 83! For his brilliant level creation, he will be sent a shiny new PlayStation 3, a PS Vita with 4GB memory card, and copies of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, LittleBigPlanet Karting (PS3), and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (PS3 and VITA).

We also have four runners up who will each receive a PS VITA, 4GB memory card, and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: “Go With the Flo-Bot” by Alley_Cat_8633, “[V.E.R.A.]” by GIGIDY17, “Consecutive [Platformer]” by SABRE, and “The Mystery of Flo-Bot” by ANGEL-BOX.

Congratulations to all of our winners, and thank you to our friends at Progressive for sponsoring the contest! Click the links above to view the level’s page on LBP.me, and be sure to check out all of these levels in LBP2.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

This week’s Mm Picks in LittleBigPlanet 2 include a great platforming adventure, two mini-games to put your mind to the test and a story that asks, “What if The Collector was the hero of LittleBigPlanet?”

Atomic Fortress by P-I-M-P-I

Game Studio – Tic Tac Toe DELUXE Edition (2P) by ApertureNOBLE

Match em up [1P]…….(Move Optional) by SneakySteve1983

リトルビッグプーチン-LittleBigCollector- by noni100percent

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita was officially released just a couple days ago, but you’ve already made thousands of amazing levels. Below are a few of our favorites so far.

Cows on a Biplane By Nuclearfish

Shapely – [1 Player] By comphermc

Honey Village (platformer) By yu-kamone

LightsOut By bagheadinc

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Launches

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita is now hitting store shelves across the globe and everyone has begun playing through Sackboy’s new adventure in Carnivalia, creating some brand new games on their moon and some have even begun to publish their own brand new portable games for the community to play!

The LittleBigPlanet PS Vita community is already filling up with loads of amazing user-created games and levels, so be sure to get online and check out just what the community has to offer.

And how exactly would you go about finding all those great levels? Well, we have just the thing for you…

LBP.me PS Vita

That’s right! LBP.me has expanded to include a separate section for all of those levels that are being published in LittleBigPlanet PS Vita!

So now just as you can do with LittleBigPlanet 2, you can now keep up-to-date with all of your favorite creator’s new levels and queue them up for the next time that you play LittleBigPlanet PS Vita.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

If you have yet to get your copy of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, we have a whole bunch of new Mm Picks on LittleBigPlanet 2 to whet your appetite.

A card game, a musically crushing survival challenge, a tilted platformer and perhaps the best Bomb Survival Challenge ever are all waiting for you to play in LittleBigPlanet 2.

Bomb Survival Reloaded! by Holguin86

7ならべ Sevens (Playing Cards) by tksksmz2

Robot Rock by TheNotorious-187

TiltWorks by deurklink1

Grab Your Spacesuit for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Launch Celebrations on Twitter!

Coming tomorrow will be the ever-popular Launch Spacesuit to celebrate the official release of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita! This costume will only be available for one week! So make sure to head to the Store tomorrow and snap it up right away!

Be sure to follow @LittleBigPlanet on Twitter and at the end of this week, we’ll tell you just how you can get involved with celebrating the launch. We may even have some of our rather fashionable LittleBigPlanet Caps to hand out at the end of the week, so stay tuned!

LittleBigPlanet Karting – TV Spot Contest

A LittleBigPlanet Karting TV spot is coming soon, and it will be created by you — the LittleBigPlanet community!

Starting today, we’re inviting you to create and submit a 25-second TV spot for LittleBigPlanet Karting, to share your excitement for the game with the world. To help you get started, we’ve prepared a whole bunch of goodies for you, including game music, video footage, and much more. All of these can be used in the creation of your entry. You’re not limited to what we’re providing though, so feel free to follow your creative instinct!

Once you’ve finished your masterpiece and sent it along to us, we will review all the submissions and choose our 10 favorites as finalists for the contest. At that point, it will be up to our wonderful community to vote on the TV spot they feel most deserves to win the grand prize: $25,000 and a slot on national broadcast television!

For more details, make sure to check out the official contest page!

DLC Costume Cross-Compatibility Update

Quick update on LittleBigPlanet Cross-Goods! As many of you know, with Cross-Goods you only need to purchase a costume once to wear it across both LittleBigPlanet 2 and LittleBigPlanet PlayStation Vita. Now that the LBP PS Vita servers are live, those of you in North America may be wondering why you can’t access any content yet. Not to worry! Beginning Tuesday, September 25th, you’ll be able to head over to the PS Store and download a ton of your favorite costumes and goodies from other LittleBigPlanet games. With the latest patches, we’ve also updated our PS Store filters to make it easy for you to find your Cross-Goods enabled DLC. Once the content is live, you’ll be able to use the “free” filter in-game to see all the LBP content available to download free of charge, including your Cross-Goods. For more information about Cross-Goods in LittleBigPlanet, click here.

Grab Your Launch Content for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita!

PSN has updated, and the Rare LittleBigPlanet PS Vita T-Shirt and Launch Spacesuit will be available to download next week on September 25th, when the game launches officially everywhere. Be sure to grab these extra special items, as they’ll be up for just one week before they’re gone. The Rare LittleBigPlanet PS Vita T-Shirt specifically will never return!

Mm Picks

Our weekly selection of Mm Picks will see you platforming with dinosaurs, playing pinball and blasting robots whilst you defend your base. If that doesn’t suit you, we have a collection of great custom-made Steampunk Costumes that you can collect from the Dispenserie, a neat way of sharing costumes with the community.

The Lost World (Platformer) By Bruttus

Steampunk Costume Dispenserie (DLC) [LBCE] By DebonaireToast

Big Planet Pinball V2.3 (Updated) [1P only] By ThirdAxis01

Astrobots (1P-4P) [Top-Down Shooter] By comishguy67

As some of you may have seen already, copies of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita have been popping up early at various retailers. If you’ve been lucky enough to snag a copy, I hope you’re enjoying the early access! Keep in mind, the servers won’t go live until September 18th, so online play won’t be available for another day, but you can still play the game offline in its entirety. And now that you’re beginning to dig into Sackboy’s latest mobile adventure, we have a whole bunch of goodies and treats to show you.

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita has been developed by Tarsier Studios and Double Eleven with a brand new story that takes place not on Craftworld, but on the travelling planet of Carnivalia. Once the bringer of joy and laughter, Carnivalia has now been taken over by the mysterious Puppeteer and his evil henchmen, the Hollows! Now it creates joy only to steal it all back again. So, it’s up to Sackboy to save the Omniverse when the game officially launches in North America on September 25th!

In celebration of our launch, we have a brand new trailer for you, which takes a closer look at the Arcade theme, a theme outside of the main story that is entirely dedicated to a new suite of arcade style mini-games. As you can see from the video, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita goes far beyond the realms of platforming and will give everyone the opportunity to play a whole host of awesome mini-games on PS Vita.

Review Round-Up

The reviews for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita are out, and it looks like everyone loved Sackboy’s new adventure. We can’t wait until you, the community, get your hands on the game so you can stretch your imaginations with the game’s new tools and features.

Here’s a small sample of the things the gaming press have been saying about LittleBigPlanet PS Vita:

IGN – 9/10

“LittleBigPlanet PS Vita is the definitive LittleBigPlanet game. It’s everything you loved from the past games boiled down into a package you can play anywhere at any time. When the LittleBigPlanet community gets its hands on the PS Vita version, amazing stuff is going to happen, and the PlayStation Vita is going to have a free App Store.”

Polygon – 9/10

“LittleBigPlanet Vita is the best thing on the Vita to date, a perfect fit formed between the hardware and the franchise. But it doesn’t just succeed on a conceptual level; it’s polished, addictive, and precious. In every imaginable way, LittleBigPlanet Vita is a knockout.”

Joystiq – 4/5

“LittleBigPlanet Vita positively bursts with charm and cleverness. It’s more refinement than revolution, but that also makes it the purest distillation of the concept’s potential. It’s the best (LBP) yet.”

Pre-Order LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Now

Time is running out to get in your pre-order for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita! If you want to pick up the rather awesome BioShock Minipack or the exclusive golden color set of Knights of the Old Pre-Order Costumes, you’ll want to pre-order now — before it’s too late!

Just like all of our other costume DLC, these costumes will work on LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, and LittleBigPlanet Karting. So, no matter which of Sackboy’s adventures you are currently playing, you will be able to dress your Sackboy up in these great outfits.

PlayStation Store Digital Version Bonus Goodies!

If you purchase the digital version of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita within the first week of the game’s release, you will not only receive a digital copy of the game, but you will also be entitled to both of the above costume packs! This means that your week one purchase of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita on PSN will also nab you the BioShock Minipack and the Knights of the Old Pre-Order Costume Pack!

Celebrate the LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Launch with Us

It wouldn’t be a new LittleBigPlanet game if we didn’t have some special surprises in store for you to help us celebrate the release. And for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, we’ve got a couple of costume releases that really fit the bill.

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Rare T-Shirt

Long-time fans of LittleBigPlanet will know that we like to celebrate the release of a new LittleBigPlanet game with the release of an extra-special Rare T-Shirt that will be available for just one week only. So, allow me to present to you, the Rare LittleBigPlanet PS Vita T-Shirt!

This rather snazzy Rare T-Shirt will suit any Sackboy or Sackgirl’s personality by automatically matching the color of the t-shirt with their chosen Popit color. And with a simply adorable animation on the front, who could possibly resist adding this costume to their wardrobe of costume delights for LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, or LittleBigPlanet Karting?

Don’t forget that the LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Rare T-Shirt will only be available for a very limited amount of time! It can be snapped up next week for $4.99; don’t delay in picking it up because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever!

The Launch Space Suit Returns!

Reserved for the launch of a brand new LittleBigPlanet game, we have the ever-popular Launch Space Suit returning to PlayStation Store next week. The Launch Space Suit is free, and will also be returning for just one week, so don’t miss out on this astronomical attire for Sackboy.

Meet the Creator Curators of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita

Sackboy will meet a wonderful and rather eccentric cast of new Creator Curators as he travels around the magical world of Carnivalia. Last week, we revealed each of these characters and told you a little bit about them on our Facebook page. If you haven’t seen these biographies already, be sure to head on over to our LittleBigPlanet Facebook page and check them out.

Want to see how PS Vita’s features bring LittleBigPlanet PS Vita to life? Check out the trailer below.

Community Highlight – LittleBigHub

We start this week with an incredible contribution to the community from John Holtkamp, known to most by the name amazingflyingpoo.

Last week he released his brand new and totally free LittleBigHub App, which is a rather nifty little tool that will allow you to follow creators, queue levels and keep up-to-date with all the latest activity on LBP.me !

To check out this amazing application for yourself, head on over to LittleBigLand.com to see what LittleBigHub can offer you!

This isn’t the first time that we have featured amazingflyingpoo in Sack it to Me, in fact he’s contributed so much to the community that he has already been awarded both the Rare Prize Crown and the Awesomesauce Pin!

So due to his continued contributions to the LittleBigPlanet community and the fact that he is already Awesomesauce approved; I instead gave amazingflyingpoo the opportunity to nominate a fellow community member for the Awesomesauce Pin…

Special Awesomesauce Award – ShadowriverUB

There is one person who comes to mind that has done so many things for this community that I still cannot believe he has time to sleep (and I am not convinced that he does). In fact, this person actually planted the idea for LittleBigHub in my mind in the first place and helped me develop it. That person would be ShadowriverUB!

This community member has also established a means for all of us to listen to music that was made in LBP. Before LittleBigAudio was created by this person, I honestly didn’t realize that there was such an incredible music scene in LittleBigPlanet.

That still isn’t all that he has done. He is also one of the major contributors to the LittleBigPlanet Wiki. He has an active YouTube account as well which has recently been used to post LittleBigPlanet Karting Beta levels and in-depth tutorials, which I imagine will be invaluable for newcomers once LittleBigPlanet Karting launches!

So it is a true honour for me to be able to award an Awesomesauce Pin to ShadowRiverUB!

With such an astounding list of achievements in LittleBigPlanet, I couldn’t agree more with his choice of recipient for the coveted Awesomesauce Pin award, and with such dedication to the community, I cannot wait to see what new and exciting things community members like ShadowRiverUB will bring to LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and LittleBigPlanet Karting when they’re released later this year!

Mm Picks

After all the excitement over the LittleBigHub and our Awesomesauce community award, it’s time to round off this week’s update with your weekly selection of Mm Picks, showcasing some of our favorite level creations from the LittleBigPlanet community.

THE FORKLIFT [1P Only] by OG_3-S

Touch Of Nature by missyhifi

Bearry Button’s Mansion (part1) up to the attic by Z1091990

Cinderella jpn by candy2537

Disney Princesses Pack 2 Released

Last week, we released the Disney Princesses Pack 2. It contained our second collection of Disney Princess costumes, including Ariel, Tiana, Rapunzel and Belle. These costumes are available individually again, but there is a further collection of bonus stickers for anyone who picks up the full pack.

For more information on our newest pack, head on over to the LittleBigPlanet Downloadable Content Catalogue.

Don’t forget that you can complete your Disney Princesses Costumes and Stickers collection by picking up Disney Princesses Pack 1 too. Purchasing both Disney Princesses Pack 1 and Disney Princesses Pack 2 will give you access to the full collection of the Disney Princess Costumes and the complete set of Bonus Stickers!

Mm Picks

Our weekly batch of Mm Picks this week includes a very atmospheric forest level by ITARBOYI, a sticky stickering game for two or more players by Mnniska, a fun platformer from AcAnimate and a collection of mini-levels focusing on gold, pure gold by DaSpoony.

ForestOfTime by ITARBOYI

Stickerix! by Mnniska

Sprocketz (Platformer Minigame) by AcAnimate

Quite Simply Gold [1 PLAYER ONLY] by DaSpoony

Autumn Creator Kit Coming This Week!

This week sees the release of the free Autumn Creator Kit, which will complete our collection of Seasonal Creator Kits based on each of the four seasons.

The Autumn Creator Kit contains an assortment of Objects, Decorations and Stickers that can help give any level that true Autumnal feel.

Just like our other Seasonal Creator Kits though, this pack will only be available for one week. Be sure to pick it up this week, otherwise you’ll have to wait until autumn next year for it to return!

Disney Princesses Pack 1 Coming This Week!

This week sees the release of Disney Princesses Pack 1 — after last week’s big announcement — on the PlayStation Store.

This first pack contains Jasmine, Cinderella, Aurora and Snow White. Each Disney Princess is also available for individual purchase, but anyone who purchases the full pack will receive a bonus collection of Disney Princesses themed stickers!

For full information on the contents of Disney Princess Pack 1, head on over to our LittleBigPlanet DLC Catalogue.

LittleBigPlanet Karting Beta Videos

The LittleBigPlanet community has always been fantastic, but the creations published so far in our on-going LittleBigPlanet Karting Beta have been especially brilliant. We’re so impressed, actually, that we can’t help but share some of them with you!

First, we’ve got Roman Rumble by Luos_83. From intricate stone columns to rolling hills of green, Roman Rumble is a strikingly detailed track packed to the brim with opportunities to drift, jump, and boost your way to victory.

Do you like dragons? KlaraKatt likes dragons. We definitely like dragons. If you don’t like dragons, maybe My Dragon Race will encourage you to reconsider. Did we mention dragons? Dragons!

Fundamentally, Sunset Rift is more than meets the eye. Which is especially good news, considering it meets the eye quite well. Making excellent use of LittleBigPlanet Karting’s beautiful lighting tools, along with a solid mixture of both in-game and hand-crafted objects, Sunset Rift is absolutely beautiful to look at — and even more fun to play.

In celebration of all of the fantastic content coming out of this beta, we’ve decided to lift the beta NDA for LittleBigPlanet Karting! So, if you’ve got access to the beta, feel free to spread information about it to your heart’s content. Screenshots, videos — anything you like!

LittleBigPlanet Karting PAX T-Shirt Design Contest

Last week, we also announced a contest for all you creative types! We’re putting your skills to the test by letting you design the exclusive LBPK PAX 2012 T-Shirt. Visit the contest page to submit your entry. The rules are easy: Just use one to three colors, and make sure to include a classic Sackboy and a kart in your design. The winner will be chosen by the development team based on creativity and style, so have some fun!

Beyond having their design immortalized in the T-Shirt, the winner will receive a 3G PlayStation Vita and copies of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and LittleBigPlanet Karting! This contest is only open until August 8th though, so enter soon. Don’t miss out on the chance to get your very own t-shirt handed out by us at PAX 2012!

Mm Picks

Finally we have a new selection of Mm Picks for you to play. This week’s Mm Picks include a tale of a boy and his dog in a rather musical movie, three great platforming adventures for Sackboy, and an amazing space shooter. Be sure to head to the Mm Picks in-game and check them out for yourself!

See You Tomorrow? Part One {Musical Cinematic} by Destiny_Waits

The Chemical Effect by RtooDee2

Race in the gardens by miko_los

The Golden Passage by TulioR10

くねくねゲーム KUNE-KUNE [JPN] by tyutyukoderax

Hello Craftworld enthusiasts! Today, we’re announcing a contest for the LittleBigPlanet community, where you’ll have the chance to create this year’s PAX Prime LittleBigPlanet Karting T-Shirt!

We’re constantly amazed by the unique levels you all come up with, and we can’t wait to see your creative talents put toward this T-Shirt design.

The rules are simple; the shirt can be any color and must:

• Contain a Classic (non-costumed, knitted) Sackboy
• Include a Kart
• Use only 1-3 colors
• Utilize up to 3 areas on the template

To participate, visit the contest site

Also, our artists can rework what you submit, so even if your drawing skills are not the greatest, go ahead and send in your creation! Winning designs will be selected by LBPK’s production team. We will take the winner’s design and place it on the exclusive T-Shirt that will be handed out at PAX Prime in Seattle.

The winner will, of course, receive their winning shirt. Additionally, they will receive a 3G PlayStation Vita unit, a copy of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, and a copy of LittleBigPlanet Karting. Five runners up will also receive the winning T-shirt and a copy of LittleBigPlanet Karting. The contest is open now through August 8th, so submit away!

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Disney Princesses Costume Packs Coming Soon!

LittleBigPlanet will soon be graced by the presence of eight very special ladies, with our upcoming Disney Princesses Costume Packs. Belle, Aurora, Tiana, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jasmine, Snow White and even little Ariel will all be ready for the LittleBigPlanet Ball when the packs release next month.

To celebrate the release of the Disney Princesses Costume Packs, we have this rather lovely wallpaper of our princesses to share with you.

Next week will see the release of Disney Princesses Costume Pack 1, which will contain Aurora, Cinderella, Jasmine and Snow White. The remaining Princesses will be part of the Disney Princesses Costume Pack 2, just a couple weeks after that. Stay tuned to Sack it to Me for more news on the Disney Princesses Costume Packs!

LittleBigPlanet Central Contest #8 – The Results

A massive round of applause, plenty of cheering and rejoicing is in order for yu-kamone, who is the grand prize winner of the LBPC Contest Crew’s 8th Contest, Aquatic Acceleration.

The competition was tight though, and we have a couple of runners-up who also deserve some praise for their great entries, so please give a big ol’ pat on the back to coscos-9 and deadmn for their entries as well!

Helicopter Shooter is a brilliant example of Karting’s potential. If you notice, there’s no Kart or Sackboy anywhere in this screenshot. Instead, you take control of a helicopter, flying around an arena shooting towers, blocks, and other buildings in a race to gather as many points as you can before time runs out.

Codi’s Beachy Race by codibear8383

Codi’s Beachy Race is precisely what it sounds like – a well-designed, highly polished beach-themed karting track. Smack in the center of this winding sandy road is a volcano, perched right on the edge of eruption. Careful when it goes boom – drive too close and you might get singed!

NEON Circuit by Crazy_S

From a plethora of multicolored lights and decorations, to a track layout reminiscent of coiled spaghetti, NEON Circuit is one of the most aesthetically unique levels we’ve encountered. It’s also an absolute blast to play – especially with friends!

Excited by what you’ve seen so far, but don’t have the LittleBigPlanet Karting beta? Lucky for you, registration is still open and you still have a chance to get in! What are you waiting for? Go sign up!

Mm Picks

This week sees a healthy selection of community levels in the Mm Picks with a grand adventure, a competition winner and Sam’s true love story for Sackboy to play through. We have a couple of great mini-games, including a Japanese puzzler that will time your movements and sense of direction precisely in KURU KURU KURURUIN, and a Western-themed game where you can don your cowboy hat to clear a town of bandits in The Gunslinger Arts.

AVALORE: The Sacred Trials – PROLOGUE – {1Player} by hemflowhotflop

(LBPC8) Raging Stream : 1player only (1st Place) by Yu-Kamone

The Great Exploration of Sam Stinklefritz by codibear8383

KURU KURU KURURUIN ver.2.0 [JPN] by isikawa271320

The Gunslinger Arts “Hands of Lightning speed” [JPN] by Rose2099

Join the Community and win a LittleBigPlanet Cap!

Finally this week, we’re also pleased to announce the beginning of an ongoing series of new community activities on Twitter, which will see everyone being given the chance to win a rather fashionable LittleBigPlanet Cap for their Sackboy or Sackgirl.

Be sure to follow @LittleBigPlanet on Twitter to find out how you can get in on these community activities and win this snazzy cap!

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Joining myself and Simon on the LittleBigPlanet Community Team, Michael from San Diego Studios will be here to help with the community management of Sackboy’s upcoming karting adventure, LittleBigPlanet Karting!

Welcome our new LittleBigPlanet Karting Community Coordinator

Michael may be better known to some of you as ConfusedCartman (Or as Valeview suggested should that be ConfusedKartman now?), the former administrator of the massively popular LBPCentral.com fansite.

Michael will be a great asset to the community team and should be able to help you with all your LittleBigPlanet Karting needs.

Game Jam: Community Creators Get Hands-On with LittleBigPlanet Karting

Not only do we have Michael joining the team, we both attended an event a couple of weeks ago where we gave a select group of LittleBigPlanet community creators an exclusive chance to check out LittleBigPlanet Karting’s Create Mode in its entirety. tsr13, who we recently featured on Sack it to Me with his Awesomesauce Pocket Moon Podcast, was one of those lucky guests and he’s taken the time to write up a lovely article to tell everyone about the game jam event and to give exclusive insight into LittleBigPlanet Karting’s Create Mode!

tsr13 says: “I pulled up a new level, picked the Gardens background, and began messing around with the landscape. I found the terrain deforming and sculpting tools to be intuitive and easy to work with, and it wasn’t long before I had something that looked a bit like a construction site. That inspired me to try my hand at creating some vehicles, and before long I had a half-decent dump truck and a crane in the middle of my site. Some random piles of explosives here and there, a few warning signs and presto! Instant industrial-themed battle arena. (Honestly though, it didn’t look quite right until the porta-potties went in.)”

To read more from tsr13 and to find out all about LittleBigPlanet Karting’s Create Mode, head on over to LBPCentral.com and read what our recent game jam guests had to say.

LittleBigPlanet Karting Beta: Start Your Engines…

With all the excitement surrounding our new LittleBigPlanet Karting Community Coordinator and the recent GameJam, don’t forget that you too have a chance to get an early sneak peek at LittleBigPlanet Karting in our upcoming beta test!

So for your chance to get an early lead, head on over here and sign up for the race!

Summer Games Costume Pack Coming This Week

After Sackboy relaxed at the beach with the recent Summer Creator Kit, it’s now time for him to limber up and join in with the fun of the Summer Games. There’s a full range of costumes here to support Sackboy’s sporting needs: Track and Field, Wrestling, Gymnastics, Horse Riding, Tennis and Fencing are all part of LittleBigPlanet’s Summer Games!

These costumes will be released on the PlayStation Store this week, so check them out if you feel that your Sackboy is up to the challenge of the Summer Games.

Mm Picks

Finally we finish this week with your usual dose of Mm Picks! Sackboy has some classic platforming fun in three wonderful levels, there’s some madcap mini-game action to be had with a game of table football or you can just chill out and listen to weirdybeardy’s amazing music compositions in his gallery level.

The Goo Refinery by SX_Shookie99

LittleBig Adventure ..::Uprooted::.. by stryder12

…And down it goes! by AcAnimate

Table Soccer HD (2 PLAYER) by FabFio71

The Weirdyland Music Gallery [v2.03] by weirdybeardy

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Greetings Sackfolk! The LittleBigPlanet community is about to get another very special treat! In case the opportunity to participate in the LittleBigPlanet Beta on PS Vita wasn’t amazing enough, many of you will soon have the chance to participate in the LittleBigPlanet Karting Beta on PS3!

The goal of the Beta is to get feedback on the overall experience from Sackfolk who understand it like few others – you!

There will be a lot more information to follow, so keep an eye on the PlayStation.Blog for details on how to register. For now, though, dust off your driving gloves and prepare to experience the most competitive LittleBigPlanet yet!

Summer Creator’s Kit Released

It’s Summertime and to celebrate the lovely weather, we have released the FREE Summer Creator’s Kit!

This pack contains 26 Stickers, 4 Objects, 4 Decorations and a brand new Material. Everything Sackboy will need to have the sunniest of Summer holidays! This pack is available for one week only though, so don’t delay and head to the PlayStation Store now to pick it up!

Mm Picks

We have quite an amazing mix of levels for you in the Mm Picks this week! There’s the 75 minute long Ninja Cat movie, the retro Red Knight adventure game, a rather puzzling platformer that will make you Think Before You Jump, an excellent arcade shooter in Galak-Z Raiden: Resurgence and finally the Tread Carefully puzzle game.

NINJA CAT／猫忍！ハンゾー君（75mins) by SAMURAI-09

The Red Knight Part1 -Dragon’s Eye- by o-tera

Think Before You Jump! by FULLGORR

Galak-Z Raiden: Resurgence By RoDRiGo-FiLiPiNo

Tread Carefully [1P]by SneakySteve1983

Community Highlight – Pocket Moon Podcast
Today’s Community Highlight takes a look at the Pocket Moon Podcast that is run by community members, amazingflyingpoo and tsr13.

This regular Podcast has recently passed its 20th episode and is a brilliant and informal look at the recent events in LittleBigPlanet, whilst discussing a wide range of subjects and is always an enjoyable show to listen to.

Since this podcast is so awesome, we will also be awarding the Pocket Moon Podcast with the Awesomesauce Secret Pin! A very rare treasure amongst LittleBigPlanet collectables!

Congratulations guys!

Be sure to check out their latest escapades on the Pocket Moon Podcast!

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#snacktaku In Japan, parents make bento lunches for their kindergarten kids. To make a healthy lunch look as appetizing (or rather, "fun") as possible, many parents make them as cute as possible. As a parent of two boys, I've tried to make cute bento lunches, with the key word being "tried". More »

Tron: Legacy Minipack Released!

There’s a fun new Minipack on the Store, which includes the long sought-after Clu Costume. Originally a pre-order bonus for LittleBigPlanet 2, Clu is now available to everyone on LittleBigPlanet in the Tron: Legacy Minipack!

Clu is joined by Quorra and Gem in this Minipack and there’s also a collection of Tron: Legacy themed Stickers to add to your collection.

LBP.me Gets Some New Features!

Recently we rolled out a new update for LBP.me, which introduces a couple of exciting new features to our ever-expanding hub for the community.

Sackboy Gets Sorted with Lists!
The first of these is our new Lists feature, which enables a creator to compile a list of up to forty levels entirely of their choosing. If you consider yourself to be a super organised Sackperson, who likes to keep all their levels all nice and sorted, then the new level lists will be right up your street!

Take a look at my very first list featuring last week’s Mm Picks to see just what I’m talking about!

Oh and be sure to keep an eye out from future lists from me, which will showcase some of the greatest levels on LittleBigPlanet!

Sackboy Shows Off His Pins!
The other big update on LBP.me is the ability to see everyone’s hard-earned Pins. Finally you can show your Pins with pride and let the community know how much of a dedicated player you are and what your top skills are.

So good luck with completing those Pin collections!

For more information on the new features, head on over to LittleBigPlanet.com.

If you want to show off your brand new Lists or your Pin collection, drop a message into the comments. I’ll love to see what kind of cool lists that are being put together by the community!

LittleBigPlanet E3 Goodies!

Sackboy had a very exciting time at E3 and we’ve got a couple of new trailers to show you, fresh from his trip to E3!

To begin with we have the lovely new videos of our exciting new games to show off to you all!

If you’re excited for Sackboy’s new portable or karting adventures, then you will definitely want to check out these new vids!

Play, Create, Share has never looked brighter for LittleBigPlanet and we cannot wait to get these great games to you, later this year!

Mm Picks

Finally this week, I’m no stranger to level lists since we have our usual batch of Mm Picks that feature some of our favorite levels.

La Casa de las Rosas by L1GhTmArE

Sweets Fantasy by white_rabbit_0

BloQ (1 Player) by hotalbi

Press ‘em! By tevlon1

Shoot ‘em Up [1 Player] by Angel-Box

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Starhawk Minipack Released This Week

After our reveal of the Starhawk Minipack last week with some help from our friends over at LightBox Interactive, we are proud to be able to present to you these awesome costumes which will be available on the PlayStation Store this week.

The Starhawk Minipack contains the complete trio of costumes shown above and we can’t wait for these guys to land on LittleBigPlanet.

So in celebration of this release, we baked an extra special LittleBigPlanet Starhawk cake filled with all the goodness and sweetness that you can expect from us!

Doesn’t it just look so awesome and delicious?

Mm Picks

We start this week’s Mm Picks with a trip to beautifully designed Sunset Paradise and Grabby Gorge levels with their amazing eye-pleasing visuals. Following that we head to the Megachimia laboratory for Sackboy to try his hand at mixing potions before heading out into space in Gun Sack.

Finally we have a rather super keyboard tool that we created by Samson107, just head over to his level and grab a copy of it for yourself to solve all your typing needs when creating a level! He’s even provided everyone with a rather handy little User Manual to help you get started!

Sunset Paradise by Alpha24bauer

Megachimia (platformer) by Khodex

Grabby Gorge (Platformer) by Alley_Cat_8633

GUN SACK(1P Only) JPN by robot_k

LBP Keyboard and Font Advertisement by Samson107

LBP Keyboard User’s Manual by Samson 107

Grabby Gorge Level:

Community Highlight – LBPC Community Spotlight Team

The LBPC Community Spotlight Team work tirelessly to provide a new hub level every couple of weeks, containing a brand new batch of amazing levels that they want everyone to play! I’ve featured them on Sack it to Me previously and we will likely be hearing much more from them as they continue to release new Community Spotlight episodes in future.

Head on over to their latest hub level to see their latest community level recommendations!

LBPC Community Spotlight: Episode 85 by LBPCentralHub

In honour of their amazing efforts though and to celebrate their community spirit, we will be awarding the members of the LBPC Community Spotlight Team a Rare Prize Crown for their continued dedication and hard work in seeking out and featuring these great levels from the LittleBigPlanet Community! Congratulations guys!

Much More Goodness To Come!

We certainly don’t intend to stop there though!

There’s plenty more awesome folks on LittleBigPlanet who deserve recognition for their contributions to the LittleBigPlanet community, so be sure to keep an eye out in future for more awards and prize giveaways for people that truly embody the LittleBigPlanet community spirit!

Stay tuned for more information soon!

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