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Casual Friday returns this week with a range of brand new costumes for the Sackboys of LittleBigPlanet, and over in the Team Picks, we have our usual range of amazing community level creations just for this week. We also have a couple of very special guests making an appearance in the Team Picks that we would love you to meet.

Sackboy’s Casual Friday Costumes Coming This Week!

It’s the boys’ turn to strut their stuff this week, and we have a wonderful range of five costumes that will make sure they can keep up with the latest clothing styles in LittleBigPlanet.

Oh, and one of the new costumes comes with a fab pair of Bunny Slippers! Need we say more? ;)

The Casual Friday Costumes are available in two separate bundle packs designed specifically for Sackboys or Sackgirls. On the other hand, if you wish to pick out just a couple of favorites from the entire Casual Friday collection, you also have the option to pick up each costume individually.

To see the full range of Casual Friday Costumes for both Sackboys and Sackgirls, head on over to LittleBigPlanet.com

This week’s LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks features a very special ibb & obb-inspired level by xSLEVENx that allows two players to team up for some puzzling platform fun that was even praised by the original creators of ibb & obb!

ibb & obb
by xSLEVENx

Oh, and after queuing up this level, why not take a trip to sparpweed.com to find out more about this upcoming PSN game that inspired xSLEVENx’s level?

Magnetic Junk
by Z1091990

You can find these levels and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks!

Heading over to LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, we have two brand new Team Picks that we really recommend you queue up and play. Echoes is a true visual delight that sees you trying to roll a small ball to safety whilst sampling these amazing views throughout your journey.

Echoes
by TheNotorious-187

You can have this level ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have any great levels to share with the community or some stunning videos that show off your favorite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet them to us @LittleBigPlanet.

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Contraption Challenge 18 Bomb Transporter Results

The results are in! So without further ado let’s take a look at some of our favorite entries for the challenge and of course announce those all-important finalists and the winner of this Contraption Challenge!

Congratulations to jakeinator123 for his winning Ellephino entry! I can honestly say that when we were considering the safest way to transport a bomb ourselves, it never crossed our minds that an elephant/rhino hybrid would be best suited for the job!

Each of the finalists will receive a LittleBigPlanet Cap and the Emergency Services Costumes and Karts, whilst jakeinator123 has bagged himself the coveted Rare Prize Crown and the Contraption Challenge Pin for his win.

Our LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks this week feature a classic brick-breaking arcade game featuring multiple levels, power-ups and a level password system. If on the other hand you fancy teaming up for some co-op fun, we have Upsy Downsy Co-op for you. A great platforming level that will put you and your friend’s teamwork to the test!

Break It [Arcade Minigame] by Karrades

Upsy Downsy Co-op (2 Players Only) by bOOtje13

You can find these levels and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks!

This week’s LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks feature some great platforming adventures for Sackboy including this epic story, A Druid’s Tale. This level series currently spans three levels and sees Sackboy learning some special druid powers that will allow him to overcome the obstacle on his latest quest.

A Druid’s Tale by jaffakree

You can have this level ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have any great levels to share with the community or some stunning videos that show off your favourite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet them to us @LittleBigPlanet

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It’s time to step out with some new fashions this week as we introduce a brand new line of clothing for Sackfolk that will be heading to the PlayStation Store this month. On top of that, we have a great selection of Team Picks for you to play across the LittleBigPlanet series.

Casual Friday Costume Coming This Month!

This month will see the release of two Casual Friday Costume Packs for both the Sackboys and Sackgirls of LittleBigPlanet. The girls get to go first with this week’s release of these five fabulous costumes that will ensure that your Sackgirl is wearing the latest fashion trends.

These costumes will be available as a bundle or you can opt to pick them up individually, if you would prefer to mix ‘n’ match your styles!

We haven’t forgotten the boys though and you can expect to see the release of the Sackboy’s Casual Friday Costumes in a couple of weeks.

Check out the Sackfolk’s number one fashion catalogue over on LittleBigPlanet.com to see just what will be coming in these new packs!

We have a great range of Team Picks for you to check out this week including a unique platformer that sees you guiding a simple droplet to safety, whilst Bouncing Panic will put your survival skills to the test with a range of challenges to complete.

Droplet Platformer by MrMik68

Bouncing Panic by bOOtje13

You can find these levels and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks!

Over on LittleBigPlanet PS Vita this week, we have a couple of new Team Picks including this delightful pocket platformer sees you travelling across the land, eating fruit, collecting power-ups and defeating baddies. This is one cartoon adventure that you do not want to miss!

Come Fruta by Pulparindo15

You can have this level ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

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Introducing New Profile Functionality!

Our LittleBigPlanet Community is ever-expanding; it’s an explosion of awesomeness and we are so happy that you love to share your content for everyone else to play and review. Reviewing levels and giving constructive feedback is a great way for creators to hone their creation skills, improve their levels and make them even more enjoyable for everyone else to play.

Sometimes, though, not everyone likes to play nicely and instead of being constructive they can be somewhat mean. :( We think that if you don’t have anything nice or constructive to say, then don’t say anything at all! Our moderation team is always working hard to keep the community a friendly place for all, but now you will have the ability to silence any troublesome users that are spoiling your fun. You too can be a moderator of your very own profile and levels!

In our continued efforts to improve LittleBigPlanet, we are introducing some new profile functionality on LBP.me. With the new Block toggle, the power is being put into your hands to mute anyone being bothersome and let you go about your business in peace.

Let’s keep LittleBigPlanet like it should be, a positive hub of shared creativity where you can communicate constructively with like-minded sack-folk and have a jolly good time! Keep enjoying LittleBigPlanet!

For more information on how to use this new functionality or to learn how to report problem users to us, head on over to: http://littlebigplanet.com/goodgrief.

Let’s dive right into our Team Picks for this week! We have featured a whole range of levels across the LittleBigPlanet series, but here are two great levels that really stood out to us! Take a look at these great levels and don’t forget to check out all of the brand new Team Picks for each title, every week!

Mini Stone Aged
by RtooDee2

You can find this level and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks!

Little BIT Ninja
by NecoCocoron

You can have this level ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have any great levels to share with the community or some stunning videos that show off your favorite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet them to us @LittleBigPlanet.

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Super news everybody! LittleBigPlanet continues to burst with awesomeness and pure creativity as we now have more than 8,000,000 community levels in LittleBigPlanet… and still growing!

Everybody should give themselves a big pat on the back, because this wouldn’t be possible without you folks. We’re heading towards LittleBigPlanet’s 5th anniversary this year, and the community is still growing strong, which is definitely something that you should all be proud of!

Here’s looking forward to the next million!

What would LittleBigPlanet be without a huge community of friends to play with? Our Team Picks come in two friendly flavors this week. You can team up with some friends in Khodex and Eterniitys platformer on LittleBigPlanet 2 and work together to complete this co-operative adventure.

Khodex and Eterniitys Platformer by khodex

You can find this level and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks!

If you’re feeling a little more competitive though, you may want to play Marvel Blast Force on LittleBigPlanet PS Vita. It’s an explosive game that will pit you against your friends to see who can survive the longest! You can even design your own battle arenas in this amazing level!

Marvel Blast Force by SackboyFriend

You can have this level ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have any great levels to share with the community or some stunning videos that show off your favorite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet them to us @LittleBigPlanet.

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It’s a musical start to the week as we introduce Tunesday to the blog, and it just wouldn’t be a LittleBigPlanet Update without a good run-down of some of our favorite levels recently featured in the Team Picks!

Tunesday Tunes!

Every Tuesday on LittleBigPlanet is Tunesday! On this day each week, we feature a new music gallery in the LittleBigPlanet newsfeed containing a great collection of music for Sackfolk to collect and use in their own levels.

You can find a handy list containing all of the Tunesday levels so far – Right here!

We have already featured a handful of great composers such as Buddydestruction and Giraffe_Paradise and we will be featuring our next composer in LittleBigPlanet 2 tomorrow and the best part is that it could be you!

So if you’re a budding musician that wants to share their music with the community, just tweet @LittleBigPlanet with a link to your music gallery and you may just find yourself being featured in LittleBigPlanet 2 or LittleBigPlanet PS Vita on Tunesday!

Sackboy gets powered up in Super Little Big Planet on LittleBigPlanet 2, which sees him being blessed with a whole range of new abilities that includes double jumping, wall-jumping, sprinting and more! Meanwhile over on LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, we also have a daring adventure and a fast-paced racer for you to check out. Sackboy is certainly a fearless little chap!

Super Little Big Planet by pino-cchio

You can find these levels and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks!

Steel Racer by menaguro

LittleBig Bank Bust! by rtoodee2

You can have these levels ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have any great levels to share with the community or some stunning videos that show off your favorite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet them to us @LittleBigPlanet.

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This bumper edition of the LittleBigPlanet Update is jam-packed full of new release announcements and some great news for PlayStation Plus subscribers with just enough room to squeeze in another dose of our community’s boundless creativity in the latest Team Picks!

So let’s not delay and move straight onto the news!

LittleBigPlanet Karting is FREE for PlayStation Plus subscribers!

Great news for PlayStation Plus subscribers! LittleBigPlanet Karting can now be picked up for FREE!

Take a look at just one of the tracks published by a community creator looking to lay down a challenge for the rest of the community.

So whether you’re a racing fan looking to prove your speed or you’re a designer that wants to build the next challenging track for LittleBigPlanet, be sure to download LittleBigPlanet Karting today!

That’s not all though! We have some amazing LittleBigPlanet offers that will be running from June 18th until July 2nd. This is a great chance to pick up some LittleBigPlanet goodness at bargain prices of at least 50% off!

All of the LittleBigPlanet titles are going on sale, along with a whole bunch of your favorite Levels and Costume Packs.

So this is a great chance to pick up the titles missing from your collection or some of our great packs such as the Cross-Controller Pack, the Toy Story Level Kit, the Muppets Level Kit and oh so many great costumes!

These offers are only available for a limited time though, so head on over to the PlayStation Store later this week and take a gander at all of the great LittleBigPlanet bargains before they’re gone.

FREE Summer Content available for One Week!

It’s Summertime! The sun is coming out and it’s time to celebrate with the FREE Summer Creator Pack and Summer Solstice Druid Costume available on both LittleBigPlanet 2 and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita.

That’s right! You heard me correctly; the Summer Creator Pack is coming to LittleBigPlanet PS Vita this week too! So if you’re at the beach this Summer and feeling inspired by the view, you will have just what you need for some portable creation in the sun.

Both of these items will be available when the PlayStation Store updates this week and will be available for one week only, so make sure you don’t miss out and pick these up right away!

Dead Space: Isaac Clarke Costume Now Available

Sackboy prepares to blast off into space again and this time he’s really tooled up for the job in this Advanced Suit that is often worn by Isaac Clarke in the ever-popular Dead Space series.

The Advanced Suit comes equipped with a standard duty 211-V Plasma Cutter, normally used by engineers as a mining tool, but it can also be used by resourceful crew members looking to keep nasty space meanies away!

Head on over to LittleBigPlanet.com for more information on the Dead Space: Isaac Clarke Costume.

We have some fantastic Team Picks this week with some fun gameplay and absolutely amazing visuals. Over on LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, we have a brilliant cartoon platformer and an addictive ball-bouncing game.

Owl Mine by SnakeOwl

SOL – A Sunset Silhouette by XYClanKILLER2

You can find these levels and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks!

Joe the Lightbulb! by DICEBONE-21

Inertia by R0T_IN

You can have these levels ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have any great levels to share with the community or some stunning videos that show off your favorite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet them to us @LittleBigPlanet.

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In this week’s LittleBigPlanet Update, we’re excited to announce the release of the long anticipated Racing Driver Costume and Kart Pack, before whizzing over to the LittleBigPlanet community to check out their latest and greatest creations in the Team Picks.

Racing Driver Costume and Kart Pack
Coming This Week!

A new Kart pulls up to the starting line in LittleBigPlanet Karting this week with the Racing Driver Kart, whilst Sackboy can ensure he’s dressed appropriately for the race in his new Racing Driver Costume.

Both of these can be picked up in the Racing Driver Costume and Kart Pack. Don’t forget that Sackboy’s new Racing Driver Costume can be worn in LittleBigPlanet 2 and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, as well! Sackboy’s always ready to race, no matter where he is!

Our LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks this week include a wonderfully charming platforming level that sees Sackboy trapped in a bubble and having to float to safety using Sixaxis controls. Whilst things get very retro in Flip, featuring some great gameplay that literally turns everything you know about platforming upside-down.

Gone with the Wind by se-mi92

Flip by Krazy159

You can find this level and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have any great levels to share with the community or some stunning videos that show off your favorite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet them to us @LittleBigPlanet.

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LittleBigForum Vita Picks: Episode 2

The great team over at LittleBigForum.net have returned with their second collection of LittleBigForum Vita Picks. This hub level contains a whole bunch of levels that they think deserve some play!

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Welcome to the new LittleBigPlanet Update, complete with a whole new look, that will continue to bring you the latest LittleBigPlanet news and community creations! In today’s LittleBigPlanet Update, we have a fantastic musical collaboration giveaway from the Japanese community and a range of great LittleBigPlanet Team Picks that you will love to play!

Community Highlight Japanese Musicians Collaboration

Have you just created a great level and can’t decide on the perfect piece of music to go with it? Or perhaps you’re a music aficionado looking for the latest musical delights that LittleBigPlanet can offer? Then look no further than the JMC 1st Music Gallery!

Listen to one of the tracks that you can find in this giveaway level!

If that takes your fancy, then you may want to check out the Full Playlist available on LittleBigAudio!

There’s a total of 21 music tracks available to collect in the JMC 1st Music Gallery. So if you’re a music fan, be sure to queue up this level and collect some great music tracks to add to your own levels.

We have a good mix of Team Picks for you this week that include the fast and exciting, coupled with the slow and the puzzling. No matter how your mood takes you, we have something for everyone today!

Take a look at some of the great levels featured in the Team Picks this week and be sure to check them out during your next visit to LittleBigPlanet!

Rollin’ Rollin’ by sakusaku-_-y

You can find this level and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks!

Port Parrot by IIITAKTLOSSIII

Race on over and challenge your friends in the latest LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks!

Drop the Ball by tobz1000

You can have this level ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have any great levels to share with the community or some stunning videos that show off your favorite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet them to us @LittleBigPlanet

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Sackboy and Commander Shepard team up this week to bring you the Mass Effect Costume Pack containing this great collection of costumes first seen in BioWare’s epic sci-fi saga!

These new costumes will be available when the Store updates on Tuesday, so blast over to LittleBigPlanet.com and take a look at what’s coming in the Mass Effect Costume Pack.

Team Picks – Featured Creations from the Community!

We’re back with a brand new dose of weekly Team Picks from across LittleBigPlanet, including a retro arcade shooter for LittleBigPlanet 2, some platforming madness for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and a race across some troublesome treetops in LittleBigPlanet Karting!

Neon Blaster by dakrrs

You can find this level and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks!

Fink’s MFG is Off The Hook by dsdavve

You can have this level ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

Tree Top Trouble by amazingflyingpoo

Race on over and challenge your friends in the latest LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have a great level to share with the community or a stunning video to show off your favorite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet it to us @LittleBigPlanet.

The Epic Definitive Community Group Photo!

What happens if you take a massive collection of Sackfolk, a lot of love for LittleBigPlanet and a team of eager photographers looking to take snapshots of the huge variety of Sackboys and Sackgirls that inhabit LittleBigPlanet?

You get the Epic Definitive Community Group Photo, that’s what!

If you’re in the group photo, why not play a game and see if you can find yourself? It was certainly the first thing I did when I saw the completed group photo!

This absolutely epic collection of Sackfolk from within the community was put together by Ostler5000, DaSackBoy and OmegaSlayer – so please give them and everyone else included in this amazing group photo, a big ol’ pat on the back for creating such a visual treat of Sackpeople.

This week’s Team Picks include a wonderful sound extravaganza in Sackboy’s latest adventure on LittleBigPlanet 2, a wooden platforming paradise in LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and Pookachoo brings us another 3D platforming experience in LittleBigPlanet Karting.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Team Picks

Stealing Sound by L-I-M-I

You can find this great series of incredible levels and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks!

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Cherokee by samiamiamsam

You can have this level ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks

Love Panda Ch 1 by Pookachoo

Race on over and challenge your friends in the latest LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have a great level to share with the community or a stunning video to show off your favorite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet it to us @LittleBigPlanet

Sackboy has a trio of new Tron Karts to race in LittleBigPlanet Karting this week including a Light Runner and a pair of Light Cycles. These new Karts will be available when the PlayStation Store updates this week, so be sure to head to the store later this week and pick up the keys for your new Karts!

Pop over to LittleBigPlanet.com for an early sneak peek of these new Karts!

LittleBigPlanet Team Picks

We have a brand new set of Team Picks across the whole of LittleBigPlanet this week that include such gems as a great but small platforming adventure for Sackboy, an awesomely absurd sheep-counting game, a portable pinball machine and a brilliant set of community-developed tools that will allow you to make your very own 3D platforming games in LittleBigPlanet Karting!

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Kitchen Runner by FabFio71

Holy Sheep! by AngeloMattei

You can find these incredible levels and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks!

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks

The Amazing Sacktown Pinball

You can have this level ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Pick!

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks

Love Bot Kit (tutorial) by Pookachoo

Race on over and challenge your friends in the latest LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have a great level to share with the community or a stunning video that shows off your favorite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet it to us @LittleBigPlanet

The 5th of May sees the annual Cinco de Mayo celebrations in America and Mexico, so to celebrate the occasion we wanted to ensure that your Sackperson has the right attire for the party by re-releasing the FREE Mariachi Costume for One Week Only!

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Our LittleBigPlanet Picks this week include a whole range of platforming adventures, puzzle games and Kart races across the LittleBigPlanet series. Check out what we have lined up for you this week and be sure to queue up all these great levels and give them a play.

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Vesi by quarterkin

Portals of Time! by Five-Ate-Five

You can find these incredible levels and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

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Iota’s Memory Match [Minigame] By Kapum

Little BIG Gravitron (vita edition) By Tuurahk

Event Horizon / Горизонт Событий [Eng/Рус] By ZedCOcoZza

You can have these games ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks

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A Far East Wok by punishthem420

Last Frontier by o0O_ENDER_O0o

Race on over and challenge your friends in the latest LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have a great level to share with the community or a stunning video that shows off your favorite levels and creations, be sure to tweet them to us @LittleBigPlanet

For all you LittleBigPlanet fans who are enjoying Sackboy’s adventures on your PS Vita we are delighted to announce a brand new game add-on: The Marvel – Arcade Pack!

The Marvel – Arcade Pack contains three fantastic new mini-games, each of which will challenge you in very different ways. The level pack also boasts a whole host of new create assets to play with and bring your own creations to life!

But enough of us blabbering away, you can check out all the fantastic content the pack has to offer in the brand new trailer.

Also available – The Marvel Heroes Costumes!

You’re ready to save the world from constant peril but do you look the part of a dashing superhero? Sackboy has a huge collection of over 30 different Marvel Superhero Costumes available on the PlayStation Store featuring such fan-favourites as Spider-Man, Deadpool and Wolverine!

• Marvel Costume Kit 1
• Marvel Costume Kit 2
• Marvel Costume Kit 3
• Marvel Costume Kit 4
• Marvel Heroes Costume Pack 5
• Marvel Heroes Costume Pack 6

So make sure you’re ready to suit-up in your favourite superhero costume and race to the rescue whenever there’s any nefarious evil-doers threatening the citizens of LittleBigPlanet!

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Community Picks

It’s truly an exciting time for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita because not only do we have the Marvel Arcade Pack available now, we also saw the release of our very first batch of Community Picks last week.

LBP Vita Picks Episode 1

This Community Picks hub level contains a selection of great community levels chosen by the great folks over at the LittleBigForum.net fansite, so be sure to jump in and check them out.

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Sackboy takes a trip back to ye olde times with the release of the Silver Knights of Old Costume Pack containing a full cast of characters that are ready for some truly epic medieval quests across the whole of LittleBigPlanet…

Or perhaps you have just stumbled into a local renaissance fair… Either way, don’t forget your costume!

LittleBigPlanet Picks

This week’s LittleBigPlanet Picks feature a huge variety of great games both both your PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. We have some definite community gems here including a thrilling motocross challenge game that will test your speed and reflexes, a portable cowboy shoot ‘em up game and a thrilling kart race through a Carnival! Check them out!

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Motocross Mayhem by ladylyn1

Sacred Cavern by alain251

You can find these incredible levels and oh so much more in the latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks!

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Gold Fever! By Madzilla

Draw my road By Pulparindo15

You can have these games ready to play by heading over to LBP.me Vita and queuing up the new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks

A trip to the carnival by RADMANROB

Race on over and challenge your friends in the latest LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks!

We always love to see exciting new LittleBigPlanet levels, so if you have a great level to share with the community or a stunning video to shows off your favourite levels and creations, then be sure to tweet it to us @LittleBigPlanet.

UFG General and Kart coming this week!

Great news for our speediest Sackfolk― the UFG General Costume and Kart will be making their way on to the Store this week!

Originally a pre-order bonus for LittleBigPlanet Karting, this arcade cabinet on wheels is just perfect for those racers that simply cannot wait to get their LittleBigPlanet Karting fix at any time… Even if it’s during the middle of a race!

There’s a whole range of new and exciting content available for LittleBigPlanet. To take a gander at all of these great goodies, head on over to our official Game Add-Ons Catalogue!

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

Our LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks this week pays homage to the Easter Escapades that our community was getting up to over the Easter Weekend. We saw all sorts of creative fun and frolics from community members looking to task their fellow Sackfolk with a good old fashioned Easter Egg hunt!

Take a look at just a couple of the egg-citing levels that were published during the Easter period.

If you want to see what else the community created over Easter, be sure to head over to LBP.me and queue up these great LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks!

The Seasonal Spirit Awesomesauce Award

Speaking of celebrations… Extra-special mention must go to the following fine folk!

• bigsurf77
• chaosgear
• Tropical_Guner

There’s not a single holiday celebration that these guys will let slip by them and for the past 8 months, they have published fun and exciting levels for each occasion.

Halloween, Christmas and even Easter have all been celebrated by these guys and they have worked hard to ensure that LittleBigPlanet has just what any celebration-seeking Sackperson will need to get into the holiday spirit.

For their continued efforts in ensuring that LittleBigPlanet is the number one destination for all of your holiday celebrations, we wish to bestow upon them each a Rare Prize Crown and the coveted Awesomesauce Pin!

Congratulations guys! We can’t wait to see what plans you have for the next big holiday on LittleBigPlanet!

LittleBigPlanetarium.com launches LBP PS Vita Creation Contest

It’s time for a new Rare Prize Crown contest just for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and the nice folks from LittleBigPlanetarium.com have just launched their fifth Creation Contest to offer you a chance to win one!

This time around they are looking for levels where you can get extreme bubble combos, such as those found in Flounder’s Jump & Jive in LittleBigPlanet PS Vita or in the infamous Tower of Whoop in LittleBigPlanet 2.

The contest is only open to LittleBigPlanet PS Vita levels and, as is customary with any LittleBigPlanetarium contest, they want you to document your creative process whilst creating this level. You also have to use a special item within the level, which this time is the Ballpoint Pen object.

So if you think you’re up for this particularly creative challenge, head on over to LittleBigPlanetarium.com for all the details on how you can enter!

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Pick

Block Push Game is a neat little puzzle game where you have to push blocks into the right position. Sounds relatively easy at first, but the later levels are quite mind-bending and can get quite tricky.

Block Push Game By Ray-Blu

Thankfully the ever-so-handy Memoriser is put to great use in this level, so if you find yourself utterly stumped by a puzzle, you can go away and play a few other levels and then return to this puzzle level and continue from exactly where you left off!

There’s a whole host of exciting LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks available to queue up and download to your PS Vita when you want to game on-the-go, so pop over to LBP.me Vita and check out the full range of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks!

The Free Spring Creator Kit Returns
Spring is almost upon us and it’s time for Sackboys and Sackgirls across LittleBigPlanet to work together to bring their new creations to life with a true Spring-time feeling to them.

To help bring these creations to life, we’re re-releasing the FREE Spring Creator Kit for LittleBigPlanet 2 for one week only. This Creator Kit is filled to the brim with all sorts of Springtime goodness, so be sure to skip over to the Store later this week and pick up this exclusive pack!

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

Our LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks this week features a great selection of skill-based games that will really put your jumping abilities to the test!

We said earlier that Spring is on the way and what better level to put a Spring in your step than JumpIT! JumpIT is a great challenge level where you take control of a perpetually running stickman sprinting across an urban landscape, to keep him running… All you have to do is jump!

Shinobi Challenge is our next challenging level where you jump, swing and bounce across an oriental landscape before heading into a tower and use your Shinobi skills to ascend this high-rise challenge. With gameplay very reminiscent of Tower of Whoop, you will see yourself coming back again and again to keep your combo score up and beat the high score.

Our last challenging level this week is Melting Point, a more classic platforming level for Sackboy which grants him some additional wall-jumping and ledge-climbing abilities. Put these new abilities to great use and try not to get burnt!

If you think you’re up for these challenges, jump over to LBP.me and check out these latest LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks!

Community Picks: LittleBigNetwork Picks #14

This week we have LittleBigNetwork.com hosting the Community Picks with a rather grand selection of levels for everyone to check out and play.

This Hub Level is a visual delight and is well worth a visit when you’re looking for your next big LittleBigPlanet to play. Don’t forget to pop over to LittleBigNetwork.com and say hello to the nice folks there.

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks

If you’re more in the mood for some portable gaming, then you will want to check out our latest LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks.

First up! We have Blackjack by Surgary_Sweet. As the name suggests, this is a version of the popular card game Blackjack with all the rules you would expect to see in the game and a crafty dealer to compete against.

BLACKJACK (Beta) By Sugary_Sweet

Our second Team Pick of the week is The Briefcase by rothniel. This is just the prologue for now, but this interactive movie series looks very promising indeed and sports some excellent camera work, we can’t wait for rothniel to publish further chapters in this series.

The Briefcase – Prologue By rothniel

Daniel Corbis is running from dangerous men. Men he used to call comrades. He has something they want back. A black briefcase, but the exact contents are a mystery.

Sounds like exciting stuff huh? Make sure to pop over to LBP.me Vita and queue up this latest batch of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks to play online or, better yet, download them on your PS Vita and play anytime you’re on the move!

Contraption Challenge! Bomb Transporter!

Contraption Challenge 18 for LittleBigPlanet 2 is now underway and there are plenty of goodies up for grabs in this latest challenge – If you think you are up to this particularly explosive task!

Your challenge this time is to build a contraption that can safely transport a very sensitive bomb over a variety of obstacles without allowing either the bomb or your Sackboy to blow up!

There’s a great variety of prizes on offer for the latest Contraption Challenge, so whilst the risks are great, the rewards are even greater for those who don’t perish whilst handling these explosives.

Five finalists will receive a LittleBigPlanet Cap, the Emergency Services Costumes and the Emergency Services Karts. Whilst the grand prize winner will win all of that, plus the Rare Prize Crown and the Contraption Challenge Winner Pin! Take a look at all of these great items up for grabs!

This challenge is open until March 31st, so head on over to the LittleBigPlanet Forums or Rocket Cheetah for more information on how exactly you can take part with a chance of winning these great prizes!

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

Our LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks this week includes a brilliant Battle Card Game, a skill-testing survival run through the jungle and a music gallery containing a wealth of music for you to collect and use in your own levels!

First up, we have Flip It! A Battle Card Game that sees you training with the Card Master or battling against a friend in this game of wits that features multiple decks of cards to play with, all of which feature their own unique artwork! This game is a must play for all card game fans!

Jungle Dash is our next level and it’s a great survival challenge that features multiple modes of play and a variety of game settings that will see you coming back again and again to continue your search of this fast-paced jungle for the Treasured Golden Monkey Idol!

After your mad dash through the jungle it’s time to take a break and listen to Mastas Technic Tunes, a music gallery containing 30 tracks that have been masterfully composed by MastaBlastya. Best of all– All 30 of these tracks are available to be collected and used in your own levels!

So if you’re looking to add some Technic Tunes to your levels…
Look no further, there’s bound to be something here for you!

Head on over to LBP.me to queue up this brand new batch of LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks!

Community Picks: LBPCentral Community Spotlight 106

LBPCentral.com returns this week with their 106th Community Spotlight, featuring their usual selection of great LittleBigPlanet 2 levels they’ve hand-picked for you all to play!

There’s plenty for everyone here, so be sure to check it out when you’re next playing LittleBigPlanet 2 and head on over to LBPCentral.com to find out how you can get your own level spotlighted by them.

For the next week, PSN users across the pond can snag a slew of God of War stuff on the cheap, with PlayStation Plus members getting an additional 10 percent off everything. Dramatic discounts have been extended to the God of War Collection, each individual God of War game sans God of War 3, and even LittleBigPlanet DLC and the trilogy soundtrack. PlayStation Plus subscribers get an additional 10 percent off on all of that.

This week also marks the debut of Mass Effect 3 as a free game for PlayStation Plus members in Europe, kicking off a month of pretty great freebies. To celebrate ME3's Instant Game Collection status, Sony is also discounting downloads of Mass Effect 2 by 30 percent for everyone - as with the God of War stuff, PlayStation Plus members take an additional 10 percent off.

BioShock Mini Pack coming this week!

Exciting news for fans of BioShock! Our popular mini pack originally released as a pre-order bonus for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita will be coming to the Store this week for everybody else. This exciting Mini Pack contains the Big Daddy and Little Sister Costumes and a collection of brilliant BioShock Bonus Stickers.

These Costumes and Stickers will be perfect for creating your own BioShock levels within LittleBigPlanet. So take a trip over to our Game Add-Ons Catalogue to see what the BioShock Mini Pack contains!

Crown Contest: LBPC10 – A Stitch in Time

The Contest Crew over at LBPCentral.com are back with a new Crown Contest: LBPC10 – A Stitch in Time. The challenge this time is to create a level based on the theme of time travel.

The level must feature at least two different time zones and contestants must build an original and stylish time machine to warp between the two zones. Other than that the only limits are those of imagination… and the general space time continuum!

The contest is for BOTH LittleBigPlanet 2 and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and there will be a winner selected from each game. These two winners 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.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

We have a brand new selection of LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks for you to check out – This week we have a fast-based arcade shooter, a hardcore run and gun adventure from the days of old and a platformer that sees Sackboy climbing the North Tower of the Calamitous Clock.

Nightingale – Northern Flights is an amazing arcade game that sees the player taking the helm of the titular Nightingale, as the craft speeds across colorful skies and through dark and devious bases to stop the diabolical group known as the Harbringer in an intense shoot out of epic proportions!

Mr_Hijinx is back this week with another retro game creation in Peace Denied. This game has an incredible old-school vibe with an 8-bit design and quite the insane level of difficulty! It’s quite possible to complete though and a handful of extremely skilled players have managed to complete the challenge. Have you got what it takes to join them?

For our last level this week, we join Sackboy in an adventure that sees him ascending the North Tower of the Calamitous Clock. This level sees Sackboy armed with the power to shift the cogs and machinery to clear his path up the tower. It’s quite a mind-boggling twist to the classic gameplay usually seen in Sackboy’s platforming adventures.

Take a trip over to LBP.me to see and queue these great new LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks!

Community Picks: LiBitsmate No. 12

The LiBitsmate team are back this week with their twelfth selection of Japanese Community Picks, showcasing a wonderful selection of levels created exclusively by creators from Japan.

LiBitsmate No. 12

There’s an incredible 10 levels from the Japanese community to check out here, so make sure to pay a visit to this great hub level during your next trip into LittleBigPlanet 2!

LBPlanetorials: Simple Touch Gameplay

In their latest video tutorial, the folks from LBPlanetorials guide you through the process of making simple, touch-based gameplay sections.

If you’re looking to take full advantage of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita’s unique features and want to engage the player with some exciting touch-based gameplay, this video will really help kick start your creative learning for LittleBigPlanet’s touch controls!

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks

First up on this week’s set of LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks is Sky Temple Ruins, a unique track designed with dynamic destruction, teleportation, and even a tornado! Take a look!

Also on offer is a track featuring warping through deep space, a race through an underground temple, a high-speed battle in a fairy-tale setting, and even a drive in the moonlight! So give ‘em a go – you’re bound to find something you’ll love. Have fun!

Sky Temple Ruins by ArgorokX

Warp Effect by OnePoppa

Mystère Antique by xEnergiie-Drink

Once upon a time…

Moonlight Drive by Smoozly

Emergency Services DLC Coming This Week

This week it’s time for your Sackboy or Sackgirl to join the LittleBigPlanet Emergency Services and do their part to keep their fellow Sackfolk safe throughout their everyday lives. The LittleBigPlanet Emergency Services offers promising careers as a Policeman, a Fire Fighter, a Medic or as a member of the Sea Rescue. These great costumes will be available across LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and LittleBigPlanet Karting.

Not only do we have a full set of uniforms for your Sackperson to wear, we’re also proud to be releasing our first pack of karts exclusively for LittleBigPlanet Karting to ensure that your hero has just the right vehicle for the job. Download our great new wallpaper proudly displaying LittleBigPlanet’s finest at their best and don’t forget to pick up the Emergency Services Costumes and Emergency Services Kart on Tuesday.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

Starting this week’s LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks, we have a great Wheel of Fortunes game that will see you spinning the wheel and playing mini-games to try and score more points than your friends.

If you’re looking for a bit more danger in your excitement though, you will want to check out the High Oc-Train (1-4 Minigame) which will see Sackboy darting between fast-moving trains and falling boulders in a bid for survival!

Rounding off this week’s LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks, we have Another Planet – A grand platforming adventure that has Sackboy leaving LittleBigPlanet and visiting another planet within the ever-expanding Omniverse.

Head on LBP.me to check out these great levels and some of our favorite levels featured in the LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks!

Community Spotlights: LiBitsmate No. 11

The folks from the LiBitsmate team are back with a brand new collection of their favorite levels from community members coming from Japan.

LiBitsmate No.11 ～リビッツメイト 2月号～ by LiBitsmateJAPAN

Be sure to check out this great hub level during your next visit to LittleBigPlanet and see just what our Japanese community members have to offer.

Surge Lite on LittleBigPlanet PS Vita

Now here’s a wonderful story that came to our attention last week, one of our community members leklack was unable to find Surge by the great folks at FuturLab on the PlayStation Store, only to discover that it hadn’t been released in her country yet. This didn’t deter community member evret though, as he began working straight away on a LittleBigPlanet PS Vita conversion of Surge just for leklack. You can check out this great level for yourself in the video below.

FuturLab were so impressed by evret’s new level and his dedication to bringing Surge to LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, that they declared that evret needs a medal! We couldn’t agree more and are pleased to award evret with the Rare Prize Crown and the even more fabled Awesomesauce Pin for crafting this amazing recreation of Surge, which you can now queue up and play on LittleBigPlanet PS Vita too!

SURGE Lite by evret

Congratulations evret, a truly astounding level and a thoroughly well-deserved award for your hard work and dedication within the LittleBigPlanet community.

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks

This week we have a fantastic platformer set in an ancient Japanese castle. You can also find the Surge Lite level from the lovely story above in this week’s LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks.

小さな国の不思議な時間と いずこの城 ( JPN ) by p-s-n_18

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks

We have a grand selection of LittleBigPlanet Karting tracks for you to check out this week that includes a race packed to the brim with dragons, a medieval-style blast-from-the-past, a competitive arena set entirely on a massive pool table and even a romp through the Grand Canyon.

Dragon Pool by AtreyuOJB

Excalibur by patdid

Pro Billard 2013 by xEnergiie-Drink

Grand Canyon by timothee26220

The Valentine’s Day Level Kit Returns!

Love is in the air on LittleBigPlanet and Sackfolk’s hearts are all of a flutter as they craft and decorate the most wonderful creations for their loved ones.

To help give everyone a kick-start with these creations, we’re re-releasing the popular Valentine’s Day Level Kit this week! So head on over to the Store later this week and pick up this great kit!

For full information on the Valentine’s Day Level Kit, check out its dedicated page on our LittleBigPlanet Game Add-Ons Catalogue.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

We have quite a variety of LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks for you this week, you can either get into a sticky situation in The Mud Job series of levels or you can tee off for a nice round of golf in LittleJarGolf: Craftworld Open.

LittleJarGolf: Craftworld Open by jarreguin001

The Mud Job – Act One: Welcome to the Mudlands by Mamett-Box

NINJA CAT 2 by SAMURAI-09

If a series of adventures or a few rounds of golf are not your thing though, then perhaps you would prefer to just sit back and enjoy the latest LittleBigPlanet movie master piece – Ninja Cat 2!

Ninja Cat 2 is the epic sequel to the original Ninja Cat movie, clocking in at an impressive 110 minutes and spanning across 12 levels to create the ultimate movie going experience for LittleBigPlanet.

SAMURAI-09 has provided the entertainment; all you have to do is provide the popcorn!

New LBPlanetorial Tutorial – Memorisers and App-Style Games

LBPlanetorials are back with a brand new video tutorial. This time they are focusing on the Memoriser tool and creating app-style games.

The Memoriser is nifty tool exclusive to LittleBigPlanet PS Vita that allows you to save gameplay data between play sessions and can even send data from one level to another. Just perfect for saving the progress of any player that plays your level!

With it you can easily make anything from brilliantly addictive mini-games to a fully-fledged RPG.

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks

For this round of LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks, we’ve got a veritable grab-bag of awesome.
On this week’s roster is an impressive recreation of a real-world Formula One track, a romp through a dense Aztec jungle, and even a huge arena set in a functioning wave pool.

Sugar Rush by Cirrus5005

NFS-Race by ferkel

The Indoor Wave Pool by puppethand666

Cote d’ Azur / Monaco by GDJ-Nienhuis

Aztec Jungle by Piwe13

So whatever your fancy may be, you would be hard-pressed to find something that doesn’t suit it. Have fun!

#ps3 I have no idea how this was done, but then, I fell off the LittleBigPlanet wagon a long time ago. This is "Hyper Hexagon," an adaptation of Super Hexagon rendered within LittleBigPlanet 2. Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh knows about it; he retweeted a link to the game yesterday. Enjoy. More »

Chinese New Year – Year of the Snake

On February 10th, it will be Chinese New Year which marks the beginning of the Year of the Snake in China. To celebrate this popular festival, Sackboys and Sackgirls have just the perfect outfits to wear for this special occasion in our free Chinese New Year Costumes Pack.

These wonderful oriental costumes will be released on the PlayStation Store this week and will be available for one week only, so make sure you don’t miss out on your chance to see these great costumes.

To find out more about the Chinese New Year Costumes Pack and to take a look at all the other great DLC available for LittleBigPlanet, be sure to check out our LittleBigPlanet Game Add-Ons Catalogue.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

Our LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks this week include a scenic jaunt through a variety of fun platforming levels. You can either take in the night-time atmosphere of Paris, the wonderful lights of the Spectrum Caverns or run amok in a barn with some chickens! Whatever you decide to do, you’ll be sure to have fun in these great levels.

Midnight In Paris by jauw2

The Long Lost Lights of Spectrum Caverns by tevlon1

Chicken Farm by miko_los

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks

This week we have three brand new LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Picks for you and they couldn’t be any more different. One is a very artistic silhouette platformer, the other a match 3 puzzle game, and the last is a top-down shooter.

SPOT LIGHT [2D] By NecoCocoron

Renegade Assault (Top Down Shooter) By Shade_seeker

Triple Tap Time By LukeCF

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Team Picks!

We’re starting this round of Team Picks off with Turbine Toxique, a new track by Caiman_6 that will have you dodging toxic sludge and hurling cookies at your opponents – all in the name of first place!

Take a look at our first race lined up for you today!

If racing through a dangerous turbine isn’t your speed, have no fear; we’ve got tons of variety this week. We’re also featuring a winding race through a beautiful snowy village, a track built entirely on a comet in space, a huge medieval-style arena featuring an equally huge castle, and even a romp through a massively detailed casino! So no matter what you prefer, there’s definitely something for everyone. Enjoy!

Turbine Toxique by Caiman_6

Frozen Lakes by HardPokers

Banquise Stellaire by Caiman_6

Nightmare Castle by toe-fu-fighter

Casino “Royal Pourceau” by Caiman_6

Community Highlight – LittleBigJourney

We want to end this week with a shout-out to a great fansite that has caught our attention.
LittleBigJourney has been active for just over a year and its intrepid team of just two administrators strive to bring you all the latest LittleBigPlanet news and activities on their blog.

Since this fansite is so fantastic, we have already awarded the duo a Rare Prize Crown each and the elusive Master of the Internets Pin, so we think it’s about time to shine the spotlight on them for their hard work and continued dedication to running a thoroughly impressive LittleBigPlanet fansite.

Be sure to head over to the LittleBigJourney fansite and check it out for yourself!

Garfield and Odie Minipack Out Now

Last week we released the Garfield and Odie Minipack. Since we’re such big fans of this lovable duet, we have put together this special wallpaper to celebrate the release of the new pack.

The Garfield and Odie Minipack includes the two costumes pictured in the wallpaper, along with an assortment of Garfield and Odie stickers to help fulfill your creative needs.

Don’t miss this new wallpaper, and if you fancy adding a little comic humor to your corner of LittleBigPlanet, head on over to PlayStation Store and check out the Garfield and Odie Minipack.

Groundhog Day Costume Returns

This coming Saturday is Groundhog Day! To celebrate the occasion, the Groundhog Costume will be making an appearance on PlayStation Store.

This cute costume is free and will be on the PlayStation Store for one week only. So don’t miss out on picking up this cheerful groundhog from the store before it scurries away for another year.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

This week in the LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks we begin with My Robot Factory, which will see Sackboy running upside-down on Attract-O-Gel and teleporting around as he jumps into Worm Holes in a robotic platforming adventure.

If running up walls and teleporting all over the place isn’t enough for you, then perhaps you’ll like Simple Pleasures. This deceptively named level will see Sackboy in a race against time as he runs through the level and performs wall-jump after wall jump to reach the ever-elusive Scoreboard at the end of the level.

Finishing up our weekly selection of LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks, we have Rollerball. This heart-pounding race level will see you taking the form of a ball, as you race against your friends, or some rather clever AI, to see who the fastest Rollerball racer is.

My Robot Factory (platformer) by yu-kamone

Simple Pleasures [one player only] by JakePutz

Rollerball by ladylyn1

A Very Tasty Thank You

We end this week with a rather lovely story about a visit paid by Tony_Too to our SCE Benelux studio, so he could give the team a cake as a thank you for having his Winter Epicness level reach out to 100,000 different racers on LittleBigPlanet Karting.

I didn’t get to try the cake for myself but I’m reliably informed that it was both very well-received and delicious, so the folks in Benelux would like to say a big thank you for the gift.

If you haven’t already, be sure to hop on to LittleBigPlanet Karting and check out Winter Epicness for yourself.

Winter Epicness by Tony_Too

How about you though? Do you have any particular achievements in LittleBigPlanet that you are proud of? Are there any great milestones that you just cannot wait to reach yourself?

Leave us a message in the comments and tell us all about your own aspirations within LittleBigPlanet!

Garfield and Odie Minipack Coming This Week

It’s Monday, and although our favourite feline is well-known for hating Mondays, hopefully this week he can make an exception since the Garfield and Odie Minipack is making its LittleBigPlanet debut!

The Garfield and Odie Minipack will give Sackboy two brand new costumes for his LittleBigPlanet 2 and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita adventures, as well as providing him with a variety of stickers just perfect for creating your own Garfield comic book stories.

LittleBigPlanet Calendar Theme Out Now

We also have a special new theme on PlayStation Store to spruce up your PS3 with! This dynamic theme features a set of 12 rather nifty backgrounds, one for each month of the year.

Each background features a variety of Sackfolk having fun, so whether they’re enjoying the sunny weather in July or playing in the snow in December, you can be sure that this theme will bring you plenty of joy throughout the year!

Head over to the PlayStation Store today to pick up the LittleBigPlanet Calendar theme for $1.99, and keep Sackboy with you all year ’round.

LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks

This week, our LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks sees Sackboy becoming Outback Jack, as he takes off on a journey through the Australian Outback with some new platforming skills to help him survive. Meanwhile, in The Arena, Sackboy enters a first-person deathmatch arena that pits him against waves of mean robots that he will need to shoot to survive.

Finally, we finish the Mm Picks this week with Solitude in Silhouette, which sees Sackboy taking a scenic journey through some dark caves with fun gameplay and impressive visuals to behold throughout your journey.

The Adventures of Outback Jack: Level 1 by Alley_Cat_8633 Solitude in Silhouette ~ Just a Dream by Missi_Cat THE ARENA by AngeloMattei

LBPC Community Spotlight Hits 100 Episodes

The LBPC Community Spotlight team hit an incredible milestone recently, with their 100th Community Spotlight! Every two weeks, the LBPC Community Spotlight team features their favorite levels from around the community, so be sure to check back with them regularly.

In the meantime though, check out their momentous 100th episode and the levels that they featured in this landmark episode.

LBPC Community Spotlight Episode 100! by LBPCentralHub

Marvel Heroes Costume Pack 6 Out Now

LittleBigPlanet returns this year with the eagerly anticipated Marvel Heroes Costume Pack 6, which contains Deadpool, Black Cat, Hawkeye, Dr. Doom and Sabretooth.

Combine this with our previous Marvel Costumes and there are now an absolutely astounding 30 Marvel Costumes and a Marvel Level Kit available for LittleBigPlanet!

Want to learn more about all these heroic costumes and Sackboy’s Marvel adventures on LittleBigPlanet? Then the folks over at the LittleBigPlanet Wiki have everything you need to get started.

Be sure to head on over to the Store today and suit up for even more heroic adventures on LittleBigPlanet!

LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross-Controller Pack out now

With all the excitement leading up to Christmas, you may have missed our release of the LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross-Controller Pack. This new add-on pack for LittleBigPlanet 2 gives you the chance to use your PlayStation Vita as a controller for some very unique Cross-Controller gameplay.

If you were fortunate enough to find a PlayStation Vita tucked into your stocking by Santa, then this is definitely a pack that you will want to check out.

LittleBigLand.com Touch & Tilt Crown Contest: Results

The team over at LittleBigLand.com have finished judging the very first LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Community Contest and they have chosen their three winners that will each receive a Rare Prize Crown and a LittleBigLand Secret Pin.

We won’t spoil the surprise for everyone here, so head on over to LittleBigLand.com to see the full results and to find out if you’re one of the lucky winners of those fabulous prizes!

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita: Team Pick

In LittleBigPlanet PS Vita we start the year off with a very abstract level. The first Team Pick of 2013 is ZedCOcoZza’s fantastic level, AbstraPhilis. Check it out!

AbstraPhilis By ZedCOcoZza

Last Chance to Grab the Free New Year Fireworks Costume!

The Free New Year Fireworks Costume is currently on the Store but time is fast running out to pick up this exclusive costume for your Sackboy. This costume is coming down during the next PlayStation Store update this week, so don’t delay!

If you want to celebrate the New Year with a bang, then you’ll want to rocket to the Store right away to pick up this costume that will literally have your Sackboy exploding onto the party scene in style.

#deathinc What do you do after helping craft some of the cuddliest, most heartwarming games of this past generation? If you're the guys at Ambient Studios—some of whom worked at Media Molecule on the big-hearted LittleBigPlanet games—it's making a game about Death and the horrors of the bubonic plague. More »

With the holidays wrapped up and a new year ahead of us, now is the perfect time to share some of the best content the LittleBigPlanet Karting community has to offer. In that spirit, the following list contains ten user-created tracks (in no particular order) made since Karting’s launch that have seriously impressed us one way or another. Have some favorites of your own? Let us know in the comments!

Winter Epicness by Tony_Too Return to the Sandbox by ApertureNOBLE Mount Hades (God of War) By FIaco Twin Rivers Valley by CAPNDigital

Magma City Xtreme by patof-103 Wintery Wonderland by leklack

Swamp of Madness by Mish80 The Majestic Milk Machine by VintageOctopus Jungle Jam by Ebolaids Aren’t Tomb Many by D33C0MBOBULATOR

Remember, these are just the tracks we really like. There are tons of others worth exploring too — have fun!

If you were to visit the Media Molecule studio, you’d see that it’s very us. The pink carpets lead you through to a work space that’s filled with bright colours and interesting or curious things to look at. In a bid to keep our surroundings inspiring and as conducive to creativity as possible, we’re spoiled rotten with creature comforts and toys to play. To a visitor, all of this can make for quite a tour.

As a visitor though, you’d only get to see a brief glimpse of the studio – enough to take in the big picture, but not enough to truly get a feel for the place, and they say; the devil is in the detail. If you were able to spend more time here, you’d start to notice all the little things that are perhaps less immediately enticing as a ping pong table, but are far more interesting, and quite often, downright odd.

It’s the slightly weirder or out of place things that I think truly reflect the creative eccentricities of this merry band of game developers. See that mountain of paper? Have a bit of rummage and you’ll discover that it’s actually Rex’s desk, and its made from a treasure trove of doodles. Siobhan’s desk plays host to an exquisite collection of snow globes, and Alex’s cluttered mess could very well contain the secrets of the universe, if only it could be deciphered.

In an attempt to offer the world a more detailed glimpse inside the studio, I’ve put together a selection of some of my favourite oddities from around the place; purposeful art, random graffiti, endearing decoration, and things of unknown origin. Some can be found in plain sight, others might require looking a little closer, but all of them will give you a glimpse inside the head of the average Molecule, rather than simply the studio they work in.

Make of them what you will!