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On the road to freedom

Sackboy’s cross-marketing potential continues to lavish us with outstandingly adorable costumes this week, as new Escape Plan and Journey outfits are added to the animated hero’s LittleBigPlanet 2 wardrobe. If you pick up the Journey costume you’ll also score a themed sticker pack to go with it, allowing you to create...

Curiouser and curiouser

Sackboy’s wardrobe is soon to extend to quaint Victorian attire, as costumes based on Tim Burton’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland reboot make a very important date with LittleBigPlanet 2. The new DLC pack will include outfits for Alice, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and the Red Queen, allowing you to create a perfectly mad...

Sackboy's on the move too

If thatgamecompany’s epic Journey inspired you, then why not channel your creativity in LittleBigPlanet 2? Media Molecule’s announced a new Journey-inspired costume and sticker pack is headed to the Play Create Share platformer next month, allowing you to build your own emotional adventures. You can find out more about...

Best headline ever?

Who's better — Sackboy or Rowlf, the piano playing dog from The Muppets? Of course it's Rowlf. Don't believe us? Watch this video of Rowlf in the new Muppets DLC for LittleBigPlanet 2 and try again. The Muppets pack is out now on PlayStation Network for £4.79/€5.99.

It's always nice to have an excuse to return to LittleBigPlanet 2

The release of new Media Molecule produced content nearly always drives us back into the do-it-yourself platformer, and we're continually staggered by the community content we find upon our return. Sneakily announced overnight, Media Molecule's confirmed that the latest LittleBigPlanet 2 level pack is due out on the PlayStation Store..

The world of LittleBigPlanet won't stop growing

Media Molecule's announced that the do-it-yourself game creation platform has now received its 6 millionth upload. That's a lot of levels. According to the Guildford-based developer, 2.5 million of those levels were created in the last year since LittleBigPlanet 2's release. Apparently, up to 40,000 levels are created every week. Even if you subscribe..

Media Molecule spent the best part of last year ploughing cash into new, innovative products, a report has revealed

In an annual director's report, uncovered by Develop, the company indicated that its main business risks came "largely as a result of the company's heavy reliance on the one LittleBigPlanet brand name". As such, the company spent big in 2011, ploughing a whopping £4.1..

And Move too

You can create almost anything in LittleBigPlanet 2: games, music and even bona fide art. Media Molecule recently held a competition to share the greatest Move artwork with the world, and it resulted in some stunners. The Move Masterpieces competition just ended with the winner, September Girl by natuhito, proudly displayed here. There...

Ubisoft and Media Molecule's teamed up to announce this ridiculously cute Ezio Auditore costume for LittleBigPlanet 2

The costume — which will be available from November 15th — has been produced in order to celebrate the release of the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations. N'awwww.

Sackboy still wants your love

LittleBigPlanet 2 was released months ago, but Sony is keen to keep its clothy character in the forefront of gifters' minds this Christmas with a relaunch of the game in two new packs. First up is the LittleBigPlanet 2 Special Edition, which includes the game and $35 worth of additional content. Top of the list is the...

If you haven't played LittleBigPlanet 2 yet, what are you thinking? The Media Molecule developed do-it-yourself imagination engine is still sitting at the top of our game of the year shortlist, and it's going to take a mighty competitor to topple it

Seeing as we're forgiving folks, we'll let you off on not having played LittleBigPlanet 2, so long as you promise to rectify your misdemeanour before..

Inevitably Sony has announced an uber-cutesy Nathan Drake sackboy costume to celebrate the impending release of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

The costume will launch on the PlayStation Store next week, though Sony's yet to announce any prices. Awwww.

The fireworks still pop

You can still give your co-operative partner a big slap. But something's been missing from LittleBigPlanet 2's end-of-level experience for some time. The scoreboards have been offline. But according to a post on the LittleBigPlanet forums, the feature will return tomorrow. "As you know, for quite some time now the scoreboards for LittleBigPlanet have been offline. We..

We have the answers

Now that LittleBigPlanet 2 is fully Moved-up, there's been plenty of questions flying around about exactly what the Move Pack: Rise of the Cakeling adds to the standalone game and how necessary it is. XDev Studio Europe producer Neil McPhillips has taken to the PlayStation Blog to give some answers. The biggest and best news is...

LittleBigPlanet 2's long anticipated PlayStation Move expansion pack officially launches tomorrow with a host of new tools in addition to an entirely new story campaign

The campaign is named "Rise Of The Cakeling" and provides a full demonstration of the new tools included with the Move expansion pack. The DLC will retail for €7.99 in Europe when it launches tomorrow. There's a trailer..

The majority of LittleBigPlanet 2's new PlayStation Move features will not launch until next week -- but Media Molecule's gone live with a new patch (v1

06) that at least prepares for the platformer's new motion controlled features. The patch includes the integration of a variety of new sensors designed for motion control support. Don't get too excited though — if you want the full set of..

You got a friend in me

Media Molecule's announced a batch of Toy Story content for LittleBigPlanet 2, set to go live on the PlayStation Store next week. The pack includes a level kit featuring nine new levels, a couple of new music tracks and a bunch of new materials, stickers and decorations. That will run you £4.79. A costume pack will also be available, featuring outfits for Buzz Lightyear,..

.. Wait no longer, as LittleBigPlanet 2 user Hymanator has made a pretty decent reinterpretation within Media Molecule's "create-your-own-game" toolset. It's even got the "Cat Mania" and "Fever" power-ups. The pace of the game is a little slow, but if you've been craving some Chu-Chu Rocket on your PlayStation 3, this is probably your best bet for now. It's not like..

You can see the origins of a free-to-play game in LittleBigPlanet

The accessibility of the PlayStation Store within the game makes the package ripe for freemium potential, and when you factor in DLC content packs for costumes, stickers and materials it's easy to see how the title could adapt to that business model. In fact: that was the original intention — at least from Sony's point-of-view..

More than 1

5 million new players have jumped into LittleBigPlanet 2 since the PlayStation Network outage earlier in the year. Media Molecule confirmed the figures as part of a panel at the Develop conference this morning. "I like that stat because it's growing," revealed Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans. "LittleBigPlanet is not a stagnant community. There's multiple levels..

Media Molecule is moving on from LittleBigPlanet

While it will continue to support past releases, the British studio wants to put all of its future energy into creating something new. According to the studio, making this decision felt like a child leaving home. "It's a bit like, if you think of LBP as having a child, Sackboy was our child, you get to the stage where they want to leave..

The much anticipated Final Fantasy VII costume pack for LittleBigPlanet will launch on the PlayStation Store next week according to the PlayStation Blog

Costumes for Tifa, Sephiroth, Cloud and Aeris will be available for £1.59 / $1.99 each, or bundled together with an exclusive Vincent outfit for £4.79 / $5.99. Sony's also announced an inFamous 2 pack — featuring a good and evil Cole for £2.39..

This is a sweet story with a bitter after taste

British based developer Media Molecule has announced that it is considering taking a break from the LittleBigPlanet series in order to "focus on some new ideas". While this sounds like immediately wonderful news, it would be sad to see Sackboy sit quietly in the sidelines for a few years while Media Molecule works on its next big thing. That..

Media Molecule's finally blown the doors off LittleBigPlanet 2's PlayStation Move add-on, which was quietly getting a lot of buzz around publications attending this year's E3

The pack — which will include new trophies — is said to be Media Molecule's biggest DLC expansion yet, and as such doesn't have a firm release date as of yet. The studio's targeting an end of Summer launch though. New..