Something magical recently happened in the world of LittleBigPlanet - thanks to our awesome community, the LBP franchise now has more than 6 million user-generated games and levels created by fans and uploaded online to the PlayStation Network! As always, we’d like to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone contributing, whether you’re creating, sharing, or just playing. Here are a few nuggets we found over the weekend:

SPEED CREATE by Mnniska

A new fan-created video series called SpeedCreate. Love the new approach and helpful tips/ideas passed along to the rest of us.

Thanks!

LittleBigPodcast – Episode 156 and Muppets DLC

Thanks for keeping us updated on the latest!

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In 2009, we ran a series of awards to highlight the best of the best amongst the LittleBigPlanet community. These awards were dubbed The Sackies, and recognised Players, Creators and Sharers alike. Over two years later, I’m proud to announce that The Sackies have returned.

A key part of The Sackies is highlighting different elements of creativity within the community, and so we have identified some key categories for levels to fall into, categories such as best use of story, best multiplayer, and best use of sound.

With nearly six million levels to pick through, we’ve decided to hand over the reins to you, the community,  to pick the levels and Creators who should win some of these prestigious awards. If you head to our community portal LBP.me and sign in, you can nominate 100 levels for each of the categories. The option to Nominate can be found on every level and creator page.

After a few weeks we will identify the top levels in each category, and everyone will get one vote to decide the overall winners!

Previous winners of The Sackies have gone on to find fame and fortune, and some even jobs within the industry. For the rest of us, we found great levels to play and inspire us; who’s to say what we might find this time?

Get nominating people!

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To celebrate the launch of Assassin’s Creed Revelations this month we’ve gotten together with our friends over at Ubisoft to bring the legendary assassin Ezio Auditore back to LittleBigPlanet.

The Old Ezio costume comes with a selection of stickers to help build some cool levels and the whole package will be available from the 16th of November on PSN.

If you want to know more about Assassin’s Creed Revelations and the world of Ezio then check out site:www.assassinscreed.com

You can also download this killer wallpaper while you wait!

Available in multiple formats (including PlayStation Vita!) here

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New on the PlayStation Store

Tomorrow is going to be and an epic day!  The LittleBigPlanet 2 Move Pack will be available on the PlayStation Store with tomorrow’s store refresh.  The amazing downloadable pack includes tons of new gadgets and tools, giving you the power to CREATE awesome new levels for your Move controller (this eventually means tons of free user-generated “Move” games available to everyone for free).  But most importantly, the Move Pack contains an epic new storyline titled “Rise of the Cakeling”

The LittleBigPlanet 2: Rise of the Cakeling Move Pack (add-on) will be available for €7.99 in Europe.  Note – you must have LittleBigPlanet 2 to play.
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First of all, LittleBigPlanet fans – congratulations are in order. Thanks to all of you, we recently hit a very cool milestone – more than FOUR MILLION LittleBigPlanet levels have now been shared by players around the world.

Four million – or more exactly, 4,141,742 at the moment I’m writing this. Wow. If you played LBP solidly, 12 hours a day, and only played each level for 5 minutes, it would take you *taps calculator frantically* more than 78 years to play through all of them. Phew.

Here’s an additional message to all of you from the folks over at Media Molecule…

For us the most exciting thing has always been seeing what the community does with a LittleBigPlanet game when they get their hands on the new features and tools. We’re constantly delighted – and amazed – by their ingenuity and creativity, and it’s so inspiring to see the level of affection that exists for LittleBigPlanet amongst fans around the world.

Contraption Challenge 13

Next news – the LittleBigPlanet Contraption Challenge has returned! If you’ve no idea what I’m talking about – the Contraption Challenge is a long-running series of tasks to test and reward the creativity of the LBP nation, ably coordinated by community members Nuclearfish and Chimpanzee and the Official PlayStation Community Team.

The challenge this time is to construct a working submarine – check out the full details on the official PlayStation Forums. The closing date is this Sunday, the 17th April, so there’s still time for you to get involved by submitting your own entry (although it might mean pulling a couple of all-nighters!). Alternatively, you could just check out some of the great submissions on lbp.me using this handy link.

If you only look at one thing this week, check out the teaser trailer for the new series of contraption challenges if you didn’t see if a couple of weeks ago – it’s all kinds of awesome.

Upcoming Downloadable Costumes

Finally, an update on some of the imminent downloadable goodness coming to LittleBigPlanet 2. Our next release on the PlayStation Store will be the Tron: Evolution Minipack, which will be released on 27th April at €2.99 / £2.39. In the pack you’ll get two brand new costumes, plus a batch of handy new stickers – here’s some shiny neon pics…

May will see the release of the Killzone 3 Minipack – and I couldn’t resist giving you a sneaky look at one of the two costumes from that pack, as I think it’s one of the coolest LBP costumes I’ve seen. Behold, the Hazmat Trooper…

Combine this together with the original Killzone costume kit (which is fully compatible with LittleBigPlanet 2, remember) and you’ll have all the tools to recreate the battle for Helghan down to the finest detail. With rather more sponge, of course.

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