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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In the run up to the holiday season we have lots of news and goodies coming to LittleBigPlanet and it all starts here…

Uncharted 3 Nathan Drake costume available next week!

Next week’s release of Uncharted 3 is something we’ve all been waiting for. So to keep you in the Nathan Drake mood, next week you’ll be able to download the brand, spanking new, Nathan Drake costume.

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LittleBigPlanet creators, here’s your chance to get your masterpieces out to the masses and perhaps pick up some of those chest-warming Hearts along the way.

We did this a few months ago and the idea is simple: you post lbp.me links to your creations in the comments section below, I play all of them on Saturday morning with a bucket of coffee and then I’ll tweet my favourites from @PlayStationEU, meaning they’ll go out out to 180,000+ people, not counting retweets. It’s like having the SCEE marketing team promoting your creations (well, my laptop and I).

Seeing as the LBP2 Move Pack just came out, there are legitimate bonus points going out to those eager beagles with their fingers and toes on the motion control pulse.

If you haven’t used lbp.me before, it’s as easy as tickling. Just sign in with your PSN ID to see all of the levels that you have published, played and hearted, and generally find out what’s going down in the creating community. You can also view other people’s levels and add them to your queue so that they’re ready and waiting next time you boot up the game on your PS3. To help you practice, I’ve made a laughably terrible game minigame called the Kitten Chucking Challenge. Oh how I wish I was better.

So there you have it! Creators start posting your levels in the comments and, if like me you don’t have that kind of brain then play along with me. I’ll be tweeting how I get on via @PlayStationEU and @Jallagher.

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