As announced late last year, we’ve spent the last few months on the hunt for a LittleBigPlanet intern who will be given the rare opportunity to get a look inside the fast paced world of video game development.

The month-long position, which will be hosted by Swedish Studio Tarsier, is to be awarded to the applicant who can create the best mini-game in LittleBigPlanet PS Vita.

We assembled an all-star team of portable gaming enthusiasts from across Europe to test and review each entry. These judges have put each mini-game to the test, selecting the best of the best from each country. Below is a list of the four lucky finalists, complete with a link to their awesome game. Please try them out!

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Have you ever dreamed of turning your LittleBigPlanet mini-game into real DLC? Well, now you have the opportunity to do just that. Together with PlayStation, we are looking for one awesome creator to join us here at Tarsier Studios in Sweden for one month.

All you have to do to apply for this opportunity is to publish a mini-game in LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and submit the level on this site before the 10th of October: http://lbpinternship.eu.playstation.com/

If you’re the lucky person chosen from all of the submissions that we receive, then you will have the once in a lifetime opportunity to work together with us to turn your mini-game into a fully-fledged piece of LittleBigPlanet PS Vita DLC.

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The wait is finally over and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita will be hitting the shelves this week. In preparation for this exciting release that we just cannot wait for you to pick up and play, we have a whole bunch of goodies to announce and treats to show you before you begin Sackboy’s latest adventure!

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. It’s up to Sackboy to save the Omniverse!

You can find out whether he succeeds or not when the game launches across Europe, from 19th September. Don’t have PlayStation Vita yet? Well then, maybe we can interest you with this LittleBigPlanet PS Vita bundle. For just €249.99 you get both PlayStation Vita and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita.

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Here at PlayStation, we’ve just launched a search for the ultimate ‘gamer-on-the-go’.

We’re looking for anyone obsessed with playing games from first thing in the morning to last thing at night. As long as you have a passion for portable gaming, this could be for you.

The role is part of an upcoming contest where we will offer an internship at Swedish studio Tarsier. You’ll know these guys as one of the teams behind certain-to-be-awesome LittleBigPlanet PlayStation Vita.

When that game launches, we’ll be asking the ultra-productive LittleBigPlanet community to create mini-games using Sackboy’s first ever PS Vita adventure. We’ll need to pick the best one but to be honest, it’s a big job and we could use some help.

That’s where you come in.
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Hello Rag Doll Kung Fu friends,

Remember my post on the Rag Doll Kung Fun Online Competition winners?

Well, as promised , the design of the best doll has been turned by Tarsier Studios into a real downloadable character! Run to the Store on the 12th of November to get your FREE” Mistress of Mime” downloadable doll and enjoy many new crazy battles !

If you ask me, I think the Master of Mime is a mixture between a Venice traditional carnival mask and a mysterious mime coming from another century…

We are all very intrigued by the history and look of this doll, so I invite Agnese, the creator of this character, to get back to us on this blog and share with us the idea behind such special design )

Hey, before I forget, Sony Asia also ran the competition and had their winner … The “Shaolin Scarecrow”.

This character is also available on the European Store for free! Add it up to your collection of Rag Dolls, the more the funnier! Don’t forget that all parts of Rag Doll Kung Fu characters are interchangeable, so you will be able to create more and more dolls just using your fantasy.

Have fun!

Cristina

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