Sony Computer Entertainment has launched the official UK LittleBigPlanet YouTube page, which aims to celebrate the enormous (over 500,000!) amount of user created levels that have been published since LBP’s launch.
As well as featuring exclusive content and all the latest news, the LittleBigPlanet YouTube page will host a favourites section, featured users, cultural collaborations, challenges, event promotions, footage and even tutorials from the folks at Media Molecule.
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London/April 1st: This April, Sony Computer Entertainment UK will launch the official UK LittleBigPlanet™ YouTube page. Featuring exclusive content and all the latest news, the LittleBigPlanet page will also champion the best of the creativity that the LittleBigPlanet community has to offer.
Created by Guildford based Media Molecule and launched exclusively on PlayStation®3 in October 2008, LittleBigPlanet was hailed as one of the most innovative and creative titles of recent years. It has since garnered numerous awards including most recently a BAFTA for artistic achievement, and at the recent American Academy of Interactive Science awards, winning Console Game of the Year and Overall Game of the Year. LittleBigPlanet enables players to play, create and share levels provided by the developers and also created by the users themselves. LBP launched with 50 levels, but carried 11,000 user created levels over from the beta trial. Since that time, the number of user created levels uploaded for anyone to play and rate, has exceeded 500,000.
The official UK LittleBigPlanet YouTube page will celebrate this User Generated Content by hosting a favourites section, featured users, tutorials from Media Molecule themselves, cultural collaborations, challenges, event promotions and footage. Visitors can become fans of the page, vote on and link their favourite videos to their own page as well as giving hints and tips to each other.
The launch of the site will be marked with the unveiling of the ‘Around the World in 80 Sackboys™’ competition. The competition will encourage users to create levels inspired by famous countries and landmarks around the world. The YouTube community will vote and those shortlisted will then be judged by Media Molecule, who will pick the winning entry. The lucky Sackboy™ or Sackgirl™ will win a round the world trip for 2 including £1,000 spending money (terms and conditions apply).
The Official UK LittleBigPlanet YouTube page will launch on 1st April with the aim for the page to be a showcase for all the LittleBigPlaneteers out there. Subscribers to the page will also be given the chance to win an exclusive limited edition crown for their Sackboy!
For more information visit www.youtube.com/littlebigplanetuk
Is it me or have Sony turned their marketing offensive up a notch lately? New LBP promotion and marketing press releases, New Home Xi viral videos and billboard adverts around Europe, new firmware announcements, new game announcement etc. I even read a press release from Sony about the music composition in inFamous yesterday!
I also find it fascinating how friendly Sony and Google seem to have become, from the extensive use of YouTube, including in-game, to the dedicated Google Search Icon on the XMB to the use of the news feed in Life with PlayStation etc. The enemy of my enemy and all that…
Comment by Apnomis — Apr 2, 2009 @ 11:53 am
Bored to death of this game now
Comment by me — Apr 2, 2009 @ 4:29 pm
i haven’t played this in ages, i guess i got fed up with all the dross online, sure there are some great levels out there, but mostly it’s full of fail
and personally i’d be more impressed if that video was made in-game and not pre-rendered.
Comment by mobiletone — Apr 3, 2009 @ 6:51 am
@Tone
Be really good if they released a patch or expansion to open up the Z axis a bit more - be absolutely brilliant to have a FULLY 3D playing field!
I have fantasies of recreating Mario64 with sackboy!!! - would sell a bagillion copies, just think of the possibilities!
Comment by JohnSketch — Apr 3, 2009 @ 10:52 am
And with that, we’re still waiting for the PATAPON LBP COSTUME even though the game is already out, whereas the US got it yesterday and the game only comes on May 5th…
Good job, Sony.
Comment by night — Apr 3, 2009 @ 4:44 pm
Yo,
I know this is unrelated but I need help, have any of you guys got Red Alert 3 and if so are you getting annoying issues with the sound going all crappy at times, its damn annoying and its only doing it with this game!
Comment by Terry G — Apr 5, 2009 @ 9:20 pm
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