Items tagged with 'New York'

As I’m writing this, the World Record Team are approaching 39 hours of straight gaming, as they try to set 5 new world records. The live feed of the team and everything happening around them has been really quite entertaining so far, currently you can watch them building Kevin Butler’s Office for instance, and with the final day of the event upon us there are some more great things to tune in and watch.

Here is the schedule of events for today, all times are in New York time!

Wednesday 19th January
Hosts - Jeff Rubenstein & Veronica Belmont

10:00AM–10:20AM - FanCam goes live.

10:30AM-10:45AM - Mm answers questions tweeted in

11:00AM – 11:20AM - Jeff with LBP Podcast introduce special design guest

11:30AM-12:00AM - Media Molecule tutorial with Dan & John on Direct Control

12:00PM - 12:30PM - Media Molecule tutorial with Dan on LBP.me

12:45PM – 1:15PM - Media Molecule for a Tutorial with Naomi on Cinematics

1:30 PM– 2:00PM - Meet Annika Valacic & her dad

2:30PM – 2:45 PM - Jeff interviews Elliot from ESRB

3:00 PM – 3:30PM - Media Molecule Tutorial with Chris and Naomi on Sackbots

3:30PM – 4:00PM - Media Molecule Tutorial with Naomi on the music sequencer

4:30PM – 4:45PM - Veronica talks to LBPodcast

5:00PM – 5:20PM - Veronica talks to Marvel & Martin from Media Molecule about DLC

5:30PM – 6:01PM - Veronica, Jeff, GWR, Media Molecule countdown to 50hrs

6:01PM - 6:35PM - How many records were set? Time to find out!

You especially don’t want to miss those live create tutorials, they’ve been really fun! Go team!

Did you know that LittleBigPlanet is about to set some Guinness World Records?  In New York City? Live?

From today and over the next three days, a team of Molecules and community members have taken over the PlayStation Lounge in the Sony Style store in New York City. You can pop by and say hello if you’re in the area, here’s the address…

PlayStation Lounge at the Sony Style store
550 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022

Whilst there, the team will be trying to set some world records, which will be officially monitored by the Guinness Book of World Records staff. Here’s what we’re going for…

The Guinness World Records to be set include:

• Longest marathon playing LittleBigPlanet 2
• Longest marathon playing a platform video game
• Most video game genres played in one video game in 24 hours
• Most user-generated video game levels played in 24 hours
• Most user-generated video game levels played in a marathon

LittleBigPlanet 2 will also be recognized for the following records:

• Most gaming genres in one video game
• Most player-created levels in one video game

If you’re not in New York and able to pop by, you can watch the event live over the internet, no need to go anywhere, much more convenient! - here’s Sony’s Eric Levine to tell us more….

If you can’t make it down, no worries, we’ll be LIVE streaming our World Record Event online on the PlayStation Blog. Stay tuned for our unprecedented schedule of LittleBigPlanet 2 goodness hosted by Veronica Belmont from Qore and our own Jeff Rubenstein.

Check in and watch the live action, interviews from anyone and everyone who loves Sackboy, and behind-the-scenes access with Media Molecule, plus tons more. You can even help us decide on which games to play next or tweet in your questions to anyone at the event.

Whether it’s watching our fans staying up playing LBP2 into the wee hours of the night, checking out the Subway lunch break, or enjoying the back and forth banter of our LIVE event, we promise a good time. Want more details? Click here.

So whatcha waiting for - buy a plane ticket to new york and join in right now!
Or just check out the live stream and send some messages of support to the team!