It’s quite possibly the cutest way of celebrating the United States of America’s day of Independence, this July 4th!
And if the free content isn’t enough to keep you happy, don’t forget that the rather awesome Jon Burgerman Original Sticker Pack is still hot on the PSN Store with its funky collection of Burgerman sticker goodness.
Remember that PSN Stores update one by one around the world, east to west. We’re in Europe where it’s just gone live, so you U.S folks normally have to wait a little longer for it to cross the ocean
Arnold Drake is a Sackboy who lives in a little town called Clacton on Sea, in the UK. Arnold gets in to all sorts of mischief and keeps an online diary of his adventures. What’s he been up to lately?
Well, his uncle came to visit and Arnold showed him around the park, where they enjoyed a nice cup of tea together. Then they played golf and went skateboarding!
We’re absolutely loving Arnold’s blog!
Make sure you get over to www.arnolddrake.com regularly to read up on his latest adventures.
Last week we celebrated the Summer Solstice with the release of the Druid costume available for free, which we’re pleased to see many of you enjoyed.
To continue the celebrations, we’re marking this years Independence Day by releasing a Sacktue of Liberty costume, available once more for free!
Featuring the iconic crown and robe from the Statue of Liberty, the costume also includes the famous torch of enlightenment, complete with glowing flames of fabric.
The Statue of Liberty (officially titled Liberty Enlightening the World) was a gift from France to the United States of America in 1886 to commemorate the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Sculpted by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the 93m (305ft) high statue’s internal structure was interestingly enough engineered by Maurice Koechlin – none other than the designer of the Eiffel Tower.
It is now internationally recognised as a symbol of the United States of America, and a fitting choice to celebrate the United States of America’s day of Independence this July 4th.
Head over to the PSN Store this July 2nd to grab this limited-time costume in time for the big day.
And don’t forget that the Druid costume is still available this week, but for a limited time only, so make sure you download your Druid before Thursday; if only to secure yourself that awesome beard for your Sackboy.
The Team ICO Pack will be on the PSN Store today! The pack features five costumes from Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, plus a set of stickers and some new sound effects too! The pack costs $5.99 / €5.99 / £4.79 – with each costume also available individually ($1.99 / €1.99 / £1.59), although buying them in this way will mean you’ll miss out on the sound effects and stickers!
This pack also contains a selection of stickers, and some new sound effects. Check out the video below to hear the new sounds in action! (YouTube version available here)
The Team ICO Pack, available today in all regions – just wait for your local store to update.. whilst you’re waiting, you should clickety click this link, and check out these simply stunning shots from Team ICO’s forthcoming game – The Last Guardian.
On a side note, that cat-eagle thing in those screenshots looks exactly like my kitten Lili. Well, almost. She doesn’t have quite the same horns or beak.
Coming this Thursday to the PSN Store, a set of costumes, stickers and sound effects based on Team ICO’s games; Ico, and Shadow of the Colossus. Yesterday we showed off the costumes for both Ico and Yorda, which makes today the turn of Shadow of the Colossus, and the costumes of Wander, and two of the colossi Gaius and Quadratus…
Quadratus
Let’s also take a little look at the game that has inspired these costumes, one which we all love here, well except Danny actually, he’s a hater and will be punished accordingly. Oh no, wait a second, he’s changing his story, he just hasn’t played it, and so will be sent home with a copy this evening instead. That’s how we roll.
Shadow of the Colossus
Shadow of the Colossus is a game about a young man named Wander who travels across a vast expanse on horseback so he may battle sixteen beings known as colossi, in order to restore the life of a girl named Mono.
Wander travels on his horse, Agro, carrying Mono across a long bridge into the centre of the forbidden lands, where he comes to a shrine. It is here that Wander meets with a disembodied entity known as Dormin. Wander requests that Dormin returns Mono’s soul to her body, which the entity explains can be done if Wander destroys all sixteen colossi who roam various parts of this land, but warns him that this may also come with a great price.
Using a magical blade, stolen earlier from the land’s guardian, Wander sets about locating these colossi, and destroying them, with each ones demise binging him closer to his goal, but changing his physical appearance for the worse.
This Thursday on the store there will be a set of costumes, stickers and sound effects, made in homage to Team ICO’s classic and widely loved Playstation games Ico, and Shadow of the Colossus. Today we take a look at one half of that combination, and two of the costumes – Ico and Yorda.
Ico
Directed by Fumito Ueda, also the director of the game’s spiritual successor, Shadow of the Colossus, Ico was designed to be a minimalist game based around a ‘boy meets girl’ concept.
The story focuses on a young boy named Ico, who is born with Horns – a bad omen to the people of his village. Ico’s horns lead him to become locked away in an abandoned fortress, and it is here, whilst exploring, that he meets Yorda – the daughter of the castle’s queen. Together they try to flee the castle, with Ico protecting Yorda from the shadow-like creatures that attempt to capture her, and helping her across various obstacles which she cannot traverse alone.
Ico and Yorda hold hands during their adventure, and communicate without words, as they do not speak the same language.
When the UK LittleBigPlanet YouTube channel launched back in April, it came in a hand with a competition that would see one lucky winner being sent on a round the world trip, courtesy of uncle Sony, and with a pocket full of cash too. The contest was to create a level in which Sackboy would travel to a world famous destination, and the winner was announced today…
Congratulations to denzilstube87, who sent Sackboy to Paris for one last job. Check out the video of his level below, and wish him a good trip. Bon voyage, don’t forget to send us a postcard!
Whilst this contest was for UK residents only, more contests are expected to pop up for other regions sooner or later, so keep your eyes peeled for your chance to win win win!
The first episode of a new LittleBigPlanet podcast called Sackcast, is now available. In the episode, the guys discuss some community levels, ideas for their own levels, and answer a few questions from yours truly. Check it out below, oh and don’t forget to head over to their website too!
The 2000AD Costume pack that we’ve been talking about all week (probably far too much!) will be on the PSN Store today! (out now in the UK). The pack features five costumes and a set of stickers, and costs $5.99 / €5.99 / £4.79
The costumes are available individually too for $1.99 / €1.99/ £1.59 each – note that Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson come as one selection when buying individually, if you get our meaning there.
As we’ve already said oh so many times now, coming this Thursday to the PSN Store is a set of five zarjaz costumes for LittleBigPlanet based on characters from classic British sci-fi comic series 2000AD. Each day this week we’ve been taking a closer look at the characters behind the costumes, by copy pasting things from wikipedia and then editing them to make sense.
Rogue is a G.I.or Genetic Infantryman – a genetically modified, blue-skinned, manufactured, elite soldier on Nu-Earth, where a perpetual war between the Norts and Southers is being fought. The war has seen all manner of chemical and biological weapons being used to crush the opposition, resulting in the poisoning of the planet. Troops of both sides must now live in enclosed cities and fight in protective gear.
Through genetic engineering, the Southers develop a race of superior warriors called the Genetic Infantry, soldiers who are immune to the deadly atmosphere of Nu-Earth. The Souther High Command deploy their secret weapon in an airborne assault, but a traitor betrays the secret of the G.I. to the Norts, and the soldiers are massacred.
Rogue, the only surviving G.I. goes AWOL in order to track down the Traitor General responsible for the massacre. Along the way he thwarts numerous Nort schemes, discovers and inadvertently destroys the only portion of Nu-Earth not contaminated by chemical weapons, and is betrayed by every female character he ever encounters.
The Rogue Trooper costume will be available as part of the 2000AD Costume Pack released this Thursday, 28th May, on the PSN Store. Come back tomorrow for the final costume reveal, and an interview with 2000AD creator, Pat Mills.
Borag Thungg, Earthlets! Coming this Thursday to the PSN Store is a set of five costumes for LittleBigPlanet based on characters from classic British sci-fi comic series 2000AD, but can you guess which five?
Over the next few days we’ll be revealing the costumes, with a look at the characters they are based on, and some specially recreated comic covers based on original covers from back in the day. Why? Because we can!
You’ll have to wait until Thursday to see them all, when we’ll also have an exclusive Mm interview with series creator – Pat Mills – for you to read whilst you wait for the store to update.
Today we look at two of the most iconic of all the 2000AD characters, including a character once played by Sylvester Stallone in a movie adaptation – Judges Dredd & Anderson.
Radio 1 is hosting a Big Gaming Weekend in the UK at the moment, to celebrate video games and all the joy they bring.
They’ve also got LittleBigPlanet involved in their fun with an asset pack full of Radio 1 content to use for creating your own LBP Radio 1 Machinima videos! You can use the content with a PSeye to get images in to the game, or use it while editing your footage.
Naomi sat down on Friday with the pack and made this great little video:
So get involved this weekend with Radio 1’s fun, download the asset pack and get creating!
If you want to share your creations with the community in LittleBigPlanet or with video sharing sites, just make sure you begin the name or tag it with Radio1BGW so we can find it.
You never know, if you make something great then we might throw a crown your way.
The Monsters Kit and Costume Pack will be available on the store today! The Monsters Kit comes jam-packed with all sorts of materials, stickers and other creator resources for you to use in your own level designs. It also includes a gallery level with very limited game-play, to show off the contents of the kit.
Also on the store today is the Monsters Costume Pack, containing four ghoulish fiends to dress up as! Here’s the trailer again for those who missed it.
Get out your holy water, silver bullets and cricket bats! Here come the Monsters!
This Thursday, a gang of ghoulish fiends will crawl out from their various spooky hideouts and burst onto the PSN store. The Monsters come as two downloadable content packs; a four strong set of costumes, and a Monsters creator kit so stuffed full of new stickers, objects, music, sounds, and materials that the hessian seams are sure to burst from the strain of it. The kit also contains a gallery level, a level with very limited gameplay made with all the new items to show them off!
Check out the trailer below to see the pack in action!
The Monsters Kit arrives and is the first of a new kind of content pack we’ve got heading your way in the coming months.
Described broadly as a Medium pack, the Monsters Kit contains a large amount of creative goodness for you to use in your own level designs. It also includes a gallery level showing off the contents of the kit.
