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Sony US bring news of our first Nascar race. Apparently Joey Logano did pretty well though perhaps he would have won if somebody had added rockets to his car, and made the wheels from glass.

And in Canada, weird things are afoot. There appears to be some kind of bug in their website… it seems to be falling apart at the seams… http://www.playstation.ca

The Atlantic may be broad and deep, but it is no barrier to the strange yet beautiful love of our friends in the Americas. HUGS.

I don’t know about you, but working Sundays sucks. Despite Alex’s best efforts to convince us otherwise it isn’t much like the Breakfast Club. Have you ever seen Molly Ringwald trying to debug SPU downcoded assembler over the phone? No, me neither.

So, let’s forget all about the game for ten minutes, instead here’s a curious man wiring his face up to an mp3 player:

You probably shouldn’t try this at home but for those who found this as fascinating as we did there is more information on Today and Tomorrow.

So, we got our copies of the Brady Games LittleBigPlanet guide and it is a vast and wondrous thing.

There will be no sales pitch here, but the book is huge (300+ pages) and a lot of love and hard work went into it. So props to Martin and Shaun who did our end of the project, and a round of applause for the guys at Brady and Off Base, especially Christian Sumner and Keith Lowe.

You can find more photos here: Brady Guide photo set on Flickr

EDIT: For those wanting an overview of what you can find inside, here’s the content pages:

Click through to the flickr page to see a bigger version.

Hello,

Thanks for all of your comments and support! It’s been a tough time for gamers, LBP fans, and MM alike! but it seems that there’s only about 1 week to wait - so thankyou for your patience. It’ll be worth it!

We were waiting to hear from Sony on the new release dates and so we held off on an update until now. They’ve pulled out all the stops to keep the delay down, so now we can let you all know the details.

In the US LittleBigPlanet will begin shipping the week of October 27th and so depending how close your nearest shop is to the trucks you may have your hands on a copy that very day. We would love to hear where/who manages to get it first! Leave a comment!

In the UK, Europe, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand LittleBigPlanet should start to appear in stores no later than the week commencing Monday 3rd November. The UK has confirmed that it should be available on the 5th and no later.

In Japan we understand from SCEI that our release date has not changed, it remains the 30th October.

Some of you have asked about pre-orders and early copies. Everything should remain as before - you will get your exclusive pre-order content, we’ll go on patching the game, and everything will work as if none of this had ever happened! I think in the end, everyone will be happy.

In the coming weeks until launch, as a way of saying thanks for your patience to our loyal MM readers, we’ll make sure we’ve got some great content on this site for you, so stay tuned!

Lots of people have asked us to switch on the beta again and we looked into it at length, but now that the delay to the game is only a week, it just wasn’t technically possible to get new keys out, bring back the servers, and so on. Besides, we’ve working on some cooler  ways of connecting with you lot directly, that can include those who weren’t able to get beta keys.

Wherever you’re from, thanks so much for your patience on this slightly surreal turn of events! We will keep updating this post as we get any more news. Stay tuned! The game isn’t far away now

Xxxx

Well, the beta’s over, but that doesn’t mean there is a lack of content to share! Here are a few levels which got our attention this week, and perhaps they will help tide you over until LBP is available in the stores:

Love And Marriage - This guy actually proposed to his girlfriend via a LittleBigPlanet level. It just goes to show, when you can’t find the words, let your sackboy do the talking…

World of Color - Geosautus is getting quite good at this level design thing. Great and art and mechanisms to be found here!

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