In our 60th episode we discuss the impending end of “The Big Bet” between Rothbart and Frawlz, Sony’s new patent to allow the use of real world objects in-game, and BioWare’s optimistic attitude toward PS3 development.  We also discuss the first PSP game to sell 3.5M copies (and none of us have even played it!)   [...]

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Sony had (and still has) a lot of hopes pinned on LittleBigPlanet. Since it was unveiled to the gaming masses last year, it’s been hyped up, cooed over and smothered with optimistic opinions. I can’t blame them, as the game itself is fantastic, and the reviews have spoken for themselves. However, in the early days [...]

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There’s been a bit of a furor lately in a couple of new games which have pretty big user-generated aspects to them, namely LittleBigPlanet and Guitar Hero: World Tour. Both games are having some of their user-generated content deleted because it breaks copyright rules and hence is totally illegal and naughty and very, very bad [...]

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Just as Media Molecule yanked the large LittleBigPlanet server lever into the ‘On’ position, they also commenced work on a sequel to the why-isn’t-this-emitter-working-oh-well-it-doesn’t-matter-because-I’m-having-so-much-fun platformer.
Talking of snowboarding, let’s make like Shaun White and jump!

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You’ll probably not believe me when I say this, but I don’t really mind the LittleBigPlanet delay. Certainly, it’s not exactly something I’d actively want, but I do see it as a necessary evil because of the circumstances. What I can’t understand is why so many people have gotten into such a fuss about it, [...]

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