It’s been just over two years since the first LittleBigPlanet game burst onto the scene with its unique “PLAY, CREATE, SHARE” concept. Since then this PS3 exclusive has garnered numerous awards, and in an unsurprising move developer Media Molecule was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment earlier this year. There’s also the small matter of the 3 million or so user-generated levels that fans worldwide have uploaded to the LBP servers.

To put things into perspective, that’s over 4 000 levels being added daily. With this level of support from the Playstation community and Sony it was clear that a LBP sequel was a no-brainer. However for a long time Media Molecule denied that they were developing a sequel, claiming that another LBP would defeat the whole point of the game - namely it being a constantly evolving source of endless entertainment created by and for the community.

Continue reading El33tonline’s hands-on preview of LittleBigPlanet 2.