Sack it to Me – The April DLC Preview Edition

Welcome back to another episode of “Sack it to me.” We have a quickie today, but a good one…

LittleBigPlanet Content For April
It’s that time again! Here’s the scheduled release dates for additional LittleBigPlanet content for the rest of this month and the start of May.

Those of you who keep an eye on these updates will notice that the Heavenly Sword mini-pack has moved back by two weeks, but in its place is the extremely cool Rag Doll Kung Fu costume pack, which now launches on the same day that the game comes to the PlayStation Store.

The big news for April however is that the 1.12 “Cornish Yarg” update is being released, which provides some new features along with some fixes to problems reported by the community. Also included in this update is Creator Pack 1 that contains some very cool new devices, gizmos and tools to help you build your levels. Should the date for the release of the Cornish Yarg update change, we’ll inform you ahead of time, but right now it’s looking good to go for April 16th!

April 9th : Rag Doll Kung Fu Costumes : $5.99

To coincide with the release of Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic on the PlayStation Store, we’ve put together some great costumes and themed stickers. Contains:

Hero costume: Hero hair, jacket, trousers, skin
Master Hip costume: Master Hip trousers, shirt, hair, skin
Master Sin costume: Master Sin hat, jacket, nails, trousers
Master Tang costume: Master Tang hat, moustache, jacket, fish, trousers, skin
Sung Ling costume: Sung Ling hair, top, trousers, skin
36 Rag Doll Kung Fu theme stickers

April 9th: Patapon Costume (Europe) : $1.99

Patapon 2 has hit the streets so it’s high time that Sackboy took up the challenge with this costume including a selection of weapon options. Contains:

Patapon costume: Patapon skin and head-dress, Patapon Axe, Patapon Bow, Patapon Sword

April 16th: Monkey King Costume: FREE

The costume competition winning design from Asia – the Monkey King. Contains:

Monkey King costume: Monkey King Crown, clothes, tail, staff, skin

April 16th (provisional): 1.12 “Cornish Yarg” update: FREE
This update addresses several outstanding issues with the game:

There is a new music player which lets players choose their own music from the XMB to play during create mode and in their Pod
Improved decoration mode makes it easier to customise your Sackboy
Option to delete all (unhearted) community objects and photos
Option to select whether to automatically collect community prizes and photos
A number of improvements have been made to make profiles more robust and to recover from certain errors
We now support Japanese and Korean IME for text chat.
Emitter prediction has been improved (this should help fast-moving projectiles e.g. in MGS levels)
The player proximity switch now has a ‘require all’ option in it
An option has been added to cycle between various level information when viewing community levels on the earth
Various LittleBigStore improvements

April 23rd (provisional): Creator Pack 1: FREE

A collection of new tools and functions to help aspiring creators:

Infinite lives checkpoint
Visibility tweak option on certain joint objects (to hide these in Play mode)
Global settings object (to trigger lighting changes)
Tetherless jetpack
Angle range proximity switch (additional functionality on proximity and magnetic key switches)

April 23rd : Heavenly Sword Mini-Pack: $2.99

Contains:

Nariko costume : Nariko sword, wig, dress
Kai costume : Kai hat and hair, dress, gloves, boots, skin
27 Heavenly Sword theme stickers

April 30th : Egyptian Mythology Mini-Pack: ~~$1.99~~ $2.99

Inspired by Egyptian mythology this pack has costumes for Anubis and Sekhmet along with 10 theme stickers to help you add some Egyptian flavour to your levels. Contains:

Anubis costume: Anubis mask, Anubis robes
Sekhmet costume: Sekhmet mask, Sekhmet robes
10 Egyptian theme stickers

May 7th : Norse Mythology Mini-Pack: ~~$1.99~~ $2.99

Continuing our mythological theme this pack contains Thor and Valkyrie costumes and Norse themed stickers.

Thor costume: Thor’s helmet, beard, belt and wristguards, legs, Thor’s Hammer
Valkyrie costume: Valkyrie helmet and braids, Valkyrie jerkin and cape, Valkyrie boots
10 Norse theme stickers

For those of you that love more info, check out MediaMolecule.com for details in detail, of the detailed detail…