LittleBigPlanet is Live

Over the weekend, the version 1.02 patch for LittleBigPlanet--which is the one that updates all of those pre-recall copies of the game to remove the potentially offensive lyrics from the soundtrack--creeped onto the North American servers and made the world once again safe for sackboys and sackgirls at home and abroad. The patch also updated the game's server error messages to be less about showing you "error 402" and more about telling you that you'd need to get online and read the EULA if you wanted to access any of the online features.

But you probably won't notice these messages very frequently, because Sony has announced that the North American servers are now online! As someone who has been sitting on a copy for like a week now, this is great news. Furthermore, the levels created during the game's beta have been preserved and will show up online, as well.

The last remaining piece of the puzzle is the pre-order bonus material, like Kratos and That Girl From Heavenly Sword That Everyone Just Calls Nariko As If I'm Supposed To Remember What The Hell Her Name Was. Mark Valledor's post on the Sony blog says that those redemption codes should start working later tonight.

As for our LBP coverage, I'm going to spend some more time with the creation tools and the user levels before writing the review, but I'm already pretty sure that I love this game. I finished the single-player levels over the weekend. They're enjoyable, but the level creation and user stuff is obviously the star of the show.