knockknock.biz luggage tags. Photo courtesy of justinph. I guess it's finally time for me to level up. It was the summer of '99 when I convinced my then editor to send me on a tour of the U.S. videogame industry. When I finally returned three weeks later, my head was still spinning. I felt as though I'd seen the future of entertainment. It ...

 Media Molecule's Alex Evans demonstrating LittleBigPlanet during E3 2008 A couple of weeks ago, we wrote a piece for the ''Global Literacy 2008'' special edition of Newsweek magazine. In it, we argued that the Internet is the new sweatshop, by looking at properties ranging from YouTube to Spore that are being built on top ...

 Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, posing in front of an Elvis impersonator A couple of weeks ago, we wrote a piece for the ''Global Literacy 2008'' special edition of Newsweek magazine. In it, we argued that the Internet is the new sweatshop, by looking at properties ranging from YouTube to Spore that are being built on top ...

 Spore, developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts A couple of weeks ago, we wrote a piece for the ''Global Literacy 2008'' special edition of Newsweek magazine. In it, we argued that the Internet is the new sweatshop, by looking at properties ranging from YouTube to Spore that are being built on top of use-generated content. ...

Media Molecule's Alex Evans demonstrating LittleBigPlanet during E3 2008

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, posing in front of an Elvis impersonator

 The 1928 film ''Un Chien Andalou,'' directed by Luis Bunuel and co-written with Salvador Dali. Image courtesy Film Reference. For the May installment of our Edge column, ''Playing In the Dark,'' we tackled the sometimes thorny issue of game previews. What got us thinking about this was a flashback to our much-discussed post of last ...

 Craftworld, the 2-D prototype for LittleBigPlanet  Two months ago, we used our second ''Playing in the Dark' column for the U.K. magazine Edge, which appeared under the title ''Halo 3.0: From Bungie's Lips to Phil Harrison's Ears,'' as a jumping off point to examine how LittleBigPlanet could become the ultimate 2-D gameplay creation ...

Craftworld, the 2-D prototype for LittleBigPlanet

In our second ''Playing in the Dark' column for the U.K. magazine Edge, which appeared under the title ''Halo 3.0: From Bungie's Lips to Phil Harrison's Ears,'' we explored the parallels between the approaches to user-created content in Halo 3 and LittleBigPlanet. Of the latter, we wrote: The slogan for LittleBigPlanet is 'Play, Create, ...