Sony has introduced that LittleBigPlanet 3 and LittleBigPlanet DLC are being faraway from the PlayStation Retailer.
The PS4 platformer and your complete vary of DLC for the franchise will likely be pulled from sale on October 31, 2024.
“Anybody that at the moment owns or purchases LittleBigPlanet 3 or any LittleBigPlanet DLC earlier than it’s delisted on the market, will nonetheless be capable to entry their bought video games and content material after its elimination,” the platform holder stated.
Sony-owned LBP creator Media Molecule additionally wrote on X: “LittleBigPlanet formed us as a studio & stays an necessary a part of who we’re. We’re & at all times will likely be eternally grateful for it & the unimaginable group it has impressed.”
LittleBigPlanet 3 was launched for PS3 and PS4 in 2014 and was developed by Sumo Digital moderately than Media Molecule. It’s at the moment accessible to PlayStation Plus Additional and Premium subscribers as a part of the Recreation Catalogue line-up, though it’s attributable to be faraway from the library on October 15.
Sony indefinitely shut the net servers for LittleBigPlanet 3 in April, months after it claimed it had “quickly” taken the sport offline whereas it resolved technical points.
LittleBigPlanet formed us as a studio & stays an necessary a part of who we’re. We’re & at all times will likely be eternally grateful for it & the unimaginable group it has impressed. ❤️ https://t.co/LzHpuIgAtW
— Media Molecule (@mediamolecule) October 8, 2024
“All on-line providers together with entry to different gamers’ creations for LittleBigPlanet 3 are now not accessible,” it stated on the time.
The Guildford, UK-based studio has undergone vital restructuring over the past couple of years, leading to an unspecified variety of layoffs and the discontinuation of dwell help for its most up-to-date launch, the PS4 title Goals.
It’s at the moment engaged on a brand new IP being overseen by John Beech, who was appointed as studio inventive director final Might. He stepped up from the place of lead designer to tackle the function beforehand held by Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healey, who left the corporate final yr.