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Last post, I briefly mentioned a Metal Gear Solid level pack, and Sony has released ll of the information we need, an a cute trailer. First, and probably most importantly, is the level pack itself. It features a Gurlukovich soldier costume, 72 stickers, 12 materials, 10 decorations, 18 objects and most excitingly, a paintball gun called the "Paintnator". With the paintball gun, you can fire it at enemies (with a newly added depleting health bar), new paint switches, and at your friends! It also includes some paint generator tool thingy, presumably it's the thing that makes those exclamation marks in the trailer below.


The level pack also includes 6 new levels to find all of the items in, and 12 more trophies for us to unlock.

You don't need to buy the pack to play, but there will obviously be some restrictions.

* Non-MGS Level Pack owners can PLAY the MGS Story Levels by joining a “host” who owns the pack and play the levels online together. Now you won’t be able to keep any objects, but you can have tons of fun just PLAYing.

* MGS Level Pack owners will be able to CREATE levels with any of these items (including the Paintinator) and SHARE them online for everyone to play.


Separately, there will be a Metal Gear Solid costume pack, featuring 3 costumes (featuring the much desired Old Snake) for $2 each, or a pack of 4 costumes (includes Raiden) for $6.

Both of the packs will be sold separately on the PlayStation Store for $6 each. They will be released on the 23rd.

ANOTHER surprise for us is the release of a new patch for LittleBigPlanet itself, and this one is rather significant. Some of the features I found were the inclusion of the PlayStation Store into LittleBigPlanet, a revamped search feature (finally), refined text chat, a "save level as" under create, and the ability to export in-game photos to your HDD (sadly, the reverse is not possible, yet).