PS3 Fanboy

LittleBigPlanet has taken inspiration from a number of web sites, one of them being popular social networking site Facebook. In the LBP world, players will be able to network with others as they develop a persistent online persona. Players will be able to take pictures within the game, and those pictures will end up featured in the user's feed. "You'll have feeds of photos of you - levels that you've been in, photos people have taken of you," Alex Evans told GI.biz. "Then we take it even further, like Facebook. In any photos we know what kind of Sackboys were in it, who they were logged in as, so we put a box around their face which you can click and go and see that person. So if there's a cool level with a guy wearing an awesome costume, you just D-pad up to him and hit X, and now you can see his levels, his favorites."

This kind of interactivity should be familiar for the millions of users of Facebook. Perhaps the blokes at Media Molecule are attempting to do to videogames what Facebook did for the web -- considering the success of the latter, that bodes well for LBP.

Sony continues its voyage into Web 2.0 with a dedicated Facebook page. An announcement on the PlayStation.Blog alerts users to its existence and points out exactly what's involved. In short, the Facebook page offers everything the PlayStation.Blog does, with a few little extras thrown in. Namely, an events service which lets people know where and when Sony will be representing the PS3 at various shows. Currently this only shows American events.

So show everyone on Facebook that you're a PS3 fan by clicking over to the PlayStation.Blog Facebook page. We have. On a sidenote -- this new Facebook Chat feature that appeared on the site today promises to make Facebook even more of a productivity drain. Students with impending deadlines, beware.

Our new Facebook group for PlayStation fans has grown immensely since our last post last week. Now, we have 360 members, and a pretty lively community.

This week, our members took advantage of our message board and created some compelling threads of themselves. If you visited our Facebook group, you would have read all about these stories:

• PS Fanboys: our E3 predictions
• Share PSN IDs with friends
  
• We have a PS3 enemy at GameSpot
  
• Dale Jr. and Sony to sign a sponsorship deal
  
• The limited edition Final Fantasy PSP ... that isn't real.
• God of War PSP wallpaper
• Final Fantasy Dissidia PSP wallpaper
• Killzone 2 E3 invite

Members of our Facebook group also got early word of The Darkness contest, and even helped us think of some ideas for it. Finally, we want to present one avid PSFB fan on our sites every week. This week, we'd like to present ... Shay G.

We've started a new Facebook group for PlayStation fans that aren't afraid to show the world their love of all things PlayStation. We already have 37 members, and if you haven't joined yet, we'd love to see you on board.

Not only will you be able to connect with other PlayStation gamers in the community, you'll also get behind-the-scenes views of PS Fanboy, and bonus stories that couldn't make it to the site. If you visited our Facebook group, you would have read all about these stories:

• Penny Arcade and the PlayStation.blog
• Sony reads our blog "religiously"
• ThreeSpeech listens to the PS Fancast
• Banning Xbots on PS3 Fanboy
• Sony Online Entertainment and Capcom to party together at E3

Not only do we plan on adding more content to the group, we're going to have game giveaways. Also, we'll profile one avid PSFB fan on our sites every week. This week, we'd like to present ... Mitchell from Alberta.