See those guys up there standing on that tank? That's Breego and I. But which one of us is the goof with the helmet? I will never tell.

As I mentioned before I was totally blown away by Little Big Planet at this years Penny Arcade Expo. As I flew back to Minnesota there were 2 games on my mind. One that I got to play, which was Fallout 3, and one that I just got to watch a lot in demos, which was LBP. Of course I am also excited about Gears of War 2 and Left4Dead, both of which I played but I wasn't as excited about them. What really put LBP and Fallout 3 above the rest was one word. Innovation. Fallout 3 to a much lesser degree than LBP but both of them took old ideas and put an interesting twist on them. Follow the jump for my impressions of the LBP beta.

It is no secret that I have not been a huge Sony fan over the past couple of years; I just haven't seen anything from the current generation that excited me on their console or from their camp.  That was before Sony unveiled a little gem by the name of Little Big Planet.  There are a lot of people who are very skeptical about the potential of this game but not me.  When I look at this game, I think that the creativity of the gaming community along with the efforts of Media Molecule are going to give players endless possibilities...

Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade continues this week with another stellar release on the Xbox Live Arcade: Galaga Legions.  This years summer promotion has been great and each of the games that have been released over the past month have received great reception amongst gamers and the media alike; Galaga Legions is no different.  I think that this is a stellar space shooter that is a whole lot of fun, but I don't think that it deserves the "Galaga" name in the title...

Xbox 360's Summer of Arcade rumbled into its second week today and delivered Braid to the Masses. Basically in my opinion the game is if Super Mario World and the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time had a bit too much Shlitz one night and well you know. The game is a 2D side scroller with the ability to turn back time. Unlike the Sands of Time that limited the amount of time control you had Braid seems to let players just Michael J. Fox time as much as they want. Graphically the game looks like a painting. Actually it looks like the paintings from the film What Dreams May Come. Probably my favorite part of the game (keep in mind I have only tried the demo) is the puzzle aspect. Not really like puzzle solving but actual jigsaw puzzles. That part makes me want to plop down the Spacebucks but then I remembered that the game is $15! This goes along with a piece that will be in this weeks show. Even the game's designer isn't too thrilled about the game being 1200 points. Here's a couple excerpts from his blog:

Jonothan says:

No. The price has been officially announced; it’s 1200. I would prefer if it were 800, but this is how it is.

and a little further down the page we see

Jonothan says:

He goes on to say that he didn't want to run into the same problem that Jeff Minter had with Space Vomit I meant Giraffe had by pricing the game too low. For the record I believe the problem Jeff Minter had was that his game sucked, that's why he only had 19K sales. Mr. Blow has made from what I have played so far a very well crafted experience. My problem is the price. That being said I'm turning into a sucker for XBLA and PSN games so I imagine I'll wind up buying it at some point. But that's because I'm dumb. All in all I think everyone should try the demo out.