Can't connect to the LBP servers?  There's a reason.

You read that right: LittleBigPlanet is offline once again, but it sounds like this could be the beginning of the end of troubles. According to the semi-official ThreeSpeech blog, SCEE says "the LittleBigPlanet online servers will be down for essential maintenance on Thursday November 6th between 8am and 5pm GMT."

But wait, little sackboy or girl, dry those tears. Not only can you still play the game offline, but Sony says they'll "have some shiny new servers ready for when [they] get back." In LBP speak, that means that sleepytime technicians are out there repairing the ribbon of dreams that connects Earth to the LittleBigPlanet. Here's hoping they get it right this time.

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If this fixes the really bad lag sometimes found when playing online then it will be worth the wait.  While I have had the occasion where the lag didn't really happen much there have been times when the game became unplayable.  I've also heard of people actually having to reboot their PS3 from it hanging when trying to play this game online but that hasn't happened to me.

This is good news--I have yet to play an un-laggy game online, which makes me a sad Sackboy.

Also, I wonder if those costumes will be on the Store today?!

Yes, the costumes will be on the U.S. and U.K. stores as of today. I can't wait to download them as well!

I hope this corrects the problem. I'm going to start playing LBP soon and I hope that it's lag free when I begin...