Once upon a time, Sony announced LittleBigPlanet HUB, a free-to-play PS Store exclusive for the PS3. The game would apparently combine all of the content from LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2, and would allow fans to Play Create Share without the entry fee. It was an ambitious concept, and one that presumably gave the platform holder cold feet.

As you no doubt already know, the outing, slated for August 2013, never actually released – and it’s widely assumed that it transitioned into LittleBigPlanet 3 instead. But over ten years later, here is footage from a beta version of LittleBigPlanet Hub, which has apparently emerged following the expiration of a decades-old NDA.

There’s very little surprising here really: the gameplay looks like textbook LittleBigPlanet, complete with floaty physics, prize bubbles, and Stephen Fry narration. Of course, it’s always interesting to see cancelled titles like this, and we daresay a free-to-play LittleBigPlanet could have some mileage in this era of creative live services like Roblox and Minecraft.

[source youtube.com]