We've been hearing about it for months now and Gamasutra has finally given us word that there will be a beta test for LittleBigPlanet. However, this will be a limited public beta which means that sign ups will go fast if you're not on top of it. With the games release coming in October, its expected that the beta test will launch sometime this month.

"In terms of LittleBigPlanet, the game itself is all but complete," says an SCEA rep on the official U.S. PlayStation boards, "however, we're looking to run a test of the sharing, uploading, downloading and multiplayer server side of the game before it launches to ensure that under a large number of users it does everything it is supposed to."

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