Pain crossovers continue: Buzz joins Sackboy

By Joe Fourhman | October 17, 2008

A few months ago, the magazine Game Informer broke a rumor that a Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet would be making the leap to PSN’s timekiller exercise in sadism, Pain. Today Playstation.Blog announced that Buzz will be included in Pain’s second expansion environment, Movie Studio. Buzz, like, from the Buzz quiz games.

And, knowing that people are pretty much burned out on all those extraneous Pain character skins dinging you a dollar a piece, Buzz will be included in the expansion as a free unlockable.

Between these Pain add-ons and the God of War/Heavenly Sword/Metal Gear Solid outfits for LittleBigPlanet, what we’re seeing is an aggressive plan by Sony to create a Sony Universe. Nintendo has had immeasurable success over two decades by manufacturing their own world and never being afraid to share characters… starting with Mario cameos in unlikely NES games and culminating with the fanboy feast of the Smash Bros series. Sony, meanwhile, has never really had a marquee character, only a string of wannabees that Sony uses for a time and then tosses aside (PaRappa, Crash Bandicoot, etc)… or worse, trades to the competition. Plus they’ve always kept their franchises more or less separate from each other. Not any more! Who’s in for Sony Superstars Tennis?

Pain’s Movie Studio expansion is expected to launch next month. A price has not been set (I’d expect around $6) and it will come with its own set of PlayStation Trophies.

Source: Playstation.Blog