We’ll keep this brief. Mainly because it’s a very short announcement but also because we’re very flipping cross.

Okay, the following has just been posted on Threespeech.com:

“Hello everyone. Please note that the LittleBigPlanet online servers will be down for essential maintenance on Thursday November 6th between 8am and 5pm GMT. During this period the offline game will be unaffected as we work to improve online performance. So keep playing or creating and we’ll have some shiny new servers ready for when we get back. “

Got that? The super-keen, housebound or resting-between-jobs amongst you may have already wondered what was up when you tried to access the online bits earlier on. We do notice, though, that Sony only thought to tell us about it at 11.24am - nearly four hours after the shutdown.

It’s not good is it? And it begs again the obvious question about why Sony/Media Molecule couldn’t have sorted it out, like, before the game was launched. Hrrmph…