If you are one of the lucky several thousand to get your hands on a Little Big Planet beta key, then stop reading. For the rest of you who refuse to enter meaningless contests and join mailers just for a taste of a game, then you are all in luck. The word on the street is that Sony is going to open the beta to everyone.

“If you don’t get in, don’t worry. They are supposed to be opening up the public beta for the final week. Last I heard they were still planning on doing so, this closed beta is just there to generate a bit (a lot) of hype for the game before it releases. Basically they are talking about turning the limited time closed beta into a demo for the week before launch. It is easier to do this than to release a demo.”

I understand the hype machine and making people want a to play a game that probably are not that familiar with, but gamers should not have to sit by their computers frantically trying get their hands on demo material which is only a very small portion of the final game.