Activision has announced that for every copy of Call of Duty: World at War sold at the Washington D.C. GameStop store during the pre-release event today, Veteran’s Day, Activision will donate $10 to the USO. But after CEO Bobby Kotick’s recent comments regarding adding subscription fees to Guitar Hero, Activision’s donation to the USO seems more like an apology than sheer altruism.

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Creators of Little Big Planet, Media Molecule, gave The Parsons New School of Design students a chance to design their own level in their soon to be released title. LBP has been getting plenty of buzz and was much talked about at E3 for its user-generated content. If you’re still curious as to what all the fuss is about, take a look at what was accomplished in a mere 24 hours.

LittleBigPlanet hopes to revitalize interest in the Playstation 3 in a pretty simple way: by giving all the creative power to the players. Given how hard Sony is pushing this title, you’d think this was the first game in history to encourage user creativity. The idea of fostering the creative juices that lie dormant in each of our gaming skulls is far from an original idea, given that the modding community has been alive and kicking for well over a decade now. So why is it that LittleBigPlanet is being credited as the next big thing when other new titles that encourage user-generated content, like Kenta Cho’s Blast Works, haven’t been receiving any kind of recognition?

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