On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Sony's LittleBigPlanet is the manifested embodiment of a perfect dream world. This is how they are trying to pitch this game available on PS3 or PSP. To play the game you would need to create a little sack person who will be your avatar and you can then join the game and go through multiple levels. Each week three options are shared on their FB page and users click and vote and the options that gets the most votes will be included in the game. This way Sony has ensured that their game also becomes social. The game itself is like a joyride with users going through multiple levels and various surprises being flung at them. There are also a lot of things to collect on the way like clothes for sackboy, stickers, creative tools and lots of rewards. Kind of like Alice In Wonderland, once you complete the story mode you can then head out and play levels that have been created by players. You can master the game and then work on your own creations and draw inspiration from the story mode. ...