Worldwide game recall over Koran concerns
Published: 20 October, 2008, 11:11
Edited: 10 September, 2010, 07:58
Electronics giant Sony has announced a recall of its videogame LittleBigPlanet from stores around the world over fears it could offend Muslims. The game was revealed to have “two expressions that can be found in the Koran” in its soundtrack.
It was decided that the use of the phrases in an entertainment product was inappropriate and likely to cause anger among many Muslims.
“We have taken immediate action to rectify this and we sincerely apologise for any offence that this may have caused,” the publisher said.
Every copy sent to retailers so far will have to be replaced with a new religiously safe version, reports Eurogamer.com website.
This will delay the global release of the game from the scheduled time of late October.
LittleBigPlanet is a platform game for the PlayStation 3 console that allows players to create and share their own levels.
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It is really a shame that a large manufacture has to cater to the religious fanatics who claim to be faithful Muslims when we have the rights and freedom to produce what we want. These parsites burn our flag and target our fellow citizens and we are suppost to allow them to dictate our behavior for fear of retaliation Nothing is more offensive to me but that. The Koran is just ink and paper and Mohammid didn't even write it. He was illiterite and could not read nor write.. He had to dictate it so how do we know what was written is what he dictated? We are enableing them by doing this. I hate censorship of this kind. This is a 3rd world mentality. Sorry you felt it necessary to give in to them fanatical hypocrites.