<![CDATA[Kotaku: Littlebigrecall]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Littlebigrecall]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/littlebigrecall http://kotaku.com/tag/littlebigrecall <![CDATA[Kotaku Originals: Holy Sh—]]> There is a big bastard of an elephant in the room this week, and there is probably no flip way I can put this. Let's just get it out of the way. Everyone is furious at the LittleBigPlanet situation. The good news is the game's only delayed a week. But as of writing we have more than a thousand comments spread across three stories, so this absolutely hit a nerve. You want my two cents? You're damn right it's double standard. But they exist all over the world, and there is just no percentage in it for Sony to argue the ways in which it's entitled to use another culture's symbols or scripture. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5065382&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NSider's Letter To Sony And Media Molecule Re: Qur'an References]]> Yesterday we received an email in tips from Nsider on behalf of True-Gaming.net that was sent to Media Molecule and Sony regarding the Qu'ran passages in LittleBigPlanet's music that resulted in the worldwide recall of the title just a week before release. the email explains the passages and goes on to request that they be removed from the title.
I asked many of my friends online and offline and they heard the exact same thing that I heard easily when I played that part of the track. Certain Arabic hardcore gaming forums are already discussing this, so we decided to take action by emailing you before this spreads to mainstream attention. We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Quran deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online update, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it.
Hit the jump for the full text of the email, which very well may have been the catalyst for the delay of one of the biggest games of the holiday season. More »
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