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.

To: Sony Computer Entertainment & Media Molecule

While playing your latest game, "LittleBigPlanet" in the first level of the third world in the game (titled "Swinging Safari"), I have noticed something strange in the lyrics of the music track of the level. When I listened carefully, I was surprised to hear some very familiar Arabic words from the Quran. You can listen to part of the track here:

http://mt14.quickshareit.com/share/preview/soundclip22503c0.wav

The words are:

1- In the 18th second: "كل نفس ذائقة الموت" ("kollo nafsin tha'iqatol mawt", literally: 'Every soul shall have the taste of death').

2- Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: "كل من عليها فان" ("kollo man alaiha fan", literally: 'All that is on earth will perish').

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.

We would also like to mention that this isn't the first time something like this happened in videogames. Nintendo's 1998 hit "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" contained a musical track with islamic phrases, but it was removed in later shipments of the game after Nintendo was contacted by Muslim organizations. Last year, Capcom's "Zack & Wiki" and Activision's "Call of Duty 4" also contained objectionable material offensive to Muslims that was spotted before the release of the final games, and both companies thankfully removed the content.

We hope you act immediately to avoid any confusion and unnecessary controversy, and we thank you for making such an amazing game.

Regards,
NSider

(On behalf of the gamers at True-Gaming.net)

I think Ashcraft has it right: Nintendo needs to start shipping replacement brains to the Wii owning populace. It's the only solution!

Actually, I'm going to take this opportunity to call out the product development chumps at Nerf for not already having a Wii-mote accident preventing Nerf product on store shelves already. Missed opportunity, people!

Thanks to everyone who sent this in. Michael McWhertor

The Playstation Portable will be getting e-mail support and GPS add-on this year, according to PSM. Of course the word comes through the Playstation forums, then Evil Avatar and then PSP Vault, but I think it might be true.

Although it's contrary to my lazy nature, I hopped on over to the forums and looked at the scan myself. According to the article the email will come by way of a new firmware update (wait, firmware that has nothing to do with hacking? Say it ain't so). Sony Mail will be a built-in email program that will use a unique ID assigned to each PSP. I think this is believable because only Sony would require you to create ANOTHER email address to be able to use email from your PSP. When will it end?

The article goes on to say that Sony will be releasing a GPS add-on for the PSP as well. The package will include a GPS and a UMD with navigation software and maps. New UMDs will come out for extra cash with different maps and updates.

PSP To Get Email GPS in 2006 [PSP Vault]