LittleBigPlanet Has Instrumentalized the Controversial Song

I just picked up my copy of LittleBigPlanet, and I can confirm that the controversial song is still in there, but it would appear with the words cut out. I thought this might happen, because the singing is actually a rather short part of the song anyway, which has some really great instrumental bits in there.

Fallout 3 May be Banned in India Due to Post-Apocalyptic Cows

It was previously reported that Fallout 3 would not release in India (at least on the Xbox 360) due to cultural issues, but this may be the reason why. There are two-headed cows in the game (remember, it's post-nuclear) called "brahmin", which I believe approximates the name of one of the old Indian castes. I should be more clear, this isn't actually yet a ban, but so far Microsoft just said they weren't going to sell the game there. It may become a ban in the future.

Anyway, this sounds a lot like an April Fool's post I would make, seriously. People are so sensitive about media...

World of Goo Review

I recently wrote a review of World of Goo, Experimental Gameplay's maiden voyage into the world of retail games, for BlogCritics. Read it there, but here's the opening paragraph:

According to Metacritic, World of Goo is the greatest game of all time. It would be hard to argue that it truly comes close, but it's just extremely difficult to fault such a gem of a game for anything. The game came from Tower of Goo from the Experimental Gameplay Project, which cranked out game prototypes in just a week. In its fully realized form for the PC, Mac and Wii, the game is a wonderfully fun and slick puzzler that serves as a great example of an independent game.

Koran Passages in Music to Delay LittleBigPlanet

Perhaps the most anticipated game ever, LittleBigPlanet is going to be delayed some period of time because one of the songs contains passages from the Koran. Awful, awful news. I got to participate in the beta, and I and all of the reviews thus far can tell you that this game is going to be a huge deal. Sony is likely crapping their pants, to put it in the classiest way I can. This Kotaku post explains the situation the best from what I've read.

What can you do? Apparently, Muslims find singing the words of the Koran offensive, if I understand this correctly. Once Sony finds this out, they can't realistically just release the game and promise a patch, because anyone who isn't connected to the internet never receives that patch. I guess this is the only option this far down the road to release... They have to just re-manufacture all of the game discs with this minute change. Ugh...