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crunchgear.com - 10/20/2008

Release of LittleBigPlanet delayed over fear of offending Muslims

— crunchgear.com — LittleBigPlanet has been delayed by about a week over concerns that it may offend Muslims. The game,... which was supposed to ship today, was found to have a song that contains phrases from the Koran. As such, Sony has pushed back the game’s ... (more) Release of LittleBigPlanet delayed over fear of ...

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