A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
(Posted 2007-07-06 15:17:13 by basscomm)

Some days I'm glad that I don't work for Sony, or at least for their PR
department. It seems that every few days or so there is a new debacle that
Sony is apologizing to some group or another for. PSP Ads, goat entrails,
and the like.

Here is a (quite abbreviated) timeline showing just a few events in the
saga that is known as _Resistance: Fall of Man_:

	* Sony releases _Resistance: Fall of Man_ about aliens that invade Earth.
Said game includes a scene of a shootout with the aliens in a fairly
detailed reproduction of a cathedral.

	* Church of England takes offense [
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=25662 ] that the game is
promoting firefights with aliens in the cathedral. Makes several demands
including a public apology and donating a portion of the game's profits to
the Church for education.

	* Sony capitulates, takes out full-page apology [
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=26466 ] in local
newspaper


The Church might have taken a bit more offense than was necessary. I
honestly don't think that anyone I know would be tempted to go to England,
find the cathedral, and have a shootout with some marauding space aliens.

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