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One of the year's most anticipated releases has hit a snag over the last-minute discovery of lines from the Qur'an used in an included licensed song. (For a description of those lines, check out the following translation at Kotaku.)
"LittleBigPlanet" will now ship to retailers the week of October 27, according to an update just posted on the official PlayStation Blog.
"During the review process prior to the release of LittleBigPlanet," said Sony Computer Entertainment America's director of corporate communications Patrick Seybold in a statement on the PlayStation Blog, "it has been brought to our attention that one of the background music tracks licensed from a record label for use in the game contains two expressions that can be found in the Qur'an We have taken immediate action to rectify this and we sincerely apologize for any offense that this may have caused."
Sony decided this was important enough to institute a worldwide recall of every retail copy of "LittleBigPlanet." "LittleBigPlanet" was supposed to go on sale October 21. Instead, Sony is re-pressing all of the "Little Big Planet" discs and removing the Qur'an references content.
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