Crave on Islamic Message: Just Babbling

Crave's Marketing Director, Doug Panter, has responded to the outrage of the MAMA 'pressure group' (or strange bunch of rednecked busy bodies) regarding Islamic propaganda hidden within the Nintendo DS game, Baby Pals. For background, we reported this earlier this week.

Panter tells Gamepolitics, "In creating the Nintendo DS game Baby Pals, the game developer Brain Toys / InXile used sounds files to simulate the life like baby noises and babbling. The sounds are publicly available for license. It is a recording of a 5 month old baby babbling non-intelligible phrases. In over 200 hours of testing the product, no recognizable English words or phrases were discernable (sic).

"The sound in question of this babble may sound like the words night, right or light, but it is only coincidence as the baby recorded was too young to pronounce these words let alone a whole grammatically correct phrase.

"We at Crave Entertainment and InXile regret that there was any misinterpretation of the baby noises and in no way have intentionally put any words or phrases into the baby sounds.

"We hope this eases any concerns and fans continue to enjoy playing the game."

Looks as if the angry mob might have to take the pitchforks elsewhere...