Legal Niches

Sex Ed Game Gets Thumbs Down for XBLA

By John Keefer

The explicit nature of a sex education game is apparently enough to keep it off Xbox Live Arcade.

Zombie Cow Studios, developer of the game Privates, has been told that the game probably would not be approved in a peer review of the game, according to company co-founder Dan Marshall.

'The guys at Xbox have been amazing. They've been really supportive and helpful throughout, but ultimately have advised that the game wouldn't pass the Indie Games Peer Review process, purely due to its inherently sexual nature. As a result, if you want to play as a tiny little man blasting away inside someone's innards, the only place to do it is privatesgame.com'

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).