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Privates Game May Test XBL Policies

By pete_gallagher

An in-development game that has players exploring vaginas and other orifices of the human body may be a little too hot to handle for Xbox Live Arcade.

Zombie Cow is currently working on Privates for the Xbox and PC platforms and is creating the title with funds from the UK's Channel 4, which plans to market it as an educational title reports Seattle PI. Zombie Cow's website describes the title as, 'a funky little game about tiny little condom-hatted marines going right up peoples' rude areas and shooting all the nasty chompy things that tend to live there…'

An Xbox spokesperson sent the website a note indicating that the title had not been submitted for review as of yet, but that XBL guidelines 'prohibit the publication of strong sexual content.' Zombie Cow's Dan Marshall indicated that the game is based on the British government's Personal, Social and Health Education guidelines and is '… essentially aimed at teenage boys.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).