Crave Responds To Islamic Message Allegation

30 Jan 2009 at 10:34:25 by Andy Alderson

Crave Entertainment has responded to allegations made earlier in the week that one of its game contains Islamic messages.

An Indiana mother claimed that her daughter's Baby Pals DS game and a doll both spoke the words "Islam is the light". According to Game Politics, the game's publisher, Crave, has stressed that any similarity between the noises used in the game and actual words is entirely coincidental.

"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", said Crave's Doug Panter. 

"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. "

"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. "

As the baby sounds used in the game are publically available, it's possible the manufacturer of the doll used the same sound files.

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