Media Molecule didn't want LBP recall

Had readied patch for the controversial content instead

Commenting about yesterday's LittleBigPlanet confusion, developer Media Molecule have admitted that they did not want to force a recall of the game - now underway because of 'expressions' from the Qur'an included in one of the music tracks licensed for the game.

Rather, the British game maker had planned a 'day zero' patch for the award-winning sandbox-platform game, which would have removed the potentially offensive lyrics - which were actually in Somalian.

"We learnt yesterday that there is a lyric in one of the licensed tracks which some people may find offensive, and which slipped through the usual screening processes," read a comment on MM's website.

"Obviously MM and Sony together took this very seriously. LBP should be enjoyable by all. So within 12 hours of hearing about this issue involving a lyric (in Somalian, I believe!), we prepared an automatic day 0 patch and had a new disk image ready; however a decision was made within Sony that the right thing to do for quality and support of people with no on-line was to replace existing disks.

"They assure us that they are doing everything in their power to get things straightened out as fast as possible, and will announce dates soon."

More on this shortly.

By Luke Guttridge