Zombie Cow’s (Time Gentlemen, Please!) recently announced Privates – a game which takes place inside people’s naughty bits – has caused quite a stir in the gaming press. It seems that if you want to get the attention of the gaming world, good old toilet humour will do the trick.
The most recent development in this story is that a Microsoft spokesperson had this to say:
“While we haven’t seen this game,” he says, “we can confirm that if it is consistent with the description we have seen on the Internet, this game would not pass peer review and would not be permitted to be distributed on Xbox Live.”
Zombie Cow founder Dan Marshall believes that the game promotes safe sex, and has been written along the guidelines provided by national curriculum.
“The whole thing is essentially aimed at teenage boys,” Marshall explained. “That said, we’re doing it in an entertaining, funny way so it’s approachable by people of all ages. It’s a really interesting project.”
“There was always going to be a risk it won’t pass Peer Review, but obviously we’ll do whatever we can to get the Xbox version out,” Marshall added. “It’d be a shame if a huge number of teenagers missed out on some quality gaming and vital education because of some abstract, cellular-level innards and pubic hairs.”
