{"id":33113,"date":"2012-02-29T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=33113"},"modified":"2012-02-29T13:32:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:32:35","slug":"nintendo-blocks-3ds-binding-of-isaac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/33113-nintendo-blocks-3ds-binding-of-isaac","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo blocks 3DS Binding of Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indie smash-hit, The Binding of Isaac, has been blocked for release on the 3DS eShop because Nintendo apparently decided it&#8217;s offensive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a long internal debate, Nintendo has decided NOT to allow the Binding of Isaac on the 3DS,&#8221; posted game creator Edmund McMillen on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As many assumed, the reasons were due to the games &#8216;questionable religious content. Thank GOD Steam exists!&#8221; he added, when asked why.<\/p>\n<p>The Binding of Isaac references a story in the Hebrew Bible in which Abraham is commanded by God to sacrifice his son, Isaac, as a sort of test of Abraham&#8217;s faith. Which totally proves God likes playing games, so I don&#8217;t get what the problem is.<\/p>\n<p>In the game, Isaac&#8217;s own threatened life is simply re-envisioned as a series of randomly-generated dungeons, which is really just a metaphor for the same thing when you think about it.<\/p>\n<p>The game has already been out on Steam for several months. Interestingly enough, the game has a 16+ age restriction in Germany for blasphemy.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5889193\/indie-game-blocked-by-nintendo-over-questionable-religious-content\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENIED! Because it&#8217;s apparently offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":33195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[153,31,2527,73],"class_list":["post-33113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-3ds","tag-active","tag-binding-of-isaac","tag-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33194,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113\/revisions\/33194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}