Partial nudity delays 'Halo 2' for Vista

Microsoft is delaying the release of Halo 2 for Windows Vista after partial nudity on the game was discovered, the software giant said Friday.

Halo 2 for Windows Vista is now expected to hit the stores sometime in the first week of June, approximately two weeks behind the revised May 22 schedule. The game was originally scheduled for release on May 8, but was delayed due to some technical problems, Microsoft said at the time.

The software giant attributes the most recent delay to an "obscure content error" found in the initial production of Halo 2's map editor. That error was partial nudity.

Despite the error, Microsoft said it would be difficult to stumble across the offending content.

"This file is not in the game itself, nor will someone who simply plays the game ever encounter it," Microsoft stated.

The company has no plans to change the rating of its game, given it affects only the initial run of games and not subsequent shipments. Warning labels will be placed on packaging for the affected games, and Microsoft has developed a patch that can be downloaded to remove the content in question.

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Microsoft and Nudity
by georgiarat May 25, 2007 3:56 PM PDT
Tell me it isn't so!! Microsoft needs nudity to boost sales?
LOL
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Partial nudity an error?
by unknown unknown May 25, 2007 5:29 PM PDT
How is partial nudity an error? Someone has to create the models and textures.
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"Nudity" is not "Porn"
by masked dummy May 25, 2007 7:54 PM PDT
US people have a problem with nudity in general. They tend to
make a confusion between "Nude" and "Porn". See:

http://www.nyclu.org/
usps_censorship_josephine_pr_051507.html

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controversy

Please note that God made us naked and will recall us naked
too...

MD
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Please, please, pleeeeeease . . .
by K.P.C. May 25, 2007 9:02 PM PDT
. . . don't show me Balmer as he keeps coming and coming and
coming and coming . . .
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3,441
by NoVista May 25, 2007 10:22 PM PDT
American troops dead in the Iraq quagmire and the Puritan Ethic against nudity (partial or otherwise) is alive and well.
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But maybe it's a picture of...
by Marcus Westrup May 26, 2007 1:18 AM PDT
Bill Gates in a Speedo!

*shudder* - that might count as "content error"
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Twisted reasoning
by Mark701 May 26, 2007 7:30 AM PDT
This is just another example of what a WEIRD country we are. It's ok to let the kiddies play a game with non-stop violence and killing, but GOD FORBID if they see a little skin!! Gimme a break.
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Wardrobe Malfunction?
by Morale Officer May 26, 2007 9:24 AM PDT
Who is doing the coding? Janet Jackson?
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Killing people is OK, Nudity is not?
by SFSDCris May 26, 2007 1:54 PM PDT
What culture do we live in?

The game is about killing people, and Microsoft doesn't worry about that at all, but partial nudity causes a delay in the game shipping?

This is backwards. Absolutely backwards.
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Nipple doesn't pass Republican morals test
by GrandpaN1947 May 27, 2007 8:32 AM PDT
Here we go. Dirty, disgusting, obscene, nipple porn ruins another game. Jerry Falwell and the Republican morals police has changed our gaming again.
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