Racist! A look at games accused of bigotry

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LocoRoco
Another lone blogger shook up a hornet's nest of controversy when he accused Sony's cute PSP blobathon, LocoRoco, as being a "product of unchecked institutional racism," calling out the similarities between the game's black Moja characters andracist 19thcenturyGolliwogg dolls. You can read the whole blogger's case against the Mojahere.

In response, Sony issued the following statement toNext Generation: "LocoRoco is a fantasy game geared towards a worldwide audience that takes place in a vibrant pastel world with colorful landscapes and characters and is not based on real-life places, people or things."

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Matt Cundy
Matt Cundy
I don't have the energy to really hate anything properly. Most things I think are OK or inoffensively average. I do love quite a lot of stuff as well, though.
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