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UK Games May Begin Mandatory Epilepsy Testing

4:40AM Mark Wilson | Rayman Raving Rabbids DS caused a 10-year-old boy’s first epileptic seizure. Since then his mother, Gaye Herford, has been campaigning for a UK ban upon epileptic seizure-inducing games. Today she has been successful in getting the House of Commons to sign a motion addressing manufacturers to screen games for content that could cause epileptic fits. But a law could follow requiring content testing before commercial sale, just as the UK already tests film and television. Meanwhile Ubisoft has since agreed to prescreen content more vigorously. From Ubisoft UK managing director Rob Cooper: Our immediate response to Gaye Herford was to not just take note but to take up her case. Testing of the original Rayman Raving Rabbids Nintendo DS game showed that no images posed a high risk for photosensitivity epilepsy….However, we took the view that different people can react in different ways and made a decision to prescreen and pretest all Ubisoft in-house developed games regardless of platform, prior to publication. Nobody wants trouble here, Ms. Herford. Please back away from the courts, slowly… Mother strikes a blow against epilepsy risk of computer games [via pocketgamer] More »

Forget The Bunny Girl, Bust Out The Puffy

11:29PM Brian Ashcraft | How do you promote Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 in Japan? You put a girl in bunny ears and heels apparently. Meh! That’s kind of stuff is so old and trite. Though, Ubisoft did do something very cool for Japan: There’s a rhythm mini-game in the playable demo that’s to the tune of Puffy’s Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi. And that is a fantastic little pop tune! Rayman Raving Rabbids Promotion [Famitsu] More »