{"id":7641,"date":"2009-04-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/04\/17\/hanuman-boy-warrior-a-hanuman-videogame-made-in-india-receives-poor-reviews\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T12:00:00","slug":"hanuman-boy-warrior-a-hanuman-videogame-made-in-india-receives-poor-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/04\/17\/hanuman-boy-warrior-a-hanuman-videogame-made-in-india-receives-poor-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hanuman: Boy Warrior,&#8221; A Hanuman Videogame Made In India, Receives Poor Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/computing.in.msn.com\/gaming\/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1881580\">computing.in.msn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">HYDERABAD, INDIA, Mrch 30, 2009: Hyderabad-based Aurona Technologies developed Hanuman: Boy Warrior, and it is the first completely India-developed game for the console Play Station 2 with localized content. The game is also Sony&#8217;s first Indian religion-based title, with an option to play in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p>Hanuman: Boy Warrior is about the journey of Hanuman to free up life forms that have been turned to stone by evil forces. It is targeted at ages 6-16 years.<\/p>\n<p>At the game launch, Atindriya Bose, Country Manager-PlayStation, Sony Computer Entertainment, said, &#8220;Hanuman is our very own classic hero and is ever-popular across India and with Indians abroad. The launch of Hanuman: Boy Warrior has marked a very significant milestone in the Indian game development industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While there was some concern among Hindus that the game could offend Lord Hanuman, the game developers have a far more pressing concern: awful reviews. One reviewer at tech2.in wrote, &#8220;If you&#8217;re trying to capture a part of Indian religion through the gaming medium, at least try to do it justice!&#8221; And the specialized website Gaming Indians was merciless: &#8220;Yes, Hanuman: Boy Warrior should be withdrawn by Sony. Not for religious reasons however, but simply because the game is just so bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>computing.in.msn.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, Mrch 30, 2009: Hyderabad-based Aurona Technologies developed Hanuman: Boy Warrior, and it is the first completely India-developed,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}