Indie India-based game developer Zatun Games has released its first game titled The Legend of Vraz, created using Microsoft’s XNA development software.

You play as Vraz, a prince who wants to marry the princess. To do so, you must complete five tasks to prove your worth while also trying to avoid the minions of your rival. Naturally, there is an evil character who serves as an adviser to the princess’s father and has plans of his own to marry the princess. It’s a very simple and straightforward story but but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

There I am, driving around town, listening to my local NPR station, soaking up disturbing international news like a good American, when I hear this troubling comment spoken by Brian Jenkins, security analyst with the RAND Corporation, regarding the recent attacks in Mumbai, India:

“…This in a sense for them was an opportunity to demonstrate their conviction, courage, although it doesn’t require a lot of courage to gun down unarmed people, but it becomes a kind of a real-life video game killing fantasy for the actual attackers themselves.”

Taken out of context, that sure sounds like Jenkins is a gamer hater. Really, he’s just…

While gamers await the highly anticipated launch of Fallout 3 in their home territory later this month – October 28, 2008, in North America, October 30, 2008, in Europe and Australia, and October 31, 2008, in the UK – Microsoft has confirmed that India will not be receiving the game at all.

A recent press release issued by Microsoft India and re-posted by GamingIndians explains that “in light of cultural sensitivities in India, we [Microsoft] have made the business decision to not bring Fallout 3 into the country.”

No further reasons were given but…