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May 17, 2011, 4:00 pm

Videogame name generator is predictably ridiculous Given the amount of garbage the industry generates, these aren’t sounding so bad. Some of our faves so far: Dracula’s Quantuum Havoc Looney Toon Florist Reloaded Transvestite Vocabulary – 3rd Strike M.C. Escher’s Ninja Offensive Red Hot Whale Fiasco

Videogame name generator is predictably ridiculous

Given the amount of garbage the industry generates, these aren’t sounding so bad.

Some of our faves so far:

Dracula’s Quantuum Havoc
Looney Toon Florist Reloaded
Transvestite Vocabulary – 3rd Strike
M.C. Escher’s Ninja Offensive
Red Hot Whale Fiasco

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Save-point typewriters turn up in the Resident Evil film

Cregger says he set out to write a game as a movie, and mimicked Resident Evil 4's healing items exactly. The props do work the film cannot actually run.

A first-person view from behind the wheel in Boring Car Stories: Maghrebine, a leather notebook mounted at the edge of the windshield

A paper notebook is the entire HUD in Boring Car Stories

Players are asking for a physical map with no you-are-here marker and road signs instead of a minimap. They want more analog friction, not less.

A luminous science-fiction landscape from The Inner Carbon Classic by Wendi Yan

Wendi Yan built a puzzle game out of Daoist inner alchemy

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Watch Bruno Abib's Death in August [Members Only]

Save-point typewriters turn up in the Resident Evil film

A paper notebook is the entire HUD in Boring Car Stories

Wendi Yan built a puzzle game out of Daoist inner alchemy