10 Awesome Video Games With AWFUL Titles

10. Canis Canem Edit

Canis Canem Edit, Bully to you, me and everyone else, is what the Rockstar game was known as in Europe... except it wasn’t, because everyone over here calls it Bully too. Part of that was because the censoring came when the ludicrous ‘video games cause violence’ moral panic was in full swing, and part of it is because Canis Canem Edit is just a stupid name.

It’s Latin for ‘dog eat dog’, which is a great summary of the game’s themes and fits in perfectly with the boarding school aesthetic.

As subtitles go, it’s brilliant. If it had been a background box art Easter egg, it would have been a classic. But as a title? Jeez, it stinks.

It’s slightly strange when you consider that Bully is probably the least violent of the Rockstar flagship games that this was the one to earn the censor’s ire. As well as the regular moral panic, happy slapping and bullying was in the press a lot too, so it was easy to demonise.

While it was sold under Canis Canem Edit, it was still known everywhere as Bully. If the rumoured sequel ever materialises, it’ll likely be sold as Bully 2 the world over.