'Spunk' too funky a name for ESRB in Overlord II

Posted Jun 18, 2009 at 5:07PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: ESRB, xbox 360 titles

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Goodbye, Spunk. Apparently, the ESRB is very picky not only with how many fingers have been chewed off by zombies, but also by the name given the video game characters. "Spunk" would have been a nice addition to the character's list in Overlord II had the ratings board not deem it inappropriate.

Am Spunk!
No! I'M Spunk!

This was revealed by Triumph Studios director, Lennart Sas, at a special event celebrating the upcoming launch of the said title. According to him, one of the little minion's name was "Spunk". ESRB got a whiff of it and crumpled their face in dislike. And since they were going for the Teen rating, they had to christen him with another name, which we're fairly sure is not as nasty and does not give you flashbacks of images of bodily fluids.

Rhianna Pratchett, writer of the game story, also divulged that a couple other names were also rejected such as Postule, Pus and Flange.

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# meh — rollypoly 2009-06-18 18:28

"board NOT deemed"



maybe i'm just old, but "spunk" to me means spirit...

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# Ya know... — Tacitus86 2009-06-18 20:10

We still would buy games without an ESRB rating... I wish you guys would stop running it by them.

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# The problem is — Uplink 2009-06-18 21:40

Retail Stores wont sell unrated games. I think its Retarded but thats the problem really. I would like to see an unrated version of games like the new trend of movies ! Maybe DLable ?

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# WTF — ebola9717 2009-06-19 00:33

Jesus Christ, what has happened to this country? If they banned every word that also had a sexual reference they'd have to ban half the english dictionary. Under these rules you couldn't even call someone Tony Danza (look it up.)

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# Not old — FreePlay 2009-06-19 00:33

Just smarter than the ESRB morons.

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# Wow — Navani 2009-06-20 03:43

I didn't even know the other meaning of spunk. Thank you ESRB for banning this word and adding a new meaning to my vocabulary.

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