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Scott McCrae

Rockstar "laughed at all the controversy" surrounding Bully's name before the cult classic open-world game launched: "They were freaking out over something they didn't really know anything about"

Bully: Scholarship Edition screenshot.

Rockstar Games is no stranger to controversy, with GTA and Manhunt being two of the most controversial series to ever release. However, after being known for incredibly violent and somewhat cynical open-world games, the revelation that the studio was making a game called "Bully" started off a frenzy.

The name alone evoked media uproar claiming that it would be promoting bullying, violence and other anti-social behaviour, so much so that in the UK the game was renamed Canis Canem Edit (which is latin for Dog Eat Dog), although the later Scholarship edition retained the Bully name after everyone had calmed down.

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