The Name of the Game

Nov 23, 2018 | IMDB 6.7

95 min Watch Now

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The Name of the Game is a feature-length documentary about the team up between the legendary arcade game designer, Eugene Jarvis, and the Finnish game developer, Housemarque. The end result of the collaboration was the critically acclaimed PS4/PC title Nex Machina. The film gives the audience an unprecedented access to the unpredictable and plain crazy world of making a video game – uncensored.

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Eugene Jarvis, Mikael Haveri, Tommaso De Benetti, Ilari Kuittinen, Harri Tikkanen, Ari Pulkkinen, Rudolf Westerholm, Anu Tukeva, Mark Cerny

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