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Sex, Violence and Blasphemy as Only the South Knows How: Fantastic Arcade 2011

As announced on indie collective Juegos Rancheros, Texan indies have curated a fantastic, hedonistic collection of over 20 indie games to be featured at this year’s free Fantastic Arcade, part of a huge independent film festival called Fantastic Fest.

Despite the presence of XBLA title Fez, the event is PlayStation-centric since the Sony network is officially presenting this year’s Arcade. Special events chiefly surround Sony PSN-related events such as a PSN cocktail hour and a PSN Developer Panel featuring Queasy Games (Sound Shapes), thatgamecompany (Journey, Flower, flOw, Cloud), and Q-Games (Pixel Junk).

Sure, you’ve heard of most of the games from our previous coverage, such as FarawayInsanely Twisted Shadow Planet and Capsized. But the Texan indies have managed to wrangle up some titles that indeed touch on sex, violence and blasphemy to make the Pope proud.

We’ve talked about gruesome platformer They Bleed Pixels. Lea Schönfelder’s definitely NSFW Ute, which we’ve never featured, ask gamers to has to have sex as much as they can without getting caught before getting married.

REPEAT: VIDEO IS NSFW!

Next, we have our sacrilege in the form of clever title Jesus Vs. Dinosaurs. God travels back in time to kill all dinosaurs because they’re not in the bible, and people keep digging them up to make him look bad. Darwin gets hears of this and travels back in time to stop God. They both build cars to have the ultimate chicken race in prehistory, courtesy of developers Grapefrukt and Klooni Games.

Throw in a little Octopus-on-human action in the form of Octodad and you’ve got one twisted sense of hedonism that only indies, Southern indies at that, can indulge in. Thanks, Sony PlayStation Network!

Seriously, the collection looks like a great cross-section of various indie titles across the globe. If the vast majority of developers are going to be there, I’d say the Fantastic Arcade is a definite can’t-miss event. Find out more about the FREE Austin event starting September 22 or see the entire collection online.

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