Shaking off accusations of YouTube bait

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In April 2013 superstar YouTuber PewDiePie played Surgeon Simulator, a game about clumsily performing operations, and made a video about it. It's had 11.5m views.
PewDiePie wasn't the only YouTuber to make videos about Surgeon Simulator, but he was certainly the biggest. Surgeon Simulator's unique gameplay mechanic, which revolves around controlling a hand and its fingers and, more often than not, butchering your victim - sorry, patient - is Let's Play gold. Such randomness. Much laughs.
Surgeon Simulator was a breakout hit for its developer, London-based Bossa Studios, and the YouTubers who played it. Last month the game hit the two million sales mark - not bad for a side project birthed by a two-day game jam.
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