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The fictional Gotham license plates dotted around the film were deliberately designed to look almost identical to real Illinois plates. It meant that whenever an actual Illinois-plated car slipped into a shot by accident, nobody in the audience would notice the difference.
Sergeant 'Soap' MacTavish is one of the series' most recognisable faces now, but in his very first appearance he was a silent protagonist. He didn't get an actual voice actor until Modern Warfare 2 came along.
Fly a Dodo far enough north past Shoreside Vale and your radar starts showing place names for towns that don't physically exist anywhere in the game. Turns out those names are all references to real Rockstar staff who worked on the title.
MW2 didn't just beat other games at launch, it beat every form of entertainment period. It pulled in $310 million across the US and UK in its first 24 hours, blowing past Grand Theft Auto IV's previous record and beating out music and film releases too.
Jackson wanted a grounded, Braveheart-style look for Middle-earth, but his early concept artists kept drawing things too fantasy-heavy for him. He ended up bringing in Tolkien illustrators Alan Lee and John Howe, who got the tone right almost immediately.
Peter Jackson pops up briefly during the Helm's Deep battle in chainmail, throwing a spear. His own kids, Billy and Katie, also show up as refugee children hiding in the caves.
Watch the trilogy back to back and you'll catch each film naming itself in dialogue. Elrond calls the group a 'Fellowship of the Ring' in the first, Saruman says 'the Two Towers' in the second, and Gandalf tells Denethor he can't deny the 'Return of the King' in the third.
Right after crossing a million copies sold, Jagex used its community summit stream to reveal three upcoming regions for Ashenfall: Dowdun Reach, Umbral Sands, and Scorned Wilderness, mapping out the rest of the game's ongoing Kuldra Saga storyline.
God of War gets a lot of credit as the game that popularised the single-shot camera, but it wasn't technically first. That honour reportedly goes to Splinter Cell: Conviction back in 2010, God of War is just the one that made the technique famous at a massive scale.
During Episode 3 of the Catwoman side content, you're given a choice: help Batman survive Joker, or grab your loot and run. Pick running and you get a whole alternate ending, with Oracle broadcasting a distress call revealing that both Batman and Gordon are dead, Joker's escaped and gone on a rampage, and Wayne Manor's been destroyed. It's bleak. The game then rewinds and makes you pick again so you can get the real ending, but that fake-out sticks with you.
