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Head to Thousand Needles in World of Warcraft and you can stumble into a Star Wars-style pod racing event in the Shimmering Flats. One of the racers is Diablo himself, and he does not look thrilled about being stuck in a go-kart instead of terrorizing Sanctuary.
Kuldra, the Dragon Queen you're working toward all game, picks up a much darker title by the time the story wraps up: in the Scorned Wilderness finale, she's referred to as 'the God Eater'.
By late December 2010, barely six weeks after launch, Activision announced Black Ops had crossed a billion dollars in worldwide sales. Players had also logged more than 600 million hours in the game by that point, with the average person reportedly playing for over an hour every time they sat down with it.
Barely months after MW2 turned into one of the biggest launches ever, Activision fired Infinity Ward's own founders, Jason West and Vince Zampella, citing insubordination. The pair fired back with a lawsuit claiming they were dumped right before a huge royalty payout was due. It eventually settled out of court, but not before West and Zampella had already gone off and started Respawn Entertainment.
Series composer Yuki Hayashi is apparently something of a dog person, to the point where interviewers and photographers note he'll almost always have one of his dogs with him whenever he's being profiled or photographed.
Among the clippings and photos in Ledger's preparation diary was an image of a hyena, which people who've seen the documentary footage believe was one of the inspirations behind the Joker's cackling, unhinged laugh in the finished film.
Before building any of Fallout 4 itself, the team's first move on the new console hardware was porting Skyrim to the Xbox One, purely as a way of learning the console's capabilities and figuring out the new renderer they'd need. Todd Howard has joked that fans shouldn't get too excited about that particular port.
