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The 'cargo' on Hollywood isn't cargo at all — it's an Omnic named HAL-Fred Glitchbot who's being escorted through the studio lot while an anti-Omnic group tries to take him out. The name's a little wink at classic sci-fi that's easy to miss if you're too busy fighting over the payload.
It's a tiny thing, but a Half Coconut is always priced at exactly half the value of a whole one. In a game full of pricing weirdness and broken drop tables, it's oddly satisfying that this one thing actually does what it says on the tin.
Marvel exec Isaac Perlmutter famously avoided cameras and interviews, but he wasn't about to miss opening night for the studio's first film. He reportedly showed up at the premiere wearing a fake mustache and glasses so he could watch it happen without being recognised.
Find a miniature chess board somewhere in the Wasteland and you'll be able to pick up tiny Nuka-Cola bottles, bears, and gnomes. Carry only one at a time and they'll stay miniature-sized in your inventory, a strange little physics quirk players still swap tips about.
Michael Hollick wasn't originally brought on to be the voice of Niko Bellic at all - he was hired purely to handle motion capture work. It was only after he auditioned that Rockstar decided he should be the actual voice too, and Niko went on to become one of the most well-regarded protagonists in the series.
Tucked inside the defensive base on the multiplayer map High Ground is a small machine that quietly taps out a message in Morse code. It was spotted as far back as the Halo 3 multiplayer beta, and the elevator music playing in the same room hides its own layer of secrecy for anyone patient enough to sit and listen.
If you're playing with the Wild Wasteland trait switched on, head southeast of Goodsprings early in the game and you'll find a skeleton inside a blown-out refrigerator. It's a direct callback to the moment in the fourth Indiana Jones film where he survives a nuclear blast by hiding inside a lead-lined fridge, except in the wasteland, that plan clearly didn't work out so well.
In 2016 Justin Roiland launched his own game studio and called it Squanchtendo, a mashup of the show's promiscuous alien Squanchy and Nintendo. He later renamed it Squanch Games at the end of 2017, and it went on to make the VR title Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality and the sci-fi comedy game High on Life.
At the Fallout 2 launch party, guests were handed a promotional plush gecko stuffed into a tin can, made to look like a bit of wasteland snack food. The original idea was actually 'dog meat in a can', but the team couldn't source a decent dog plush in time, so the gecko got the job instead.
Outside of the name players know him by, Diablo also goes by al'Diabolos in older Horadric texts, and followers of the Triune sect refer to him as Dialon, the Spirit of Determination. Different cultures in Sanctuary clearly weren't on the same page about what to call the Lord of Terror.
