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The Rarest Weapon You'd Immediately Lose

The rune spear in RuneScape Classic might be one of the strangest weapons Jagex ever added. It had roughly a 1-in-a-million drop chance from mid-to-high level monsters, and despite that rarity it was a throwable ranged weapon — meaning you'd permanently lose it the moment you actually used it.

The 11-10-09 Countdown

The marketing team had a bit of fun with the release date. Every trailer leading up to launch flashed the date as '11-10-09', with the numbers ticking on one by one like a countdown to a detonation. Cute touch for a game about a world going up in flames.

Varrock's Library Is Full of Book Spoofs

Head to Varrock Palace's library and search the bookshelf in the far north-east corner. Every title on there turns out to be a joke spin on a real-world book, sitting there quietly for anyone who bothers to actually read the shelves instead of just walking past them.

Tony Stark's Black Sabbath Shirt

Keep an eye on Tony's wardrobe in a few scenes and you'll spot him wearing a Black Sabbath shirt. It's a cheeky little nod to the band's 1970 song 'Iron Man', which is basically the unofficial theme song for the character at this point even though the lyrics have nothing to do with Stark himself.

A Record-Setting Opening Weekend

The film opened to roughly $120.5 million domestically, more than tripling the opening of the first Into the Spider-Verse. At the time, it stood as one of the biggest debuts of the year for any animated sequel, comfortably outpacing plenty of live-action blockbusters released that same summer.

Caught in the Hunt, Caught in a Reference

The quest Caught in the Hunt borrows its premise from Richard Connell's short story The Most Dangerous Game, where a hunter travelling abroad ends up becoming the prey on an isolated island instead of the one doing the hunting.

The M1 Garand's Sniper Scope Quirk

In multiplayer, the M1 Garand is oddly the only rifle in its weapon class that can be fitted with a sniper scope attachment, unlocked after the flash hider, bayonet and rifle grenade. A neat little outlier buried in the game's weapon progression.

Sojourn's Spray Recreates a Predator Moment

One of Sojourn's sprays, 'Old Soldiers,' is a shot-for-shot recreation of that famous arm-wrestling handshake between Dutch and Dillon in Predator. If you've seen the movie, it's instantly recognizable — if you haven't, it just looks like a really intense high-five.

48 Heroes Pitched in One Morning

After Titan died, the leftover dev team (Team 4) had six weeks to come up with something new. On one particular morning everyone on the team had to pitch a hero idea, and by lunch they'd racked up 48 concepts — including a Russian woman riding a bear and dual-wielding AK-47s, whose ultimate had the bear pull out guns too. That one didn't make the cut, somehow.

The Butcher Started Out as an Offhand Joke

The story goes that someone on the original dev team looked at an early bloodied-up dungeon room and just said it looked like a butcher's shop. That one throwaway comment is apparently how one of gaming's most feared bosses got his name.