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Why Skyrim?

Skyrim was chosen as the next game in The Elder Scrolls series after Oblivion, was because the most was known about the province of Skyrim.It gave Bethesda more to start with as they developed the game. Along with the fact that Skyrim was considered cool

A Rhineland Trilogy Got Cut Too

On top of the scrapped British campaign, three separate missions set in the Rhineland were also planned and later cut, along with an American training level that would've mirrored the opening Saint-Lô mission from Call of Duty 3.

Colosseum Play About the Death of Jesus

One of Brotherhood's memories has Ezio disrupting an assassination attempt in the ruins of the Colosseum during a stage play depicting the death of Jesus Christ. Reviewers at the time singled it out as an unusually mature moment for a game about historical stabbing, handled with a lot more care than you'd expect.

The One Mainline Game That Skipped the Wii

Every other mainline Call of Duty between Call of Duty 3 and Modern Warfare 3 got a Wii release. MW2 is the odd one out, Nintendo owners were handed a port of Call of Duty 4 instead of the actual sequel.

A Cut Fallout-Style Targeting System

At one point during development, the team experimented with a targeting system similar to Fallout's V.A.T.S, letting players pause combat and aim at specific body parts. It never made it into the final release, and honestly it's hard to picture the fast, fluid swordplay working any other way.

1.5 Million Sales Before Leaving Early Access

By the time Dragonwilds wrapped up its roughly 18-month stint in Steam Early Access and hit version 1.0 in September 2026, it had sold more than 1.5 million copies.

Croc's 'Perfect Record' Is Darker Than It Sounds

In one of the game's twisted dream-sequence detours, Scarface delivers a version of Warden Sharp's usual welcome video, boasting that Killer Croc runs a security wing with a 'perfect record' and 'nothing but empty cells.' It's never spelled out directly, but the implication that Croc has simply been eating the patients is about as grim as this game gets.

The Snail That Waves At You

Keep your eyes peeled in the background of almost every single episode and you'll spot a tiny snail somewhere in the frame, usually waving right at the camera. It started as a silent running gag from the animators, but the show eventually gave it actual plot relevance when the Lich possesses it to escape the amber prison.

A Chipped Tooth and a Dentist Trip

During the Helm's Deep shoot, Mortensen broke a tooth and asked if there was any superglue lying around so he could just stick it back on and keep filming. Producer Barrie M. Osborne wasn't having it and sent him to an actual dentist instead.

The Man Who Wrote Diablo Also Wrote Half of Azeroth

Richard A. Knaak, the author behind most of the Diablo novels, has also written extensively for Warcraft and StarCraft, on top of his own long-running Dragonlance series. The guy clearly doesn't take a day off from world-building.