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When Blizzard revealed Diablo Immortal at BlizzCon 2018, the crowd wanted Diablo IV and let their disappointment be known. A fan asked if it was coming to PC, and the developer's exasperated reply, 'Don't you guys have phones?', instantly became one of gaming's most infamous PR moments.
Craft the Staff of Herding and use it on the pink lights between old and new Tristram, and you'll open a portal to Whimsyshire, a candy-coloured field full of teddy bears, unicorns and giant butterflies that turn out to be just as deadly as anything else in the game. It's basically Blizzard's way of keeping the old cow level joke alive.
Tucked away at the Sepulcher in Silverpine Forest is a Forsaken innkeeper who goes by the name Bates. Given that the surrounding zone is dripping with gothic horror atmosphere already, it's hard to believe the Norman Bates nod running the local lodging is a coincidence.
One piece of Destiny promotional material implied Ghosts already existed during humanity's Golden Age, which contradicts nearly every other in-game source stating the Traveler created Ghosts only after the Collapse. Fans generally treat it as an oversight rather than confirmed lore.
Chrissy's brutal death in Season 4 landed as a gut punch for fans who'd just started shipping her with Eddie Munson. Turns out the brothers felt it too. They admitted they filmed the sweet forest scene between the two characters after her fate was already locked in, and only realised how much chemistry Joseph Quinn and Grace Van Dien had once it was too late to change anything.
Bruce Straley, who co-directed the original game alongside Neil Druckmann, left Naughty Dog in 2017 and had no involvement in the sequel. His shoes were filled by Anthony Newman and Kurt Margenau, with Newman having previously worked as the melee combat designer on the first game.
Push through Breaking the Siege of Kvatch into the Oblivion World and you'll find a burnt body near a pool of lava, positioned in a way that's an unmistakable riff on Anakin's fate in Revenge of the Sith after Obi-Wan famously 'had the high ground.' It's been in the game a while, and Bethesda has openly admitted it was intentional.
Part of the production headed out to the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan for filming, which happens to be the exact same stretch of desert Oscar Isaac had already shot scenes in for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
If Skingrad's castle looks oddly familiar, that's because it's a visual copy of Bran Castle in Romania, the real-world fortress popularly (if not entirely accurately) known as Dracula's Castle. Bethesda didn't exactly hide who they were borrowing the silhouette from.
Stuntman Charles Jarman took a real beating filming the pencil scene, getting genuinely knocked unconscious three separate times across roughly 22 takes over two days. In one of the takes Heath Ledger actually broke character mid-scene to check if Jarman was okay before slipping straight back into the Joker.
