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Vault 114 was meant to be a haven for the Commonwealth's wealthiest, but the overseer picked to run it was a homeless man with no leadership experience and some fairly severe schizophrenic tendencies, nicknamed Soupcan Harry. It was less a shelter and more a study in what happens when the privileged get put under a lunatic's charge, and the body count in there tells you how that went.
While filming, Cumberbatch cuts out drinking and smoking entirely and gets into swimming and Bikram yoga sessions in a sauna. It's a nice bit of accidental accuracy too, since sauna-going was actually something Holmes enjoyed in Conan Doyle's original stories.
Game director Sefton Hill has talked about an idea where the end credits would've turned into an interactive fight scene against Rocksteady's own staff, with each knocked-out developer's name and job title flashing up in slow motion as you beat them. It sounds like an absolute blast, but it never made it past the planning stage.
Trailer 1 pulled in over 93 million views on YouTube within its first 24 hours, which was enough to set a Guinness World Record for the most-watched video game trailer ever and quietly overtake MrBeast's previous best of 59.4 million.
Once Naughty Dog wrapped up Jak 3, they pulled their most technically skilled staff together and quietly started working on something new under the internal codename 'Big'. Rather than just building another PS3 Jak and Daxter game, they wanted a fresh IP built around realistic human characters, which is how Drake and his adventures were born.
Getting Mr. Knight's sharp white suit just right wasn't a one-and-done job — costume designer Meghan Kasperlik and her team ended up tailoring close to four dozen of them over the course of the shoot.
Sit down at one of the in-game internet cafe computers and type www.littlelacysurprisepageant.com into the browser and you'll pull up a joke website that's every bit as tasteless as you'd expect from the GTA writers. Fair warning if you're trying to keep your wanted level clean afterward, though - leaving the computer can rack you up a five-star response from the cops for reasons that are never really explained.
Rather than leaning into typical on-screen tropes for female characters, Arcane's writers deliberately shaped Vi and Caitlyn's dynamic around trust and vulnerability instead of spectacle. The show even avoids giving them an on-screen kiss for most of the run, letting small gestures like holding each other's faces carry the weight instead.
The game finally fills in a piece of Chloe's background that had only ever been hinted at before, confirming she's half-Indian and half-Australian, which gives her hunt for the Tusk of Ganesh a much more personal weight than just another treasure job.
Scattered throughout the Gnomeregan dungeon are collectible punch cards, each stamped with a string of binary code. Decode them and you'll find a set of silly, lore-flavoured in-jokes, including one that simply reads 'if you can read this, you're standing too close.'
