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Draven, Jax, and Vel'Koz all come out of the same voice actor's mouth, which is a genuinely tough one to spot given how different those three characters sound and act. Play their voice lines back to back for someone who's never touched the game and see if they can guess.
Mario and Luigi watch their own cringey ad back in a place called Punch-Out Pizzeria, complete with newspaper clippings of Little Mac's boxing exploits pinned up on the walls. It's a nice little shoutout to Nintendo's Punch-Out!! series tucked into an otherwise unremarkable diner scene.
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.
Same bedroom, another hidden reference: a poster reading 'Starlight Savage 2: Coming Soon.' Starlight Savage is the fictional comic series Ellie is obsessed with in The Last of Us, quietly tying the two worlds together on a kid's bedroom wall.
Screenwriter Philippa Boyens only added the scene of Pippin singing for Denethor after hearing Billy Boyd's voice at a cast karaoke night. She handed him the lyrics straight from the book and left him to write the melody himself.
There's an unlockable item in this one that pulses whenever a nearby treasure is worth investigating, a handy little nudge for anyone who wants to comb through every corner of the Western Ghats without missing loot.
Australia actually pulled GTA III from shelves shortly after launch over the violence, and a handful of unedited copies had already made it into people's hands before the ban kicked in. Rockstar had to strip out some sexual content just to get a revised version approved.
Because World of Warcraft and Warcraft III were being built at roughly the same time, the two teams ended up leaning on each other. Some of the earliest playable builds of WoW were actually running on a modified version of the Warcraft III engine before the MMO's own tech had caught up.
League's iconic Frost Archer owes her name to Ashley, the real-life wife of Riot co-founder Marc Merrill. He's even referenced it himself online, joking about being married to the actual Ashe. Naturally, the lore team went ahead and married her to Tryndamere in-game too.
