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Steven's goldfish tank back at his flat is decorated with a tiny pyramid and a little model of Taweret's boat, both of which show up for real later in the season. Given how obsessed Steven is with Egyptology, it makes sense his fish would live somewhere themed to match.
Sgt. Reznov is voiced by Gary Oldman and Sgt. Roebuck by Kiefer Sutherland - a proper stacked cast for a 2008 shooter. Reznov went on to become one of the most memorable characters in the whole Call of Duty series thanks largely to Oldman's performance.
Shoot a control panel on one of the pillars in Der Riese with a Pack-a-Punched weapon and objects around the map start floating away, kicking off a proper little hide-and-seek game where you have to track down and shoot two teddy bears and a Monkey Bomb hidden around the level.
Long before it became one of the biggest shows on the planet, Stranger Things was turned down by roughly 15 to 20 different networks and studios. Execs weren't sure what to do with a story mixing kids, adults, sci-fi and horror all at once, and some even suggested reworking it into either a straight-up kids show or an adult mystery centred on Hopper. The Duffers held their ground and kept pitching the version they actually wanted to make.
Ever wondered why the game isn't just called Halo? Microsoft got nervous that a single-word title referencing a religious symbol might raise eyebrows, so Combat Evolved got bolted on at the last minute to make it read a bit less like scripture and a bit more like an action game.
Peter Jackson has admitted he thought the Army of the Dead were too unbelievable and wasn't keen on including them. He left them in anyway because he didn't want to let down fans of the books.
This was the movie that proved the whole 'shared universe' gamble had actually paid off. It became the first Marvel Studios release to break the billion dollar mark, overtaking The Dark Knight's record in the process and becoming the highest grossing comic book movie ever made at the time.
One of the developers snuck a personal touch into the very first level. Turn on your own marines on the bridge and a squad of elites gets sent in to deal with you. Survive them, push into the room they came from, and you'll find the letter M shot into the wall in bullet holes, a quiet nod to someone's girlfriend.
The whole reason the Barrows Brothers ended up on their doomed crusade traces back to one very bad night — Guthan, convinced his love Isolde had abandoned him, got drunk and killed a Saradominist commander in a bar brawl. Terrified of the consequences, he talked his brothers into joining a holy war as a way of escaping his own guilt.
Over in the Penitentiary there's a GCPD wanted poster for Prometheus, a fairly obscure DC villain who never gets a proper appearance in the game. It's the sort of reference that only die-hard comic readers were ever going to catch on a first playthrough.
