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At The Game Awards 2018, God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2 walked in tied with eight nominations each, the most anyone had ever had at the show up to that point. Red Dead ended up winning more individual trophies overall, but it was God of War that took home the night's biggest prize, Game of the Year.
Gollum's left earlobe is missing entirely, and it wasn't a deliberate design choice. A casting mold made for Peter Jackson's approval got an air bubble right where the lobe should be, and the team just decided to keep it that way.
The Falador Massacre is one of the most infamous bugs in MMO history. A player called Durial321 found a way to keep attacking people outside PvP zones after being kicked from a house party, and went on a rampage across Falador killing dozens of unarmed players before mods caught up and banned him. Jagex leaned into it years later, actually writing the event into the game's official lore.
The sniper shot meant to kill Imran Zakhaev during the Pripyat flashback was supposed to be a clean headshot. Wind speed and the sheer distance threw it off just enough that it took his left arm off instead, which is exactly why he's still alive to cause problems fifteen years later.
Truck and Corporal Dunn both read as all-American soldiers, but the actors voicing them aren't American at all. Truck is played by British actor Idris Elba, and Dunn is voiced by Canadian actor Barry Pepper, both nailing the accent well enough that most players never clock it.
Some of the car license plates scattered around the game read 'IW20094'. Break it down and it's Infinity Ward's own signature: IW for the studio, 2009 for the year it came out, and 4 marking it as the fourth game they'd built.
Every other live-action Batman has taken the cowl off and the black eye makeup just magically vanishes. This is the first version to actually address it, with Bruce's smudged, running eye makeup treated as part of the character rather than a continuity error nobody talks about.
The Windows release accidentally ended up on shop shelves a full five days before its official street date, and once that got out plenty of other retailers just started selling their copies early too rather than sit on stock while customers next door were already playing. A logistics slip that basically fixed itself.
Buried inside Mob of the Dead's side objectives is the Golden Spork, a melee weapon that can one-hit kill zombies all the way up to round 34. For a game mode built around ever-escalating waves of undead, that puts a literal prison utensil just behind the upgraded One Inch Punch from Origins as the strongest melee option zombies has ever had.
