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Fiora's whole fighting style borrows from Fiore dei Liberi, an actual Italian fencing master from the 1400s whose illustrated combat manuscripts are still studied today. Riot didn't just steal the technique either, they basically kept his name too, just swapped a letter.
According to GameSpot's own dedicated hunt for the game's secrets, GTA V's map hides more than 50 documented easter eggs, ranging from tiny visual gags to fully triggerable side quests.
Christian Bale spent two movies complaining that the Batsuit's neck piece didn't let him turn his head, so for this one the costume team finally built in an articulated neck. There's even a little in-joke moment where Lucius Fox tells Bruce the new suit lets him 'turn his head' - a wink at exactly that gripe.
Long before the Dragonborn of Skyrim, Miraak served as a Dragon Priest who was seduced by the Daedric Prince Hermaeus Mora with promises of forbidden knowledge and power. He began conspiring against his own dragon overlords, a betrayal explored fully in the Dragonborn expansion.
Buried in holotapes across the Commonwealth is a playable Pip-Boy game called Red Menace, which is basically Bethesda's tribute to the original Donkey Kong. It's easy to overlook since you have to actually find and load the holotape yourself, but it's a proper little arcade throwback hiding in your wrist computer.
Use the /chicken emote on a chicken enough times and it'll get fed up and offer you a quest, 'CLUCK!' Buy Special Chicken Feed from a nearby farmer, hand it over, and you're rewarded with a summonable chicken companion, one of the game's oldest and strangest vanity pets.
Before building any of Fallout 4 itself, the team's first move on the new console hardware was porting Skyrim to the Xbox One, purely as a way of learning the console's capabilities and figuring out the new renderer they'd need. Todd Howard has joked that fans shouldn't get too excited about that particular port.
When Invincible crossed into other comic universes during the Angstrom Levy arc, director Dan Duncan pushed to cast Josh Keaton as the Spider-Man stand-in, since Keaton had voiced Spidey in The Spectacular Spider-Man and later Across the Spider-Verse. Getting the design past Amazon's lawyers took some back and forth, apparently mostly arguments over what colour the costume was allowed to be.
If you had a 3D telly back in 2011, Drake's Deception had you covered. It's the first game in the series to fully support high-resolution stereoscopic 3D, letting the sandstorms and collapsing buildings pop out at you a bit more dramatically than usual.
