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Combat Finally Happens in Real Time

After decades of RuneScape's click-and-wait combat, Dragonwilds ditches the turn-based system entirely. Players, NPCs and monsters can all swing at the same time, with stamina governing how much attacking and blocking you can actually pull off.

Death Wasn't the End of Their Service

When the Barrows Brothers finally died of their wounds after the Morytania Campaign, that wasn't actually the end of the story — an ancient spell tied to Sliske's bargain kept their wights bound to their burial mounds, forcing them to guard their own treasure for what's effectively been eternity ever since.

Skybound Built Its Own In-House Animation Team

Wind Sun Sky only handled Season 1. After that, Kirkman's company Skybound set up its own dedicated animation arm to take over key frame work for the rest of the series, which is part of why the visual style noticeably shifted from Season 2 onward.

It Ran on the Modern Warfare Engine

Even though it's set decades earlier, World at War is actually built on the same engine as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, just retooled with period-appropriate weapons, enemies and environments instead of the modern-day setting.

MacCready's Library Line

Bring MacCready along to the Boston Public Library and he'll drop a line straight out of Ghostbusters. Walking into the ransacked main hall, he mutters something like 'no human being would possibly pile books this way' - a direct riff on Bill Murray's line during the Ghostbusters' library scene. Small moment, but it lands if you know the movie.

'Enemy' Was Riot's Second Team-Up With Imagine Dragons

Imagine Dragons and JID's theme song 'Enemy' wasn't the band's first rodeo with Riot Games. They'd already made 'Warriors' back in 2014 for the League of Legends World Championship, so by the time Arcane rolled around it was a bit of a reunion rather than a first date.

A New Composer Took Over the Score

This was the first mainline Uncharted where Greg Edmonson didn't handle the main score. Henry Jackman stepped in instead and wrote a new take on Nate's Theme, blending the old melody with a rougher, more piratey feel for a track simply titled A Thief's End.

Denethor Only Shows Up Later

If you've only seen the theatrical cut, you've never actually seen Denethor in this film, he only appears once the Extended Edition adds his scenes back in.

Sonny Chiba's Son Plays Zoro in Live-Action

Mackenyu, who plays Roronoa Zoro in Netflix's live-action adaptation, comes from action movie royalty. He's the son of the late Sonny Chiba, the martial artist famous for the Street Fighter film series, and had already built his own reputation doing physical roles in Rurouni Kenshin and Fullmetal Alchemist before picking up Zoro's three swords.

Nami's Notebook Has Wano In It

While Nami flips through her cartography notes after swiping a ship from the Buggy Pirates, one page briefly shows a sketch of Wano, complete with a mountain resembling Fuji and a town resembling Ebisu, arcs that were, at the time, still years away from being adapted.