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Early on, Genji and Hanzo weren't two brothers at all — they were a single cyborg ninja hero with a big grab-bag of tricks. Devs realised that was way too much character crammed into one kit, so they split it into two, and honestly the brother rivalry angle works a lot better than one guy trying to do everything.
RuneScape Classic hung around for way longer than anyone probably expected, but Jagex finally pulled the plug on it for good in August 2018. The official reason was that the ancient codebase was riddled with bugs that were basically impossible to fix without a full rewrite.
Rather than lean on gameplay footage, Halo 3's centerpiece 'Believe' campaign built a physical diorama over 1,200 square feet in size, a miniature war memorial populated with hundreds of hand-sculpted human and Covenant figures at one-twelfth scale. Fans could pan across the entire model on a dedicated website, and the ad series went on to win gold at Cannes Lions the following year.
After domestic violence and misconduct allegations became public in January 2023, Adult Swim publicly cut ties with Justin Roiland, who had voiced both Rick and Morty since the series began in 2013. Dan Harmon stayed on as sole showrunner, and the show was recast for season seven, which premiered later that year with new actors stepping into the roles.
By the end of season two, Mel Medarda is given a significant magical boost tied to her Noxian bloodline, which lines up with theories that she'll be the connective thread between Arcane and whatever region-based show comes next, given her family ties run straight through Noxus.
On Route 66, the attacking team is technically pushing stolen cargo for the Deadlock Gang — except the 'cargo' was meant to be Echo before Cassidy stepped in and rescued her. So functionally, you spend the whole match pushing an empty crate while the actual point of the heist already got resolved off-screen.
By May 2011, just half a year after launch, Ubisoft confirmed Brotherhood had shipped 7.2 million units, pushing the whole franchise's lifetime shipments up to around 29 million at that point.
Fans spent years arguing over who, or what, the mysterious Strange Man actually is. Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser eventually confirmed his identity himself in an interview, closing the book on one of the series' longest-running mysteries and giving a whole new meaning to some of his cryptic dialogue.
During the grim final stretch through the Firefly hospital, keep an eye on the eye test charts hanging on the walls. One of them isn't random letters at all - it spells out 'RUN YOU R NEARLY THERE DON'T QUIT!!', a bit of dark encouragement for players white-knuckling their way to the ending.
Ron Perlman opens New Vegas the same way he's opened every mainline Fallout game since the 1997 original, with that instantly recognisable 'war never changes' narration. By this point it's basically the voice of the whole franchise, and it's wild to think Bethesda kept bringing him back across totally different developers and console generations.
