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Anyone who pre-ordered GTA VI, in either edition, got a bonus Vintage Vice City Pack thrown in along with a free month of GTA+. Only the boxed Standard Edition actually ships with a physical code inside, since every other version is entirely digital.
When Nuketown '84 launched for Cold War, fans quickly worked out that shooting the heads off every single mannequin scattered around the map triggers a hidden visual effect, dropping the whole screen into a green or purple-and-blue retro filter reminiscent of old arcade cabinets. It's a small touch, but it ties in nicely with the map's 80s setting and the game's love of arcade-era references.
Down by the docks in Anvil there's a statue in the water that's clearly scaled up from The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen harbour, easily the most photographed statue in Denmark. It's a small, quiet homage that most players sail straight past without noticing.
Somewhere around 2023 Minecraft crossed the 300 million copies sold mark, officially making it the best-selling video game ever recorded, according to Guinness World Records. By 2025 that number had climbed past 350 million, and there's still no real sign of it slowing down more than a decade and a half after launch.
Chris Pratt wasn't the only one who had to dial back his voice work. Charlie Day originally recorded Luigi sounding a lot closer to a Goodfellas wiseguy before the directors steered him towards the softer, more anxious tone that ended up defining the character in the movie.
Garry Shandling's blustering Senator Stern character got his surname as a tip of the hat to radio host Howard Stern, according to Jon Favreau himself.
Peter Vaughan, who played the ancient, sightless Maester Aemon from season one through five, wasn't just acting the part. His eyesight had genuinely deteriorated badly by the time he took the role in 2011, so a lot of what looked like great performance choices were simply him navigating the world as he actually experienced it.
Right before the airport massacre kicks off, Makarov mutters 'С нами Бог' (God is with us) then tells his men in English: 'Remember... no Russian.' It's not just a creepy line, it's the whole plan. Keep the gunmen speaking English so the attack gets pinned on America instead of him, which is exactly the spark that sets off World War III for the rest of the game.
Shortly after Arcane wrapped, Riot released a League of Legends cinematic called 'Welcome to Noxus' following Mel Medarda heading home to her birth nation, which a lot of fans took as a not-so-subtle hint about where the next show in the franchise might be headed.
Raul Tejada, the ghoul companion and gifted mechanic you can rescue from Black Mountain, is voiced by Danny Trejo. It's a fun bit of casting when you consider Trejo had already built a career playing tough, world-weary characters, and Raul, an old gunslinger who's outlived pretty much everyone he ever cared about, fits that mould nicely.
