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Der Riese isn't just a random zombie map - lore-wise it's the actual main base of operations for Group 935, the shady organisation behind the whole 115/zombie experiment storyline. The name translates to 'The Giant,' and it's set near Breslau in what's now Poland.
When K-pop group TVXQ covered 'We Are!' for One Piece's tenth anniversary opening, the single shot straight to number one on Japan's Oricon charts. It was their sixth chart-topping single in Japan, which made them the first ever foreign act to pull off six number-one hits there.
General Shepherd was originally meant to go out in a proper boss fight staged on a version of the Rust map, but it got swapped for a simpler scripted cutscene before launch. If you pay attention during the actual ending, Rust is still sitting there visible in the background, a leftover trace of the fight that never made the cut.
Miles Morales here became the first Afro-Latino incarnation of Spider-Man to headline mainstream media, carrying a Puerto Rican mother and African American father into a character who'd previously only existed on the big screen as Peter Parker.
Treyarch didn't hold back on casting for Mob of the Dead, bringing in Michael Madsen, Joe Pantoliano, Chazz Palminteri, and Ray Liotta to voice and perform motion capture for the four convicts at the center of the map. It's the kind of lineup you'd expect from an actual gangster film rather than a zombies DLC pack.
The Mahjarrat's Ritual of Rejuvenation is said to happen roughly every 500 years when certain celestial bodies align, but here's the twist — that 500-year gap isn't some cosmic law, it's just an agreement the Mahjarrat made among themselves. Which raises the question of whether the timing even matters, or if they just like a round number.
Rockstar wanted GTA III to be about driving and shooting, full stop, so the only plane in the game was intentionally hobbled. It barely gets off the ground and handles like a brick, because letting players properly fly around wasn't part of the plan.
Once Franklin meets the conspiracy theorist Omega, a full collectible hunt opens up for fifty scattered spaceship parts hidden across San Andreas, some tucked into buildings and rooftops, others sitting underwater or buried in tunnels only reachable by helicopter. Omega himself suggests they're wreckage from a UFO that crashed nearby, though the game is careful never to confirm it outright.
Steven's goldfish tank back at his flat is decorated with a tiny pyramid and a little model of Taweret's boat, both of which show up for real later in the season. Given how obsessed Steven is with Egyptology, it makes sense his fish would live somewhere themed to match.
Karen Strassman voices Zyra, Cassiopeia, Fiora, Shyvana, and Elise, five champions who otherwise have almost nothing in common. She's also done plenty of anime voice work on shows like Gurren Lagann and Code Geass, so if any of them sounded oddly familiar, that's why.
