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According to DJ Pooh himself, it was his encouragement that got his friend Young Maylay to audition for the role of CJ in the first place. He talked about it years later, crediting his own enthusiasm for the series as part of what pushed his friends toward Rockstar.
When the shoot wrapped, Peter Jackson quietly gave Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis each one of the actual rings used on set as a wrap gift. Both of them genuinely believed they'd been handed the only one, with no clue the other had one too.
After the loot cave was patched, Bungie left behind a pile of charred Hive Thrall corpses at the site. Interacting with the remains triggers a distorted voice line about a million deaths not being enough for Master Rahool, a cheeky nod to how many enemies were farmed there for Cryptarch decoding.
When the team needed to figure out how to angle and render their isometric world, Brevik has said he just grabbed a screenshot of X-Com and built Diablo's camera and tile grid to match it exactly, same shape, same size tiles and everything.
The Prydwen's chief medic, Knight-Captain Cade, has a line that Star Trek fans will clock instantly. Greet him for a check-up and there's a chance he'll say 'Please state the nature of your medical emergency' - the exact stock phrase used by the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager. It's an especially neat touch since Cade is voiced by Dwight Schultz, who actually appeared in Voyager as Lieutenant Barclay.
Marvel exec Isaac Perlmutter famously avoided cameras and interviews, but he wasn't about to miss opening night for the studio's first film. He reportedly showed up at the premiere wearing a fake mustache and glasses so he could watch it happen without being recognised.
When data-miners first located the coordinates for the game's hidden Golden Peyote, they found a comment left directly in GTA V's source code by Rockstar, ribbing the discoverer for starting the hunt on the wrong day of the week: 'he was wrong to start his hunt on Tuesday.'
Outside of the name players know him by, Diablo also goes by al'Diabolos in older Horadric texts, and followers of the Triune sect refer to him as Dialon, the Spirit of Determination. Different cultures in Sanctuary clearly weren't on the same page about what to call the Lord of Terror.
A rare wandering NPC known as the Headless Horseman roams Skyrim's roads at night, a reference to Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He's easy to miss since most players fast-travel rather than ride the roads, but following him leads to a decent reward.
