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Fred Armisen's grumpy old ape Cranky Kong isn't just some random elder statesman of the Kong family. According to Mario lore, he's actually the very same Donkey Kong that squared off against Jumpman in the 1981 arcade game, just decades older and a lot crankier about it.
At 11 years old, Millie Bobby Brown was understandably nervous about shaving her head to become Eleven. The Duffers ended up showing her a photo of Charlize Theron as Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, reframing the look as something powerful rather than scary, and it worked. She's said she let out a proper roar the moment she saw the finished buzzcut in the mirror.
One of the more surprising finds scattered through Part 2's abandoned buildings is a battered handheld console displaying Hotline Miami's neon-drenched box art. It's a small crossover nod to Dennaton Games' brutal top-down shooter, hiding in a game that's just as violent in its own way.
Unlike Diablo, Mephisto and Baal, who consider themselves true brothers, the four Lesser Evils split into two separate pairs. Andariel and Duriel call each other twins, while Belial and Azmodan see themselves as siblings, and that lack of unity is a big part of why the Lesser Evils struggled to team up against the Three.
A number of the main cast members, including Ella Purnell and Hailee Steinfeld, have spoken about recording scenes together in the booth rather than each actor doing lines alone. That group approach is part of why sisters Vi and Jinx feel like they have real, lived-in chemistry rather than two separate performances stitched together.
In a franchise that's been running for 25 years, Dragonwilds is the very first RuneScape game to make it onto console hardware, landing on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2.
Bethesda's contract with Obsidian included a big bonus if the game hit a certain Metacritic score. New Vegas came in one single point below that target, which meant Obsidian lost out on a large chunk of the payout despite the game becoming a fan favourite. It's one of those stories that gets brought up constantly whenever people talk about how brutal review-score bonus clauses can be for developers.
The quest Caught in the Hunt borrows its premise from Richard Connell's short story The Most Dangerous Game, where a hunter travelling abroad ends up becoming the prey on an isolated island instead of the one doing the hunting.
