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Long after the sale, Mojang quietly stripped out some of the splash text jokes that used to flash across the main menu, including 'Made by Notch!', 'The Work of Notch!' and a cheeky '110813!' referencing his old wedding date. He's still credited in the closing credits, but that little nod on the title screen is gone for good.
The Chronokeeper's name isn't some deep lore riddle, it's a nod to Tom "Zileas" Cadwell, one of Riot's early design directors. He'd previously worked on Warcraft III and World of Warcraft over at Blizzard before helping shape League's champion roster, so the studio basically named a time-bending sand wizard after their own guy.
Watch Brucie work out during one of his cutscenes and you can spot Chinese character tattoos covering his torso. On his chest is the character for 'I,' but the ones on his back translate to 'transsexual.' Given how much time Brucie spends bragging about his own masculinity, it's hard to believe this one was an accident.
Club Errera in New Alexandria isn't a brand new layout, it's actually built on top of the Tayari Plaza map from Halo 3, just redressed and repurposed. Reusing the geometry saved the team time while still giving the level a totally different mood.
Deep in Bleakcoast Cave, southeast of Winterhold, players who clear out the resident frost trolls will find a skeleton suspended upside down in the ceiling ice with a sword lying just out of reach below it. It's a direct recreation of Luke Skywalker's capture by the Wampa on Hoth at the start of The Empire Strikes Back, right down to the frost trolls standing in for the Wampa.
A modder known as Killap spent years building an unofficial patch and Restoration Project for Fallout 2, fixing long-standing bugs and putting back content that Black Isle never finished in time. It's been updated so many times since its first release in 2008 that for a lot of longtime players, it's simply considered the proper way to experience the game now.
For over two decades, new One Piece episodes aired continuously, week after week, all year long. That changed heading into the Elbaph Arc, when producer Ryuta Koike announced the show would move to two shorter broadcast blocks a year, capping new episodes at around 26 annually so the anime could better match the manga's own pacing instead of racing to fill a weekly slot.
While Xbox 360 and PS3 players had to pay for each map pack, Treyarch quietly rolled out every single one of World at War's DLC packs - Zombies maps included - as completely free updates for the PC version.
Lead writer Emil Pagliarulo grew up in Boston, and once the city was locked in as Fallout 4's setting, he couldn't resist putting a bit of himself into the game. One of the destroyed houses you can wander through is modeled on his actual childhood bedroom, complete with a mattress buried under a pile of comic books.
