Cracked Archive - Video Games
6 Video Games That Made Sexism A Selling Point
'We wrote a prophecy that says you gotta have balls. Deal with it.'
- By Luke McKinney
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- June 04, 2016
4 Awful Gaming Industry Practices (Nobody Complains About)
Gamers react to any change in a beloved franchise with a ridiculous fury. Which is why it's odd that they don't react to these actually legitimate issues.
- By C.M. Varney
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- June 01, 2016
The 10 Greatest (And Saddest) Achievements In Gaming
You will never be as good at anything as these people are at gaming.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- May 26, 2016
Hidden Clues In Silent Hill That Forever Change ... Zelda
What does a game series about Aryan elves repeatedly spanking uppity pig warlords have to do with one about killing Freudian monster nurses? A surprising amount, actually.
- By Kera Hildebrandt
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- May 24, 2016
The 6 Most Awesome Ways To Lose Popular Video Games
Many a teenager flew too close to the naked Lara Croft sun and ended up losing all unsaved progress to the gamble.
- By Ed Stevens
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- May 19, 2016
4 Ways You Are Being 'Aged Out' By The Gaming Industry
I'm like the Lorax; I speak for the trees ... if the trees had spent the last few years honing their GTA skills.
- By Winston Rowntree, David Wolinsky
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- May 08, 2016
6 Ridiculous Excuses Game Designers Gave For Sexist Costumes
Hair seems like it's a pretty practical replacement for clothing.
- By Luke McKinney
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- April 24, 2016
5 Terms That Mean Video Game Marketers Are Lying To You
A video game could be about schoolgirls using the power of friendship to make Nazis explode, and the most fantastical part would still be the marketing campaign.
- By Mark Hill
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- April 23, 2016
6 Bizarrely R-Rated Easter Eggs In Wildly Unsexy Video Games
It doesn't matter if a game is set in deep space or in the sky over a WWII battlefield -- man always finds a way to sneak in dicks and boobs.
- By Raoni Lacerda
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- April 20, 2016
I'm Paid To Play World Of Warcraft All Day (And It Sucks)
On one hand, this is a career that 30 years ago would have been considered too fanciful for a sci-fi novel. On the other, it sounds like one of the saddest jobs we've encountered.
- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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- April 16, 2016
5 Things I Learned Making The Biggest Flop In Game History
E.T. was so bad it's credited for starting the video game crash. So what's it like being the Ed Wood of gaming?
- By Mark Hill, Howard Scott Warshaw
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- April 13, 2016
6 Video Game Easter Eggs That Were Hidden A Little Too Well
Your in-game cell phone in GTA V can dial up more than just Mad Max-themed vehicles.
- By Luke McKinney
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- April 08, 2016
7 Hilariously Insane Video Game Sequels To Classic Movies
Turns out Rambo was one-man army AND a wizard.
- By JM McNab
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- April 07, 2016
31 Design Tricks Behind Famous Video Games (You Can't Unsee)
Either the makers of Donkey Kong 64 were very brilliant or incredibly lazy.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- April 06, 2016
6 Things You Learn Writing Blockbuster Video Games
Writing video games is weird. You have to put together a plot, but you can't let it get in the way of the player shooting 12,000 zombies. It's a balancing act that's produced lots of beloved stories.
- By Mark Hill, Walt Williams & Jeffrey Yohalem
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- April 04, 2016
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