Cracked Archive - Video Games
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
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
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
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
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
Turns out Rambo was one-man army AND a wizard.
- By JM McNab
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- April 07, 2016
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
Some programmers took easter eggs to Ark of the friggin' Covenant levels.
- By Ed Stevens
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- March 29, 2016
If a huge combination of super convoluted B.S. is done in Silent Hill 2 your reward is a weapon that kills you. Congrats, buddy.
- By Pedro Lopez
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- March 13, 2016
Recreating 'Angry Birds' requires pumpkins instead of birds, because a) PETA, probably, and b) pumpkins tend to explode better than birds.
- By JM McNab
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- February 23, 2016
Sometimes we'll hear a grandparent being like, 'You sit down and you stay there! You stole my money!'
- By Mark Hill, Anonymous
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- February 23, 2016
I've spent many, many years of my life wasting dudes (mostly) in video games. So I've naturally developed some pretty reliable instincts about the best ways to go about this wasting.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- February 18, 2016
Halo 2 was delayed because one of the developers hid a picture of a butt in the game.
- By Adam Wears
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- February 16, 2016
What essential lessons can we learn by forcing Mario to die repeatedly in the same ways humans do? Will the code to becoming a Highlander be unlocked?
- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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- February 09, 2016
Buying video games is a skill. At least, it is now.
- By Luis Prada
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- February 03, 2016
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