Cracked Archive - Video Games
What A 30-Year-Old DOS Game Taught Me About My Awful Memory
I needed to get away from outlets that give me answers without expecting me to internalize them. I had two options for doing so: putting on pants and living in the Ozarks for a month, or playing Carmen Sandiego.
- By Jason Iannone
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- December 05, 2015
6 Incredible Spoilers Hidden In Famous Video Games
Note: This article is, like, wall-to-wall spoilers. Just a big, sweaty orgy of spoilers in here.
- By Chris Radomile, Ed Stevens
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- December 02, 2015
5 Dark Things You Learn About Yourself Playing Fallout 4
Instead of dropkicking Super Mutants into frag mines, I'm spending my apocalypse scrounging materials to build the perfect armchair for my dining set.
- By Robert Brockway
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- December 01, 2015
4 Awful Realities Of Binge-Playing All The Fallout Games
I felt like I was stuck in time. Everything and everyone around me kept going on.
- By Luis Prada
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- November 28, 2015
5 Hilarious Ways Game Designers Mess With Players That Lose
If you screw up stealth missions in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, enjoy looking like the mascot for a bad family chicken restaurant, champ.
- By Brandon Drake
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- November 18, 2015
The 5 Most WTF Final Video Game Bosses
It turns out that developers will sometimes throw in a battle that feels like the boss wandered in from a totally unrelated story, like a stripper that shows up at your grandma's funeral.
- By Henrik Magnusson
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- November 13, 2015
5 Video Game Ratings That Would Be More Accurate
Who cares about violence and sex? We need ratings that'll help us determine if we'll regret making a purchase.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- November 10, 2015
7 Video Game Glitches That Accidentally Create Comedy Gold
Every now and then a glitch makes the game so much better than anybody ever could have known.
- By Sam Jackson, Ivan Farkas
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- November 10, 2015
6 Collector's Editions That Massively Screwed Over Gamers
When people waste money on collector's editions, we don't get to ask why gamers are treated like idiots anymore.
- By Luke McKinney
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- November 09, 2015
7 Creepy Video Game Easter Eggs You'll Wish We Never Found
The scariest video game moments ever aren't in horror games.
- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell, Chris Rio
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- October 28, 2015
4 Entertaining Ways To Torture The AI In Metal Gear Solid
This game involves more wonderfully ridiculous bullshit than you can shake a stick at. And I'm really good at shaking sticks.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- October 20, 2015
We're All On Speed: 6 Insane Reasons Pro Gamers Retire At 26
There's a lot more to pro gaming than rolling out of bed at the crack of noon to do battle with racist teenagers using the power of the Internet.
- By Mark Hill, Jesse Hall, Brandon Qual
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- October 09, 2015
5 Video Game DLC So Bad, They Should Be Considered Scams
Downloadable content is to games as cannibals are to surgery: Both are meant to make things better, but both can totally eat me.
- By Luke McKinney
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- October 07, 2015
6 Common Things You Do In Video Games (That Are War Crimes)
Many 'serious' elements in our war games are illegal enough in real life to earn you a court martial.
- By Adam Wears
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- September 27, 2015
The 5 Most Awesome Video Games (They'll Never Let You Play)
Let's take a moment to gaze upon some killer ideas in this graveyard of canceled games, and wonder what might have been.
- By Cracked Writers
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- September 23, 2015
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