Cracked Archive - Video Games

Your in-game cell phone in GTA V can dial up more than just Mad Max-themed vehicles.

• By Luke McKinney
• /
• April 08, 2016

Turns out Rambo was one-man army AND a wizard.

• By JM McNab
• /
• 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
• /
• April 04, 2016

Some programmers took easter eggs to Ark of the friggin' Covenant levels.

• By Ed Stevens
• /
• 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
• /
• 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
• /
• 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
• /
• 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
• /
• February 18, 2016

Halo 2 was delayed because one of the developers hid a picture of a butt in the game.

• By Adam Wears
• /
• 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
• /
• February 09, 2016

Buying video games is a skill. At least, it is now.

• By Luis Prada
• /
• February 03, 2016

If we didn't get a new CoD or Assassin's Creed this year, we'd take it as an omen of Ragnarok. Which is why it's all the more tragic that we won't be getting these.

• By Joe Pring
• /
• February 03, 2016

Someone needs to put the

• By Mark Hill
• /
• January 28, 2016

Like a teenager caught red-handed, video game companies are conjuring increasingly stupid reasons for the lewder conduct of their products.

• By Isaac Cabe
• /
• January 26, 2016

If you're a bitter sports fan, sometimes your only avenue for recourse is in the code of your video game.

• By Raoni Lacerda
• /
• January 20, 2016