Cracked Archive - Video Games

26 Tiny Video Game Rule Changes That'd Be a Huge Improvement

They say you can't fix a classic -- but anyone who's ever played a video game knows that's a giant crock of shit.

• By Cracked Plasticians
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• March 27, 2015

7 Ways Modern Games Have Turned Into Scams

Now we'll see how in-app purchases are doing more damage to the worlds of gaming than every alien armada ever simulated.

• By Luke McKinney
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• March 22, 2015

13 Dick Moves We Never Forgave Video Game Characters For

There's one kind of player that has and always will plague video games: the NPC.

• By Cracked Plasticians
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• March 19, 2015

5 Secret Feminist Easter Eggs You Didn't Notice in 'Portal'

Amidst the killer robots and hyper-masculine scientists is a clever exploration of a woman's struggle in a male-dominated culture, and we're not just saying that because your only weapon is a gun that shoots vagina metaphors.

• By Michael Vincent Bramley
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• March 07, 2015

5 Behaviors Video Games Reward and Reality Calls Crazy

I don't have any science to back up the following theories because when I proposed studies, I was told to get out of the dean's office and put some damn pants on.

• By Mark Hill
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• March 06, 2015

3 Shocking Things You Realize as a Gamer in a Dictatorship

In 1998, Hugo Chavez won the Venezuelan presidential elections, and Juan got to learn what 14 years under a veritable dictatorship does to the gaming scene.

• By J.D López
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• February 18, 2015

5 Ways Video Game Addiction is Ruining Gaming

My theory is that it's because video games, more so than any other artform, are designed to get you addicted, and that this addiction has turned a bunch of dorky but harmless people into raving lunatics.

• By J.F. Sargent
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• February 17, 2015

6 Insanely Dark Online Games for Young Children

One would think that browser games for children would avoid any long trips to Creepy Town.

• By C. Coville
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• February 12, 2015

What You Realize About 'Oregon Trail' Playing It Today

Since nothing numbs the pain of rapidly aging out of pop culture relevancy in your 30s like trying to re-create a moment from your youth, I decided to take on the trail once more.

• By Jason Tabrys
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• February 07, 2015

The 6 Coolest Ways to Lose Popular Video Games

Some developers apparently decided 'screw the obvious and logical game over scenarios! Death should lurk around every corner, waiting to pants the player in bizarre and unpredictable ways.'

• By Ed Stevens, Gavin Jamieson
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• February 07, 2015

5 Gaming Complaints That Literally Make No Sense

Nobody hates video games more than gamers.

• By Robert Brockway
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• February 06, 2015

4 Famous Debates Solved at Last (in Super Smash Bros.)

Who knew Smash Bros. and History would be such an amazing mash-up?

• By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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• January 31, 2015

6 Video Game Easter Eggs Developers Didn't Want You to Find

Dedicate enough time to unlocking a game's secrets and you too could be scarred for life.

• By Scott Elizabeth Baird
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• January 27, 2015

5 Brilliant Hacks You Can Use to Cheat the Odds at Gambling

Over time, a few rare people have managed to beat the house in creative and/or hilarious ways. And the best part? These were all completely legal! Sort of.

• By Chris Rio, Doron S.
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• January 13, 2015

7 Awesome Things Lurking In the Code of Famous Video Games

• By M. Asher Cantrell
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• January 10, 2015