Cracked Archive - Video Games

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's time an unspoken segment of the gaming community got its voice.

• By E. Reid Ross, Lisa Olsen
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• September 20, 2015

Crafting systems have long been the Holy Grail of gaming. Which is why we're looking at the worst problems with them.

• By Luke McKinney
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• September 19, 2015

Sometimes games are at their most ridiculous when they're trying too hard to keep it real.

• By Ed Stevens
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• September 10, 2015

I've never understood online gaming: I got into games to get away from people, now you want me to voluntarily share my lush fantasy worlds with some guy named Dave? Up yours, Dave.

• By Robert Brockway
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• September 03, 2015

Sometimes video game makers put a lot of time, care, and effort ... into completely baffling shit that totally ruins what the original was about.

• By Michael Kane, Ed Stevens
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• August 26, 2015

Gaming has a bit of a sexism problem, but it's not just the obvious and superficial character stuff.

• By Scott Elizabeth Baird
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• August 14, 2015