Cracked Archive - Video Games

Let's again take time to gaze into the horrors that can lurk beneath innocent layers of code.

• By M. Asher Cantrell, Chris Rio
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• October 22, 2013

Developers have found amazing ways to screw over their players.

• By Luke McKinney
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• October 11, 2013

Hats off to these, the dedicated, talented hackers who have contributed more to the gaming world than entire offices full of professionals.

• By Raoni Lacerda
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• October 07, 2013

It turns out being an evil Jedi isn't all it cracked up to be.

• By Cyriaque Lamar
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• October 05, 2013

'Realistic' gameplay backfires as soon as the developer is forced to choose between keeping the game realistic and making a game that is fun to play.

• By Jason Iannone
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• October 03, 2013

If you thought video game writing was hackneyed before, hold on to your butts.

• By CRACKED Staff
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• September 19, 2013

Occasionally, crazy fan theories make a sobering amount of sense, sometimes more so than the actual games they're derived from.

• By Matt Machmuller, Matthew Moffitt
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• September 16, 2013

When a video game makes an error, the results are often unusual if not hilarious.

• By Codie Martin, Sever R.
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• September 10, 2013

Were these people even playing the same game when they designed these video game covers?

• By Tom Reimann
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• September 03, 2013

As aggressively idiotic as every moment of the last few games have been, they've also been the most entertainment for the dollar you can get.

• By Robert Brockway
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• August 28, 2013

Obviously video games don't really conform to the rules of traditional storytelling, but some games still manage to surprise you.

• By Degan Veran
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• August 27, 2013

This game quickly devolved into a fantasy camp about being the worst Hulk that has ever existed in the history of the planet.

• By Tom Reimann
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• August 24, 2013

These fan-improved versions of classic games are almost all entirely free, available to you right now.

• By Jacopo della Quercia , Dustin Koski, Richard H. Schurz
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• August 23, 2013

In case the only video game twist ending you know is misspelling.

• By Adam Wears, J.F. Sargent
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• July 31, 2013

There's no guarantee that any of these games would have been good, but it's still intriguing as hell.

• By Nathan Birch, Sam Jackson
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• July 22, 2013