Cracked Archive - Video Games
5 Bizarre Realities Of Video Game Universes We Just Accept
We know and accept that video games aren't supposed to reflect reality. But some of the ways in which they differ are downright ridiculous.
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- By Chris Rio, Travis Timmons
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396 6 Videogames Where You Get To Commit War Crimes (And Worse!)
Sometimes, the worst virtual war crimes are committed by our so-called 'heroes.'
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- By Raoni Lacerda, Sam Wellborn
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7 Ways Video Games Sucked (That Kids Know Nothing About)
Playing games has never been easier or smoother than it is right now, because the industry has had decades to iron out all the catastrophic garbage.
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- By Michael Garowee
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6 Alternate Points Of View On Video Games You Can't Unsee
Beneath the surface, many of your favorite games are a chaotic pile of code barely held together by the work of sleep-deprived programmers.
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- By Ed Stevens
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6 Completely Insane (But Totally Playable) Video Game Mods
You know what the little guys have that all the big studio money could never buy? Madness.
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- By Adam Koski
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6 Insane Details In Video Games (For The .01% Who Noticed)
Join us as we continue throwing our lives away, helplessly chronicling each and every bizarre little secret that has ever been rendered in pixels.
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- By Ed Stevens
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5 Video Game Easter Eggs That Were Absurdly Hard To Find
Sometimes, game developers go way beyond 'a fun little secret,' and venture firmly into 'paranoid recluse hiding jars of his own urine' territory.
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- By Adam Koski, Scott Elizabeth Baird, Ed Stevens
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Brilliant Glitches That (Accidentally) Satirize Video Games
Like a doctor having to invent a whole new procedure to get a Pokemon-shaped vibrator out of your butt, sometimes glitches end up being the best part of the game.
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- By Raoni Lacerda, Adam Koski
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6 Video Games That Came Bundled With Filthy, Filthy Lies
We're reasonably sure that the most ingenious 'video game plot' these days is the one designed to scam you.
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- By Jeff Silvers
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6 Viral Video Game Stunts That Were Just Sad For Everyone
Honestly, it shouldn't surprise you that some of the stunts used to promote games are stupid, desperate, and insane.
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- By Scott Elizabeth Baird
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The 6 Best Video Games Lurking Inside Other Video Games
Sometimes Easter eggs are actually better (or at least, more interesting) than the game itself.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Video Games That Pose (And Reward) Awful Moral Choices
Sometimes a game will give you a complex ethical dilemma, and then only reward you if you respond like a total psychopath.
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- By Ed Stevens
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4 Awful Gaming Industry Practices (Nobody Complains About)
Gamers react to any change in a beloved franchise with a ridiculous fury. Which is why it's odd that they don't react to these actually legitimate issues.
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- By C.M. Varney
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The 6 Most Awesome Ways To Lose Popular Video Games
Many a teenager flew too close to the naked Lara Croft sun and ended up losing all unsaved progress to the gamble.
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- By Ed Stevens
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6 Bizarrely R-Rated Easter Eggs In Wildly Unsexy Video Games
It doesn't matter if a game is set in deep space or in the sky over a WWII battlefield -- man always finds a way to sneak in dicks and boobs.
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- By Raoni Lacerda
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