Cracked Archive - Video Games
5 Gloriously Stupid Times Video Games Tried To Sell You Crap
Any incredibly immersive video game universe can come undone in an instant when a game turns into a crass advertisement for products from the real world.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Ed Stevens, Jordan Breeding, Alex Holland
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6 Bizarrely Insulting Portrayals Of Other Countries In Games
If a game takes place in a real country, wouldn't it be worth it for the developers to spend a few minutes skimming that country's Wikipedia page?
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- By Sam Hurley, Nathan Kamal, Mike Bedard, Ed Stevens
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11 Video Games That Openly Mock Other Games
There are easter eggs and then there are easter eggs that set fire to rival games.
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- By Timon DJ Spajic
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10 Insane Video Game Achievements
We're not sure what's worse, that some evil geniuses conjured these achievements up, or that people actually completed them.
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- By Timon DJ Spajic
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27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever
Video games are great until they're controller-smashingly awful.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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12 Glitches That Are The Best Part Of The Game
Video game glitches are pretty much the only reason we still play.
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- By AM Smiley
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6 Of The Funniest Ways Gamers Messed With NPCs
There's a special breed of player who will spend time and effort figuring out new, ridiculous ways of torturing the computer-generated nobodies who inhabit their games.
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- By Adam Koski, Tiago Svn
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6 Video Games That Put Insane Effort Into Being Perverts
Bless the devotion of these brave game developers.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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The 5 Most Fun Things You Can Do With Bad Video Game Weapons
Every once in a while, via laziness, sleep deprivation, or just a good ol' fashioned rabid cocaine addiction, game developers throw gamers a curve ball.
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- By Ed Stevens
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Hey You Horny Asshole: 5 Games That Call You On Your Shit
Some poor fools still don't respect gamers, and we call those people: Game Developers.
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- By Tiago Svn
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5 Insane Video Games That Almost Ruined Great Franchises
For every kick-ass Batman game, there are hundreds of crappy cash-ins just waiting to con you out of your money.
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- By JM McNab
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6 Absurd Questions Gamers Went To Great Lengths To Answer
Bored gamers have discovered some very important answers to bizarre and petty questions.
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- By Tiago Svn, Ed Stevens
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7 Creepy WTF Video Game Moments You Forgot Existed
The reason we think about classic games as being nothing but good, clean fun is that, like all childhood trauma, we've pushed out the truly dark, shocking things that went on in them.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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The 5 Most Hilariously Creative Video Game Trolls
Generally speaking, trolls are horrible monsters to be avoided at all costs. We're going to give these people a pass, though.
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- By Tiago Svn
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5 Classic Video Games That Were Almost Hilariously Different
We dodged a lot of 'what if?' scenarios to get the masterpieces we have today.
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- By Henrik Magnusson
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- 86