Cracked Archive - Video Games
7 Classic Video Games With Horrifying Backstories
Halo 2 was delayed because one of the developers hid a picture of a butt in the game.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 Awesome Game Sequels That Were Screwed Over & Canned
If we didn't get a new CoD or Assassin's Creed this year, we'd take it as an omen of Ragnarok. Which is why it's all the more tragic that we won't be getting these.
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- By Joe Pring
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6 BS Excuses Developers Gave For Adding Boobs To Video Games
Like a teenager caught red-handed, video game companies are conjuring increasingly stupid reasons for the lewder conduct of their products.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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6 Brilliant Insults Hidden In Video Games As Easter Eggs
If you're a bitter sports fan, sometimes your only avenue for recourse is in the code of your video game.
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- By Raoni Lacerda
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6 Completely Inexplicable Video Games Starring Rock Stars
We'd explain what 'Def Jam Vendetta' is about, but it just boils down to punching people in the face as Snoop Dogg.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 People Who MacGyvered The Most Difficult Video Game Levels
If you tell gamers to climb a virtual mountain, one of them will figure out a way to do it on a seatless unicycle using only the asthmatic character.
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- By Michael Dawson
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6 Incredible Spoilers Hidden In Famous Video Games
Note: This article is, like, wall-to-wall spoilers. Just a big, sweaty orgy of spoilers in here.
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- By Chris Radomile, Ed Stevens
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21 Unnoticed Game Details That Were Insane Work
It's like Lego knew the only way to make people care about the prequels was by shoehorning in a character who is, at best, tangentially related to the entire series.
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- By AM Smiley
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5 Hilarious Ways Game Designers Mess With Players That Lose
If you screw up stealth missions in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, enjoy looking like the mascot for a bad family chicken restaurant, champ.
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- By Brandon Drake
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The 5 Most WTF Final Video Game Bosses
It turns out that developers will sometimes throw in a battle that feels like the boss wandered in from a totally unrelated story, like a stripper that shows up at your grandma's funeral.
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- By Henrik Magnusson
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7 Video Game Glitches That Accidentally Create Comedy Gold
Every now and then a glitch makes the game so much better than anybody ever could have known.
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- By Sam Jackson, Ivan Farkas
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- 355
7 Creepy Video Game Easter Eggs You'll Wish We Never Found
The scariest video game moments ever aren't in horror games.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell, Chris Rio
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- 241
6 Common Things You Do In Video Games (That Are War Crimes)
Many 'serious' elements in our war games are illegal enough in real life to earn you a court martial.
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- By Adam Wears
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The 5 Most Awesome Video Games (They'll Never Let You Play)
Let's take a moment to gaze upon some killer ideas in this graveyard of canceled games, and wonder what might have been.
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- By Cracked Writers
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- 465
5 Video Games That Took 'Realism' Way Too Far
Sometimes games are at their most ridiculous when they're trying too hard to keep it real.
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- By Ed Stevens
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- 519
VIRAL ON CRACKED
13 Eyebrow-Arching 'SNL' Hosts
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- By Matt Solomon
13 Trivia Tidbits From "Idiocracy"
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- By Nicole