Cracked Archive - Video Games
The 7 Most Baffling Video Game Adaptations of Everyday Life
With all of reality available to warp and twist into whatever shape we like, some people prefer to use video games to do the most boring stuff possible.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Michael Riel, Ivan Farkas
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475 6 Games That Put Insane Detail Into Stuff You Didn't Notice
These are the amazing little flourishes that simultaneously wow us with their obsessive compulsion and provide a powerful rejoinder to the argument that soaring game budgets are both necessary and entirely justified.
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- By Karl Smallwood
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5 Hilarious Ways Game Designers Are Messing With Pirates
The eager pirate boots up the game, grabs his dual-wielded machine pistols, pulls the trigger, and ... sprays a barrage of chickens through the air.
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- By Andrew Heaton
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The 7 Creepiest Hacks of Popular Video Games
These mods are so crazy that they'll make your brain give up and come flying out of your ass.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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5 Unintentionally Hilarious Live-Action Video Games
There was a silver lining to the video game industry's failing attempt to emulate Hollywood -- FMV games were a gold mine of unintentional comedy.
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- By CRACKED Staff, Dustin Koski
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6 Hidden Glitches That Make Famous Video Games Way Better
We hope that some day we can make a mistake that will bring a stranger as much joy as these six glitches brought us.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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5 Ways Video Games Are Saving Mankind
Yeah, no -- we're just as shocked as you are.
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- By Patrick Thomas, Rich Solomon
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The 5 Most Offensive Attempts at Video Game Marketing
We're just going to go ahead and wash our eyeballs with bleach. Thanks, marketers!
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- By Fletcher Wortmann
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6 Moments in Video Game Adaptations That Improved the Movie
It turns out that video game makers don't give two craps about canon, even if the game is based on an all-time cinema classic. And sometimes that's awesome.
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- By Jose Luis Lopez
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The 6 Most Absurd Product Placements in Video Game History
Apparently some companies want an entire game devoted to peddling their brand. The results are ... very unfortunate.
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- By Lance Carrigan
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6 Unintentionally Hilarious Glitches Hidden in Video Games
A good glitch can transfer you from boring, gritty realism into a magical world full of the most physics-defying, madness inducing randomness this side of a mushroom trip at the bottom of a ball-pit.
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- By Dustin Koski, Sever R.
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5 Bizarre Ways Online Gaming Is Affecting the Real World
It turns out that while you're going around innocently shooting zombies or running people over in colorful virtual worlds, other people are abusing the same games to plan actual murders, carry out Ponzi schemes, or finance kinky virtual red-light districts.
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- By Matt Culkin, Jack Hall
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The 6 Most Baffling Video Game Spinoffs
The game industry has birthed some absolutely baffling spinoffs, taking the new games so far away from what made the originals great that they barely reside in the same solar system.
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- By Chris Snipes
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6 Insane Real-Life Versions of Video Games
Games are slowly moving out of our monitors and into the real world ... but damn it, it still feels like there's something missing. And that something is insanity.
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- By Adam Hirschfeld
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The 6 Creepiest Glitches in Famous Video Games (Part 2)
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell, Chris Rio
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