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Among Us crewmates are officially giant beans
Forget spacesuits and human anatomy. The official art references explicitly state that the colorful astronauts are basically just three-foot-tall beans with…
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Post-apocalyptic couriers survive on canned energy drinks
In a bleak future where society has collapsed and ghostly entities roam the earth, the protagonist maintains his stamina by chugging heavily branded cans of a…
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Hollow Knight's world is inside a dead giant bug
The beautifully animated underground kingdom of Hallownest isn't just a cavern. The entire ecosystem of aggressive sword-wielding beetles and haunting…
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In Red Dead Redemption, John Marston cannot swim
The gritty outlaw can survive countless bullet wounds, bear maulings, and dynamite explosions. However, if his boots touch water deeper than his knees, he…
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Why ghost hunters type names in the dark
Paranormal investigation requires absolute professionalism, which is why players stand in pitch-black basements aggressively typing out insults to deceased…
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Alan Wake forces a frantic writer to collect random thermoses
While running from shadowy lumberjacks in a dark forest, the protagonist inexplicably risks his life to pick up bright blue coffee containers. They serve…
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Little Sisters were almost sea slugs
Before they became tragic orphans harvesting genetic material, these iconic characters were pitched as repulsive sea creatures. Thankfully, someone realized…
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The video-game boss you can defeat by waiting
Boss fights are usually intense, but this one lets you win by doing absolutely nothing. If you save the file and wait a week in real time, the ancient sniper…
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Five Nights at Freddy's began with a rejected beaver
Before scaring millions, the creator made a wholesome title about a friendly beaver. When critics complained the beaver looked like a terrifying animatronic,…
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Fallout's Dogmeat was based on the director's pet
Instead of conceptualizing a fictional breed, the lead designer just brought his German Shepherd into the studio. Every single animation and idle scratch was…
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No Man's Sky has its own chemical elements
Instead of using actual science for their vast universe, developers just made up their own chemical elements. Players mine absurd materials like Thamium9…
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Polybius is a famous urban legend about an arcade game supposedly deployed by the US government in 1981 to secretly brainwash citizens and harvest psychological data.
Polybius is a famous urban legend about an arcade game supposedly deployed by the US government in 1981 to secretly brainwash citizens and harvest…
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Flappy Bird was completely wiped from existence by its own creator because it was actually generating too much money and ruining his peaceful life.
Flappy Bird was completely wiped from existence by its own creator because it was actually generating too much money and ruining his peaceful life. Dong…
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Nintendo's Wii Sports caused such an aggressive spike in household property damage and physical injuries that medical journals literally coined the term 'Wiiitis' to describe the phenomenon.
Nintendo's Wii Sports caused such an aggressive spike in household property damage and physical injuries that medical journals literally coined the term…
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Pac-Man has a specific safe zone in the original arcade maze where the ghosts will simply never find you due to a rigid pathfinding algorithm.
Pac-Man has a specific safe zone in the original arcade maze where the ghosts will simply never find you due to a rigid pathfinding algorithm. If you move to…
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Horses in The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim possess the inexplicable ability to defy the laws of physics and climb near-vertical mountain slopes.
Horses in The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim possess the inexplicable ability to defy the laws of physics and climb near-vertical mountain slopes. This bizarre…
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Halo was publicly introduced to the world by Steve Jobs in 1999 as a massively anticipated third-person real-time strategy game built strictly and exclusively for Apple Macintosh computers.
Halo was publicly introduced to the world by Steve Jobs in 1999 as a massively anticipated third-person real-time strategy game built strictly and exclusively…
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Scrabble was invented in 1938 by an unemployed American architect named Alfred Mosher Butts who found himself completely broke during the Great Depression and decided to…
Scrabble was invented in 1938 by an unemployed American architect named Alfred Mosher Butts who found himself completely broke during the Great Depression and…
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Barbie officially entered the video game industry way back in 1984 with a wildly underwhelming title for the Commodore 64, making her one of the earliest established brands to desperately attempt a digital cash grab.
Barbie officially entered the video game industry way back in 1984 with a wildly underwhelming title for the Commodore 64, making her one of the earliest…
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Chess boards with a crease in the middle were originally invented by an eccentric 12th-century priest who needed a clever way to hide his illegal gaming habits from his strict religious superiors.
Chess boards with a crease in the middle were originally invented by an eccentric 12th-century priest who needed a clever way to hide his illegal gaming…
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Dungeons and Dragons originally included Hobbits, Ents, and Balrogs in its first edition until the estate of J.R.R.
Dungeons and Dragons originally included Hobbits, Ents, and Balrogs in its first edition until the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien threatened to sue the absolute…
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Chess theoretically allows for a game to last exactly five thousand nine hundred and forty-nine moves before being completely exhausted, making it the longest possible match under current standard tournament rules.
Chess theoretically allows for a game to last exactly five thousand nine hundred and forty-nine moves before being completely exhausted, making it the longest…
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Tennis for Two is widely considered the first ever video game, created in 1958 by a prominent nuclear physicist named William Higinbotham, who had literally worked on the atomic bomb.
Tennis for Two is widely considered the first ever video game, created in 1958 by a prominent nuclear physicist named William Higinbotham, who had literally…
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Masahiro Sakurai specifically requested that the development team for Super Smash Bros Brawl tone down the breast physics for the character Zero Suit Samus because he wanted to…
Masahiro Sakurai specifically requested that the development team for Super Smash Bros Brawl tone down the breast physics for the character Zero Suit Samus…
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