1The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall has the largest in-game world ever created, being twice the size of Great Britain in terms of square mileage. It takes two weeks in real-time to walk from one side of the game to the other.
2. The Fallout drug Med-X was originally called Morphine, but was renamed to avoid a ban of the game in Australia.
3. The pinball game in Windows XP was developed by Maxis, the same company that created the SimCity and Sims series.
4. Pinball game on windows was actually a demo for a full collection of Pinball games.
5. The PS1 game Suikoden was made as a prequel to Suikoden II, so that the developers could learn how to make PS1 games before tackling the actual game they wanted to make.
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6Final Fantasy XI
Canceling your subscription to Final Fantasy XI wasn’t easy. Therefore Illinois passed a law requiring that massive multiplayer online games let you cancel your subscription online.
7. The town of Silent Hill and Arkham Asylum are based on real places.
8. One developer spent two years programming Batman's cape in the game Arkham Asylum.
9. On December 6, 2012, Journey became the first video game in history to be nominated for a Grammy Award.
10. A video game named “Earthbound” has several anti-piracy measures in place; including crashing and deleting your entire save data during the final boss fight if you’re using a pirated copy of the game.
11Diablo III
In 2012, a Taiwanese man collapsed and died from playing Diablo III for 40 straight hours.
12. Prior to the release of Mass Effect 3, EA had copies of the game sent into space via weather balloons for lucky fans to track and find.
13. There is an active ‘secret-seekers’ group that is still trying to uncover the final mystery of the 2005 video game 'Shadows of the Colossus.'
14. Denmark was the first country to be fully transplanted into the Minecraft games. The government hoped it could help make lessons more fun for students, until hackers ‘bombed’ the Minecraft version of Denmark in a cyber-attack.
15. The game 'Dark Souls' was originally going to be called 'Dark Ring' but had to be changed after the developers learned that in Britain ring is a slang for anus.
16Portal
Portal is based on a game called Narbacular Drop, which was a class project created by university students. Liking the idea, Valve hired the entire team of students to develop Portal.
17. Portal 2 was supposed to have an ending where Chell spoke, but the idea was soon scrapped because game-testers couldn't figure out who was speaking.
18. In Super Mario Bros., the Hammer Bros. eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough.
19. The lowest score with which Super Mario Bros. can be beaten is 600 points.
20. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto and his team wanted Mario to ride a dinosaur since just after the completion of the very first Super Mario Bros. game. It took 6 years, before technology could handle the release of Yoshi in Super Mario World.
21Tetris theme
The Tetris theme is actually a Russian folk song named “Korobeiniki”, in which a street vendor flirts with a customer while haggling over goods.
22. The original idea for Resident Evil 4 was supposed to be a "cool" and "stylish" change in the series. It was canceled and eventually became what we now know as Devil May Cry.
23. The Halo was originally supposed to be 3rd person shooter designed for Macintosh. In 2000, Microsoft bought Bungie and made it an exclusive for the original Xbox.
24. Halo 2 was delayed for PC release because one of the developers hid a picture of his butt in it.
25. The popular series Red vs. Blue was captured using an in game glitch in Halo 1. This glitch was later recreated in Halo 2 for the sole benefit of the show.
