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• ... that a financial analyst considered Evolve, released one year ago today, to be "too niche to reach a wide audience"?
• ... that when Turtle Rock Studios was established, it was housed in a garage?
• ... that the money raised for Pillars of Eternity through its crowdfunding campaign saved the developer of the game Obsidian Entertainment from closure?
• ... that one of the founders of CD Projekt once sold cracked copies of video games in a market in Warsaw?
• ... that Rare celebrated its 30th anniversary by releasing Rare Replay, a title compiling 30 video games which it created?

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• Portal:Video games/DYK/1: ... that Ubisoft Annecy consulted professional skiers and extreme sports experts when creating Steep?"
• Portal:Video games/DYK/2: ... that the anti-hero of the Wii video game No More Heroes, Travis Touchdown, was named to "sound cool to a Japanese audience"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/3: ... that players can fire teddy bears strapped to sticks of dynamite in Sunset Overdrive?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/4: ... that upon graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, Hayato Matsuo went straight to work under Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for the Dragon Quest video game series?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/5: ... that for the Game Boy Advance version of their Activision Anthology, Activision selected the Atari 2600 homebrew game Oystron, in which the player shoots "space oysters" to collect pearls?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/6: ... that the Wii Zapper was first conceived when a staff member of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess's development team created a makeshift gun-like frame using rubber bands and wires?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/7: ... that sale of the Wii Classic Controller was briefly discontinued in the United States due to a lawsuit by Anascape Ltd?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/8: ... that the protagonist of Tembo the Badass Elephant was regarded by its developer as "Rambo in elephant form"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/9: ... that the sole developer and creator of Bob's Game tried to publicly protest by locking himself in his room for 100 days or until Nintendo granted him the software development kit for the game?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/10: ... that the previews of Spec Ops: The Line, a game that depicts Dubai in a state of destruction, were banned in the United Arab Emirates?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/11: ... that Dark Souls III would serve as a turning point for its developer FromSoftware?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/12: ... that the PlayStation 3 video game Rorona no Atelier: Aarando no Renkinjutsushi is the first in its series to feature 3D computer graphics?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/13: ... that Avalanche Studios, the developer of the Just Cause series, almost developed an open world Star Wars game with LucasArts?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/14: ... that the cancelled vide game Project: Knoxville was inspired by The Running Man and The Hunger Games?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/15: ... that BattleTech hit its Kickstarter funding goal within an hour?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/16: ... that Conor McGregor became the cover athlete of EA Sports UFC 2 by defeating José Aldo at UFC 194?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/17: ... that for the score of the Prince of Persia, composer Inon Zur combined classical orchestral music with Arabic flutes and the woodwind duduk?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/18: ... that the announcement trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare received over two million dislikes and is the second most disliked video on YouTube?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/19: ... that inspired by a trip to the highly active Mount Yasur volcano in 1999, French video game creator Eric Chahi designed the video game From Dust?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/20: ... that the Xbox One launch game Ryse: Son of Rome was originally a Kinect game for the Xbox 360?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/21: .. that Dragon Age: Origins has 68,260 lines of dialogue, and its quality assurance testers enabled a cheat to automatically skip dialogues during test runs?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/22: ... that one reviewer thought ZX Spectrum computer game Moonlight Madness should have been called Daylight Robbery due to its price?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/23: ... that a financial analyst considered Evolve, released one year ago today, to be "too niche to reach a wide audience"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/24: ... that when Turtle Rock Studios was established, it was housed in a garage?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/25: ... that the money raised for Pillars of Eternity through its crowdfunding campaign saved the developer of the game Obsidian Entertainment from closure?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/26: ... that one of the founders of CD Projekt once sold cracked copies of video games in a market in Warsaw?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/27: ... that Rare celebrated its 30th anniversary by releasing Rare Replay, a title compiling 30 video games which it created?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/28: ... that Starbreeze Studios was once working on a video game set within the Bourne universe?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/29: ... that video game publisher Inscape's founder Michael Nash chose the company's name "to focus on multimedia's capability to transport us to compelling inner landscapes"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/30: ... that SingStar ABBA is the first band-specific SingStar video game?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/31: ... that some of the elements of the adventure pack Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate were released so that they could be used for free by the Neverwinter Nights 2 community?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/32: ... that Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned takes place in the universe of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series but its story is not connected to the series at all?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/33: ... that Metroid: Other M was co-developed by both Team Ninja and Nintendo?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/34: ... that the Pokémon video game glitch MissingNo. occurs as a result of buffer data containing the player's name not being cleared?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/35: ... that the MMORPG video game Final Fantasy XIV has been in development by Square Enix under the codename Rapture?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/36: ... that although Telltale Games was formed after LucasArts abandoned adventure game development in 2004, the two companies are now collaborating to create a new series of adventure games?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/37: ... that New Super Mario Bros. Wii will have a feature that allows the game to play on its own while paused?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/38: ... that Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf was at the time publisher Electronic Arts' highest-selling video game ever?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/39: ... that a critical bug in the PSP game Class of Heroes was found only days before manufacturing began?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/40: ... that IGN's Chris Roper compared Gravity Games Bike: Street Vert Dirt unfavorably to E.T. for the Atari 2600, which is often considered one of the worst video games of all time?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/41: ... that Zen Pinball is the first pinball game designed for the PlayStation 3?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/42: ... that the developers of the simulation game PHM Pegasus consulted with the hydrofoil-manufacturer Boeing Marine Systems to increase the realism of hydrofoils in their game?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/43: ... that Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh had nearly no involvement in the video game based on their television series Phineas and Ferb?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/44: ... that the levels in the iPhone video game Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid are in 2.5D while the characters remain in 2D?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/45: ... that before Strategic Simulations, Inc.'s first game, Computer Bismarck, most computer games were packaged in zipper storage bags?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/46: ... that while developing Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo, Factor 5 put together a playable demo for Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader in 19 days to show at Nintendo's 2001 Space World?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/47: ... that the first home versions of the Sega video game Jambo! Safari are set to be released, ten years after the game first appeared in arcades?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/48: ... that the WiiWare video game Bit.Trip Void was designed to have a minimalistic style, reflected in the audio, visuals, and its HUD?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/49: ... that the distinctive "na-na-na-na" sound found in the music of the Katamari Damacy series was created by sound director Yū Miyake as an experiment in creating memorable video game music?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/50: ... that the machinima-based music video Dance, Voldo, Dance was featured at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of an exhibit in 2006?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/51: ... that video game Jungle Strike was accused of jingoism?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/52: ... that the title witch of action game Bayonetta can form giant boots with her hair to attack enemies, but loses some of her clothing in the process?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/53: ... that the video game AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity was inspired by BASE jumping in a wingsuit?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/54: ... that the video game Metal Walker combines elements of the Pokémon series with billiards?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/55: ... that Hiroki Kikuta (pictured), despite composing music for over 20 video games and independent albums, has never received any formal music education?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/56: ... that Sword of Aragon, a video game published in 1989, frustrated players with its copy protection that prompted them with inaccurate information?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/57: ... that Nathan Drake, protagonist of the Uncharted series, incorporates aspects from Johnny Knoxville and characters like Tintin and John McClane?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/58: ... that the video game, Gears of War, revolutionized the cover system?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/59: ... that while recording swordfights for Barbarian, the video game's designer Steve Brown nearly took his eye out with the Web of Death, a move copied from the film Conan the Destroyer?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/60: ... that in 2003, an English translation of Shadow Tower Abyss, the forerunner to From Software's award-winning Demon's Souls, was cancelled by Sony over fears that the game's style lacked market appeal?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/61: ... that Flower was intended by designer Jenova Chen to fill what he saw as a gap in the "emotional spectrum" offered by video games?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/62: ... that several publications, including GamePro and IGN, consider Jade to be one of video games' greatest heroines?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/63: ... that the UK video game magazine Edge described Amy Hennig as one of the 100 most influential women in the video game industry?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/64: ... that the "Love Chu Chu!" part of the name of the visual novel Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu! was narrowed down from about one hundred different candidates?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/65: ... that the Xbox Live Arcade video game Toy Soldiers will feature World War I toy miniatures battling on a model diorama in a child's bedroom?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/66: ... that video game music composer Garry Schyman prefers the video game industry to television and film in part because the people in it are "nice people whose egos were in check"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/67: ... that the video game Gyromancer was originally "half-jokingly" proposed by PopCap Games co-founder Jason Kapalka to Square Enix with the name Final Fantasy Bejeweled?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/68: ... that the PlayStation video game Muppet Monster Adventure featured an 'intuitive swimming system' that NGC Magazine compared favourably to the one in Super Mario 64?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/69: ... that Rock Band 3, a "disruptive title" to revitalize the rhythm video game genre, includes a Pro mode for near-accurate playing of real guitars, drum and keyboard instruments?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/70: ... that the Humble Indie Bundle, a week-long "pay what you want" charitable promotion from several independent video game developers, raised over $1 million?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/71: ... that video game composer, director, and producer Junichi Masuda named a character in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire after his daughter Kiri?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/72: ... that video game critics were confused by the presentation of the game Battle Tag at Ubisoft's E3 2010 press conference?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/73: ... that critics found Lula 3D's "Bouncin' Boobs Technology" unrealistic?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/74: ... that because of a bug in the video game Space Hawk, the developers added black holes to explain why the player would sometimes jump to hyperspace at random?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/75: ... that the platformer Bartman Meets Radioactive Man from 1992 heavily featured the character Radioactive Man from The Simpsons, even though he had rarely been seen on the show at that point?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/76: ... that Mortal Kombat has won multiple best fighting game awards at E3 2010 and is already being considered as the most violent video game ever?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/77: ... that BioShock Infinite, Irrational Games' next title in its video game series, is set during 1912 in a giant airborne city constructed at the height of American exceptionalism?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/78: ... that Activision founder Larry Kaplan called Street Racer the one game he wished he had done differently?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/79: ... that the creator of Kaboom!'s villainous "Mad Bomber" also programmed a series of Brain Games that have been said to improve memory?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/80: ... that handheld video game Galaxian 2, released in 1981, is titled as such not because it is a sequel to Galaxian, but because it has a two-player mode?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/81: ... that the plaintiffs' amicus brief to the courts in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association argues that Super Mario Bros. is a violent video game?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/82: ... that when the 1983 arcade game Up'n Down was ported to the Atari 2600, its "bluesy" background music was replaced with "a very unsettling version" due to limitations in the 2600's sound capabilities?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/83: ... that Comedy Central's South Park was the "number one influence" for the humor in the adult video game Bonetown, a game which encourages the player to have sex with as many women in-game as possible?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/84: ... that the Game Boy video game Wizards & Warriors X: The Fortress of Fear was released after Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II with no explanation ever given about the missing chapters in between?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/85: ... that Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes was in development from 2004 to 2009 before a cease-and-desist letter from Square Enix led to its cancellation?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/86: ... that Computer and Video Games magazine wrote that The Mystery of the Druids holds "very little appeal for anyone but the most patient and geeky PC-head"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/87: ... that the developers of Myth III: The Wolf Age turned their Fear & Loathing into Vengeance for the modding community?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/88: ... that a survey found women in free-to-play massively multiplayer online games spent, on average, 50% more money than men?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/89: ... that the fan campaign to release specific Wii video games by the game developer Nintendo received an official response from the company?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/90: ... that Young Thor is one of the first Western-developed digitally distributed video games to be released on the PlayStation Network in Japan?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/91: ... that PlayStation Network game Joe Danger was made entirely by a team of just four people?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/92: ... that The Banner Saga is a forthcoming tactical role-playing video game about Vikings whose art style (pictured) is inspired by a 1959 Disney film?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/93: ... that Double Fine Productions raised more than $1 million in under 24 hours in a record-breaking, crowd-sourced Kickstarter funding drive for Broken Age?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/94: ... that due to licensing issues, the 1985 video game Blade Runner was based on the movie soundtrack by Vangelis rather than on Blade Runner itself?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/95: ... that Torment: Tides of Numenera became the first video game project to raise $1,000,000 in under seven hours on the crowd funding platform Kickstarter?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/96: ... that Captain America in: The Doom Tube of Dr. Megalomann was the first appearance of Captain America in a video game?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/97: ... that the simulation video games Cafeteria Nipponica, Dungeon Village, Epic Astro Story, Grand Prix Story, and Hot Springs Story were developed by Japanese video game developer Kairosoft?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/98: ... that the video game Self-Defense Training Camp was criticized for its emphasis on crotch kicking?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/99: ... that Magic 2013, the bestselling PlayStation Network video game in June 2012, was based on a nineteen-year-old card game?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/100: ... that the creator of the video game Happy Wheels used graphic violence to counter the unrealistic consequences in other games?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/101: ... that The Goat Puzzle in the 1996 adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is considered by many to be one of the hardest video game puzzles of all time?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/102: ... that Lee-Sak "PartinG" Won took first place at the 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series held in Shanghai?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/103: ... that 7,000 fans attended MineCon 2012, a convention celebrating the video game Minecraft?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/104: ... that the survival horror video game Miasmata was developed over four years by two brothers, and they created their own game engine for it?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/105: ... that Naoki Yoshida chose to completely remake the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn in order to regain the trust of its players?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/106: ... that the interactive fiction Source engine modification The Stanley Parable was designed to "mess with the player's head in every way possible"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/107: ... that a reviewer called the narrator in the game Defenders of Ardania "booze-obsessed", with a voice that sounds like "a Dalek doing an impression of Sean Connery"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/108: ... that NeocoreGames uses their own game engine called Coretech to develop video games?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/109: ... that all three major video game console manufacturers refuse to publish games that have been given the Adults Only rating by the Entertainment Software Rating Board?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/110: ... that Chris Remo composed the soundtrack for Thirty Flights of Loving, a video game created to support a crowd funded campaign to revive the Idle Thumbs podcast?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/111: ... that the video game Star Trek: Hidden Evil was described by one critic as "2,891 phaser shots connected by some irrelevant puzzles"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/112: ... that freshly minted "cybernat" Stuart Campbell is a well-known figure in the Scottish Independence debate and has been described as "videogames journalism's answer to Al Qaeda"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/113: ... that the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" scene from Fantasia, which fused wizardry with conducting, is the central concept of Disney Interactive and Harmonix's 2014 video game, Fantasia: Music Evolved?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/114: ... that the Xbox One exclusive Titanfall is the first game created by Respawn Entertainment, the studio founded by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's creators and Infinity Ward's co-founders?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/115: ... that according to EA Sports, its Ignite game engine for next-gen consoles allows players to act more like real athletes in having to make snap judgements and brace for impacts?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/116: ... that in the video game The Crew, players can drive coast-to-coast across the United States in 90 minutes?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/117: ... that the Virtuix Omni omnidirectional treadmill video game controller lets virtual reality gamers physically walk within virtual game environments?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/118: ... that voice actor Courtnee Draper improvised some of her character Elizabeth's lines in BioShock Infinite?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/119: ... that 2014 puzzle game Monument Valley's visual style took inspiration from M. C. Escher, Japanese prints, minimalist sculpture, Fez, and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/120: ... that indie games designer Phil Fish (pictured) said in a scene of Indie Game: The Movie that he would kill himself if he didn't release his game, which later sold a million copies?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/121: ... that the third-person action-adventure video game Freedom: First Resistance was based on Anne McCaffrey's novel trilogy Catteni Series?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/122: ... that over 6.5 million users have watched, and sometimes partaken in, "playing" Pokémon Red on Twitch?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/123: ... that the Gotham City seen in Batman: Arkham City was redesigned for Batman: Arkham Knight, to allow space for the Batmobile, drivable for the first time in the Arkham series?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/124: ... that the creator of Flappy Bird received death threats after pulling it?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/125: ... that the action video game The Legend of Korra is intended to be visually indistinguishable from the animated TV series on which it is based?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/126: ... that developers of the survival horror video game The Forest were partly inspired by Disney?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/127: ... that Lego Ninjago: Nindroids is the second video game to be based on the Lego Ninjago line of play sets?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/128: ... that the team developing Civilization: Beyond Earth, a spiritual successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, visited the latter's Wikipedia article for inspiration?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/129: ... that a GamesRadar writer simply stated "Total bitch" about Amy Rose in an article with several sentences about each of the other Sonic the Hedgehog characters?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/130: ... that PETA's browser games regularly satirize popular franchises like Mario and Pokémon?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/131: ... that the video game Escape from Woomera, which was built to criticize the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia, was funded by the Australian government's art funding body, the Australia Council?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/132: ... that the 1983 Automonopoli was a computer version of Monopoly marketed as the first to have an artificial intelligence strong enough to compete against human players?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/133: ... that the Japan release of Saints Row: The Third had the veins removed from its Penetrator weapon—a three-foot long phallus bat—due to regulatory restrictions on depictions of genitalia?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/134: ... that Tim Rogers, originator of New Games Journalism and co-founder of Action Button Entertainment, applied his thoughts on Super Mario Brothers 3's "sticky friction" to his game design for Ziggurat and Videoball?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/135: ... that some employees of Moon Studios, developers of Ori and the Blind Forest, had never met face to face until the game was unveiled at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/136: ... that Dhaka Racing is the first 3D video game developed in Bangladesh?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/137: ... that players can fire teddy bears strapped to sticks of dynamite in Sunset Overdrive?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/138: ... that shares of GameStop fell over five percent after the announcement of EA Access?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/139: ... that indie video game Cuphead was inspired by the 1930s cartoons of Fleischer Studios and is drawn in their subversive and surrealist style?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/140: ... that EarthBound's "religiously dedicated" fan base translated its sequel when Nintendo would not, and brought the game's localizer into the media limelight?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/141: ... that although the video game Sleeping Dogs sold 1.5 million copies within a year of its release, its publisher Square Enix considered it a commercial failure?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/142: ... that Warren Spector (pictured) began planning the development of Deus Ex after connecting his wife's fascination with The X-Files to "conspiracy stuff"?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/143: ... that the development team for Cities: Skylines, which has been called more ambitious than SimCity, consists of only nine people?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/144: ... that the protagonist of Hatred is a mass-killing villain who begins a "genocide crusade" in his hatred of humanity?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/145: ... that Peter Moore announced Grand Theft Auto IV by rolling up his sleeve to reveal a tattoo of the logo?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/146: ... that the video game Adrift is a metaphor for the controversy caused by developer Adam Orth's comments on the Xbox One's proposed digital rights management strategy?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/147: ... that video game character Jill Valentine was almost a Jill sandwich?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/148: ... that over $20,000 was spent trademarking the name Max Heat before the character was renamed Max Payne?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/149: ... that Beyond: Two Souls, despite being a video game, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/150: ... that a US$399 limited edition of Borderlands: The Handsome Collection includes a remote-controlled Claptrap?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/151: ... that a scene from Resident Evil 5 was submitted to the British Board of Film Classification due to a complaint of racism?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/152: ... that the budget for the development of Red Dead Redemption was estimated at between US$80 million and $100 million?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/153: ... that the sequel to the Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars video game is simply called Rocket League, an easier to remember title?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/154: ... that Neil Druckmann was moved to the creative department of Naughty Dog due to the work that he completed after working hours?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/155: ... that Kotaku's Patrick Klepek was at a loss for words to describe Sonic Dreams Collection?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/156: ... that, to promote release of Dyscourse, developer Owlchemy Labs hid one hundred thumb drives containing the game in a tree on Hawaii 2?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/157: ... that to develop the 1990 video game Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, John Carmack and John Romero took their work computers from Softdisk home with them on weekends?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/158: ... that although Phantasmagoria was the best-selling computer game of 1995, some retailers like CompUSA refused to carry it due to its violent content, and it was banned in Australia?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/159: ... that Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex was originally intended to be a free-roaming game, a decision which was scrapped after a change of developer?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/160: ... that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was leaked in advance of its official reveal, an event called "Can't Kill Progress"
• Portal:Video games/DYK/161: ... that several of Banjo-Tooie's cut features were made available in its updated version, nine years later?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/162: ... that MediEvil was inspired by works such as Tim Burton's hit film The Nightmare Before Christmas?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/163: ... that Shigeru Miyamoto gave Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island its signature, hand-drawn art style in defiance of Nintendo's marketing department?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/164: ... that with its campaign for Shadowrun Returns, Harebrained Schemes became the third video game studio to break $1 million on Kickstarter?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/165: ... that the lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown called his game "basically a 20-hour tutorial" for the partial conversion mod Long War?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/166: ... that Japanese animation film company Studio Ghibli produced the animated sequences for the video games Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn and Wrath of the White Witch?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/167: ... that the community reaction to Dead Island's announcement trailer made the game developer Techland adjust the game's tone?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/168: ... that writer Brendan McNamara wanted players to connect to the characters of L.A. Noire in a way not previously achieved in video games?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/169: ... that although designed as an input for gaming controllers like joysticks, the Atari joystick port was also used as a serial port for devices like modems?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/170: ... that Richard Honeywood established best practices for video game localization at Square after going through "pure hell" while translating Xenogears?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/171: ... that Riot Games banned G2A from sponsoring teams during the 2015 League of Legends World Championship?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/172: ... that space travel cost only US$50–75 in 1969?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/173: ... that within a month of the release of Rise of Mana, the game had over one million registered players?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/174: ... that the Pokémon games Sun and Moon features connectivity with the Virtual Console versions of Red, Green, Blue and Yellow through Pokémon Bank?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/175: ... that The Lab, a virtual reality game by Valve, is set in the Portal universe and features pocket universes?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/176: ... that after the announcement of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, a conservative Iranian newspaper accused game director Navid Khonsari of espionage, and members of his development team took on aliases?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/177: ... that NASCAR drivers Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, and Brad Keselowski were hired to assist in developing the video game NASCAR Heat Evolution?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/178: ... that game developers changed the victory pose for the Overwatch character Tracer, after a fan noted that her original pose was over sexualized?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/179: ... that action game Agar.io was used in the June 2015 Turkish election as a medium of political advocacy?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/180: ... that the video game Life Is Strange was originally going to be called What If but was retitled due to the film of the same name?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/181: ... that the success of Mikengreg's Solipskier gave them the means to experiment when making Gasketball?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/182: ... that an online petition calling for the removal of Survival Island 3 from Google Play and the App Store had received more than 60,000 signatures as of January 16, 2016?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/183: ... that the release of the 2016 video game This Is the Police was delayed due to a publisher error?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/184: ... that Ubisoft Montreal intended to take risks when creating Watch Dogs 2?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/185: ... that VA-11 HALL-A is a bartender simulation video game with visual novel, cyberpunk, and anime influences?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/186: ... that Ace of Aces was one of Accolade's best-selling Commodore 64 video games in 1987?
• Portal:Video games/DYK/187: ... that the name of Tekken character Lars Alexandersson was proposed to the development staff by an unknown woman from the Swedish embassy in Japan?