Author name: secretlevel

Fallout New Vegas contains seven snow globes scattered across the Mojave — decorative collectibles with no weapon or armour utility. […]

Control’s Federal Bureau of Control contains Hotline recordings — transmissions from the Board, the Astral entities that oversee the Bureau

Alan Wake 2 is built around a game-within-a-game structure: Alan, trapped in the Dark Place, is writing a horror story

Infamous Second Son contains a graffiti tagging system — a side activity where Delsin spray-paints murals across Seattle — that

Days Gone’s open world contains NERO research stations — abandoned CDC facilities where researchers were studying the Freaker virus before

Mass Effect’s Codex — an in-game encyclopaedia of lore accessible from the pause menu — contains entries that the game’s

Bungie embedded a Marathon symbol — a reference to their 1994 Mac shooter, the spiritual predecessor to Halo — in

Super Smash Bros. Melee was a party game designed for casual play. Nintendo included no formal competitive features — no

Street Fighter II shipped with deliberate asymmetry between characters that Capcom never fully documented. Blanka’s electricity attack, in the arcade