10 gaming facts you should know

The gaming world is bizarre – and that’s exactly why we love it.

Video games are full of secrets, Easter eggs, and strange factoids that make up the crazy gaming trivia that we’re exposed to. So before you head down to your local bar and engage in a gaming-themed quiz night, here are 10 gaming facts you should know.

The Little Sisters from BioShock went through a few changes before ending up as little girls. They were originally tiny mole-like creatures who scuttled around Rapture collecting Adam. Early concept art also shows them as retro ’50s-style robots.

When booting up Minecraft, there’s a small chance of an Easter Egg where the intro text will be scrambled, saying “MINCERAFT”

Team Ico’s phenomenal giant-killing adventure game, Shadow of The Colossus, was originally going to feature groups of characters on horseback working to take down the colossi cooperatively. Unfortunately, this proved too taxing for the PS2’s hardware.

Before Okami’s unique painted art-style was chosen, the game originally intended to look realistic. You can unlock a concept video of this by finishing the game. It was changed because the PS2’s hardware wasn’t sophisticated enough.

If you select a sheep four times in Warcraft 2: Tides Of Darkness (keep clicking it with the left mouse button), the sheep will say “baa-ram-ewe”. This is the sheep’s password from the 1995 movie Babe, based on the novel Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith..

In the first Max Payne, Max’s face was digitised from series writer Sam Lake, but in the second game they used an actor called Timothy Gibbs, who starred in ladies’ favourite Sex And The City.

Sony’s Playstation was originally planned as a Nintendo console, with Sony set to design its electronic components. When Nintendo ditched the project, Sony decided to make a console anyway.

It’s only humanly possible to press a button on a controller 16 times per second. This record was set by Toshuyuki Takahashi, a Japanese gamer.

Devil May Cry was originally intended to be the next chapter in the Resident Evil series. The gun juggle move was a glitch, but became part of Dante’s move set.