The character Vellatrix makes numerous references to the "Harry Potter" franchise. This includes her name being a nod to Bellatrix Lestrange (one of the main antagonists of the series), and the magic school she serves as the Headmaster to "Snogwarts" being an obvious reference to the main setting of the series, Hogwarts.
According to Behaviour Interactive's head of partnerships Mathieu Cote, the studio had always wanted to do a single-player narrative game set in the Dead By Daylight universe, but had to look to other companies due to the team's lack of experience regarding single-player titles. Supermassive Games was the first team they reached out to, with writer Steve Goss stating in regards to the story compared to their past titles:
"[There will be] a lot of familiarity if you've played games like Until Dawn or The Quarry, but then there's huge sections of the game that feel nothing like a traditional Supermassive game because we're exploring a connection to the Dead By Daylight experience. There's a kind of balance between those two things."
Among the files included in the Gigaleak, a large-scale leak of internal server data from Nintendo in 2020, is a build for a Hello Kitty-themed version of the Game Boy Camera. This version features numerous differences compared to the standard version of the peripheral. In addition to reskinning assets to include various Sanrio characters, the Hello Kitty version also features more extensive overhauls such as a total reworking of the menu (namely to make previously hidden features overtly visible to the player) and various new modes and minigames.
The Hello Kitty Game Boy Camera appeared to have been scrapped fairly late into its development. In addition to how fleshed out it is even when compared with the simpler released The Legend of Zelda edition, the Nintendo 64DD features a unique header for it, POCKETCAMERA_SN, in code designed to check if a Game Boy Camera is plugged in. Additionally, although the device was shelved, at least two songs from it were reused in the Mobile Trainer, a Japan-only peripheral which allowed online multiplayer on select Game Boy Color games via a cell phone connection.
Unlike past chapters, the Steam page for Chapter 4 cycled through three different banners, each one coinciding with a newly revealed enemy that would appear in the chapter:
• The first banner featured Baba Chops, coinciding with the initial teaser for the chapter and the reveal of the Nightmare Critters. • The second banner featured Yarnaby, coinciding with his official reveal trailer during an alternate reality game leading up to the chapter's release. • The third banner featured Harley Sawyer (also known as "The Doctor"), coinciding with the conclusion of the aforementioned ARG, which revealed that he was responsible for an unknown incident that had occurred within the company.
In the NES version, the player can access a hidden gallery by entering the following button combination when the text "PRESS START TO PLAY" appears on the title screen:
• Press B four times while holding down the A button, then release A. • Press B once while holding down A, then release A. • Press B twenty-six times while holding down A, then release A. • Press B five times while holding down A, then release A. • Press A once.
By doing so, the game begins a slideshow depicting crude drawings of the development team and their workplace. Each drawing lists an individual developer and an accompanying joke, such as stating that programmer Jamie Rivett angrily traverses "all arable land. Land that is tilled by Arabs." The first image additionally contains a "Merry Christmas" message for the player. Furthermore, the code used to unlock this sequence is itself a play on the game's title. Each number of B-presses corresponds to a certain letter of the alphabet, e.g. 1 for "A," 2 for "B," and so on. When translated, it spells "DAZE" (4-1-26-5).
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In June 2022, Isaac Macgill, the creator of the Garry's Mod add-on "Glue Library" which expanded LUA functionality with mod support, updated some of his Steam Workshop releases to display internet screamers with shock images and loud noises upon start-up. The source files in this update also included curses and threats directed at creator Garry Newman, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell, and several unidentified Steam moderators. Macgill's motive for the changes is not known, as he was quickly banned from Steam after they received numerous complaints, though some suspected it to either be a deliberate prank, a response to online harassment, or a response to a personal grievance with the platform. Similar copycat incidents occurred around the same time with add-ons based on the Trollface meme, which instead caused the game to display a different set of explicit images and play loud audio of slurs spoken in the voice of cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants, or hampering the game's UI with images of the character Neco-Arc from the Tsukihime series.
According to a rough animation loop by illustrator and storyboard artist Juliana Chen, there were supposed to be more spells that could be cast including a circle, a triangle and a pentagram, but they went unused.
In late 2023, Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman received a copyright takedown notice from the film production company Invisible Narratives. The notice alleged that Garry's Mod violated the copyrights associated with "Skibidi Toilet", an animated webseries created by YouTuber Alexey Gerasimov produced in the Valve software Source Filmmaker using assets from their games Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Garry's Mod (which Valve published but did not develop), and other pre-existing copyrighted material. The Skibidi Toilet copyrights were registered as part of Invisible Narratives' production on a film adaptation of the series directed by Michael Bay. The takedown claimed there was "absolutely no licensed Steam, Valve, [or] Garry's Mod content related to Skibidi Toilet", despite the fact that many of the assets the series uses were originally created by Valve and the Garry's Mod playerbase up to almost two decades before it existed. After Newman posted the takedown notice publicly in July 2024, Gerasimov became aware of the mistake and contacted him to resolve the issue and retract the takedown.
Later on December 18, Epic Games revealed a collaboration with Skibidi Toilet for the game Fortnite, adding the character Plungerman as a playable skin and the titular Skibidi Toilet as a back bling. Seemingly forgetting about the controversy that occurred a few months prior, many unaware fans speculated if a lawsuit could play out due to the use of Valve's assets, despite their models in Fortnite being stylized, legally distinct versions of them. After being flooded with questions asking about it, Newman became annoyed and released a statement clarifying that he had no "basis, want or need" to file a lawsuit against Epic Games or Gerasimov as he did not create any of the assets involved in the production of Skibidi Toilet in the first place, and asked the public to stop asking him about it.
In August 2013, artist DJ Mass MAD Izm* announced on Twitter a song known as "灼熱 Lost Summer Dayz", a sequel to the One More Extra Stage song "灼熱 Beach Side Bunny" from Beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem. However, the tweet teasing this song was later removed. "灼熱 Lost Summer Dayz" wouldn't appear in the series until Beatmania IIDX 32 Pinky Crush, over 11 years after the initial announcement. DJ Mass MAD Izm* later acknowledged this delay, further adding that if there were to be a 4th song in the 灼熱 series, it would be a collaboration with DJ YOHSITAKA.
According to producer Shun Nakamura, the events of the DLC stage "Tokyo" (which sees Shadow being briefly sent to the reality of Paramount's "Sonic the Hedgehog" film series and inhabiting his counterpart's body) are meant to be treated as bonus content rather than being part of the game's main story or tied directly into the film series.
To promote the release of the 2024 film "Sonic the Hedgehog 3", Paramount released a promotional Sega Genesis cartridge that was not only fully functional, but also included a cheat code that revealed the release date for the film's final trailer. The cartridge included three main features: "Characters" (a series of character posters that played a voice clip from said character when interacted with), "Posters" (a collection of posters used to promote the film), and "Unlock" (which starts a minigame where Sonic is chased by Shadow down an endless highway that the player cannot win or lose at). By entering the level select code from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (up, up, down, down, up, up, up, up), Sonic will say "Hey, I said no cheat codes! ...Okay, just this one." before booting the player back to the main menu. A fourth option, "Trailer?", is unlocked, which revealed the release date for the final trailer as November 25, 2024, before booting the player back to the main menu once again.
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Before it was revealed, the concept of the game was originally promoted with the release of "PAC-MAN: Circle", the sixth episode of the 2024 Amazon Prime anthology series "Secret Level" under the false impression that it was created by the show's production team. Secret Level's supervising director Dave Wilson claimed in an interview with TheDirect before Shadow Labyrinth's announcement that Bandai Namco challenged them when they approached the company to create an episode based on Pac-Man:
"Bandai [Namco] challenged us out the gate. Their mission statement for the episode is, we would love audiences to wonder what the fuck we did with Pac-Man. And so we gave that brief, but we never quite got there. And J.T. Petty, our head writer, who loves horror, he writes a lot. [...] He just came back one weekend with the script after, like a conversation he had a line of dialogue in his head, stuck in his head, which was, 'You can eat them, but never their eyes.' And I think that sort of inspired his whole take on it. 'Pac-Man' was the easiest [story to pull off, but] it was the hardest to crack a story for. We went through multiple iterations, but once JT came back with the script and gave it to Victor [Maldonado] and Alfredo [Torres], the directors, we didn't do anything. I mean, the story reel showed up in this beautiful, violent tone, Pac-Man, and it's barely changed since then. That was difficult development, easy execution."
In reality, the dark re-imagining of Pac-Man first took root at Bandai Namco in 2020, while the Secret Level episode was revealed to act as a prologue and advertisement for the game when it was announced at The Game Awards 2024 days after its premiere.
The Continue theme lasts 27 seconds, but due to the in-game countdown, only the first 10 seconds can be heard in normal gameplay before fading out. The full Continue theme can be heard in the game's sound test.
It's possible for the skybox texture to be replaced at random with faces of the male and female player characters, and for the flare of the sun to flash around depending on how you move the camera. It's not known what exactly causes this to happen, but it may occur if the textures are not loaded in properly.
By setting your computer or console's internal clock to the date of Rocksteady Studios' founding on December 13, 2004, and then visiting Calendar Man, special dialogue will play out where he talks about how he was there "from the beginning" and hinting at "the end of days". This Easter egg went undiscovered until November 10, 2014, when Rocksteady themselves launched a YouTube channel named "JG Jour", with only one public video uploaded hinting at the secret's existence without explaining how to access it. The profile picture of the account was a stock image of a calendar with the date July 17, but this date turned out to be a red herring. "Jour" is the French word for "Day", meaning that the channel's name and profile picture were only meant to strengthen the secret's connection to Julian Gregory Day (the real name of Calendar Man), and the puzzle was solved three days later on November 13. It's believed that the timing of this Easter egg's reveal was meant to reference the release of the then-upcoming final installment of the Batman: Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Knight.
The opening cutscene for the game, which involves Mario and Luigi being separated while travelling through a portal of colorful lights, is notably similar to a scene from the 2023 film "The Super Mario Bros. Movie". During an "Ask the Developer" interview, it was revealed that the similarities were entirely coincidental and that they had no information about the film at the time the cutscene was made, with some of the developers being surprised by the similarities when they watched the film.
To promote the release of the game, Nintendo collaborated with Instagram fitness influencer Niki Klasnic to hold a special event at their Nintendo New York specialty store, where she led a group of women to play the game on the store floor.
The Popper and Slapamander both had different designs in early gameplay footage. The former was originally orange with blue and yellow stripes, being green with yellow curls in the final game. The latter was initially black with orange stripes and a gold interior, as opposed to its final design's red-orange with white stripes and a blue interior.
Among the files included in the Gigaleak, a large-scale leak of internal server data from Nintendo in 2020, is a build for a Hello Kitty-themed version of the Game Boy Camera. This version features numerous differences compared to the standard version of the peripheral. In addition to reskinning assets to include various Sanrio characters, the Hello Kitty version also features more extensive overhauls such as a total reworking of the menu (namely to make previously hidden features overtly visible to the player) and various new modes and minigames.
In the NES version, the player can access a hidden gallery by entering the following button combination when the text "PRESS START TO PLAY" appears on the title screen:
According to a rough animation loop by illustrator and storyboard artist Juliana Chen, there were supposed to be more spells that could be cast including a circle, a triangle and a pentagram, but they went unused.
Momo's design and name was inspired by a cat owned by Juliana Chen, an illustrator and storyboard artist for the games.
The Continue theme lasts 27 seconds, but due to the in-game countdown, only the first 10 seconds can be heard in normal gameplay before fading out. The full Continue theme can be heard in the game's sound test.
It's possible for the skybox texture to be replaced at random with faces of the male and female player characters, and for the flare of the sun to flash around depending on how you move the camera. It's not known what exactly causes this to happen, but it may occur if the textures are not loaded in properly.
By setting your computer or console's internal clock to the date of Rocksteady Studios' founding on December 13, 2004, and then visiting Calendar Man, special dialogue will play out where he talks about how he was there "from the beginning" and hinting at "the end of days". This Easter egg went undiscovered until November 10, 2014, when Rocksteady themselves launched a YouTube channel named "JG Jour", with only one public video uploaded hinting at the secret's existence without explaining how to access it. The profile picture of the account was a stock image of a calendar with the date July 17, but this date turned out to be a red herring. "Jour" is the French word for "Day", meaning that the channel's name and profile picture were only meant to strengthen the secret's connection to Julian Gregory Day (the real name of Calendar Man), and the puzzle was solved three days later on November 13. It's believed that the timing of this Easter egg's reveal was meant to reference the release of the then-upcoming final installment of the Batman: Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Knight.
The Popper and Slapamander both had different designs in early gameplay footage. The former was originally orange with blue and yellow stripes, being green with yellow curls in the final game. The latter was initially black with orange stripes and a gold interior, as opposed to its final design's red-orange with white stripes and a blue interior.
In Byte & Barq's official render, there is a tiny portion of Byte's right thigh that is clipping into the back of his calf.