20 Mind-Blowing Gaming Easter Eggs You Totally Missed

By Matthew Highton /

6. Skyrim - Notched Pickaxe

An infamous egg this one. Named after Markus €œNotch€ Persson, creator of the Minecraft series, it was added into the Skyrim landscape as a nod from the developers of Bethesda to say, €œwe don€™t care,€ after a lengthy legal dispute. The legal department had dropped a copyright lawsuit on Notch for his proposed game €˜Scrolls€™, concerned that gamers would somehow mistake it as a tie in to the Elder Scrolls series, of which Skyrim sits. The legal department wanted to put a stop to it before it began and even though Notch generously offered to settle the dispute via a Quake deathmatch (best challenge ever), the suits weren€™t interested and kept pushing the lawsuit. Luckily the developer€™s thought it was ridiculous and so put in the Notched Pickaxe, which took the form of Minecraft€™s iconic tool.