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Crown Jewel (2024)

Crown Jewel (2024) was a WWE professional wrestling event held on November 2, 2024, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where Cody Rhodes and Liv Morgan became the first Crown Jewel Champions.

Crown Jewel (2025)

Crown Jewel: Perth (October 11, 2025, RAC Arena) was WWE's seventh Crown Jewel and first outside Saudi Arabia. Rollins and Vaquer won the Crown Jewel Championships; Cena beat Styles; gate $4.16M on 11,682 tickets.

Crowsworn

Crowsworn is an upcoming 2D hand-drawn Metroidvania by indie studio Mongoose Rodeo, set in the cursed kingdom of Fearanndal. Its 2021 Kickstarter raised CA$1,258,068 from 19,695 backers; release date still unannounced.

Crufts

Crufts is the Royal Kennel Club's four-day international dog show at the NEC Birmingham each March, founded by Charles Cruft in 1891, featuring Best in Show, agility, flyball, and about 18,700 dogs in 2026.

Cruis'n USA

Cruis'n USA is a 1994 Midway arcade racer published by Nintendo, ported to the Nintendo 64 in 1996. Marketed as an Ultra 64 showcase despite running on a 32-bit Williams board; over a million N64 copies sold.

Cruis'n World

Cruis'n World is a 1996 Midway arcade racer, sequel to Cruis'n USA, racing nine rivals across 14 world tracks with wheelie and jump stunts; N64 port by Eurocom in 1998.

Cruiserweight (boxing)

Cruiserweight (junior heavyweight) is boxing's 175–200 lb division between light heavyweight and heavyweight, created 1979 (Camel–Parlov first title), limit raised to 200 lbs in 2003; Holyfield, Bell, and Usyk were undisputed champions.

Cruiserweight Classic

The Cruiserweight Classic (CWC) was a 32-man single-elimination WWE tournament in summer 2016, won by T.J. Perkins, who became the first Cruiserweight Champion of a new lineage.

Crunch (video games)

Crunch, or crunch time, is extended overtime in video game development to meet release deadlines. Also called crunch mode; surveys show 62% (2015) to 28% (2023) of developers reporting it, with health harms and unionization responses.

Crusader Kings II

Crusader Kings II (CK2) is a 2012 Paradox Development Studio grand strategy game set 1066-1453, played as a medieval dynasty rather than a nation, with succession laws, few fixed objectives, a free base game, extensive DLC, and the A Game of Thrones mod.

Crusader Kings III

Crusader Kings III (CK3) is Paradox Development Studio's medieval grand strategy role-playing game, released September 1, 2020, sequel to Crusader Kings II; dynasty-focused play from 867, 1066, or 1178 with extensive DLC and modding.

Crusaders (rugby union)

The Crusaders, formerly the Canterbury Crusaders, are a New Zealand professional rugby union team based in Christchurch, with a record 14 Super Rugby titles since 1996.

Crusaders F.C.

Crusaders F.C., founded 1898 in north Belfast, play at Seaview in the NIFL Premiership. Seven league titles and seven Irish Cups; 2015, 2016 and 2018 championships; member-owned; managed by Declan Caddell since 2024 after Stephen Baxter's 19-year reign.

Crush Crush

Crush Crush is a free-to-play idle dating sim by Sad Panda Studios, launched on browsers in February 2016 and Steam on May 13, 2016. Players allocate Time Blocks among jobs, hobbies, and dates across 70+ voiced characters; spin-offs include Blush Blush and Hush Hush.

Cruz Azul

Cruz Azul (La Máquina Cementera), Mexican Liga MX club founded 22 May 1927 by cement workers of La Cruz Azul; ten league titles (Clausura 2026) and six Concacaf Champions Cup titles, 2001 Libertadores finalist.

Cruz Hewitt

Cruz Hewitt (born 2008, Sydney) is an Australian tennis player, son of Lleyton Hewitt; 2026 Wimbledon boys' finalist and winner of his first ATP Tour match at Washington 2026.

Cruz Ibeh

Cruz Ibeh is an English forward who came through Middlesbrough's academy and has been named among the substitutes for the club's first team in the Championship, the second tier of English football.

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, founded 2 January 1921 as Palestra Italia in Belo Horizonte, Brazilian football club, record six Copa do Brasil titles, four Brasileiros, first club to become a SAF, relegated for the first time in 2019.

Cry of Fear

Cry of Fear is a free 2013 first-person psychological survival horror game by Team Psykskallar, originally a Half-Life 1 mod, following Simon through a nightmarish Swedish town with multiple endings and co-op.

CryEngine

CryEngine (CRYENGINE) is a real-time game engine by German developer Crytek, first used in Far Cry (2004), known for natural-environment rendering, the Sandbox editor, CryPhysics, and powering Crysis and Hunt: Showdown.

Crying Jordan

Crying Jordan, or Crying Michael Jordan, is a Photoshop meme using an AP photo of Michael Jordan crying at his 2009 Hall of Fame induction, pasted onto losers; first posted 2012, viral 2015-2016.

Cryme Tyme

Cryme Tyme (Crime Time), WWE tag team of Shad Gaspard and JTG, debuted on Raw October 16, 2006; street-thug gimmick, SummerSlam 2009 title loss, split 2010, reunited 2014.

Cryptic crossword

A cryptic crossword is a crossword where each clue pairs a straight definition with coded wordplay that independently builds the same answer; it dominates British crosswords.

Cryptogram

A cryptogram, also called a cryptoquote, is a word puzzle in which a short text, often a quotation, is enciphered by simple letter substitution and solved using language patterns.

Crysencio Summerville

Crysencio Summerville (Crysencio Jilbert Sylverio Cirro Summerville), Dutch winger born 2001 in Rotterdam; Leeds United 2023/24 Championship Player of the Season, West Ham 2024-2026, Netherlands 2026 World Cup, now Al Hilal.

Crysis

Crysis is a 2007 first-person shooter by Crytek, published by EA, set on the Lingshan islands with a Nanosuit. Its future-proofed graphics spawned the 'Can it run Crysis?' meme; sequels followed in 2011 and 2013.

Crysis (video game)

Crysis is Crytek's 2007 first-person shooter, published by EA, set in 2020 on the Lingshan Islands where Nanosuit-wearing Delta Force soldiers fight North Korean forces and aliens; Metacritic 91, famed for hardware demands.

Crysis 2

Crysis 2 is Crytek's 2011 first-person shooter, the first game on CryENGINE 3, set in a virus-ravaged New York against the Ceph and CELL with the Nanosuit 2.0; Metacritic 84, remastered in 2022.

Crysis 3

Crysis 3 is a 2013 first-person shooter by Crytek, published by EA, for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360; Prophet fights in a nanodome-covered New York with the Predator bow; Metacritic PC score 76; remastered October 2021.

Crystal Castles (video game)

Crystal Castles is a 1983 Atari arcade game by Franz Lanzinger starring Bentley Bear, who collects gems in isometric 3D castle mazes using a trackball and jump button; 37 mazes, one of the first arcade endings, 5,380 cabinets.