News from The Escapist News Room
The Week in Review: It watches you sleep. This week, we get Steamy with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell, ice a cake of delicious stupidity with a litigious shut-in, consult the Great Law-Devil, pour a 40 on the curb for Pandemic, and watch Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford let out some hot air.
The script-writer of Modern Warfare 2 says that the airport mission was needed to push the game to the next level.
After a sorting error left Escapist Editor Jordan Deam's plastic head of Modern Warfare 2's "Soap" MacTavish permanently disfigured, forumgoer mcipaulr came to the rescue by volunteering his own plastic "Soap" head for the first facial transplant of its kind.
The UK Department of Transportation presents Code of Everand, an educational MMOG that teaches kids to look both ways before crossing the Spirit Channels lest they be devoured by monsters.
Busy playing Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox Live in the UK? Your government may be looking to get you into actual Modern Warfare soon.
Microsoft says that reports it banned up to a million Xbox Live users for having modified consoles last week are vastly overblown.
A law firm in the U.S. is looking for Xbox Live users interested in joining a class action lawsuit against Microsoft in response to the company's decision to ban as many as a million users from the service for having modified consoles.
Atari and Cryptic have announced that aspiring starship captains will be able to reverse the polarity of their flux capacitors in January 2010 when the open beta for Star Trek Online goes live.
A study shows that of all the time spent playing games by all the gamers in the United States and Europe, 15% of that time is spent inside an MMOG - but the breakdown may surprise you.
Stardock chief Brad Wardell says that his company's Impulse service is second place in the digital distribution business, but it's a distant second - Valve's Steam platform makes up a whopping 70% of the market.
The Pirate Bay tracker, one of the largest and most famous BitTorrent trackers on the internet, is finally slipping beneath the waves.
Most mob games do not accurately portray the meticulous planning required to pull off successful robberies, kidnappings and assassinations.
We called it: The Mass: We Pray website that purported to offer a new videogame system that let people go to church every day without leaving their house is in fact a hoax.
Variety has reported that Brad Pitt's production company signed a contract with Capcom to develop a movie based on Dark Void.
To hell with zombies - World War II would have been so much more awesome if Hitler had brought back the freakin' dinosaurs.
