Let The Game Begin … Again

Online game Shadowbane was hacked this week. In a big way:

The population of an entire Shadowbane town was forcibly moved to the bottom of the sea, where they drowned. City guards turned feral and attacked town residents. Mobs of never-before-seen superpowerful creatures, seemingly spontaneously spawned from the ether, began to prowl the streets unchecked, killing characters in the most painful way possible.

It sounds like life in Sunnydale during an average Buffy season closer, when the Big Bad lets loose. Except in this case the mess was cleaned up by the system administrators, who reset the game to its pre-crisis position, rather than the Scooby Gang kicking evil butt.