And I say something because no one knows what happened. Apparently, security showed up at Infinity Ward without warning and wouldn't tell any of the employees why they were there. The two studio heads were gone all day in a meeting with Activision and haven't come back. The employees aren't being told anything and everyone is obviously freaked out.  
 
Freaky stuff. I'll update this thread with whatever gets announced.
 
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They have contracted a deadly disease, and will be quarantined shortly.

The security people played Modern Warfare 2 and want their money back. ZING 
 
I took that comment off GameFAQs, by the way.

Well, that's intense.

Hostile takeovers, the stuff Bobby Kotick dreams are made of!

It's the Russians, obvi. But in all seriousness, I hope this is just some pressure from Activision and not for reals bad guys. Good luck, lads.

PR stunt?
 
Or they're about to throw one hell of a sexy surprise party.
 
If I don't make it back to edit this joke when we find out something horrible is happening, know that I'm sorry.

This is what happens when you sync your security system with your playstation network account. 
 
Also, Karl-Magnus Troedsson and his team of ninjas.

 The two studio heads were gone all day in a meeting with Activision and haven't come back.

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 The two studio heads were gone all day in a meeting with Activision and haven't come back.

 And nothing of value was lost. "

When I wake up tomorrow morning to find that the entire staff of Infinity Ward has died due to mysterious bullet wounds, I will know why. Either that, or Bobby Kotick is going to turn them all into borg like he did with Neversoft.

Again...skynet...first PS3's die....now IW dissapper...next..they will come back as cyborgs...

It's a PR stunt for Dante's Inferno. You heard me. 

Weirdest day in gaming history, Portal transmissions, PS3's not working and now this?

" Weirdest day in gaming history, Portal transmissions, PS3's not working and now this? "

Clearly a publicity stunt to take away some of the media's attention to BC2. ---l---

Anthrax  anthrax anthrax anthrax anthrax, cmon anthrax.

Something leads me to believe that this PS3 FAILness and this Shady Bizniss at IW are somehow connected.  Something is afoot duders.

Activision is probably just telling IW that MW2 didn't make them enough money and they're closing them down so they can open another studio that only makes Wii shovel-ware and is also a puppie killing factory :)

All the smack IW talks about Activision coming back to bite them in the face? 
 
No, really?

This story is just to create a backstory to the new MW2 DLC where you have to fight off Russian Terrorists inorder to save Infinity Ward hostages.  
 
OR!!!!!! 
 
DICE decided to take care of Infinity Ward their own way.

So this was "tweeted" at around 7:00 PM PST... pretty late for work, huh?

That is some weird shit

I bet it will get resolved at 12:00am

" @Bionicicide: good point about that, who would be in the office at that hour? "

" DICE decided to take care of Infinity Ward their own way. "

" They have contracted a deadly disease, and will be quarantined shortly. "

" @Pinkshley1 said:

" They have contracted a deadly disease, and will be quarantined shortly. "

That's a terrible thing to say. "

You just can't make this stuff up. Activision mafia perhaps?

Is it just me or does this remind anyone else of the movie Die Hard.
 

" You just can't make this stuff up. "

No way is this a publicity stunt. Why would Activision want to look even more evil than they already do? Also, how would this in any way hinder the BC2 sales figures? Infinity Ward have nothing coming out anytime soon, so there's no need to stage some publicity stunt that's not going to profit them in any way. 
 
Something really strange is going down at IW and Activision... that's for sure.

" @FrankCanada97 said:

" Weirdest day in gaming history, Portal transmissions, PS3's not working and now this? "

Next...the PS3 and 360 will interbreed!  "

Maybe Treyarch is doing MW3 this fall.

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No way is this a publicity stunt. Why would Activision want to look even more evil than they already do? Also, how would this in any way hinder the BC2 sales figures? Infinity Ward have nothing coming out anytime soon, so there's no need to stage some publicity stunt that's not going to profit them in any way. 
 
Something really strange is going down at IW and Activision... that's for sure.

"

Maybe Kotick decided that regular visits from Suited Heavies helps him take the fun out of game making.

It's the Bobby Kotick crime family.

Apparently the situation between Activision and IW has been "Tense". Maybe IW wanted to buy their independence like Bungie from MS and Kotick said YOU'LL NEVER GET MINE MONIES. I hope they do go independent though, maybe then they can go back to making good, BALANCED games rather than the piece of bird poop that is MW2

" Maybe Treyarch is doing MW3 this fall. "

" @creamypies said:

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No way is this a publicity stunt. Why would Activision want to look even more evil than they already do? Also, how would this in any way hinder the BC2 sales figures? Infinity Ward have nothing coming out anytime soon, so there's no need to stage some publicity stunt that's not going to profit them in any way. 
 
Something really strange is going down at IW and Activision... that's for sure.

"

It already has you sheeple rilled up.   That's the definition of the word "publicity". "

I'm going to be the one to say that this is not a PR move. Not a publicity stunt. Developers don't usually do that. It would have to be the publishers. And why would G4 jump into this as well. This would be way too much money to place on something that's already making money. So let's just wait to see what happens. After I read that post I was a little freaked out.

"@creamypies said:

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No way is this a publicity stunt. Why would Activision want to look even more evil than they already do? Also, how would this in any way hinder the BC2 sales figures? Infinity Ward have nothing coming out anytime soon, so there's no need to stage some publicity stunt that's not going to profit them in any way. 
 
Something really strange is going down at IW and Activision... that's for sure.

"

It already has you sheeple riled up.   That's the definition of the word "publicity". "

So THIS is the original thread!

Ok so the Infinity Ward office is 75 miles away from me. I'm going to save them. Who's with me??

"I'm going to be the one to say that this is not a PR move. Not a publicity stunt. Developers don't usually do that. It would have to be the publishers. And why would G4 jump into this as well. This would be way too much money to place on something that's already making money. So let's just wait to see what happens. After I read that post I was a little freaked out. "

" I'm going to be the one to say that this is not a PR move. Not a publicity stunt. Developers don't usually do that. It would have to be the publishers. And why would G4 jump into this as well. This would be way too much money to place on something that's already making money. So let's just wait to see what happens. After I read that post I was a little freaked out. "

" Ok so the Infinity Ward office is 75 miles away from me. I'm going to save them. Who's with me?? "