A bus full of game developers overturns, nobody important is injured

February 15th, 2008 · 8 Comments

by Doc

BREAKING NEWS:

A chartered bus full of game developers, on their way to a pre-GDC event, overturned on I-95 just outside of Springfield, Virginia earlier today. While at least a dozen of those onboard were severely injured, we’re told none of those casualties included anyone important. One eywitness explains.

The bus seemed to start sliding and slammed through the guard rail and slid down an embankment where it flipped on its right side. Fortunately that’s where all of the staff from Codemasters were sitting, so they caught the brunt of the impact. They broke the fall for the guys from Activision and EA… thank God. If the bus had flipped the other way,we might have lost some really talented people.

Codemasters made a statement just moments ago that the accident would have no effect on the release of their newest title, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.

From that statement: We’ve already spoken with the folks at ITT Technical College, who assure us that they can provide us with comparably talented individuals from their TV/VCR repair program, who should be more than capable of finishing this game. So this is not an issue.

Much like Turning point, the injured Codemasters developers were listed in critically-flawed condition.

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Tags: Activision · Electronic Arts · fake news

8 responses so far ↓

1 jimash // Feb 15, 2008 at 8:42 am

ROCK ON FICSHUN FIDAYZ!!!!!!!!
those Codemasters b**ches deserve 2 die!
thank god EA lives!
2 Tweep // Feb 15, 2008 at 8:49 am

Seeing as what happened at a university yesterday this might not be in good taste today.
3 Cube // Feb 15, 2008 at 9:00 am

Since when does activsion have important people?
4 FaMiCuS // Feb 15, 2008 at 9:31 am

Unfortunately this news fake, but I wish it was so true, mainly the part about Activision. Maybe if they were all gone, this crap of a game wouldn’t be made.

http://kotaku.com/356916/dream-on-with-guitar-hero-aerosmith

Yep, thats right, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. File it under things that make you go ugh.
5 Saccia // Feb 15, 2008 at 9:46 am

Wowzers! That’s harsh on the Codemasters devs, Doc

It really disappoints me that Turning Point is a crap game. The idea of the story is interesting and it really could have been something great. I’ll probably still try to rent it and see if they really fix the crap in the demo. After playing the demo, I thought “How the heck are they gonna fix this pile of dung?” I guess we’ll see if it really gets redone.
6 mpgd1kon // Feb 20, 2008 at 8:50 pm

lol i was laughing so hard when i heard that on the podcast
7 Spark Unlimited devs suffocate in paper bag | SarcasticGamer.com // Mar 21, 2008 at 9:44 am

[...] is the second tragic accident for the Turning Point team. Last month, a bus overturned claiming the lives of the Codemasters devs assigned to the [...]
8 UWCVisitdammit // Oct 8, 2008 at 4:24 am

Hahahahaha where’s Bungie’s developers?