In Other News...October 22

[DoctorFinger]

- The founder and president of a development studio in Utah has been sentenced to a year in prison for failing to actually pay his employees. David Rushton of Signal Sweep Studios (Tiger Woods 2005, Justice League Heroes) was convicted of failing to pay wages and payroll taxes, a rare criminal conviction for such acts.

- Hero Academy will be getting a new Shaolin faction in a November update.

- Vigil Studios co-founder and Darksiders designer Joe Madureira has announced that he's leaving the studio. Madureira says he's going back to comics at least in the short term.

- In an upcoming book on Blizzard, author David Craddock reveals that the company was at one point pondering a Diablo-in-space game. The game apparently never got beyond the prototype stage, and the full team went to work on other projects, likely including Diablo 3.

- Your daily awesome: Disney characters turned into a combining mecha toy.

[Ink Asylum]

Originally Posted by DoctorFinger

This is more awesome than it has any right to be.

[jpublic]

Do. Freaking. Want.

[muddi900]

Volt Disney?

[Reverant]

Originally Posted by muddi900

Volt Disney?

Also the name of a little-known Nazi experiment.

Personally, I find the toy a little disturbing. Folding loveable creature into unnatural shapes is somewhat gross.

[biosc1]

We already had Diablo in space and it was called Space Siege.

[BLeeP]

I thought that was shit in space?

[cp#]

LoL smashes viewership records

http://www.gamespot.com/news/league-...l-time-6398663

[Pale Ale]

Originally Posted by biosc1

We already had Diablo in space and it was called Space Siege.

Originally Posted by BLeeP

I thought that was shit in space?

Both are equally true.

[Talanvor]

Originally Posted by cp#

LoL smashes viewership records

I thought LoL does some sneaky stuff with stream views, like the client automatically connects to a stream while queuing for a game.

[Lekon]

Voltdisney's crotch is smiling at us.

[BLeeP]

Originally Posted by Lekon

Voltdisney's crotch is smiling at us.

Can you blame it?

[KamaItachi]

It's the happiest place on Earth.

[Kielaran]

- Hero Academy will be getting a new Shaolin faction in a November update.

Awesome. I was wondering when they would release another faction.

[Spigot]

Originally Posted by Kielaran

Awesome. I was wondering when they would release another faction.

I was just about to say the same thing. Now if they can fix the hiccups that they seem to be having with the servers of late...

[Kielaran]

Originally Posted by Spigot

I was just about to say the same thing. Now if they can fix the hiccups that they seem to be having with the servers of late...

I've been slacking with my games because of Blood Brothers so I haven't noticed the issues.

[Spigot]

Originally Posted by Kielaran

I've been slacking with my games because of Blood Brothers so I haven't noticed the issues.

It has just been a few times over the last couple of days, but I've had instances where the servers were just down. It doesn't say so right away, at least not on Steam, but if you try to log in via iOS it would say there were server issues being worked on.

It's annoying on Steam because it acts like you've input the wrong password even when it is correct and doesn't just say, 'Sorry, our servers are down at the moment'.

I'm not concerned overall. It has happened before from time to time but it was the frequency that I'd get these login errors over the past couple of days that worried me.