Wired: Hackers Put ‘Bane’ in Shadowbane:
Comments closed‘Then we realized that somehow an insane god had taken control of our world and was out to kill us all.’
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.