Activision: Modern Warfare 2 sells 290,000 Copies On PC, Is Pirated 4 Million Times

According to Activision, as well as a recent article by Wired Online, Activision's Cash Cow, Modern Warfare 2 sold 290,000 legitimate copies on PC and was pirated 4.1 million times. First of all, I would just like to officially state that while GAME NEBULA DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY FORM OF MEDIA PIRACY, it's nice to see that Activision's milking of the Call of Duty franchise backfired on them.

I mean 4.1 million is a big number. Imagine a room full of every person who has visited this blog so far (about 1,000). Now imagine multiplying that room by 4,000. Now imagine if Call of Duty was good again. Wait, I got a little bit off topic there, but you get the picture.

Although I highly doubt that Activision will be able to turn the series around after Modern Warfare 2, it would be nice for them to learn from their mistakes, and give future Call of Duty developers more freedom in their projects (and dedicated servers. Sweet, sweet dedicated servers).

Anyway, suck it Activision.

Games: Console Makers Fight Back Against Piracy [Wired Online]

Bro of the Month Club: Urdnot Wrex

So by now, most of us have played the first two acts of the Mass Effect Trilogy. By that standard, I think that a solid 99% of us recruited Wrex into our intergalactic crime fighting team, and for good reason. It's pretty damned hard to not like Wrex, and that's a fact.

If you killed Wrex in Mass Effect 1, you're a sadistic asshole, and I'm just going to get that out of the way first. Seriously, this guy is one of the smoothest, baddest, meanest, and ugliest characters ever imagined. He always gave the wisest, manliest advice, and when things got tough he kept a level head (unless his head was busy ramming mercenaries into walls). If you shot him, or let that god-wad bitch, Ashley shoot him, hang your head in shame.

The one time that Wrex lost his cool was when he realized that the protagonist was about to seal the fate of his entire species to extinction. AND EVEN THEN IT ONLY TAKES A FEW SENTENCES TO LOGICALLY CONVINCE HIM THAT IT'S FOR THE GREATER GOOD. See? Not just brawn, but brains too.

And finally, when you meet him again after two years, you find out that he went from being some old mercenary to THE FUCKING KING OF THE KROGAN. I'll tell you what. You name one person who has gone from zero to king of his god damned species in two years, and I'll revoke Wrex's bro status.

And there you have it: Urdnot Wrex, the official Game Nebula "Bro of the Month" for May

Burning Crusade free with World of Warcraft at Best Buy

So if there's anyone out there among the 20 or so people who have yet to dive into the World of Warcraft, and would like to, Bestbuy is giving away the Burning Crusade free with Basic WoW. This is a great chance to get into the game if you're interested in learning the ropes before Cataclysm.