An Activision PR manager who stole nearly $30,000 from the launch budget for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's UK release and used it to finance her engagement party avoided active jail time in a sentencing hearing today, reports The Daily Mail.

Sarah Schachner is a composer and musician who has not only worked in Hollywood on movies like Expendables 2 and the upcoming Iron Man 3, she's also worked on games like Modern Warfare 3 and Far Cry 3.

Barring timed underwater escort missions, snow levels, with all their slippery ice and falling rocks (not to mention the fog), are probably the deadliest.

Over the weekend, those playing Modern Warfare 2 began to notice that one of the series' most popular multiplayer maps, Favela, had disappeared.

What's the big deal about Counter-Strike? Wasn't it just a Half-Life mod?

Long-time Call of Duty game developer Mohammad Alavi designed Call of Duty IV's famous ghillie suit level and Modern Warfare 2's notorious interactive massacre of civilians, the level called "No Russian."

Anders Behring Breivik—the man who confessed to killing 77 people last year in the worst mass murder Norway has ever seen—has been found to be legally sane by court-appointed psychiatrists, according to the Associated Press.

Note the "bored" was the words of Reddit user Travissimo, not me. I can't picture soldiers serving overseas having enough spare time to approach being bored, let alone bored enough to engage in box art cosplay. Of sorts.

A couple weeks back I ran an enjoyable feature on Duncan Harris, the video game photographer behind the website DeadEndThrills. Harris takes some of the most evocative, beautiful video game screenshots I've ever seen, and we've been sharing some of his work each week here.