@Olqavtoras: I bet the existing transfer method would work. Currently, you put your 'new' HDD on your X360 and then get their Transfer Cable hooked up via a USB port to your 'Old' HDD. I bet the software doesn't even have to be updated for it to work. You can get used transfer cables from Gamestop for cheap, or I…

@Dano: Amen. Perfect Dark Zero still lives in my library solely for the steelbook.

@beans01: Oh, crap, that's an AWESOME idea.

@iknowjack2.0: And love Terrorism.

@Dodheim: Perhaps, but the issue here is W&Z. I'm sure Activision thought that by firing W&Z then they'd promote from within IW and be done with it; they'd let the courts figure out whether W&Z were fired without cause and pay them. I really don't think anyone could have predicted that 40% of the studio would…

@Dodheim: I'd like you to go find me an example of a company forking over a large bonus to one or more employees that were under suspicion of bolting to another company once said bonus was given. It simply does not happen, the 'tangible' assets garnered from 'good guy' status is negligible, particularly to your…

@Dodheim: Activision should have paid $50-$100 mil when they had suspicions that these guys were gonna bolt? Really?

@Dodheim: Again, there's the obvious stuff that Activision can prove, and then there's the circumstantial evidence that may not hold up in a court of law. If Activision believed that W&Z committed 10 offenses against the company Code of Conduct, yet can only prove 1, they are still within their rights for firing…

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If there's a social networking game that comes with it, allowing you to gesture in a way mimiced by your Avatar in some kind of community space, then I can see this catching on, but at $149, they've priced themselves out of the casual market.

@TheRuiner: According to the article, his wife is the daughter of a Canadian telecom founder. Pretty sure a chunk of that money was from Daddy.

@laser beams: It's indoors, of course.

@cfive3: I see what you did there.

@Feedingfrenzy91: That's completely not true, 'bonuses' are not 'royalties.' 'Royalties' are contractually obligated funds derived from sales. 'Bonuses' are given out at the time and amount competely up to the discretion of the publisher.

@KaMai: I don't think anyone could have anticipated this kind of exodus for firing two employees. Activision paid these two a LOT of money in bonuses to the company to do MW2 in the first place, and clearly stated right after their firing that the remaining IW employees, on top of the $29m already paid, would be…

@KaMai: I don't think anyone could have anticipated this kind of exodus for firing two employees. Activision paid these two a LOT of money in bonuses to the company to do MW2 in the first place, and clearly stated right after their firing that the remaining IW employees, on top of the $29m already paid, would be…

@KaMai: There's a difference between 'bonuses' and 'royalties'. Activision is pretty consistently avoiding royalties in ANY contracts with their own employees. There are incentives that are paid out as bonuses, but those bonuses are only given to employees in good standing.

@phor11: They were already paid $29m in bonus money, with more on the way - how is that 'totally shafted?' That's more bonus money than every other Activision studio.

@Dodheim: This makes NO business sense. None at all. You have two department heads that were conspiring to rip off your company of loads of top talent. These two also left their prior company in virtually the same way.

@Feedingfrenzy91: You mean the employees that may or may not have been colluding with W&Z to leave after the bonuses were handed out?