The news gets better, albeit macabre, Plague Inc, a charming and...

The news gets better, albeit macabre

, Plague Inc, a charming and wholesome game where the player assumes the role of a pathogen whose goal is to spread across the globe and bring about the end of humanity. So many users played the game - allegedly to learn more about viruses - that Ndemic Creations' server crashed in late January. The developer has since made a public statement informing its discerning players that the game is in fact a fiction and not a reliable source of education on epidemiology