Shacknews Campaign, Dallas, TX--A long-time video game journalist was convicted last week of being an easy, gullible target, a weakness that left the helpless man humbled and humiliated by his peers.

In what is likely the opening shot of a terrible war, Christopher Faylor, an editor at Shacknews.com, found himself on the receiving end of an elaborate prank perpetrated by fellow colleague Nick Breckon and Shacknews community member Abigail Sponge.

The hoax involved an arrangement for a fictional interview with famed gaming icon Peter Molyneux, initiated during the recent Game Developers Conference. As the phone call became increasingly perverse, the unknowing victim hastily scrambled to appease his faux future interviewee.

The result was captured on a rudimentary recorder, set to accompanying video, and posted directly to the Shacknews website for universal appreciation. Also attached was an afterword by the co-conspirator Sponge.

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And now, a message from the desk of Abigail Sponge:

My dear friends, I have kindly been permitted to write a short afterword on the video you are about to see. You know me to be a kind and virtuous woman from our many poignant Team Fortress 2 moments, and will no doubt be shocked and appalled by the contents of this video. I believed this to be an artistic venture... Read more