Team Meat Spun Right Round

"It's fine, trust me. I've done this stuff for a while now." Famous last words.

Team Meat, developers of Super Meat Boy, had a bit of an issue this past week when their Super Meat World database was compromised. This resulted in the game being broken, and all user created levels being deleted.

They were notified by a person in this thread on Twitter that access to their database was wide open, but the responses from the official Meat Boy account seemed to be a bit of a brush off in the eyes of some watching the drama unfold. Before you could say "This is going to go horribly wrong", it all went horribly wrong and login details were posted across various forums.

The post it notes summary of events can be found here; a thread on the official forums lies this way and if you'd rather take in the full horror of an entire game being put through the wood chipper then check out this blow by blow account. The game is now back up and running, but we have what may be the final game developer of 2011 to join the "Whoops, we were hacked" company of Sony, Square Enix, Steam, Nintendo, SEGA, Bethesda, EA, Codemasters, Epic and others.

Let's see if the trend continues in 2012, assuming the Mayans don't get us all first...

Christopher Boyd