Jeff Gerstmann is let go.

Vivendi (who owns Blizzard) and Activision get married.

Damn.

But then, outside in other parts of life, beyond the pixels and microswitches and compressed audio, this.

If anyone you knew was a victim, my condolences. Sometimes you wonder what could have been done, and then realize it doesn't matter because someone somewhere is going to forget. And then it happens again.