After losing $1 million last year, publisher was left with $3,000 cash, $2.87 million in debt, and no credit; only seven developers on staff.

It may not come as a surprise to read that Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is now officially 2009's most pirated game. What is a surprise however is the sheer number of illegal downloads that the game's suffered. According to news read over on DownloadSquad, the PC version of the outrageously popular shooter has been grabbed over 4.1 million times since it launched six weeks ago. To put this into perspective, back in the early days of BitTorrent, a large games group shifted 300,000 copies of Doom 3 during its opening weekend. TorrentFreak go as far to say that download figures in 2009 are double those of 2008 -- mirroring the growth of uTorrent (which now has 52 million users!)