From YAHOO Games
"In a press release sent out this afternoon, Sega and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that "the unthinkable has happened--Morpheus is dead." The captain of the human hovership Nebuchadnezzar, Morpheus, named after the Greek god of sleep, was played in the films and in The Matrix Online by Laurence Fishburne.
Morpheus' end apparently was the culmination of one of The Matrix Online's "live events." The typically weeklong narratives see staff at the game's developer, Monolith Productions, controlling characters to advance the story of the MMORPG.
This week's live event was appropriately called "The Hunt for Morpheus," and began with the titular character "setting off virus-encoded bombs around The Matrix MegaCity, threatening the very fabric of The Matrix," according to the release.
Understandably worried, the Machines that control the Matrix dispatched a character known as the Assassin, to whack Morpheus. "The Assassin was able to catch up by bending the rules of the Matrix," said Sega and WBIE. "In the end, Morpheus was trapped and even he could not escape the hail of bullets that ensued."
