RT is state funded, not state owned, like Voice of America.
I thought that I read that Ecuador was willing to let Assange be extradited to Sweden if Sweden made a legal guarantee to not extradite him to a third country, which they refused.
You can already spectate games while in Dota 2, and it doesn't affect the players, even with 100 or so spectators, hell you can spectate a game while looking for a match of your own, something that would be cool to have in TF2's MvM.
The article says that they have the right to the name, but cant extend the universe. Maybe they are just getting rid of competition to make room for the next Fallout.
It does look impressive, but I feel that graphics can only get so advanced before developers become more focused on other things (game play, AI, fluid animations, etc...), or at least I hope.
Crusader Kings II is by far Paradox's most polished release. And I can vouch for it that it is very fun. Unlike their other games, in this one you play as a person instead of a country per say, where you forge a powerful family and spread it over Europe, which makes it a role playing game first...