It's not a hoax, I'm just a lazy sod who hasn't gotten round to uploading a picture of the disk's menu yet. Still, your photoshop job is.. er, uh... BADGER!!
Or even better, if you hit Alt+Print Screen, it just caps the current window. (At least, that works in Windows XP... I presume it works in some earlier version at least.)
Verge is indeed on the coverdisc of the Christmas issue of PC Format, along with thousands of other things. I had a look when I was in a newsagents today, and it's included along with Sphere, RPG Maker, and a couple of other similars, but there's no feature on it or anything.
Ben McGraw's lovingly crafted this website from scratch for years.
It's a lot prettier this go around because of Jon Wofford.
Verge-rpg.com is a member of the lunarnet irc network, and would like to take this opportunity to remind you that regardless how babies taste, it is wrong to eat them.