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Mikael Hed, head of Rovio, the company behind casual gaming phenomenon Angry Birds isn’t too worried about piracy. In fact, he believes it’s a great way of getting new fans - who might be more inclined to pay the next time round."We could learn a lot from the music industry, and the rather terrible ways the music industry has tried to combat piracy," he explained at the Midem conference in Cannes, as reported by Guardian. ... [»]
Its safe to say that no one likes Digital Rights Management. A system wherein publishers can protect their properties, DRM is a rather intrusive and irritating method to combat piracy, and it’s here to stay unfortunately.
But that’s fine, we can live with those gripes and complaints, as long as we get to play our favourite games. And we want those games ... [»]
Minecraft, the indie game that’s essentially a digital version of LEGO got an actual release last year, and has been racking up all manner of accolades. While the video game industry in general is doing all it can to stop piracy, the game’s creator, Markus “Notch” Persson seems to have a different attitude.In response to a gamer asking for a free Minecraft account on Twitter, Persson replied with a casual “"just pirate it." ... [»]
It’s no secret that this site is not fond of video game pirates, especially when their actions harm and jeopardise the video game industry.
CD Projekt Red, the development studio behind the smash PC hit game The Witcher 2, has been seen as one of the real heroes in the industry, regarding piracy and how it affected their product personally. The studio has abandoned any form of draconian ... [»]
We at Lazygamer have made our stance on piracy quite well known; we detest and abhor the theft (and it is theft!) of software. We understand the need for IP holder to protect their rights. That said, there’s no way in hell we can support the controversially vague Stop Online Piracy Act and its evil little cousin the Protect IP act. In case you’re unaware, SOPA and PIPA are currently trying to work their way in to US legislature, and could very well end up changing the face of the internet as ... [»]
Unbelievably 2011 is now far behind us and 2012 stretches out in front of us and promises to be one of the best years of gaming we’ve ever had.
However 2011 is going to be a hard year to beat with some incredible titles released but while Skyrim may have taken most ... [»]
And the legal loonies are back in town, yes the fine feathered lawyers at Viacom International have lost the plot entirely and have issued take down notices to YouTube for pretty much any video that was shown at the Spike VGA’s.
Including, amazingly… the official trailer for the heavily hyped The Last ... [»]
Serious Sam3 is one of those games that makes me wish that I had a high-end PC for, something to while away the hours while blasting legions of headless suicide bombers in glorious HD visuals.
For those players who have such hardware, the game is a must. Unfortunately, paying for it and rewarding the developers for all their hard work is another issue entirely. ... [»]
Last year, it became legal for people to Jailbreak their smartphones to run homebrew software and other apps that Apple’s too afraid to approve. The problem with Jailbreaking is that it enables all sorts of nefarious things, like piracy. The same group that successfully lobbied to have smartphone Jailbreaking exempt from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is trying to do the same for consoles ... [»]
The Witcher 2, while currently a PC exclusive title with an Xbox port on the way, has been a marvellous success for developer CD Projekt. It’s sold millions of copies, and would have been an even bigger success if it weren’t for software pirates, who buccaneered the game into incredibly high numbers of illegal downloads.
And despite all this, the studio refused to implement any draconian DRM onto their title, standing firm behind a policy ... [»]
One of the coolest “features” inherent in buying PSN games is that you could, using Sony’s lax rules on account sharing, share the games you’ve purchased with 4 other activated consoles.. It’s a bit grey, because although it’s intended to allow you to share your purchased content amongst your own consoles, it’s been abused by people to share downloadable games with friends.
Well, that’s changed.Sony has implemented a new policy regarding the number of consoles content ... [»]
So you’ve just picked up a shining new copy of Generic Space Shooter Cosmic Combat 3, and you’re off home to play it. Of course day one sales also mean that the pirates will soon be torrenting several kinds of binary code out of the game, ready to be downloaded by all those unscrupulous gamers out there.
But when a game is leaked ... [»]
Valve’s Gabe Newell speaking to Geekwire has said that contrary to what publishers and developers believe, that Piracy stems not from people’s unwillingness to pay money - but rather because it’s convenient. Because of that, great service is key to curbing piracy - not draconian DRM systems."One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's ... [»]
Piracy hit the Nintendo DS pretty hard. Thanks to the R4 flash cart and the wave of others that followed, it’s actually ridiculously easy to run pirated games on Nintendo’s dual-screened handheld. Those same flashcarts can actually run on Nintendo’s new 3DS - but only for playing illicitly backed-up copies of DS games. That could change, if there’s any truth to claims by a group called "Crown3DS,” who say they’ve made headway in running 3DS roms.As it stands right now ... [»]
Sony’s conceded that Microsoft has a bigger slice of the hardware sales pie, with 1.6 Xbox 360’s sold in the US for every single PS3. You’d expect that sort of ratio to stick around when it comes to video games sales - but it doesn’t which Sony’s only to happy to boast about.“If you look at the index ratio ... [»]
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