| | More people are buying Playstation games over Xbox ones | 
Geoffrey Tim - September 8th, 2011 | 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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| Microsoft unleashes the Xbox Live Banhammer again | 
Geoffrey Tim - September 7th, 2011 | Numerous reports are coming in of widespread Xbox Live bans again, but it’s not the usual “modded console†banwave that makes affected consoles unable to connect to Microsoft’s network. Instead, users are being banned for “Marketplace theft.†The problem, this time, is that many claim they’ve done no wrong.Affected users have been notified via email that they’ve been issued permanent bans - dated to lift on 12/31/9999 - for stealing ... [»] | 
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| Like playing leaked games? Then you’re ruining the experience for all of us | 
Darryn Bonthuys - August 3rd, 2011 | Video Game piracy is always going to be around, like a cockroach on a diet of steroids and Schwarzenegger blood, no matter what methods industry houses use to curb it. While most pirates are happy to rip off the hard work of developers and download a cracked version of their favourite game, play it finished and then moan about the flaws, other digital buccaneers are so desperate to play an upcoming game that they’ll ... [»] |
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| Team Meat doesn’t care about piracy | 
Geoffrey Tim - July 19th, 2011 | Piracy is a huge problem in the video game industry; even the good games, that people rightly should buy end up getting copied, downloaded and shared. It’s a tricky thing, because while it obviously leads to loss of income for the developers it’s not quite as simple as saying it’s a lost sale for every pirated copy. Piracy (and to the same extent, second-hand sales) can have even have a ... [»] |
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| The 3DS hacked already? | 
Geoffrey Tim - February 28th, 2011 | Nintendo’s 3DS saw a Nipponese release this weekend – and the buzz is more than just a little positive. Their previous handheld, the DS, suffered terribly at the hands of pirates, being probably the single easiest device with which to pirate the whole generation. Nintendo are confident that’s not going to be repeated with their new 3D-enabled handheld. It seems ... [»] |
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| Community News: A progressive stance on piracy | 
tdomf_c16f9 - February 18th, 2011 | Hey Lazygamer,I found this post on Kotaku, which itself links to the full article, and I thought it would be a great source of debate for the site.I have not been a pirate for many years, in fact not since I was in my teens. At that time it was out ... [»] |
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| Over 50% of all piracy comes from 5 nations (not us) | 
Gavin Mannion - February 16th, 2011 | The ESA has released its list of the problem countries when it comes to piracy and thankfully we are not on it, which could be simply because we have a smaller gaming population than any of the others; but either way we’re not on it.There are some usual suspects such as ... [»] |
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| PC gaming doesn’t deserve people like Cevat Yerli | 
Miklós Szecsei - February 15th, 2011 | Yesterday, Geoff posted a story about Crytek’s upcoming shooter Crysis 2 being leaked online. The PC version is out there and playable from beginning to end. It’s depressing as hell. Pirates are bastard thieves and legitimate PC gamers suffer alongside the developers and programmers who have poured thousands of hours into ... [»] |
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| Killzone 3 leaked onto torrent sites | 
Miklós Szecsei - February 14th, 2011 | Guerrilla Games’ upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive has been leaked onto torrent sites for filthy pirates to steal. This comes mere days after the PC version of Crysis 2 suffered the same fate. Killzone 3 was set to release locally on 23 February, but those with a big enough cap limit to handle the 41gig ... [»] | 
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| Crysis 2 Leaked Online | 
Geoffrey Tim - February 14th, 2011 | It’s more than a month until the game hits stores, but Crytek’s anticipated sci-fi shooter, but already Crysis 2 is available for illicit download from the internet’s seedy underbelly.The leaked version of the game is beta, but playable from start to finish, and contains multiplayer – along with the master keys used to unlock the game’s copy protection. Naturally, the developers are disappointed.“Crytek has been alerted that an early incomplete, unfinished build of ... [»] |
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| Nintendo : “Heyday of Piracy” coming to an end | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 27th, 2011 | There's no denying that Nintendo's DS ( and its subsequent revision) got pretty hammered by software piracy. Thanks to the R4 and its successors, the DS was probably the single system this generation that's been most hacked. Sure, those cards also allow for some pretty sweet homebrew applications and added features the DS was sorely missing - but mostly they're just used to get games for free.According ... [»] | 
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| PS3 Cracked Open, Root Key Made Public | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 6th, 2011 | One of the bigger gaming news stories this year so far is that George Hotz (or Geohot to the internet at large) , the justifiably ego-driven hacker du jour found, and released the PS3’s root keys. What’s are these root keys, you ask? It’s a set of largely incomprehensible numbers that Sony uses to digitally ... [»] |
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| Google takes aim at online piracy | 
Miklós Szecsei - December 6th, 2010 | It’s really more like they’re taking a company stance against piracy than instigating an elaborate anti-piracy system. Responding from pressure from the media industry, Google will begin blocking words in their auto-complete system that are usually associated with piracy of music and videogames. Words, according to CVG, like “R4†and “torrentâ€, ... [»] |
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| Ubisoft’s BZZZZZ Unique BZZZZ Anti BZZZZZ Piracy BZZZ BBZZZZZ Measure | 
Geoffrey Tim - December 3rd, 2010 | Sticky-fingered pirates who download Michael Jackson: The Experience for their Nintendo’s DS’ are in for an unpleasant surprise.Ubisoft has included what has to be one of the coolest, noisiest anti-piracy measures I’ve ever come across. Firstly, the prompts that tell you what you’re supposed to do are completely missing – making the game pretty much impossible to play. That’s not the best part though; those of you ... [»] |
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