Tag Archives: piracy

'The promo bay far exceeded what our sales cycle would have been if we just went on as normal,' says Sean Hogan

Those found to be playing Gears of Wars: Judgement early can expect a swift can of whoop-ass courtesy of Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft. It emerged last night that an unfinished (but mostly fully-featured) version of the game – which is not due for release until March 22nd – is …

Yes, you read the headline correctly – The Pirate Bay has threatened to sue a rival website over an alleged case of copyright infringement. TorrentFreak reports that Finnish anti-piracy group the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) launched a website designed to mimic TPB’s user interface to build a service …

Illegal file-sharing 'inevitable', so small developers should embrace it, says Sean Hogan

New hacks surface, while Hunted Cow shuts down its pirated game after one week

Having held out for the best part of two years, Nintendo’s 3DS seems to have sadly succumbed to pirates. With both the Wii and DS suffering intense levels of piracy, Nintendo put a lot of effort into securing its latest hardware. And it had been very successful, until now. Gamasutra …

Dementium maker says pirates crippled the DS market

Shooter sells 130,000 copies despite 'staggering' amount of illegal file sharing

Nintendo’s Wii U hasn’t even been out for two weeks in the UK and hackers are already enjoying early success in cracking the console. A renowned hacking site reports that the Wii’s Homebrew Channel is already up and running on Wii U. It doesn’t run in the Wii U’s UI …

YoYo Games patches tool to remove 'destructive' security measures affecting legitimate users