Crytek's soon to be released, highly anticipated shooter gets leaked online.

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 …

Not going to make Konami happy at all. In fact, if you really care about gaming and the industry, it shouldn’t make you happy either. It was only a matter of time until the PlayStation 3 was hacked wide open. Now thanks to GeoHot that time has come, and the inevitable flood of pirated games will be just around the …

  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 sign licenced software for …

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 “torrent”, both of which have ramifications for the online piracy …

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 …

CD Projeckt’s The Witcher was a pretty damned good single-player RPG (and it had boobs!). The sequel, due soon, is being shipped without any forms of overtly draconian DRM (if purchased from GoG.com) – and being a single player game it’s especially prone to being pirated. You might not want to add this one to your list of torrents when …

Long awaited sequel StarCraft II has gone on to become the fastest selling RTS of all time, but it’s just garnered another accolade – It’s now one of the most pirated games in the multiverse. According to TorrentFreak, which keeps this sort of information, StarCraft II has been downloaded an insane 2.3 million times. While not every single one of …