Nintendo’s hitting Pokémon pirates with bans
Been playing away on your pirated copy of Pokémon Sun or Moon? Expect to face an imminent ban.
The cat-and-mouse game between pirates and Denuvo begins
Denuvo's seen its first, easy-to-employ crack. Is it the end for the industry's gold standard in video game copy protection?
One dev urged gamers to pirate his game instead of making use of “shady resellers”
Lex Dercauw, Action Henk dev and co-founder of RageSquid, would rather have people pirate his game than make use of resellers such as G2A.com. An extreme, but understandable resolution when consider TinyBuild lost almost $450,000 to resale's on G2A.com.
The biggest PC piracy group around is going on hiatus for a year
Massive video game cracking group 3DM is throwing in the towel on pirating video games. Presumably while waving a fist angrily at Denuovo.
Did piracy hurt THE HATEFUL EIGHT?
The Hateful Eight opens locally in little over two weeks, but I’m still not sure if I’m going to watch it. There was a time when a Quentin Tarantino movie was an automatic reason to rush to the big movie house. But I’m not sold on this new film’s concept: a single room thriller with lots of talking. That sounds …
Sorry pirates, but it may be a while before you get to play Metal Gear Solid V
Metal Gear Solid V is out today - even on PC, two weeks ahead of its original launch. Of course, that means some people will want to pirate it - but they may be waiting quite some time for a crack.
Blame licensing issues for the lack of Rock Band 4 on PC
It’s not because of piracy that there’ll be no Rock Band 4 on PC. It’s because of licensing issues.
Cure for massive downloads: Piracy vs Retail
Games are getting bigger and the internet can't keep up. But do the usual cures for digital distribution even work anymore?
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