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Dutch film director believes Capcom stole his monster design for Resident Evil: Village

By Brad Lang
May 11, 2021
in :  Gaming
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While the actual design of the creature isn’t especially complicated, I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a little too similar.

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A hacker is demanding a $100 million ransom for the stolen Xbox Series X graphics source code

By Darryn Bonthuys
March 27, 2020
in :  Gaming
1

Forget about diamonds, gold bullion or rare art: This year’s go-to material for pilfering in an elaborate heist isn’t even tangible. Computer code is the precious resource that commands a high premium, and any sticky-fingered thief with ears built for safecracking could find themselveson the receiving end of a very generous payday should they succeed in absconding with the rarest of treasures.

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Fed up with art theft T-shirt bots, artists have come up with an ingenious way to fight back

By Darryn Bonthuys
December 5, 2019
in :  Technology
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With new technology comes new ways to steal, and Twitter happens to be crawling with bots programmed to pick up on complimentary tweets and grab the material that has earned such praise like a maggot on rotting meat. It’ll be mere minutes before the algorithms find the art, convert it into a file and plaster all over actual T-shirts which you can buy, albeit at the expense of the artist whose livelihood depends on them not being taken advantage of like this by unscrupulous vendors.

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The great big Steam Heist – How one man walked out of Valve HQ with stolen consoles, games, and Gabe Newell’s minigun

By Darryn Bonthuys
October 9, 2019
in :  Gaming
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It was the perfect crime. Over at Valve’s Bellevue headquarters, one Shawn Shaputis had put together a plan that would enable him to break into the famed digital distribution company’s building and walk out with anything he could possibly get his hands on.

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Dutch company accuses No Man’s Sky of stealing their “superformula”

By Alessandro Barbosa
July 21, 2016
in :  Gaming
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No Man's Sky is a mathematical marvel, but a Dutch-based company claims that the formula behind it is actually theirs.

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Fallout 4 mods for Xbox One are being stolen from PC, and Bethesda isn’t happy

By Alessandro Barbosa
June 8, 2016
in :  Gaming
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Fallout 4 mods on Xbox One are being stolen from PC content creators, and Bethesda wants it to stop

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Uncharted 4 stolen from truck in a “violent assault”

By Darryn Bonthuys
April 28, 2016
in :  Gaming
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After stealing a Nintendo lorry or two, by a syndicate of thieves have set their sights on an even bigger target: Uncharted 4.

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Bethesda bosses suing Oculus for VR theft

By Geoffrey Tim
May 22, 2014
in :  Gaming, Technology
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Zenimax is doing all it can to stall the Virtual Reality revolutionl they're suing Oculus Rift's makers for misappropriatiion of trade secret.

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