Zynga Involved in App Store Idea Theft?
Zynga, the Facebook gaming giant, is known for their near carbon-copies of smaller indie developers games.
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‘GeoHot’ and Sony Finally Settle PS3 Hacking Case
Well, the saga is over, at least for now. Notorious hacker George Hotz better know by his handle “GeoHot” has reached a settlement with Sony…
Microsoft Launching New Xbox 360 Discs To Combat Piracy
Microsoft is launching a new Xbox 360 disc soon to strike a blow in their war against piracy.
Man Pirates $700k Worth of Games, Gets 2 1/2 Years
Today, Qiang Bi was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison after his software pirating operation was discovered by his employer … he now has no games.
Piracy Investigator Contacts Black Ops Pirate’s Mother As Punishment
With Call of Duty: Black Ops having already being leaked, Activision is now fighting a battle to keep the pirates and hackers at bay supposedly until the game launches with a few weeks…
3DS Hopes To Automatically Block Pirates
Nintendo President Saturo Iwata has stated that the 3Ds will automatically download firmware updates. Not only will it be convenient for owners of the device, but Nintendo hopes …
Blizzard’s Battle.net “Reduces Incentives” for Pirates, Apparently
Blizzard’s Michael Ryder believes that Battle.net has helped to reduce the incentives for illegally downloading Starcraft II. I hope he doesn’t read that article two spots down from this one.
StarCraft 2 The Most Pirated Game of 2010 So Far
According to statistics collected and analyzed by the popular torrent blog TorrentFreak, StarCraft 2 is the most pirated game of 2010 so far, with over 260,000 copies downloaded illegally…
Nintendo Warns Retailers Still Stocking R4
As Ripten previously reported, numerous retailers were still stocking the now illegal and banned R4 card for the Nintendo DS. Well Nintendo has issued a stern warning to those who were either purposefully or accidentaly defying the UK Courts wishes…
Numerous Retailers Ignoring R4 Ban in UK Stores
Despite the UK Court system announcing that any devices that allowed the playing of homebrew or pirate software on the Nintendo DS were now illegal and banned, many retailers are still stocking and actively selling the product…
InstantAction CEO: “I assure you that piracy is coming to consoles”
The CEO of web gaming site InstantAction has told attendees of the 2010 Develop Conference that the problem of game piracy is not restricted to PCs, and that consoles are definitely going to have to deal with the problem as well…
Nintendo Using Sophisticated Tech To Block Piracy On 3DS
One day I was walking to my College course and I walked past a stall in the middle of the local shopping plaza. In a tiny little box was something called an “R4 Card”, and whilst at the time it was unknown to mme what this device was, I later found out it was essentially a re-writable flash drive for Nintendo DS games….
$41.5 Billion Lost to Handheld Game Piracy. Probably. Definitely Maybe. Sort of.
According to a study by Tokyo University’s Baba Lab (and please tell me that it is named after Giant Baba) for the Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association, who you may recognize as the group that runs the Tokyo Game Show, video game piracy for handheld systems alone cost the entire gaming industry $41.5 billion dollars.
Modern Warfare 2: Most Pirated Game of 2009
Remember last year when a few million copies of Spore were pirated and everyone had a fit? Well, stand aside for 2009′s ‘winner’. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the PC has been torrented approximately 4.1 million times. Add that to the 970,000 illegal downloads for the Xbox 360 version and Infinity Ward is looking at over 5 million [...]
RedLynx Pirated Their Own Game To Ramp Interest
If you haven’t played Trials HD yet, you should really check it out. It’s a fun, compelling puzzle game with a time trial twist, but it doesn’t feel like work. Though it’s been doing rather well, the game’s developer, RedLynx, didn’t think it would sell as well, so they decided to pirate the game the [...]
