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….

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Activision’s highly anticipated Modern Warfare 2 can already be found on a multitude of internet torrent sites (so I’ve been told), but the quick work of Dallas based IPCybercrime (hired by Activision) helped move one cyber-thief out of his spacious gadget filled hacker pad into something a little more “cozy”.

Xbox 360 piracy is already a problem. (From the view of the developers, anyway) So when Datel announces a memory card for the Xbox 360 with an SDHC/microSD card slot that you can use to backup game saves and “anything else on the Xbox” (up to 16GB worth), you know that they’re not really going [...]

Mere days after Gears of War 2 began popping up on various torrent sites there has been an arrest made in the case. Rodney Gray, 43, is a security guard employed by Technicolor, the Memphis Tennessee company that packages and distributes games and DVD’s in the U.S. According to a Memphis Police Department affidavit, Gray stole [...]

Vault 101 just got plundered. The eagerly anticipated Fallout 3 is nearly upon us, yet a full three weeks before its release rapacious pig-fuckers cracked the game and offered it via various torrent sites. This is the third AAA title that has been hacked and cracked in as many months, leaving publishers frothing at the [...]

Today in WTF! news, Gears of War 2 is announced as having gone gold (which means the game has been finalized), and just a few hours after that, the game surfaces in the hand of a mysterious figure on the popular Neogaf gaming forum. Coincidence? Bullshit? It doesn’t matter. What matters is that every time [...]

Eat lead, you dirty pirates! Fallout 3, one of the most highly anticipated titles for Xbox 360 and PS3, is already available for illegal download. It seems that PC games are not the only ones to fall prey to the digital cutlasses of piracy. With only three weeks until the game’s official release (Oct. 28), [...]

Alright, the Devil may not be crying, but Capcom sure is. Capcom, which has produced the emo-kid wunderkind Devil May Cry series, is currently trying to repel all brigands and cutthroats as their most recent installment in the series is getting pirated. Christian Svensson, Capcom’s senior director of strategic planning and research posted on the [...]

After the disappointing sales of PC-exclusive FPS Crysis, Crytek president Cevat Yerli has said that his company will no longer make titles exclusive to the PC platform. The main reason? Piracy.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been noticing quite a few themes that have been making their way through the industry. Throughout last week at GDC, many of these took center stage in a variety of forms. Today, we examine the state of PC Gaming. Every year a multitude of publications come out proclaiming “PC [...]

Who can forget that classic title, “Pow”? The claim that 90% of DS software in America is pirated may well have been a load of bunk, but there’s no doubt that piracy is a major problem for publishers and developers. So what to do? Well, it seems like they had the answer pretty much sorted [...]

The Caribbean state of Antigua and Barbuda now has permission to effectively ignore U.S. copyright covering items such as films, television music and games after a legal battle lasting nearly five years.