Legit Game Buyers Penalised – Pirates Uneffected. (UPDATED)
Just a little while back we wrote about moronic game developer Ubisoft’s new ‘anti-piracy’ policies that were doomed to failure, but even we didn’t think it would be less than 5 days before we get a shining example of just why its so stupid.
Ubisoft themselves gave us a perfect example of why it’s sometimes better [...]
Unfair and Moronic Game Maker Bit*h Slapped
This story actually made us quite happy as we were/are some of the people who protested and decided to boycott Ubisoft because of their moronic “anti-piracy” policies of disabling “offline mode” in the games and other restrictive DRM bullsh*t.
This story is pretty much all over the net, so we’ll just cherrypick a few of the [...]
Indies Rally To Put Copyfight On The Edge ;)
The story of Tim Langdell’s relentless and darkly fascinating trademark fight against any and all users of the name ‘Edge’ has been quietly storming under the surface for the better part of this year.
In a nutshell: Langdell’s Edge Games, a UK-based publisher in the earliest days of home computer games, has tirelessly struggled to maintain [...]
Microsoft Comes Down Hard On Modded Xbox Owners
Thousands of gamers may have been cut off from Microsoft’s online gaming service Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games.
Online reports suggest that as many as 600,000 gamers may have been affected.
Microsoft confirmed that it had banned a “small percentage” of the 20 million Xbox Live users worldwide.
Microsoft said that modifying an [...]
Game Creators Thinking Out Of The Box
Torrent freak / Ernesto has highlighted a yet another game developer who is thinking ‘out of the box’ and embracing the “torrent part” of being online.
RedLynx recognizes that internet piracy in one form or another is here to stay, and since torrenting is right now the most popular, they decided to move and work [...]
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