Earlier this year we reported that the Entertainment Software Association of Canada was seeking to jail pirates and target mod-chips.
Today, the ESA has praised the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and York Police Service for a recent raid on retailers selling pirated software at Pacific Mall in Markham, Ontario.
To quote: After a two month investigation, authorities seized...
Just over a month ago it was reported that the Pirate Bay acquisition by Global Gaming Factory was starting to sink.
Today CEO Hans Pandeya of Global Gaming Factory, the company aiming to buy the Pirate Bay, has suffered yet another loss -including a luxury car, a motorcycle and a luxury boat- all to tax authorities over unpaid debt.
Update: UltimatePlayStation.com appears to be back online, and Vespene Gas/Editor & Graphics of GameTrailers stated: “Sony can't keep leaks. Spoiler: It’s Real”
The Web site this originated from (UltimatePlayStation.com) has been shut down by Sony to kill any evidence of it's existence. However, they have not taken down the YouTube video (below) yet. Enjoy!
In addition to the recent new protection being implemented on Nintendo DS games, now both eBay and Amazon have officially banned the sales of DS R4 flash carts.
As expected, Nintendo is pleased about this and has issued a brief comment as follows:
Nintendo is pleased with the co-operation it has received from both eBay and Amazon to prevent the sales of game copying...
Intel and Nvidia are entering into a new, nasty phase of competition. What's at stake? Only the future of the personal computer.
Though the Santa Clara, Calif. neighbors (only a couple of miles from each other) have never really been on speaking terms, the rivalry is intensifying with the emergence of the Netbook- small, lightweight laptops priced below $500.
Tut, tut. Walton Street market in Hull is the location of the latest raid by Trading Standards to show up a huge quantity of pirated DS games destined for sale to the public.
The haul was massive, turning up discs ELSPA forensic experts have apparently never seen before in the UK. Some 85,000 discs, marked 'Volume 9 DS Games', were seized in total and, it transpired, each...
Sony's victory in the high-definition format war is a badly needed win for the Japanese electronics giant, after a series of humiliating failures that have left control of the music market with Apple. The question that Sony has yet to answer, however, is whether the price paid to see off Toshiba - at least $3 billion (£1.54 billion) - was worth it.
Company says Brazil has "extraordinarily high taxes."
According manufacturer of games, practice has generated losses of $ 975 million.
The North American unit of Japanese manufacturer of videogames Nintendo announced this Thursday (14) who asked the Office of the United States Trade Representative to encourage some governments of the world to take more aggressive...