In several recent releases, it seems that Atari published games for the Wii based on ScummVM, which was released under the GPL.

Atari contracted Majesco, who contracted a company named Mistic Software with offices in the Ukraine.

When the fact that the GPL was being violated was brought to Atari's attention, they were kind at first until it was discovered...

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Microsoft's Xbox Live is being targeted by malicious hackers selling services that kick players off the network. To quote:

The booting services are proving popular with players who want a way to get revenge on those who beat them in an Xbox Live game.

The attackers are employing data flooding tools that have been used against websites for many years.
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Comcast recently announced it was, effective Sept. 5th 2008, going to cap its residential users Internet access to 250GB per month. While that may be a substantial amount for most users, people who spend lots of time on the Internet and/or play a lot of games could run into some issues on a month to month basis.

Downloading of HD content also will instantly begin putting a toll on...

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Gaming is big business, and just like any big business, it has its fair share of courtroom proceedings. The latest big lawsuit is Konami Corp. vs. Viacom Inc.'s Harmonix studio; the former party claims Harmonix's Rock Band game violates patents.

According to Bloomberg, Konami issued patents in 2002 and 2003 that "relate to simulated musical instruments, a music-game system...

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Maker of exploding batteries, Sony has been illegally dipping its toe into Open Sauce code libraries to build a PS2 game.

Open sourcer, Alexander Strange was snuffling around the European release of the game ICO when he noticed new files SRCFILE.TXT and TRFILE.TXT and had a look at them.

In amongst the tangled code were bits of the GPL library libarc for...

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SCEA has stated on the Official Playstation boards that discussion of PSP homebrew and hacking is BANNED. SCEA state that homebrew applications void the warranty of the PSP and an official area to discuss such features can not be provided. The following topics are banned - custom firmware themes, applications, custom animation/sounds and other materials made available only through the...

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