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Nintendo Gave Switch Pirates A Chance To Walk Away But They Apparently Refused
2.7.2024
The Switch may be at the end of its life, but Nintendo is still on the hunt for the platform’s biggest pirates. In a pair of new lawsuits, the console manufacture has taken aim at both mod chip sellers as well as the moderator of the popular r/SwitchPiracy subreddit. Read more
Nintendo Goes After 8,535 Switch Emulator Backups In Mass Takedown
2.5.2024
Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the Microsoft-owned platform Github. Over 8,000 repositories were removed as the Zelda publisher seemingly...
FF7 Rebirth: What To Do With Pirate’s Jetsam (And Where To Find It)
12.3.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth sure is a massive RPG, with tons of side activities to do, places to explore, and gear to find. And the world’s ocean opens up to players in Chapter 12, granting the party a new vessel to freely traverse the waters between FF7’s two main continents. Read more
SBINFT’s Jangdeok Ko Links the Surge in NFT Piracy to the Ease of Token Minting
25.2.2024
Since Japan designated Web3 as a “national strategy,” an increasing number of traditional companies in the country have either merged or are contemplating integrating their businesses with Web3, Jangdeok Ko, the CEO of the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace SBINFT, has said....
Skull And Bones Is Less The Pirate Life And More The Division
9.2.2024
After all the delays, trailers, and start-and-stop hype cycles, Ubisoft’s highly(?) anticipated pirate simSkull and Bones is in beta. The game was meant to release in 2018, then 2019, but at least now there’s an open beta and your progress will carry over into Skull and Bones when it launches...
German Police Seize $2.1B Worth of Bitcoin in Piracy Sting
30.1.2024
Police in Germany have provisionally seized 50,000 bitcoin worth $2.17 billion in what it is calling its largest seizure to date
Capcom: PC Game Mods Are ‘No Different’ Than Cheating
31.10.2023
For as long as PC games have been around, people have been modding them. And while players love being able to modify their games, adding new features or fixes, recent comments reveal that Capcom isn’t totally on board with such digital shenanigans, with the publisher suggesting that all PC game...
Flowers Tell Mario ‘F*** You’ In Modded Super Mario Bros. Wonder Leaks
17.10.2023
Another big Nintendo Switch exclusive has leaked way ahead of schedule. With early copies of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the handheld hybrid console’s big holiday 2023 release, already making the rounds online, modders have taken it upon themselves to make the new talking Talking Flowers in the game...
Starfield’s Most Popular Mod Sparks Paywall Controversy, Immediately Gets Pirated
5.9.2023
Starfield’s upscaling controversy on PC continues. The person responsible for the open-world sci-fi RPG’s most popular mod offering DLSS2 support has now created one for DLSS3 as well. It’s locked behind a Patreon paywall though, angering some in the mod community and leading a few to circumvent...
Starfield’s Most Popular Mod Sparks Paywall Controversy, Immediately Gets Pirated
5.9.2023
Starfield’s upscaling controversy on PC continues. The person responsible for the open-world sci-fi RPG’s most popular mod offering DLSS2 support has now created one for DLSS3 as well. It’s locked behind a Patreon paywall though, angering some in the mod community and leading a few to circumvent...
Despite Nintendo And Valve, Emulator Dev Isn't Worried About Legal Danger
20.7.2023
While Nintendo loves a lawsuit and emulation is often a contentious issue for publishers, few situations have been quite as high-profile as the recent attempt to launch GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin on Steam. The 20-year-old emu engine has long been available online, but this attempt to become...
Nintendo Switch Piracy Subreddit Banned After Giant Tears Of The Kingdom Leak
16.6.2023
The Nintendo Switch piracy subreddit r/newyuzupiracy managed to fly under the radar for years. However, on June 13, three years after it was originally created, Reddit banned the forum after it blew up in the wake of the massive pre-release leak of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.Read more
Nintendo Asks Valve To Kick GameCube And Wii Emulator Off Steam, Says It's Protecting Its Creativity And Work
28.5.2023
Valve removed the Steam listing for Dolphin, a popular emulator for the GameCube and Wii, after it received a cease and desist from Nintendo, developers behind the project claim. The company behind Mario and Zelda accuses the emulator of illegally circumventing its protections, and says it’s merely...
Nintendo Seemingly Goes After Switch Emulation Following Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Leak
8.5.2023
When The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom began leaking online, Nintendo initially fought back with standard copyright takedowns of screenshots, video streams, and entire Discord servers hosting links to pirated versions of the game. Now it appears to be ramping up the offensive, going after...
Microsoft Escalates War Against PlayStation, Nintendo Emulation On Xbox Series X/S
6.4.2023
Microsoft shut down classic game emulation on the Xbox Series X/S on April 6 and a small but passionate community of retro enthusiasts, preservationists, and homebrew devs are up in arms. They’re calling on the console maker to reverse course and make legal emulation easy again, even if it means...
Oops: Gotham Knights Briefly Ditched Its Anti-Piracy Protection
28.10.2022
Gotham Knights got its first significant post-launch patch on PC yesterday. The update was aimed at fixing online multiplayer errors and squashing some bugs. Unfortunately, it also temporarily squashed the Batman game’s Denuvo DRM protections, seemingly leaving it vulnerable to pirates. That’s...
China to Crack Down on Copyright Infringement Through NFTs
10.9.2022
Authorities in China are going after creators of digital collectibles based on other people’s works of art, the use of which was not authorized. The government offensive is part of a campaign to combat online copyright infringement and piracy with the participation of several departments....
Controversial DRM Company Takes Aim At Switch Piracy
24.8.2022
Denuvo, the company best known for its heavily-criticized PC gaming DRM technology, has set its sights on a new scourge: Nintendo Switch piracy. The software maker announced during GamesCom 2022 on Wednesday that it will begin selling a new product called Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection...
New Assassin's Creed Situation On Steam Is A Digital Nightmare
11.7.2022
When games started making the switch from physical to digital, everyone knew there were trade-offs. Digital downloads were quicker and more convenient, but also meant you didn’t entirely own the game you bought. You were just licensing it, making you subject to the whims and future solvency of...
Nintendo's Big Piracy Case Is A Very Sad Story
7.6.2022
Back in February, Gary Bowser—who in most media reports has been described as a ‘hacker’—was sentenced to 40 months in prison for his role in selling cheat and modification devices for Nintendo hardware. Being a court case, most of the reporting dealt only with names on a page and cold facts, but...