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Machinarium Developers Offer “Amnesty” to Pirates With $5 Sale

UPDATE: Amanita Design has just extended the cutoff date for the sale to August 16th. So just in case you “forgot” to buy it before, now you have a few more days to fix that problem. —- They’ve been arou...
by Rob Rich
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Wishing I Were Fluent In Simlish: My Personal DRM Woes

(You may recall a story we posted a couple of months ago concerning the DRM in EA’s Command & Conquer 4, where a constant internet connection is required in order to play the game. In what will likely become a regular seg...
by Scott Thompson
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Humble Indie Bundle: We’re Very Disappointed In You…

After some digging, Jeff Rosen (Wolfire Games’ founder) has discovered that roughly 25% of The Humble Indie Bundle‘s downloads have been from software pirates. Apparently some folks decided to post download links to...
by Rob Rich
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Microsoft Bans 1 Million Alleged Pirates from Xbox Live

The Big M swung the banhammer fast and hard earlier this week, leaving as many as 1 million modded consoles without Xbox Live access, reports Information Week. It should be noted that this action comes on the heels of the relea...
by Sage Knox
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Private Investigators Help Police Track Down MW2 Pirate

There’s an old saying in marketing that goes: “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” That may or may not be true, but I suspect Activision and Infinity Ward have had their fingers crossed lately tha...
by Steve Chowen
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“Don’t Copy That Floppy” Returns for the Modern Age

Torrents and Pirates and…Klingons? Oh my? But wait just a moment – we’re getting ahead of ourselves. If you’re not already familiar with the Software Publishers Association’s 1992 video warning aga...
by Rob Thomas
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Starcraft II to Lack LAN Support

In an attempt to clear up the rumors following the developer interview at Incgamers, Blizzard announced yesterday that StarCraft II will indeed lack LAN support. Bob Colayco of Blizzard had this to say: “We don’t cu...
by Scott Thompson
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The Sims 3 Shifts 1.4 Million at Retail in First Week

Piracy be damned! Despite leaking onto torrent sites a week plus before its launch date, with illegal downloads topping 180,000 before you could even lay hands on a legit copy of the game, The Sims 3 has steamrolled through ret...
by Rob Thomas
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GDC 2009: World of Goo Dev Tells It Like It Is Regarding DRM

I think I’ve evangelized enough about World of Goo on this site. If you didn’t pick it up when it was only $5 a few weeks back, there’ simply no hope for you. Another thing that there’s no hope for is tr...
by Rob Thomas
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