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TV Family Enjoys A Spot Of DS Homebrew?
1:00AM Luke Plunkett | Nintendo love to scour the dirtiest, most distant corners of the globe for people pirating their DS software. But do they ever check their TV sets? More »
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Homeland Security Seizes Fake Frogger, Donkey Kong Machines
11:00AM Stephen Totilo | In a change of pace from the many stories we run about games being downloaded illegally, here’s news of a seizure of 168 coin-op machines that played some very old games. More »
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Nintendo Thanks People For Ratting Out R4 Retailers
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Kyoto-based game company Nintendo created an anonymous form for collecting information about the sale of R4 cartridges in Japan. This information will be used by Nintendo in its legal suit. More »
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Trials Dev Pirated Its Own Game To Drive Interest
2:40PM Owen Good | RedLynx, the developer of the well received downloadable title Trials, said that it seeded pirate torrent sites with neutered copies of the game in order to stoke interest in the title. More »
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To Catch A Modern Warfare 2 Cyber-Thief
5:20AM Mike Fahey | Modern Warfare 2 is already making an appearance at torrent sites all over the internet, but it could have been worse. Dean Takahashi reports on how IPCybercrime stopped one pirate from making his big score. More »
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Major Nelson Weighs In On 360 Console Bans
5:20AM Mike Fahey | Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb discusses the recent string of Xbox Live piracy console bannings, delivering an important caveat to those purchasing used machines in the process. More »
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Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer On Pirates
4:30PM Owen Good | “A small percentage” of Xbox Live users with modded consoles that allowed pirated games to play woke up to find an early treat in their Halloween bag: a banhammer. More »
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iPhone Game Piracy Rates Suck Too
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | The developers of iPhone beat ‘em up Tap Fu have taken a look at the piracy percentages on their recently released game and, man, are they a black belt calibre kick in the balls. More »
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Don’t Expect More PixelJunk PSP Ports Just Yet
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Kyoto-based developer Q-Games has brought its home console PSN PixelJunk experience to the PSP with PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe. It’s a first for the company, and perhaps, a last. More »
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