Pirates

PC

How The Piracy Debate Is Like The Emperor’s New Clothes

8:20PM April 13, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

It takes an (admittedly self-serving) quote from an online retailer to say what every other industry executive must surely be thinking, but can never dare to say out loud.


PC

This Might Be The Best Pirate Trap We’ve Ever Seen

3:30PM April 13, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Garry Newman, the creator of the Garry’s Mod mod/machinima toolkit for the PC, just sprung one of the best pirate traps in recent memory, tricking those who did not pay for his product into essentially giving themselves up. More »


News

Kiss Your Copying Software Goodbye, Japan!

8:00PM December 6, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Under current Japanese, it is illegal to upload or sell pirated games and movies. It is legal to copy for one’s own personal use. Better get all your personal copying done pronto, because that’s going to get harder. More »


News

The Next Pirates Of The Caribbean Game Will Be LEGO-ised

1:20AM November 19, 2010 | Mike Fahey

Following in the footsteps of Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean is the next film franchise to get the LEGO treatment from TT Games. More »


News

Piracy Prevents Super Street Fighter IV PC

1:40AM September 23, 2010 | Mike Fahey

In an interview with Japanese website 4gamer, Street Fighter series producer Yoshinori Ono says that a strong potential for piracy is keeping PC gamers from getting their own version of Super Street Fighter IV. More »


News

Pirates, Ninjas, Homicidal Teddy Bears

1:20AM September 9, 2010 | Mike Fahey

Pirates lay siege to the Island of Perfection in the upcoming Chapter 9 downloadable content for 505 Games’ killer plushie simulator Naughty Bear. And so the circle is complete. More »


News

Microsoft Is Ready To Ban Halo: Reach Pirates

4:00AM August 25, 2010 | Mike Fahey

As leaked copies of Halo: Reach hit the torrent sites, Microsoft tells Kotaku that they are aggressively investigating the leak and are fully prepared to hand out bans to anyone caught playing the game pre-release. More »


In Real Life

A Reformed Pirate Writes

9:00PM June 11, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Letters, we get letters. We get lots and lots of letters. Letters! It’s time to take a peek into the Kotaku mailbag. More »


News

Avast! A Monkey Island Pirate Paradise For PlayStation Home

6:30AM April 16, 2010 | Mike Fahey

LucasArts celebrates the winter release of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on the PlayStation 3 with enough virtual goods to recreate the game yourself in PlayStation Home. More »


News

Fat Princess Teases Pirates And Ninjas

6:40AM August 20, 2009 | Mike Fahey

What could possibly be missing from Titan Studios’ multiplayer online PlayStation Network game, Fat Princess? Oh yeah…those. More »