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Nintendo "Piracy" Store: Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Well, that was quick. Real quick.


April 12, 2010
In Real Life

Take That, Nintendo!

Forget Osaka’s shady R4 cartridge retailers, the city has one shop that openly advertising the device. And thus, rubbing it in Nintendo’s face in the process.


April 10, 2010
News

A Japanese Game With Goddesses About… The Game Industry?

A video game about the game industry? That could be pretty boring. Inside baseball. Zzzzzz. It would need something to sexy it up!


March 11, 2010
News

Nintendo Australia Continues Piracy Crackdown

Kotaku AU

Nintendo’s Australian crusade against videogame piracy in all its forms continued this week as Australian Customs for the first time seized “game copiers and other counterfeit products” being imported into the country.


February 18, 2010
News

Nintendo Australia Goes To Court Again, This Time Over DS Piracy

Nintendo has won its second legal victory of the month in Australia, with a seller of R4 flash cartridges in the country ordered to pay the Japanese company over AUD$500,000 in fines.


January 18, 2010
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Man Facing Prison Over R4 Cartridges

While we treat the ongoing battle between publishers and DS flash cartridges in Japan as an entertaining spot of cat-n-mouse, in Britain, things are a little more serious, with a man sentenced to prison for importing R4 carts.


December 9, 2009
News

R4 Vending Machine Will Be Removed From Osaka’s Den-Den Town

Earlier this summer, a vending machine selling R4 devices appeared in Osaka’s electronics district, Den-Den Town. The vending machine will be removed from the area.


November 10, 2009
News

Nintendo Thanks People For Ratting Out R4 Retailers

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.


October 17, 2009
News

R4 Sales Get Shadier And Shadier

See those signs? They read, “Majikon” — Japanese for R4. And they are pointing into a random apartment building.


October 5, 2009
News

Ready To Rat Out R4 Sellers? Nintendo Is Here To Help

Earlier this year, Nintendo announced that it and 54 software game companies were filing a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against companies that import “R4 Revolution”-type devices, using the Unfair Competition Prevention Law as the legal grounding.