piracy
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Games Retail Is Broken. Can Anything Be Done?
26On one side, you’ve got publishers complaining about second-hand sales and the cost of making the AAA titles that the majority of game buyers slurp up in their millions. On the other, gamers unhappy about the inability to resell games that they feel they “own”, although that’s quickly becoming a rather vague concept. Change is…
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Police Blotter: His Face Fought The Law And The Law Won
Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them — sometimes comically stupid but potentially tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime.
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US Ambassador: Stop Pirating Game Of Thrones, Australia!
Jeffrey Bleich, the US Ambassador to Australia, has sent out warning. It’s a matter of foreign policy. Serious stuff! Bleich doesn’t want Australians to pirate Game of Thrones.
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Bootleggers Explain Why There’s So Much Video Game Piracy In China
Piracy is a huge issue in China. Enterprising lawbreakers have loads of ways to make money off piracy, one of which is selling pirated DVDs of movies or games. So it always surprises me when I talk to purveyors of pirated video game hardware and software who tell me that they, the pirates, want to…