Confirmed: Gears of War 2 Pirated, Up on Torrent Sites
Piracy on the Xbox 360 is reaching new extremes, as Gears of War 2, Microsoft’s big title this holiday season, has been hacked and put up on file-sharing sites. The game is still two weeks away from retail release.
In fact, I can confirm the existence of the hacked version myself, though the links have gone dead as of the time of this writing. However, it is still available on some bit torrent sites, though you will have to contend with leechers. Even then, you will have the guilty conscience of pirating a game that you should very much buy… and have to deal with modding your Xbox 360 and the possibility that you will get kicked off of Xbox Live.
If you are one of those people, go ahead and download the 6.76GB file. The full game is due out November 7.