It’s no surprise that for every RPG out there, there is going to be a slew of users who decide to run their own private servers. MapleStory is no different, but not if AsiaSoft (one of the game’s distributors) has anything to do with it.
A 16-year old named Sean Lee who runs a private server [...]

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While many were complaining about the rather harsh DRM methods implemented to keep people from pirating Spore, somewhere near two million people were doing just that. According to download data collected from peer-to-peer downloading program BitTorrent, Spore was downloaded over 1,700,000 times this year.
Sadly for Maxis not only do the number of pirated downloads approach [...]

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Looking to buy a loved one a Nintendo handheld this holiday season? Well you better make sure it’s actually a Nintendo handheld and not a cheap knockoff like those that were seized by British officials.
It seems that a shipment of Nintendo DS imitators that were purchased from Asia, at an alarmingly discounted price, were intercepted [...]

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That’s right people, after being in development forever Spore has finally been released to the public worldwide, legally, that is.
This comes after news that an illegal version of the game had been leaked after it’s release date had been broken in Australia.
Don’t worry though, you can now head to your favorite store, be it virtual [...]

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Piracy has been blamed for just about everything: bad reviews, poor sales to even shifts in business models. Crytek has been the most vocal, blaming piracy to be the cause of lower-than-expected sales of Crysis.
However, Penumbra game writer Tom Jubert disagrees, saying that piracy can no longer be employed as he “catch-all excuse”.
To back [...]

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Epic and Crytek may not be happy about widespread piracy of computer games, but id Software sees piracy as a benefit for consumers. Studio CEO Todd Hollenshead has accused PC makers of viewing piracy as a “hidden benefit” for consumers.
“I think they are [secretly happy about PC piracy],” he said. “The size of the [...]

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