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The CEO of Rovio, the company behind the mega-hit Angry Birds, says that piracy may help to generate revenue, and described the music industry's way of handling web piracy as a good example of "what not to do"

EMI's VP breaks ranks with the rest of the music industry by saying that SOPA isn't the way forward, and echoing the thoughts of Valve's Gabe Newell, says that piracy is a service issue more so than a pricing one

Xbox 720 rumours abound, including Kinect 2, Blu-ray drive, and banning second-hand games!

Ubisoft caught in new DRM controversy, as change of graphics card for the game Anno 2070 will mean using up one of only three reactivations

When Sega was asked where it stands on SOPA, the response that was given was unorthodox, to say the least

Reports suggest that major gaming companies Sony, Nintendo and EA, have all removed themselves from the list of SOPA supporting firms

DVD ripping and game console hacking could be made legal, much like how smart phone jailbreaking was made legal last year, if the US Copyright Office rules in favor of new petitions by Public Knowledge and the EFF

Sony is using a new proprietary memory format for the PS Vita, abandoning its own MemoryStick format and the widely used SD format, due to performance and, more importantly, security concerns

Ubisoft "cancels" two PC ports over piracy concerns, saying "95% of (their) consumers" are pirates, while game retailers disagree with Ubisoft's stance

Good Old Games's managing director says that DRM does more harm than good, and warned publishers to stop using it, while also revealing the full dominance of Steam in the digital game distribution market

Steam gets hacked, with 35 million user data being accessed by hackers, including (encrypted) credit card numbers

Gabe Newell explains why providing better service to gamers is better than using DRM to fight piracy, while promotes the idea that "free-to-play" games can make money

A new jailbreak device for the PS3 promises to allow pirates to play new games that are released after firmware 3.60

Sony facing troubling week as reports of another 93,000 Sony network accounts compromised in massive attack, while the company has also had to issue the recall of 1.6 million TVs due to a potential fire risk

A new anti-piracy firm has leaked and distributed copies of Dues Ex Human Revolution, modified it so that it directed gamers to an online questionnaire after the first few levels, asked them what they would pay for the game, and then offered them the game at the average price gamers were willing to pay - and many did

Early beta version of Diablo III shows the worst aspects of the "always-on" DRM Blizzard decided to use for the upcoming game, with no ability to pause the game, and the high probability of losing unsaved progress due to Blizzard's own flaky servers

Sony forces users to sign new user agreement before being allowed back on the PSN, with new terms added to make it harder for people to join in class action lawsuits against the company

A $50 price drop for the Xbox 360 in response to the PS3 price drop, but it's only in Australia ... for now

Yep, yet another rumour suggesting the Xbox 360 is about to get a Blu-ray drive add-on. Where do all these rumours come from?

The MPAA says that every pirate that stops downloading would otherwise spend $1,000 per year buying legal stuff, and that 13% of all American adults are movie/TV pirates

The founder of Avalanche Studios, Christofer Sundberg, has come out attacking "always-on" DRM, saying that there are better solutions to the PC piracy problem

Sony executive attacks Microsoft for "protecting an inferior technology", while the company tries to present a less arrogant image, and moves away from the PSN fiasco in a major rebranding effort

DRM makes games "worth less", and it's a backwards way of fighting piracy, says Valve's Gabe Newell

New PS3 pricing in the hopes of reversing a PS3 sales slump (in the United States), and also the announcement of a new PSP model

A new study says people tend to pirate good games more than bad games, but does that really tell us anything we don't really know?

UltraViolet coming via Warner's 'Horrible Bosses' and 'Green Latern', and access to the UV cloud will be done through Flixster. Also, HBO Go is coming to game consoles and other Internet connected devices

Delay for PlayStation 3DTV, but PS Vita (plus a PS3) may do what the Wii U can do, months before the Wii U is released

Diablo 3 will have an "always-on" DRM, meaning you cannot play the game if you don't have a good Internet connection

Ubisoft says Ubi DRM has helped to reduce piracy rates, but stay silent as to whether the controversial DRM scheme has helped to raise or even lower sales

A new study seems to show that, in contract to conventional wisdom, piracy actually leads to better quality content, and that tougher copyright law enforcement may not help with reducing piracy

Sony's own insurance company is suing the company, claiming the policy Sony purchased does not cover any claims related to the PSN hack

Does piracy really matter? Team Meat, developers of the hugely popular Super Meat Boy, says it doesn't matter at all, and might even help sales

Panic over Sony removing ability to play HD games over component cable is unfounded, but owners of new PS3s may find HD Blu-ray won't work over component anymore

Is Sony bringing out the PS4 for a surprise 2012 launch? Taiwanese sources say that not only is this true, the PS4 will copy Kinect's gaming system too

Three New Yorkers have sued Sony for neglecting to properly secure customer data, and not listening to warnings that its own security staff had given in relation to flaws in the security system

Sony CEO Howard Stringer says hackers didn't like Sony protecting their intellectual property, and that this is the reason for the PSN hack

George Hotz, PS3 hacker, is now working at Facebook on a yet unknown project.

Sometimes pirates can hurt a game developer even if the developers don't mind piracy, and this is what happened with the indie game Project Zomboid

New Xbox 360 and PS3 models promise better consoles, although some promised features may have been lost in translation

Microsoft has just made it even easier for Kinect hackers to play around with the motion detection system, as the beta version of the Kinect Windows SDK has just been released

A Sega website has been hacked and 1.29 million user details leaked

You won't be able to play any disc based movies on the Wii U due to cost reasons, says Nintendo boss

The next Nintendo console will be the Wii U, with a controller that contains a 6.2 inch touchscreen

Microsoft launches the Kinect app store with a new free apps of some interest, plus Sony is launching a PS3 branded 3D TV that allows for 2-player gaming on the same screen without a split-screen

Google has removed several gaming emulators from Android Market, which may indicate a shift in policy towards these types of apps. Or not

The PlayStation Store is finally back online, after a six week absence due to the PSN hacking. But the free games as part of the "Welcome Back" package is not yet available.

To protest Nintendo's harsh DRM, which threatens to brick 3DS consoles for those that try to modify it in any way, the Free Software Foundation is sending actual bricks to Nintendo

Sony reveals the free games you'll be able to download, plus other goodies to make up for the PSN hacking and downtime

The PlayStation Network is already back online in the United States, and the re-launch will be slowly rolled out for the rest of the world

Sony has sent a letter game publishers, providing them more information about the PSN outage, plus retailers say that gamers are trading in their PS3s for Xbox 360's

The Xbox 360 is getting a major update next week according to leaked documents, but the update won't have many noticeable new features, other than PayPal support

Sony to offer free games, amongst other goodies, as a way of saying sorry to the millions of gamers affected by the PSN hack and outage

While Sony are still struggling to get PSN back and prevent a slump in PS3 sales as predicted by analysts, hackers have managed to successfully bring OtherOS back

New discounted Wii bundle will remove Wii Sports, but adds Mario Kart and wheel, and Nintendo President says Kinect is not a threat

Sony announces more accounts have been hacked than originally thought, with data from 25 million more Sony Online Entertainment account also accessed by hackers in a separate, and earlier, breach

PSN hackers claim they now have full unencrypted credit card numbers, including CVV codes, and have said that Sony refused to buy back the stolen data when offered the chance

Sony reveals full extent of the PSN security breach, including the fact that hackers have managed to access PSN user information, and possibly even credit card details

Nintendo announced successor to the Wii, and a working model will be shown at E3 in early June

The PlayStation Network has been downed by "external intrusions", according to Sony, but is Anonymous involved?

A roundup of recent Wii 2 rumours, such as HD touch-screen controllers, and the fact that it will be much more powerful than the Xbox 360 and PS3

You can now use Kinect to control your Xbox 360 Netflix experience, but this first version of the control software seems to be lacking in many aspects

Those that paid for Dragon Age:Origins found out that they weren't able to play the game over the weekend due to a DRM server problem, but pirates were able to enjoy the game without a problem

To prove a point, Garry's Mod creator Gary Newman experiments with a new type of DRM designed not to inconvenience legitimate buyers, but only to punish the pirates

Good Old Games's marketing manager comes out attacking DRM, questioning its effectiveness, and arguing against turning legitimate customers into criminals

The legal battle between Sony and geohot is over, with the hacker agreeing to not ever hack another Sony product again and urging all to boycott Sony products

SCEA president Jack Tretton is on attack mode again, this time calling the Xbox 360 outdate, and suggesting that only young children play the 3DS

Anonymous has threatened Sony over the company's treatment of hackers geohot and Graf_Chokolo, as well as the company's attempt to suppress information regarding the PS3's vulnerabilities

Xbox 360 games are about to get an extra 1GB of storage, with beta-testing already progressing

Avalanche Studios boss Christofer Sundberg has come out attacking "stupid DRM", and calls for more hacker involvement in the PC gaming industry, as well as better games, to fight the piracy problem

Want to control your PS3 and play games without using a controller? Sony hasn't made a device for it yet, but an enterprising hacker has made Microsoft's Kinect work on the PS3

Ubisoft may have included a pirated version of the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood soundtrack the Digital Deluxe version of the game

Analyst Michael Pachter believes Kinect is outselling the Move by a 5:1 margin

Blu-ray disc production factories has been shut down and personnel evacuated following the Japanese earthquake and flooding from the subsequent tsunami

The latest PS3 firmware adds the ability to store your save files in the cloud

Microsoft's Kinect accessory for the Xbox 360 is now officially the fastest selling consumer electronics device in history

Minecraft's creator Markus "Notch" Persson says it's wrong to label online pirates as thieves

Videos have been posted to YouTube showing R4 flash carts successfully playing DS games on Nintendo's new 3DS console, only a day after the 3DS went on sale in Japan

Microsoft plans to bring Kinect to both Windows and Windows Phone, with the separate announcements of an official PC SDK for Kinect, and also a demo of Kinect/Windows Phone interaction

Hackers have found a way to un-ban and ban any PSN users, as long as their console ID is known

PC gaming piracy may actually be on the decline, says the new president of the PC Gaming Alliance. And it's not due to DRM!

Sony has started banning PSN user accounts for those that have modified their PS3s with hacked firmware

It's bad news for EA and Crytek, as a development build of their upcoming Crysis 2 game has just made its way to BitTorrent networks all over the world

The PlayStation Move's creator wants the motion control system to be hacked in the same way as Kinect, on the PC

Sony will not be able to get details of people who simply watched the PS3 hacking video on YouTube, or just tweeted about it, new court documents revealed.

Sony's fictional VP accidentally re-tweets a PS3 security key, something Sony has threatened to sue other websites over

Sony may be planning to sue more users in the wake of the PS3's total security breakdown, including enthusiasts whose sole aim is to bring Linux back to the PS3

The latest PS3 firmware may be bricking Slim consoles with upgraded HDDs

Sony's answer to the Nintendo 3DS, codenamed the Next Generation Portable, has quite a few innovations

The 3DS may be a revolutionary portable console, but some of its "new" features may be downright regressive

Michael Pachter says that Nintendo should not wait until the Wii has sold 45 million consoles in the US before launching the Wii 2

Sony may introduce unique serial keys to future PS3 games to combat the recent security debacle of their own making

A $70 device is promising to bring smell-o-vision to gaming and home video, later this year

From breaking your foot from, to getting arrested for it, playing Xbox 360 Kinect has never been so dangerous

An update on the PS3 hack saga, the lawsuit filed by Sony, a new custom firmware that may brick your PS3, and Modern Warfare 2 the latest victim of the hack

Rumours abound on the Internet that the yet unreleased Nintendo 3DS has already been hacked to play pirated ROMs

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Sony has launched a lawsuit against geohot and fail0verflow, the hacker that leaked the hacked 3.55 PS3 firmware to the world