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Piracy slowly killing PC games

In May 2008, Crytek announced that it will be abandoning PC exclusivity due to problems with pirated copies of Crysis. Now, Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Michael de Plater revealed to Videogaming247 reasons why the copany won’t bring the anticipated EndWar to the PC.

Ubisoft has been having such big problems with piracy of Assassin’s Creed that they sued the disc’s manufacturers, Optical Experts Manufacturing. This is because the PC-version was leaked to the public two months before the…

Game pirates raided in Mexico

The game pirates of Mexico (and we don’t mean Johnny Depp’s next flick) are going through especially turbulent times. After a rain on a dozen sellers, Mexican officials seized 15,000 counterfiet Nintendo products from a notorious contraband market in Guadalajara. Out of the counterfeits that the officials seized, approximately 4500 were pirated Wii games.

This is not the first instance of counterfeit Nintendo products being seized in Mexico – Guadalajara in particular. In an earlier raid on this game pirate haven, approximately 56,000 pirated Nintendo products were apprehended from 23 shops. Last month (July 2007) a shipment of …