Piracy has taken its toll on the PS3. Sony is currently wrapped up in litigation as it tries to bring the individuals who are responsible for breaking the PS3′s security to justice. While that’s going on, hackers have been having a merry time with their keys to the PS3 kingdom. Modern Warfare 2 is compromised and Killzone 3 is being pirated all over the web. As much as Sony tries to stop hackers through firmware updates, it never seems to last. Sony has now issued a warning to potential and current hackers on the PlayStation Blog.

It’s time for yet another incarnation of Sid Meier’s Pirates!, this time for the Wii. 2K Games has announced it’s been shipped out and should be in a store near you. The $39.99 Wii-make not only includes classic Pirates! action, it also has exclusive mini-games…

LucasArts has a bounty of a deal for us today. Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge is on sale today in the App Store for the low price of $0.99. The game used to cost $7.99. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, it would be downright silly to pass on this deal.

For those fans of the Guitar Hero 5 franchise who have been testing the red ropes to the VIP room since this space first opened back in April 2009. The ropes have dropped and those who fill out a registration form are treated to a VIP lounge. Step inside this huge lounge to receive a free virtual t-shirt and then walk or run over to the bass drum area for a virtual guitar for your personal space.

This week at the Home space theater anime fans can enjoy a full second season episode of Full Metal Alchemist now until November 19, 2009.

Also this week, an exclusive never-seen before look at the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII…

Arr. What be a better way to spends yer time than to be talkin’ like a pirate? Ow ’bout talkin’ like a pirate on International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Which just so happens t’ be this ‘ere (and ev’ry) September the 19th!

OK, enough of that (for now).

To help celebrate this International Talk Like A Pirate Day, Telltale is making its premiere episode of Tales of Monkey Island titled The Siege of Spinner Cay free for download from the company’s web site only on Saturday, September 19, 2009.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Hellbent Games and TT Games have announced the Summer 2009 release of the DS game Lego Battles

According to the press release, Lego Battles promises to be a strategy game (with no indication of how much real-time combat there will be) with the “trademark humor and endless customization of Lego.” It will include 90 levels, six stories and combine kits themes Space, Castle and Pirates. Gamers will be able to mix and match 55 different units from all three themes and use 30 vehicles and wirelessly (unfortunately through multicard) battle each other on land, sea and in air.

Looking at the cover there are pirates, little dudes in space outfits, knights, British soldiers and waitamoment.

Could it be?

A frickin’ Lego Ninja and a Lego Pirate on the same game cover?!

Now living the swashbuckler’s life is only a click away on the web.

I recently sat down and spoke with the managing director of Inova Interactive, Larbi Belrhiti about his game Piracy Age. Piracy Age is a massive multiplayer online game where players take on the role of a pirate, manage a crew and, according to the site, “reach absolute notoriety and fear on the seas, and use the means of terror and force to achieve it.”

Piracy Age was released this month (March 2009) and joins Inova Interactive’s first MMO game Mafia Boss which yielded 1.3 million registered players and paved the way for other games since its release in 2005.

“Even though the game was a success story, we have been working hard since 2006 to make a step forward in this niche of MMO browser-based games,” Belrhiti explained…

Piracy is one of the biggest problems the video game industry has to deal with. There’s always some hacker out there that can mod a system to play games that were not purchased legally. The latest story dealing with this problem according to MCV comes out of the UK after officials raided the home of a couple who were under investigation for selling fake Nintendo DS consoles as well as games for DS and Gameboy Advance over eBay.

The raid was carried out on…

Well, the score is now Square Enix: 0, Hackers: 2. Square Enix has attempted to put copyright protection in its DS games, first in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates, and now in the Japanese version of Chrono Trigger DS. Chrono Trigger is scheduled to debut in Japan on November 20, 2008, but already the rom of the game has been leaked online.

Initially, pirates were unable to play the Chrono Trigger rom though, due to Square Enix copyright protection that would make the game glitchy or crash. Not to be deterred, some adept hackers created a code which allows the game to run normally. Two codes were created, one for M3 Real flashcarts and one for general flashcarts, to allow pirates to play undisturbed.

Its disappointing to see protection broken so quickly…

Avast landlubbers! Talk Like a Pirate Day may be over for this year, but Nexon is adding an expansion to MapleStory which will make it feel like Talk Like a Pirate Day all year long. A pirate expansion, to be more specific. Now, players can choose a pirate class for their avatars and visit Demethos, a whole new Mabinogi area.

There are five special events going on to celebrate the pirate update. The first is a Demethos Double / Double event which lasts from November 12-26, 2008 and gives players double experience and item drops in Demethos during the event period. The second is a contest, running from now until December 14, 2008 – the first player in each world with a pirate at level…