A new study by researchers from Copenhagen Business School and the University of Waterloo explores the magnitude of game piracy on public BitTorrent trackers. The researchers tracked 173 new game releases over a three-month period and found that these were downloaded by 12.7 million unique peers. They further show that the number of downloads on BitTorrent can be predicted by the scores of game reviewers.
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Splash Damage and Bethesda have announced that the Agents of Change DLC pack will be available for the futuristic multi-player FPS Brink next Wednesday, August 3.
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Maybe you were hoping that Nintendo would also push down the price of their other portables after yesterday's 3DS price drop from $249 to $169. IGN asked following yesterday's announcement and get a flat "No" back from Nintendo.
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A Chinese couple sold their children in order to fund their online gaming habit, reports a local newspaper.
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Just a quick one before you all dash off for the evening: some enterprising types have smuggled out 90-odd seconds of Battlefield 3 footage onto the internet. How long this one will stay up is anybody's bet, but for now - enjoy one-and-a-half minutes of beautiful-looking action.
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This month Ubisoft and Sony joined the growing number of publishers who plan to start charging extra to play copies of used games online. Not every game...not yet. But Sony, Ubisoft, THQ, Electronic Arts, and Warner Bros. are all testing the waters for their own flavor of "online passport".
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