On July 24, a ton of Nintendo games were leaked onto the internet in a major 'Gigaleak', via a breach of official Nintendo source code. These game leaks, which include ROMs for canceled games like ...
Nintendo’s aggressive approach to copyright protection is generating a huge amount of bad feeling within gaming circles, wrecking attempts to preserve game history and disconnecting itself from its ...
Back in 2019, we wrote about Nintendo’s efforts to shut down the website RomUniverse, which was hosting and even selling premium access to pirated copies of Nintendo games. That case is now over, the ...
Miodrag Kovačević, a 29-year-old game developer from Serbia who currently works on big budget video games, didn’t grow up with a lot of money. Importing consoles to Serbia was expensive, so only ...
Last week Nintendo sued two long-standing emulation sites: LoveRETRO and LoveROMs. It’s not the first time emulation’s come under attack, but it was noteworthy in part because of the absurd damages ...
Nintendo’s attitude toward ROM releases—either original games’ files or fan-made edits—has often erred on the side of litigiousness. But in most cases, the game producer has settled on ...
Among major video game publishers, there is perhaps no company more threatened by video game emulators and ROMs — digitized versions of games for use on those emulators — than Nintendo. The company ...
RomUniverse, a website where folks could download pirated copies of various Nintendo games and even pay a premium to get faster downloads, was sued into oblivion back in May of this year. But Nintendo ...
Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against the operator of two websites serving ROMs of old Nintendo console video games, calling them a “brazen and mass-scale infringement of Nintendo’s intellectual ...