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Why Video Game Piracy Is Killing Itself – Part 2.
By Andy_Howells
Posted in Downloadable, Entertainment, Industry, PC on April 27, 2009
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At the end of the last article I left you to consider the only possible outcomes of rampaging piracy on the games industry. The only two potential results would be either that the entire video-game market would collapse due to the lack of development, or that they would make it impossible to pirate. Both of these would bring about the death of piracy as we know it.

Why Video Game piracy is killing itself.
By Andy_Howells
Posted in Features, Industry, PWNage on April 17, 2009
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In the first of this two part series, I discuss piracy whilst eating crumpets, drinking tea and stroking my monocle.

Far Cry 2 Diamond Maps. – Not 56K Friendly
By Andy_Howells
Posted in PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 on October 29, 2008
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As I’ve been playing through FarCry 2 like a ravenous jungle lion this week, I figured I’d try to find some maps for the diamonds to help me out in my exploration. These can be seen below if, like me, you’re desperate to find them and get your achievement/trophy for finding the 220+ diamonds scattered around this amazing game world.

Activision being sued by THQ.
By Andy_Howells
Posted in Entertainment, Industry on October 28, 2008
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THQ, the company behind Saints Row, is suing production company Activision Blizzard for stealing their box art for an upcoming game, claiming they’ve copied it in order to “confuse, cause mistake or deceive the public into believing that the Activision Game originates, is sponsored or approved by THQ, when in fact it is not”.

Call of Duty: WaW, Now With Added Zombies!
By Andy_Howells
Posted in Features on October 27, 2008
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The upcoming shooter from Treyarch and Activision is going to feature a Zombie Survival mini-game mode which can be
unlocked by completing the single-player game. The mode, featuring hordes of Nazi undead, can be played cooperatively with friends over Xbox Live and will definitely be a strange addition to the otherwise WW2 centric game.

Call of Duty: WaW DLC and other details
By Andy_Howells
Posted in Downloadable, Entertainment on October 20, 2008
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Treyarch has spilled the beans that “A few surprises” are in store for
Call of Duty: World at War DLC which will be arriving hopefully just
after the games launch in November.
We here at PWNorDIE are loving
the beta and in fitting fashion to his awesomeness, Nick Smith is
offering to give out 3 beta keys to some lucky devils .

DRM will be present on Far Cry 2 (PC).
By Andy_Howells
Posted in PC on October 15, 2008
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Ubisoft have announced via their forums that copy protection will be used for the upcoming shooter, Far Cry 2. According to a community forum manager on their website, the DRM (Digital Rights Management) system used by Spore will be in place, which will no doubt frustrate a few outspoken gamers.

Ubisoft Customers’ Wait Still Not at an End(war).
By Andy_Howells
Posted in Downloadable on October 10, 2008
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The VIP demo for Endwar was supposed to go live on Tuesday this week for those that pre-ordered the game from Gamestop(US) and Gamestation in the UK. Although “enlistment” keys were sent out allowing customers to sign up on the website, no actual keys for downloading the VIP Demo on Xbox Live have yet been sent out to the general populace.

Cliff Bleszinski: ‘Call of Duty is Soulless’
By Andy_Howells
Posted in PWNage on October 7, 2008
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The much outspoken and apparently malevolent Cliffy B has said that Activision’s approach to outsourcing the Call of Duty franchise to Treyarch is a move that will cause it to become “Soulless”. Speaking to Developmag the Gears of War design director said that by handing over IP’s (Intellectual Properties) to other developers, a game’s “quality is lost in translation”. Bleszinski also mentioned that he wouldn’t allow another developer anywhere near Gears of War and that by games changing developers they lose their core ideals and end up being empty in comparison.

Lego 4 Dead?
By Andy_Howells
Posted in PWNage on October 6, 2008
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Did you ever play with your Lego as a kid and think to yourself, “is something missing?”, well perhaps this is what you were after. Only through the medium of a gory and horrifying zombie apocalypse can the potential of Lego ever be fully reached. Those were clearly the thoughts of the legendary Lego Builders who convened in Seattle for “BrickCon 2008″.

Valve luckily were there and didn’t miss an opportunity to plug their upcoming coop friendly zombie survival epic “Left 4 Dead”. Whilst we here at pwnordie are heart broken we couldn’t make it to a massive Lego centered convention, the awesome snaps of the apocalypse are below.