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 is using its legal muscle to take ROM sites down, apparently one at a time if it has to. As reported by Polygon, the Switch maker yesterday filed suit against the people behind RomUniverse, a ...
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 ...
A judge’s ruling in a copyright infringement case didn’t work out so well for a popular Nintendo ROMs repository site. The owner of ROMUniverse must pay Nintendo $2.1 million. Nintendo originally ...
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 ...
As we discussed in a recent post, iPhone and iPad owners who are willing to jailbreak their devices are treated to countless features, tweaks and upgrades that everyone else will never see, but for ...
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 ...
Nintendo is suing two major ROM sites for damages, while Ghost Recon Wildlands is getting a Siege crossover on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Facing an almighty enemy in a massive and hostile environment, the ...
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 ...
EmuParadise, for 18 years a go-to site for emulators and ROMs to play hard-to-find, if not ancient video games, announced last week that it would no longer offer its vast library of ROMs. The legal ...
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 ...