While console makers routinely ban players and consoles from online play and services, remotely bricking a game console's offline capabilities for EULA violations seems exceedingly rare in practice.

The Japanese game designer warned that playing Nintendo Switch without buying games through them can brick the console as ...

Anime and manga piracy thrived in North America due to access issues—now, Japan is spending millions to shut it down.

Usada Pekora played a potentially hacked version of Pokémon Emerald, leading to Nintendo asking Hololive to make the whole video private, and their vtubers avoid hacked games.

Nintendo has always been protective of its technology and hostile to modders and software piracy—but now it has modified its ...

The significant legal differences between the United States and Europe cause Nintendo to punish piracy differently depending ...

Nintendo has one message for everyone complaining about its newest games' $80 price tag: Piracy isn't an option. While the brand certainly never encouraged the unlawful making or distribution of game ...

Something all video game manufacturers need to be mindful of when creating and publishing their products is piracy. Nintendo ...

Nintendo’s crackdown on all things tangentially related to potential piracy continues, but this time the company is turning its ire on its customers, rather than those who might distribute hacks or ...

"You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services ...

We’re less than a month away from the Switch 2 release on June 5, 2025, and while everyone has their eyes on the new and improved Nintendo console, Walmart is dropping huge deals on the older ...

So of course, by exactly those same measures, you could also load ROMs ... card which was loaded into the R4 cart. So, basic piracy. Every Nintendo DS game was rapidly added to such sites (most ...