Game Counterfeiter Who Sold Fake Video Games Taken Down by FBI

Monday, 22nd October 2012
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Tags: DS, DS-1, hong kong, Justin success Brooks, Nintedo, wii

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A U.K. man by the name of Justin Success Brooks was making a killing selling counterfeit Wii, DS, ad DS 1 games, pirating and selling software at around 100-200 games a disc/cartridge.

Kotaku reports that the 41-year-old Mr. Success was doing pretty well for himself, until Nintendo caught wind of what he was up to via the UK Interactive Entertainment Association and decided to come after him.

Much like a good narc would do, (acutely demonstrated with our recent Federal Reserve terrorist attempt), they let Success get nice and comfortable before negotiating a huge exchange. Continue reading “Game Counterfeiter Who Sold Fake Video Games Taken Down by FBI” »

AVENGERS Cosplayers In Hong Kong Garner International Attention

Friday, 27th April 2012
Posted in Blog Archive, Pop Culture
Tags: avengers, cosplay, cosplayers, hong kong

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We’re all of a week until the official theatrical release of The Avengers, and despite some early iterations of the film in both porno and super low budget versions, anticipation couldn’t be any higher for the $170 million film.

Now comes this from some cosplayers overseas, showing off their Avengers garb in all of their glory, arguably some of them representing the best we’ve seen, yet (check out Hulk in particular). Continue reading “AVENGERS Cosplayers In Hong Kong Garner International Attention” »