Ban hits Half-Life 2 pirates hard
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About 20,000 pirate players of Half-Life 2 have been banned from the game.
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According to the UK&#39;s trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt, laws banning the sale of 18-rated games to children need to be enforced more strongly and warnings on boxes should be clearer.
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In Half-Life 2, players take up arms against an Orwellian society where unseen masters lord over oppressed humans who have no choice but to submit and comply.
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DALLAS - A month before the video game&#39;s scheduled release this coming Tuesday, illegal copies of the hot sci-fi action title &quot;Halo 2&quot; were already circulating on the Internet.
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New sales of these once-popular products have been banned. Now what?
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Dropping his attempt to outlaw selling violent games to minors, a Utah Representative throws his support behind other states' efforts to ban such sales. In Game|Life.
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Microsoft has said it is trying to track down the people behind a pirated copy of the forthcoming Halo 2 game. A version of the eagerly awaited Xbox game has appeared on net piracy sites and newsgroups, almost a month before making it into the shops.
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SHANGHAI, China Dec 9, 2004 - China has banned a new computer game for referring to Taiwan and other regions claimed by China as separate countries.
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Roughly a month before its November 9 release, a pirated version of Halo 2 began to be widely circulated around the Web. Now, it seems the game is once again falling into gamers&#39; hands earlier than Microsoft and Bungie had planned.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has become the latest big name title to fall victim to the determined efforts of the piracy scene as the PS2 Rockstar opus leaked onto illegal download channels today.
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Vivendi Universal Games will release Half-Life 2, sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed PC game titles, on November 16 this year.
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Half-Life 2 creator Valve Games has announced that a legal complaint filed against publisher Vivendi Universal Games in August 2002 has been upheld by a US court, but several other cases remain outstanding.
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Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) has confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.
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"Manhunt 2," a brutally violent  video game that was effectively banned in the United States,  has risen from the grave in a modified form and will go on sale  for Halloween, its publisher said.
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Gamers have been able to get a taste of the technology behind the widely anticipated Half-Life 2.
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British censors on Tuesday banned a  video game for the first time in 10 years, rejecting  U.S.-published "Manhunt 2" for what they described as an  unrelenting focus on sadism and brutal slaying.
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Could Half-Life 2 possibly live up to the hype? After almost two years of tantalising previews and infuriating delays it&#39;s safe to say that this is the most highly-anticipated computer game of all time.