The Tokyo District Court has issued a ruling making sales of the R4 card, a device that enables the DS to play homebrew and pirated games, illegal. Last year Nintendo and 54 other companies filed a ...

Nintendo’s new 3DS gaming device has only been available in Japan for a few days and hasn’t even started shipping worldwide as yet. But a few inventive hackers have already been able to modify the ...

3Ds has only been on sale in Japan since yesterday, and supposedly it has already been "hacked" to use R4 cards. According to a tipster of D'toid's, a YouTube video has been posted showing an R4 card ...

R4 game cards are essentially blank cartridges designed for the Nintendo DS, allowing users to load homebrew software onto their DS systems. These cards have also been widely used for pirating ...

It looks like Nintendo’s 3DS isn’t having trouble finding buyers in Japan. According to Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun (via Andriasang) gamers essentially exhausted Nintendo’s initial ...

Nintendo Australia has intensified its efforts to stamp out video-game piracy on its popular DS hand-held systems, calling in the border guards to crack down on importation of the R4 cards. The R4 ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Sales of R4 cards and similar devices have been officially banned in ...

It’s another legal win for Nintendo as 11 retailers in the Netherlands have been convicted of illegally importing and selling R4 cards and mod chips for the Nintendo DS and Wii. It’s no secret that ...

Nintendo is one of 50 companies that have won their R4 lawsuit. Two distributors of R4 devices have been ordered to pay out 95,625,000 yen (£638,000) to the plaintiffs, reports Nintendo on its ...

High-fives all around at Nintendo HQ today, as the High Court has ruled that importing, advertising or selling R4 cartridges in the UK is now illegal. R4 cards can be used to download and play ...

MCV is reporting that the R4 SD cards that many despicable, filthy, piratey types use(d) to play downloaded software on their DS, won't work on the new DSi. Nintendo's new handheld's SD card slot has ...