As long as the internet has been around there have been people out there trying to find ways to pirate games so that them and others will not have to pay to buy the game. As some of the more popular games this year have started attaching their DRM (follow the link for info on what exactly DRM is) to these games, it seems as though those games have shot up in the numbers of copies pirated. Usually pirated games don’t really ever grab the same kind of numbers as pirated TV shows or movies, but this year the #1 pirated game very close! So here we have the list below of the top 10 most pirated games of 2008:

#	Game	Downloads
1	Spore	1,700,000
2	The Sims 2	1,150,000
3	Assassins Creed	1,070,000
4	Crysis	940,000
5	Command & Conquer 3	860,000
6	Call of Duty 4	830,000
7	GTA San Andreas	740,000
8	Fallout 3	645,000
9	Far Cry 2	585,000
10	Pro Evolution Soccer 2009	470,000

Ok, so there it is. Many people claim that the reason Spore hit the #1 spot so quickly was because of the stupid DRM that EA Games put into it only allowing you to re-install a couple of times. To battle this a lot of people have boycotted EA buy starting to pirate their games to show their protest. When EA was asked why they put such a DRM onto the game, they said it was to “Protect their software from piracy”. Well… ok it seems to have worked really well there guys! Good work!

Throughout gaming history there has always been those gaming titles that showed lots of promise. But some of them never live up to their hype and die off with most people soon forgetting about them and never returning to play them. The guys over at IGN.com have come up with a list of the top 10 video games that showed such promise but failed to live up to their hype causing them to flop and being quickly forgotten by most gamers. Below is the list of the top 10 video game flops!

10. The Atari Jaguar
9. Shenmue
8. Lair
7. Messiah
6. Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
5. Driv3r
4. E.T.
3. Superman
2. Daikatana
1. Pac-Man

The games highlighted in bold are games that I myself have played at one point. If you would like to read their reasons behind why each of these games made the list, you can read the whole article HERE provided by the guys at IGN.