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Pirated Copies of Namco Title Spill onto Internet

By pete_gallagher

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Illegal beta copies of Namco's blood-soaked Splatterhouse game are up for sale online for the price of $675.00 each (shipping included).

Worthplaying discovered the illegal wares for sale on the collector site ASSEMbler, where a user named dulledblade posted a series of pictures in an attempt to prove the legitimacy of the copies. Dulledblade claimed to have pulled the betas off of four nonworking Xbox 360 test kits and instructs that the games have to be played on an Xbox 360 development kit (XDK), which he also sells, for $1,150 each (once again, shipping is included). Package deals featuring an XDK and a copy of Splatterhouse are also apparently for sale by the same user.

Worthplaying notes that the brazen seller did very little to hide his identity; using his Gamertag on his Xbox-Scene postings and putting his location down as Michigan.

Splatterhouse was originally in development by BottleRocket Entertainment, but was later assigned to an internal team at Namco. The game is due out sometime this year for both the 360 and the PlayStation 3.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 14, 2010 (boomark / email).