The American branch of Capcom has revealed that sales of the PC version of Devil May Cry 4 have been “pirated to hell” and that Capcom Japan now refuses to release it digitally.
Capcom vice president of strategic planning Christian Svensson noted, “I’m not sure about how Capcom in general feels but it’s not doing as well as I would like in the US at retail.”
“It’s such a good version and it really deserves better sales. I know it’s getting pirated to hell and back (it was up on torrents literally the day it shipped).”
“I certainly have pushed for digital distribution on the title but Capcom Japan so far has not allowed it,” added Svensson.
The VP also noted that Capcom hoped to eventually release all their US titles digitally, alongside their physical media brothers.
“For the record all Capcom Entertainment developed titles will be distributed extremely widely via digital channels (not just Steam or Direct2Drive, but more than a dozen partners across more than 100 sites/portals for everything we do).
“I’ve spent the last year building up that channel and I’m continuing to add partners even in advance of Age of Booty, MotoGP, Neopets, Dark Void and Flock shipping,” he said.
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Three teenagers in Atlanta, Georgia have been arrested on 57 counts of firebombing cars with Molotov cocktails over the last week.
Six vehicles were bombed and each teenager faces 19 counts including arson, criminal damage to property and possession of explosive devices.
When arrested however, the teens, ages 15 or 16, each said they learned “how to do it from playing the video game ‘Grand Theft Auto’.” After the incidents, investigators went to the local Wal-Mart and found receipts containing Sprite bottles, red rags and lighter fluid. Surveillance footage did the rest.
The incident is the second in under a week in which real life crime has been linked to ‘Grand Theft Auto’, Rockstar’s exceptional PC and console game.
In Thailand earlier this week, the game was pulled from shelves after a taxi driver was killed in what the murderer called a “recreation” of a scene from the game.
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A while ago I posted an entry called : “How to : Quick .flv video file conversion” and it was about converting Youtube .flv files into ..AVI, .MP4, .MOV , etc…. with FLV Online Convertor. There is one other thing that this convertor can do : converting music video files into mp3’s so you can listen them on your mp3 player. Save YouTube videos
How to do it : It’s simple. Go to Youtube.com and find your music video file. Copy the URL of that file.
Open FLV Online Convertor a paste the direct link from the file and click on the “Convert to” button and choose MP3.
Now all you have to do is wait till the conversion is done. Save your mp3 and rename it.
