Nothing like a slew of big names to get the crowd going for ya. Be it in games, apps, or other forms of software, this week's batch has a big name on it. Let's see - Wolfenstein, Dracula, Metallica, Doom, NASA, iTunes, Blackra1n. Wouldn't want to miss those, so read up and stay informed.

Fishlabs had high hopes for the App Store release of Rally Master Pro. It was awarded Best Mobile Game of 2008 by Pocket Gamer, and has since been the subject of talk as far as iPhone racers were concerned. The good news: a lot of people are playing it. The bad news: 95% of those people are playing pirated copies.

Sony is at it again. In a not-so-surprising move to further combat piracy on the PSP, Sony has blocked CFW 5.50 GEN-B users from accessing the PlayStation Store.

Yep, you read that right folks. Mere days after its launch and somebody's already hacked the PSP Go. Hold your horses, though! There are a few caveats.

Homebrew coders Arikado, SifJar and PhoenixTank have released Dop-IOS MOD, an enhanced version of Dop-IOS that allows you to choose which IOS you would like to install to other IOSs with or without the trucha bug.


Download: Dop-IOS MOD v3

In case it wasn't painfully obvious, the new PSP Go is Sony's next move in their ongoing battle against piracy on their gaming handheld. From firmware updates to the non-removable battery, it seems Sony has really done the research.

Last month, Destructoid's Jonathan Ross got to pay Blizzard a visit, and there he got to talk with the lead producer of StarCraft II, Chris Sigaty. Of course, hot on everyone's mind is their decision to remove LAN support from the game. "There's a lot of reasons," Sigaty said. The biggest reason? You'll have to get it after the jump.

Right before July, StarCraft fans launched an online petition asking Blizzard to bring LAN gameplay into StarCraft II after finding out that the publisher will not be incorporating the feature into the game in an attempt to prevent piracy. About a month later, the said online petition is now 100,000 signatures strong.

It seems Nintendo's effort to squash down piracy on the DSi won't be as easy as one, two, three as the EZ-Flash Team has revealed that it only requires a firmware update to bypass the recently released DSi firmware 1.4 using the EZVi flashcart.

A college student from Cal State Fullerton was arrested by federal agents on Monday by illegally running a home business of modifying Xbox, Playstation, Wii and other video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games.