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Every now and then, piracy becomes relevant to the day-to-day reporting of games industry news, usually when a big new game has been leaked online before its actual release date, like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Halo 2, or more recently, Splatoon 3 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

And in those cases, the websites covering the leak often get very shy about where exactly that new game can be found online, perhaps because they're worried about assisting piracy, or maybe because they want to keep in the good graces of the publishers whose games have been pirated.

Well forget that noise. I'm going to tell you exactly where you can go to get a treasure trove of pirated games. I'm going to tell you exactly which sketchy website out there is taking on immense legal risk just to sell some bootlegged games. And not just any games. Nintendo games.

Ok, there's a process to this. First, open a new private or incognito window… on second thought, I don't know how much I trust those. If it's still the same program, maybe there's a chance they could somehow access your normal browsing history and figure out who you are. If we're going to visit the shady underbelly of the internet, we need something completely separate, untraceable. An entirely new identity with no history, no ties to anything you've ever touched.

Open Microsoft Edge.

Using the InPrivate mode (and/or the VPN of your choice), you're going to navigate to the website I'm about to name for you.

That's right.