Gary Bowser, a Canadian national who made millions by hacking Nintendo consoles and selling devices that let users play pirated games on Nintendo devices, has agreed to pay $10 million to the gaming giant to settle a lawsuit.
Bowser was a prominent member of the video game piracy group Team Xecuter that was in the business of raking in millions by enabling video gamers to play illegal copies of popular games on gaming consoles like Microsoft’s Xbox, Sony PlayStation Classic, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo 3DS. Other leading members of the gang included French national Max Louarn and Chinese national Yuanning Chen.
Team Xecuter was composed of over a dozen members, including a team of developers whose primary role was to find ways to jailbreak popular gaming consoles or exploit their inherent vulnerabilities and design circumvention devices. There was also a team that manufactured devices that could be used by gamers to bypass existing controls in Nintendo’s consoles and play unauthorised or pirated copies of popular games.
The video game piracy group also had a…