It wouldn't be a proper pirate LEGO without secret passages and long-lost treasure. Kinggregus' giant, pirate-themed build has it all, well-hidden in a massive fort.

Two talented LEGO builders, Eli Willsea and Grant Davis built a a pirate-themed island for this year's BrickCon and they didn't mess around. It's a gigantic build with old ruins, secret coves treasure and a brilliant working waterfall that flows with tiny bricks.

Now that Ubisoft has made not one but two pirate-themed games in the Assassin's Creed universe, a survey being sent out to fans (and through them to IGN) wonders if players wouldn't just be fine with a straight-up pirate game.

About the only thing I can see that's wrong with this diabolical plot is the fact suckers have to download an 18GB torrent before the malware is unleashed. Otherwise, there's a bogus torrent of Grand Theft Auto V's nonexistent PC version that's claimed several victims of late.

At first glance, Edward Kenway—the protagonist of the upcoming Assassin's Creed IV game—looks like your typical leading dude. Stoic, beefy, masculine. Nothing special, right?

Earlier this week, there was chatter that The Pirate Bay, a popular BitTorrent site, had moved its servers to North Korea. That was a hoax.

It's not that hard to find great pirate-themed video game zones and levels. Gigantic ships, pirate hideouts on mysterious islands (or in space), full of treasure, topped with a Caribbean atmosphere; an ever-returning element of video games that will always be a pleasure to the eye. We've collected some of the most…

I've talked about classic fighting game World Heroes here on Total Recall before because it's amazing. But this, this is something else entirely.

It takes an (admittedly self-serving) quote from an online retailer to say what every other industry executive must surely be thinking, but can never dare to say out loud.

Garry Newman, the creator of the Garry's Mod mod/machinima toolkit for the PC, just sprung one of the best pirate traps in recent memory, tricking those who did not pay for his product into essentially giving themselves up.