Links of Note, 18 October 2009

The banhammer is coming down again on Xbox Live. This time it falls on those who've been playing ersatz copies of Forza 3 and Borderlands. There'll be perma-bans for consoles caught on Xbox Live playing pirated copies of those games. (To which I say, Good.) 1Up has the details on this story. Click here!


Also on the Xbox Live banhammer front, Joystiq has more on the upcoming 3rd-party memory device ban. Click here!

GamesRadar has an article on Gaming's Filthiest Bathrooms. Click here!

Non-gaming stuff:

NASA says world won't end in 2012. They're playing the odds, of course. Wouldn't they be red-faced if it did, tho? Click here!