{"id":708,"date":"2013-03-20T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T09:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invites-shop.com\/en\/?p=708"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:26:12","slug":"blackcats-games-net","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/invites-shop.com\/en\/invite\/blackcats-games-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackcats-Games.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background:#fff8e6;border-left:4px solid #f0b429;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 24px;border-radius:6px\">\n<strong>Heads up:<\/strong> Invites Shop no longer sells invites to this resource. Below is verified information (updated July 2026) on how things actually stand.\n<\/div>\n<h2>Status: dead since October 2016 \u2014 killed by its own PayPal<\/h2>\n<p>BlackCats-Games (BCG), the legendarily closed games tracker where users joked about &#8220;waiting two years for an invite&#8221;, was shut down for good in October 2016: London&#8217;s anti-piracy police (PIPCU) seized the domain and arrested two operators for copyright infringement and money laundering. An insider put it simply: &#8220;it all came down to a PayPal account&#8221; \u2014 the payment trail led straight to the owners. The domain today is an ad-parking page.<\/p>\n<h2>How to get in (2026)<\/h2>\n<p>No way \u2014 BCG never returned (despite having survived an earlier &#8220;death&#8221; in 2014).<\/p>\n<h2>Where the games niche lives<\/h2>\n<p><strong>GazelleGames (GGn)<\/strong> is the recognized successor among game trackers \u2014 also closed, joinable via its interview\/recruitment system.<\/p>\n<h2>Fact<\/h2>\n<p>Unusually, police seized the domain but not the servers \u2014 it was the payments, not the tech, that undid BCG. A lesson every private community learned from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackcats-Games.net is the largest gaming private tracker, the only place for all professional gamers to lift their skills. Here you can find the best and newest computer games for all platforms and systems. The tracker has around 17 000 releases and more than 30 000 users. Each gamer dreams to get an invite to this great tracker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackcats-Games.net \/\u00a0Blackcats Games \/ BCG \/ Cats<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0is the largest game tracker and indisputably &#8211; the best in the area, where you can find games for all platforms and systems. This popular resource is famous for its nickname of \u00a0&#8220;Cats&#8221;, it won`t let you down and will always give you what you are looking for. 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