Post Tagged with: "DRM"

Ubisoft’s PC DRM Leaves Anno 2070 and Driver: San Francisco Unplayable

Ubisoft recently performed a server switch which led to some of its games being rendered unplayable.

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If You Pirate Serious Sam 3, Croteam Will Kill You (In Game)

The DRM (Digital Rights Management) in most games forces players to be online and such…

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EA’s Origin Not Required For The Old Republic

A TOR community manager has revealed that Origin will not be required in order to play the game,

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This Fat Dude Is Pretty Pissed At Blizzard…

As you may have heard, Diablo III is going to see some interesting changes to the franchise that include things like always on DRM…

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Diablo III Cannot Be Played Offline

Blizzard’s channeling the spirit of Ubisoft by forcing players to play online in order to play Diablo III…

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Driver San Francisco on PC to Require a Constant Internet Connection

The next installment of the Driver franchise will require a constant Internet connection for PC gamers…

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PC Version of Bulletstorm Requires Persistent Internet Connection (Or Maybe Not?)

The PC version of Bulletstorm will require a persistent Internet connection, according to EA’s product disclosures page. Now People Can Fly say it wont . . .

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Pre-Order The Witcher 2 Now – Don’t Pay A Penny Until Release

You read right. In keeping with their awesome tradition of being awesome, CDProjekt and GoG.com have started taking pre-orders for The Witcher 2 – and you won’t have to pay them for it.

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R.U.S.E Wont Use Ubisoft DRM

The Ubisoft DRM is by no means a bad thing, I welcome it with open arms. Unfortunately something that seems to plague every PC gamer is constant whining about one thing or another. If they haven’t got frame rates to cry about, they will of course cry about something else, and so the vicious circle continues…

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Editorial: Codemasters CEO Publicly Embraces the Worst Idea Ever

In a recent article, Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has stated the best idea for a business model to “combat piracy” (those quotation marks are ironic) is selling consumers an unfinished product.

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Bioshock PC DRM “Scaled Back”

A post on the official Cult of Rapture blog has outlined the precise plans for the DRM of Bioshock 2 on the PC. “There will be no SecuROM install limits for either the retail or digital editions of BioShock 2,” the post notes, “and SecuROM will be used only to verify the game’s executable and [...]

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Bioshock 2 System Requirements: Go Away SecuROM, You’re Not Welcome Here

Bioshock 2′s system requirements have been published today, and guess what? Our little friend SecuROM is hidden away, cackling to itself in a way only the most evil beings know how. Alright, there’s no limit on installations this time, but honestly I won’t be happy until SecuROM goes away for good. By the way, you [...]

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DRM Prevents “Accidental” Borderlands PC Sales from Activating Before Official Release

Yes, you may be one of the few people posting pictures and video of yourself holding a PC version of Borderlands on the web, but the laugh’s on you if you actually try to play it. It seems that a few retailers out there jumped the gun and “accidentally” sold the title to PC hungry [...]

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No, you’re not dreaming: EA pulls Sims 3 DRM

EDGE reports the impossible today: EA taking DRM out of a game. The Sims 3 will reportedly ship with just a serial code and no online activation needed, and no restrictive and unnecessary DRM. The head of the Sims 3 studio, Rod Humble, described DRM as “overly invasive”, and added that serial-based verification is “a [...]

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Gears of War PC digital certificate expires, kills the game

Users on the Gears of War official forums are reporting that the digital certificates for the game have expired, as of 28th January 2009. This means that the game will not launch at a system date post-28th Jan. Obviously, this is awful news for those people who enjoy playing the game on the PC, since [...]

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