The gamers have spoken, and BioWare has listened, for the most part. Following the news that the upcoming PC version of Mass Effect would use an especially strict form of DRM which re-authenticated the game every ten days, gamers responded less-than-favorably (judging by the 113-page thread on BioWare’s forums). Now, BioWare has relented on a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The ANGRY Pixel is reporting that over at the BioWare community forums, technical producer Derek French has disclosed that not only will the PC port of Mass Effect require SecuROM validation, but it will continue to require internet authentication at least once every 10 days.
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Croatian gaming mag PC Play has a revealing interview with Crytek president Cevat Yerli, in which we find that piracy is forcing the German studio to develop multi-platform titles.
Continue reading...Thursday, April 24, 2008
Now, folks, when we spoke yesterday about that leak of GTA IV through various torrent sites, we neglected to mention that one of the main requests of the iCON group was that you not be so stupid as to play while your 360 is still connected to Live. Because that would be stupid. Someone might [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 23, 2008
According to Kotaku, a pirated copy of GTA IV is now live and available for download on various torrent servers. This particular copy is the PAL copy, and it is being provided by a group called iCON.
Continue reading...Friday, April 18, 2008
While GameCyte currently has no (legal) way to confirm this, there’s a report over at the 1Emulation forums that, having figured out how to decrypt the outer wrapper, the homebrew community has discovered that the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console games are simply run-of-the-mill ROMs, easily playable on PC emulators, and their documentation is a collection [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 10, 2008
European pirates, guard your jugulars: intellectual property holders have released the hounds. Today, City of Heroes publisher NCsoft announced that it will actively pursue court orders to shut down illegally operating game servers in Eastern Europe; while the UK-based ELSPA disclosed that it had seized 85,000 discs worth of counterfeit Nintendo DS software.
Continue reading...Monday, March 24, 2008
According to Brad Wardell, the CEO of Stardock Entertainment and publisher of the critically acclaimed PC strategy title Sins of a Solar Empire, the way to make sure your game pulls in the benjamins isn’t to load it up with DRM; instead, he believes it’s best to ignore piracy altogether.
Continue reading...Thursday, March 6, 2008
Although sales might not suffer, Spore will be one of the most pirated games in 2008.
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