News Tagged: drm

Finally. Ubisoft confirmed that they are bringing the lovely, cartoon-style platformer, Rayman Origins, to the PC (it's also one of those games I played in 2011, but just couldn't find the time to review - I'll make up for that, you have my word)...

Okay, for all of you who are playing The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings right now, here's a useful bit of info. CD Projekt just released a patch for the game, offering a few changes. Here are some of the major changes: Added Troll Trouble DLC Fixed DLC download issues...

If you're looking forward to playing Super Street Fighter IV Arcade on the PC, be prepared to be online all the time. Without a constant internet connection and a Games for Windows account, out of the 39 available characters (all unlocked from the start), you will only have access to 15, and other limited features...

It appears that The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will feature use SecuROM copy-protection for the game's retail version, which, as they say is the least intrusive way to protect its content from piracy. This was confirmed by CD Projekt during the CDP Days 2011 Spring Conference...

According to a report from a very outraged Ars Technica, the author of the article is still locked out of playing Dragon Age: Origins since April 9, as have other users. This is as a result of BioWare's authentication servers failing. Word from [H]ard-OCP is that the...

Just a quick not on our earlier report about the Dragon Age: Origins DRM not working. According to an update on BioWare Social Network the server issue has been resolved. BioWare's update is short and to the point: "This should now be fixed - please login and retry."

Good Old Games announced that it's going to be a sole DRM-free distributor of the Digital Premium Edition of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. As a sister company to CD Projekt RED. GOG’s copy of The Witcher 2 will not contain any DRM, unlike all other versions of the Digital Premium Edition...

According to people who took part in our recent voting poll, piracy is 'good' because, well, games are too expensive. That's at least how we've put things in our poll. Here are the final results: All things considered, piracy is: Good, because games are too expensive...

As video game publishers continue their desperate struggle against that foul whore piracy, gamers often find themselves on the receiving end of crappy anti-piracy measures such as Ubisoft disastrous DRM scheme. But like many foul whores, piracy also serves its purpose when the going gets tough...

There's a post over on the BioWare Social Network forum, which goes into detail about the Dragon Age 2 PC DRM. Of course, Steam DRM is going to be packed with the Steam versions. Other versions though will authenticate themselves "after a select period of days" (still not specified)...

As we reported a couple of days ago, players started to spread the word how an active Internet connection isn't required to play Ubisoft games. The news arrived from story published by PC Gamer UK, but we didn't get any official word on it...

Here's a bit of interesting news you may have missed during the Holidays. Word has it that an active Internet connection is no longer required to play Ubisoft games. PC Gamer UK reports that the French publisher released an update that removes the necessity for some of Ubi's games to have an Internet connection in order to be played...

Unlike most of Ubisoft's recent major releases such as Assassin's Creed 2, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Splinter Cell: Conviction, the upcoming strategy game R.U.S.E. will not be utilizes the publisher's controversial DRM. As it turns out, the game is going to empoy Steam...

Activision Blizzard (as well as Sony and a handful of other publishers) are being sued by Uniloc - a company specializing in computer security and copy protection initiatives. It appears that the abovementioned publishers, supposedly, infringed on Uniloc's patents for what's basically DRM...

Namco Bandai Partners VP, Olivier Comte. commented recently that Ubisoft's controversial DRM system is "a good strategy" - albeit only because there isn't a better alternative at the moment he said. Namco stressed that until something better is brought to the table, Ubisoft DRM scheme - which requires a constant Internet connection - is what's best...