The era of game keys is coming to an end
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The era of game keys is coming to an end

Recently Ubisoft signed some kind of deal with Genba Digital and it seems that you won't be able to register standard game keys (CDKeys) on UPlay in the future. You will be able to purchase the desired title to your Ubi account and that's it. The end of game key sites? Pretty much everyone who plays games - especially on PC - used a game key somehow, whether it's from…

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May 6, 2019
DRM / Entertainment / Games / News / OMG!1 / Peasantry / Piracy / PlayStation 3 / PlayStation 4 / Publishers & Developers / RAGE NEWS!!!1 / Releases / Rockstar Games / Software / Xbox 360 / Xbox One

Red Dead Redemption 2 won’t come out on PC?

It seems that Rockstar Games decided to release Red Dead Redemption 2 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 first, it isn't all that weird considering they have a history of doing that. The problem is that they might skip PC at all just like they did with Red Dead Redemption back in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 years. Sign the petition at change.org and maybe Rockstar is going to…

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October 21, 2016
DRM / Entertainment / Games / News / OMG!1 / Peasantry / PlayStation 4 / Publishers & Developers / Software / Steam Alternatives / Windows Store / Xbox One

Microsoft brings some Xbox One games to Windows 10

Microsoft announced a couple of nice things yesterday, including some games, software and some offers. Check out the list below if you want to know what's going on! Here's a quick summary of the event that happened on March 1st 2016: Those who pre-order Quantum Break On Xbox store will get the Windows 10 PC version for free Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is now available for download on Windows 10 PCs (priced at…

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March 2, 2016
Deals / DRM / Entertainment / Games / News / Origin / Publishers & Developers / Software / Steam Alternatives

Origin monthly subscription now available!

Apparently Origin has introduced something I've speculated and asked you about over few months ago but I thought that Steam would be the first one! Guess not. The majority of you (60%) voted that you wouldn't buy this Netflix-based subscription model (pay once, use all games for a month without any limits) and 27% would consider it depending on the offer. But I'm pretty sure that this will change a lot…

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January 12, 2016
DRM / Games / News / OMG!1 / RAGE NEWS!!!1 / Software / Steam Flaws

Valve to add extra security to trading, hold items for a period of time, require to use it’s mobile app

Hey guys, first of all thanks to Andrea for telling me about this. Secondly Valve is about to add a new trading security measurements, which holds items in every trade for a period of time likely up to several days, unless both parties have mobile app Steam Guard enabled. This is ridiculous considering the app is not available for my Windows 10 Mobile phone (at least not yet) and what about people…

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November 19, 2015
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Weekend Deals (11.09.2015)

Update: Added G2A Weekly Sale. Hey!!! Here are the deals - pretty good ones this time, GOG has an amazing sale just check below. Will add more deals as they come... Shelter Anniversary Sale Create Your World Weekly sale featuring FIFA 16 and Rainbow Six Siege, more info here. Castlevania Lords Of Shadow 2 Square Enix up to 75% off Paradox Weekend up to 75% off Codemasters Week up to 80%…

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September 11, 2015
Activision / Bethesda / Blizzard / DRM / EA / Epic Games / Games / Gearbox Software / News / Piracy / RAGE NEWS!!!1 / Rockstar Games / Steam / Steam Alternatives / Valve

Steam went full retard, all games are now region locked

Just like with the sudden currency change 6 years ago, right before the winter holiday season, now Steam decided to region lock ALL games in the catalog. So if you wanted to exchange gifts with your friends from around the world guess what? Look for Steam Alternatives because you won't be able to, especially if you're lets say from Europe or Australia and want to game swap with Russians or…

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December 17, 2014
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Stop pre-ordering games because they suck!

I've had enough of this. I think we all can agree that so far this has been a disappointing year in PC gaming. First of all, Watch_Dogs have been delayed for a few months but they've managed to brake it anyway, it was significantly different from the E3 trailers - although it was somehow playable if you forced yourself on it. However, recent Ubisoft games are just fucking garbage. Assassin's Creed:…

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November 21, 2014
DRM / EA / News / RAGE NEWS!!!1

Maxis (kinda) admits servers are not needed for individual cities

Bredshaw

So yesterday Maxis general manager Lucy Bredshaw made a blog post. I guess she had to answer to all the new information that popped up lately…
 

So, could we have built a subset offline mode? Yes. But we rejected that idea because it didn’t fit with our vision. We did not focus on the “single city in isolation” that we have delivered in past SimCities. We recognize that there are fans – people who love the original SimCity – who want that. But we’re also hearing from thousands of people who are playing across regions, trading, communicating and loving the Always-Connected functionality. The SimCity we delivered captures the magic of its heritage but catches up with ever-improving technology.

Ok, so they don’t care about their long-time fans… That’s cool though, cause they thought of the people who love always always DRM instead. That’s nice :)
And also, there’s apparently tons of advantages with always-online DRM, compared to offer both a social online experience and a solid single player experience. She names just a few in her blog post:

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March 16, 2013
DRM / EA / News

Maxis insider: SimCity servers not necessary!

SimCity

As you all know SimCity have suffered massive server issues since launch.
While players have been begging for an offline mode, EA representatives have been abundantly clear that this simply isn’t possible. Maxis’ studio head, Lucy Bradshaw, has told both Polygon and Kotaku that they “offload a significant amount of the calculations to our servers”, and that it would take “a significant amount of engineering work from our team to rewrite the game” for single player.

A SimCity developer has got in touch with RPS to tell them that at least the first of these statements is not true. He claimed that the server is not handling calculations for non-social aspects of running the game, and that engineering a single-player mode would require minimal effort.

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March 13, 2013
DRM / Games / Linux / News / Releases / Steam / Valve

Steam for Linux open beta coming next week

Steam for Linux will be available for everyone to try next week! The list of available games on Steam for Linux users: Amnesia Dynamite Jack Eversion iBomber Attack Killing Floor Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 Serious Sam 3:BFE Sword & Sworcery The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles World of Goo Source: OMG Ubuntu

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December 13, 2012
DRM / Ubisoft / UPlay

Uplay as vessel for malicious software

I usually like titles with a pun or something on those lines, attempting to find a funny side even in a disaster. Not this time. Not when the threat is so dangerous and imminent. According to this article there's a huge hole in Uplay's browsers plugin which lets anybody run potentially anything on the victim's computer. I haven't tested it personally having never installed Ubisoft's Uplay and never planned to…

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July 30, 2012
DRM / Entertainment / Games / Valve

Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 a catastrophe

Operating system Windows 8 will be a "catastrophe" for PC game makers, according to Valve Software's boss. Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle, Gabe Newell said the next version of Windows could mean big changes to the PC market. Many took his comment as a criticism of the changed user interface in Windows 8 as well as its built-in Windows Store. The Windows Store could dent the…

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July 26, 2012
DRM / News

Apple DRM update breaks apps

  Simple as that: the latest FairPlay* update made several different apps impossible to use. Also, first help from Apple, "delete, reinstall and it will work fine", was of no use.   Has the problem been tracked down? Solved maybe? I don't care. The money I spend always works, never needs a patch or an authentication to be used. Once again, a DRM does nothing but getting in the way…

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July 7, 2012
DRM / News / Steam

Steam should provide buying international titles around the globe

There's a pretty interesting post on Steam Forums (thanks for the info Kossak) about regional versions of Steam games being released in Russia (yep, Russian only). The original poster thinks that "cheap region restricted versions should be optional, not forced". Lets expand the idea a little and say why not release games around the world in two versions, one cheaper (restricted to one language only and even one area only…

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September 14, 2011
DRM

Non-steam Dragon Age II PC DRM has online check

Sad news, all non-Steam versions of Dragon Age II on PC will require an online check "after a select period of days".  But how many days you'll be allowed to play offline before being locked out, BioWare hasn't decided. "We'll have more info on this closer to release," posted BioWare producer Fernando Melo on the official forums. "Not trying to avoid the question, we honestly have not settled on this…

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February 2, 2011
DRM / EA / Entertainment / Games / News / Ubisoft

New digital distributor player emerges: Atomblock

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New digital distributor emerges: Atomblock
New digital distributor emerges: Atomblock

Distributor Atomblock is to launch a new download site in UK with 450 titles ready to download from clients including EA, Codemasters, Ubisoft and 2K Games. Atomblock plans to have over 1000 titles by the end of the year.

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October 8, 2010
DRM / Steam / Ubisoft

R.U.S.E. will not utilize Ubisoft PC DRM

Good news, the PC version of R.U.S.E. will not use Ubisoft's 24/7 always online DRM, instead it will use Steamworks. Aymeric Evennou, Ubisoft senior community developer, stated on the official R.U.S.E. forums: "When R.U.S.E. is released in September, it will benefit from Valve’s Steamworks API to offer the best community experience to players. Consequently, a Steam account and Internet connection will be required to activate the game, as per Steam policy.…

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August 12, 2010
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