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EA Has Done Something Wonderful That Every Major Publisher Needs To Copy
28.2.2025
The world is built on sharing. Sure, it might seem like the most counter-cultural act imaginable amidst these late-stage capitalism end-of-days horrors, but the very internet on which you’re reading these words wouldn’t exist without it. The games you play depend on it. It’s the very core of...
Dino Crisis 1 And 2 Get PC Ports As Fans Vote On Which Other Classic Games To Bring Back
29.1.2025
Dino Crisis games are the latest PlayStation 1-era classics to get ported to PC with new enhancements. It’s part of an ongoing trend of old games that only ever came to the platform in CD-ROM format getting the digital download treatment for modern gaming rigs, and storefront GOG is asking fans...
GOG Makes Big Promise On Game Preservation As Blizzard Pulls Warcraft I And II From Its Store
2.12.2024
Blizzard is delisting Warcraft I and II from GOG, the only PC gaming storefront the real-time strategy classics were available on outside of the company’s own Battle.net launcher. The move comes after the recent launch of its own expensive and lackluster remasters of the two games, but GOG is using...
Online Gaming Store GOG Launches New Scheme To Save Games From Disappearing
13.11.2024
In 2008, when GOG.com was launched, it was called Good Old Games. As Steam was on the rise and digital distribution was clearly to become the future of gaming, a Polish company that had just released its first game—a relatively obscure RPG called The Witcher—wanted to get in on the act. The goal...
Microsoft z hrobu vykopal Windows Media Player a Silverlight a připravil je o DRM
16.9.2024
Na seznamu vyřazených funkcí, které jsou tím pádem odsouzené k likvidaci, se ocitly starší DRM ochrany ve Windows. Microsoft na seznam pravidelně zařazuje funkce, kterých se chce zbavit. V podstatě jde o vyhlášení záměru.
Původní titulek: Je rok 2024 a Microsoft oznamuje, že DRM ve Windows Media
Xbox Suffers Major Outage
3.7.2024
Xbox users have spent the last several hours cut off from the platform’s online features following a major outage. Microsoft confirmed the issues were widespread across Xbox Series X/S accounts but said its investigation into the source of the downtime was taking longer than expected. Read more
Payday 3 Gets Offline Mode That Uh, Requires You To Be Online
25.6.2024
Payday 3 launched with no offline mode for solo players. Now, nearly nine months after launch, it’s getting an offline solo mode. But, there’s a catch: You’ll still need to be online to access it. Read more
Ava Labs brings intellectual property management to K-pop industry
25.6.2024
According to a market report from Allied Research, the South Korean pop music industry will be valued at $20 billion by 2031
Blíží se průšvih? Suicide Squad zavádí DRM a nedává recenzentům kopie
29.1.2024
Po několika odkladech snad již za pár dnů vyjde akční hra na motivy komiksu Suicide Squad. Místo těšení se ovšem v herní komunitě vládnou rozpaky, snad každá novinka ze strany vývojářů totiž poslední dobou působí negativně
Monster Hunter Rise Broke On Steam Deck After Capcom Added DRM
22.1.2024
Monster Hunter Rise, the sixth mainline entry in Capcom’s creature-slaying action RPG, is now broken on Steam Deck. It seems that, right after the company replaced its old digital rights management (DRM) software with a new one, the game just wouldn’t boot up anymore. That sucks, but Capcom...
Elastos Introduces Elacity DRM, Web3’s First Digital Rights Management Tool
9.1.2024
Source: Elastos Elastos has announced the launch of Elacity DRM, a new digital rights management (DRM) tool designed specifically for Web3, focusing on video content creators. Elacity DRM introduces an Access Economy Protocol (AEP) that combines non-fungible token (NFT) technology with...
Ubisoft Just Delisted A Game Without Warning And Will Kill Its Servers Next Year
14.12.2023
Ubisoft’s The Crew, which was released in 2014 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, has been delisted without warning. Its servers will shut off next year, too. And because the game is an always-online experience, Ubisoft has confirmed that it will become unplayable once that happens....
Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Has Online DRM Even On Console
5.12.2023
A redditor who received their PS5 copy of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora before launch has claimed the game will not work without an online connection.Read more
Theta Labs’ Web3 DRM boosts exclusive pet videos
29.9.2023
In an unprecedented partnership, two industry titans are uniting to revolutionize the delivery of content. Two well-known companies, The Pet Collective and Theta Labs, have joined forces to enhance the online experience of their five million consumers with exclusive content. This activity...
Payday 3’s Busted ‘Always Online’ Launch Is a Mess, CEO Apologizes
22.9.2023
By many accounts, Payday 3 appears to be a disappointing half-step forward for the longrunning co-op bank robbery series. Unlike its predecessor, it also requires players to always be online, a seemingly grave misjudgement given Payday 3’s first-week launch woes. The problems with crashes, slow...
The Dream Of DRM-Free Steam PC Games Is Fading Away
13.1.2023
Good Old Games, or GOG, the digital-rights-management-free PC gaming marketplace and platform from CD Projekt, has officially ended a service that already didn’t feel terribly long for this world. What once seemed like a promising way to slowly import portions of your Steam library to GOG, where...
Controversial DRM Company Takes Aim At Switch Piracy
24.8.2022
Denuvo, the company best known for its heavily-criticized PC gaming DRM technology, has set its sights on a new scourge: Nintendo Switch piracy. The software maker announced during GamesCom 2022 on Wednesday that it will begin selling a new product called Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection...
Radiokomunikace zahájily zkušební rozhlasové vysílání v DRM
12.7.2022
České Radiokomunikace experimentují s další formou digitálního rozhlasového vysílání. Z vysílače v Českých Budějovicích začaly šířit program veřejnoprávního Radiožurnálu ve standardu DRM. „Pilotní vysílání je na střední vlně 954 kHz, s výkonem 3,16 kW, šířkou kanálu 9 kHz a modulací 16 QAM....
New Assassin's Creed Situation On Steam Is A Digital Nightmare
11.7.2022
When games started making the switch from physical to digital, everyone knew there were trade-offs. Digital downloads were quicker and more convenient, but also meant you didn’t entirely own the game you bought. You were just licensing it, making you subject to the whims and future solvency of...
PlayStation’s Big New Exclusive Has Been Nearly Unplayable For Over 24 Hours
18.3.2022
PlayStation racing sim Gran Turismo 7 has been offline for maintenance for over a day. Normally, that wouldn’t be a huge deal, but because so much of the game requires an online connection, including a great deal of single-player content, fans have effectively been locked out of Sony’s latest...