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Resident Evil 4 Remake Will ‘Feature’ Denuvo (Despite RE: Village Issues!)
The Resident Evil 4 Remake is set for release on March 24th 2023 and I daresay that it’s already pretty high on a lot of people’s ‘hype’ list. – Based on the trailer, it does look pretty amazing and certainly seems to be giving one of the franchise’s most beloved…
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Denuvo Adds Anti-Piracy Support to Nintendo Switch Games
Denuvo is quite possible some of the most unpopular software around. – For those of you unaware of what is it, the chances are that if you’re a PC gamer you’ve probably encountered it on more than a few occasions without even knowing it. Especially if you play Capcom titles.…
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Research Concludes that Anti-Piracy Advertising Only Likely Encouraged It!
We all know that piracy is a crime. No matter how you choose to morally wrap it up, it does ultimately boil down to theft. – And if you were to tell me that you’d never engaged in it at some point in your life, you’d have to forgive me…
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Denuvo Prepares New DRM Technology Specifically for DLC Piracy
Denuvo is probably one of the most controversial pieces of software around when it comes to PC games. – For those of you unaware, it effectively represents a DRM-based anti-piracy measure that looks (often without much success) to prevent games from being cracked and distributed for free. To date, however,…
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DuckDuckGo Says it Hasn’t Banned Piracy Search Results
While an exceptionally long way from hitting the levels of traffic seen with Google, DuckDuckGo has, in recent years, been gaining a lot of traction with the internet community. The reasons for this can largely be explained in two simple points. It doesn’t use algorithms to track your search activity,…
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DuckDuckGo Continues Content Crackdown with Piracy Sites Removed!
Founded in 2008, while DuckDuckGo certainly has nowhere near the prominence or traffic of Google, in terms of search engines I think it would be fair to say that many today now choose to use this as a, rightly or wrongly, superior alternative. – One of the key features of…
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Intel Confirms Alder Lake-S Gaming DRM Issues Have Been Fixed!
While Intel’s Alder Lake-S processors have proven to be very popular with the gaming community, that isn’t to say that they haven’t had their problems. Most notable among which was a bizarre issue found within the processors ‘big.LITTLE’ core architecture that, in some instances, caused a game’s anti-piracy measures to…
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Microsoft Offers Office Pirates A Discount for them to ‘Go Straight’
While Microsoft Office certainly represents both an excellent and popular piece of software, it does come with a pretty notable problem. Namely, it’s rather expensive. Well, the full version of it is at least. With this in mind, therefore, rather than owning a legitimate copy, many people turn to pirated…
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As The Pirate Bay Turns 18, its Founder Says it “Can Not be Stopped”
This week, The Pirate Bay very quietly turned 18-years-old, and for many, it still represents an excellent repository to access certain downloads (many of which admittedly, are not quite legal – The clue is in their name!). Admittedly though, The Pirate Bay is certainly not what it was. These days…
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Workaround Found for Intel Alder Lake-S Denuvo Bug!
Back in mid-October, rumours began to appear on the internet that Intel’s new Alder Lake-S processors were having something of a problem with older games that featured DRM anti-piracy protections. Put simply, due to the unusual way in which the CPUs operate (with its big.LITTLE core structure) it was understood…
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Intel Alder Lake-S May Have Issues With Anti-Piracy Software
Before we go any further, we should point out that Alder Lake-S has not yet been released. In fact, if the recent leak is proven accurate, then it will be launched on October 27th, with general consumer availability coming on November 4th. Despite that still being a couple of weeks…
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Back 4 Blood Adds Denuvo at (Basically) the 11th-Hour!
With the release of Back 4 Blood set for October 12th, there is clearly a lot of anticipation surrounding what is effectively a brand new spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead. However, the news regarding the title has been coming thick and fast recently as only yesterday the official PC…
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Resident Evil Village DRM Stutter Confirmed by Capcom
Following the release of the cracked (pirated) version of Resident Evil Village earlier this week, it was found that the stuttering/frame drop issue reported by many users of the official PC version appeared to disappear entirely in this version. This did, of course, lead to the somewhat obvious conclusion that…
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Resident Evil Village Pirated Version Fixes Game Stutters?
While Resident Evil Village has proven to be a hugely successful release for Capcom, and not to mention a really excellent addition to the franchise, ever since its launch, there’s been a growing number of complaints from users of the PC version of the game. Specifically, for reasons unclear, it…
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id Software Confirm Denuvo Will be Removed from Doom Eternal
Earlier this month, a highly-controversial new update was made to the PC version of Doom Eternal. Presuming you missed the outcry, let me quickly fill you in. In a nutshell, id Software had basically bundled the latest version of the Denuvo anti-cheat software in with the patch. This decision was…
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