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Ubisoft tweaks Driver's always-on DRM, Skyrim to use Steam

Ubisoft tweaks Driver
  • Posted August 17, 2011, 4:02 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming
  • As with most of the company's major game launches since early last year, Ubisoft planned to lace the PC version of Driver: San Francisco with its pesky always-on DRM. The mechanism has appeared in titles including Assassin's Creed II, Silent…

The Witcher 2 patch 1.1 removes DRM, boosts framerate

The Witcher 2 patch 1.1 removes DRM, boosts framerate
  • Posted May 27, 2011, 6:52 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • CD Projekt has released the first patch for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings today, delivering new content and fixing game-breaking performance issues. According to various user reports, the DRM mechanism that ships with retail versions of the game drastically…

Ubisoft scales back 'always on' DRM for some titles

Ubisoft scales back
  • Posted January 4, 2011, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming
  • Ubisoft caught some serious flak from the gaming community last year over its controversial DRM scheme, which saw some of its titles requiring constant authentication with the company’s servers in order to play them – even in single player mode.…

HDCP master key leak could help kill DRM

  • Posted September 14, 2010, 1:43 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Industry News
  • The HDCP master key, which permanently unlocks the DRM protocol on Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, and displays with HDMI inputs, was supposedly leaked by Twitter user IntelGlobalPR (via Engadget). If the key is indeed legitimate, there could be major consequences…

R.U.S.E. drops Ubisoft's DRM for Steam

  • Posted August 12, 2010, 4:29 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming
  • Ubisoft's always-connected DRM is, to say the least, greatly unpopular in the gaming community, and it seems that disdain has made an impression. The publisher has decided to exclude its DRM from the upcoming real time strategy game R.U.S.E., favoring…

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