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PC creators had complained their work was being plagiarised on Xbox One
Read More »Oculus blocks Rift game workaround, creator responds by bypassing DRM completely
Revive previously allowed players to run any Rift exclusive on HTC Vive, with latest version removing the need to legitimately own games
Read More »Quantum Break forces eyepatch onto pirates and those not logged into Windows Store
Remedy has repeated its comedy anti-piracy measure from Alan Wake in recent PC release Quantum Break. Should the game decide that you’re a pirate, lead character Jack Joyce suddenly dons a very fetching eyepatch, complete with a skull and crossbones motif. Which isn’t that severe a punishment, but will likely …
Read More »How TinyBuild plans to take on the pirates
TinyBuild’s new game Punch Club has garnered its fair share of headlines since it debuted in January. The title was marketed with an interesting Twitch Plays series, and went on to make $1m in sales in just ten days, shifting 100,000 copies. And last week, TinyBuild announced a new sales …
Read More »There’s a better solution to piracy than ‘crippling’ DRM, argues TinyBuild CEO
'We are going to look at regional pricing and more aggressive deals in lower wealth regions,' says Alex Nichiporchik after Punch Club struck by 1.6m illegal downloads
Read More »TinyBuild: We should not ‘cripple’ games with DRM to fight piracy
TinyBuild has condemned the use of DRM to stop illegal downloading, despite its latest game being heavily pirated. Punch Club on smartphones and PC was purchased by 300,000 people, but downloaded illegally by another 1.6 million – that’s 81 per cent of the total players. But TinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik …
Read More »Punch Club was pirated five times more than it was purchased, dev reveals
1.6 million units downloaded illegally, with PC accounting for almost 70 per cent
Read More »Punch Club has been pirated 1.6m times, sold 300k copies
Indie publisher TinyBuild has revealed that Punch Club has sold 300,000 units, as well as some alarming information about the degree to which the game has been pirated. The title has been illegally downloaded 1.6m times since it launched earlier this year. That breaks down as one million times on …
Read More »PC piracy giant calls it quits
One of the largest Chinese piracy groups has said that it has stopped cracking single-player PC games. 3DM was in the press last month having claimed that, thanks to improvements to PC game security, it feared PC piracy may be a thing of the past within two years. Now Torrentfreak …
Read More »Jonathan Blow’s The Witness smashes Braid sales despite high level of piracy
Ambitious puzzle game on track to outsell Braid’s first year sales in its debut week
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