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Fake CAPTCHA Pages Attack Users Looking for Pirated Cracked PC Games
The attack is said to have a global reach and mainly targets users looking for cracked pirated games and GitHub users. The ...
The best way to get into Magic: The Gathering is being handed a shoebox of old cards, but the second-best way is Foundations' Starter Collection
It's a solid way into Commander as well. While Magic's popular four-player format demands you put together a deck of 100 ...
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Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study
Specifically, The Revenue Effects of Denuvo Digital Rights Management on PC Video Games, by William M. Volckmann II, looks at ...
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The true cost of game piracy: 20 percent of revenue, according to a new study
That makes the existence of a crack "a practically exogenous event" that can be used to effectively segregate a game's revenues in a no-piracy world (i.e., before the Denuvo crack is available ...
TechSpot28d
Study finds 20% revenue drop when Denuvo DRM is cracked soon after game launch
A hot potato: PC gamers often label digital rights management ... to identify reliable traits that could predict if a game would get cracked rapidly after release. Factors like popularity, pricing ...
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Games: Copy protection for games does not have to last long
After that, however, PC games generate so little revenue that it makes practically no difference whether the DRM protection is still in place or has been cracked. Publishers could therefore remove ...
PC World18d
How much SSD space do you really need? Don’t skimp unless you have to
Sure, you might be able to crack open that laptop and swap out the ... download files, or manage PC games. That said, a computer with a 64GB SSD can technically run Windows 11 as long as you ...
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“You have to stop thinking about…”: Todd Howard Has Cracked the Code on Why Fallout TV Show Succeeded Where Paramount’s Halo Was a Disaster
“You have to stop thinking about…”: Todd Howard Has Cracked the Code on Why Fallout TV Show Succeeded Where Paramount’s Halo ...
When crack ships crack the superhero mainstream
The marketing potential of crack ships saw a milestone when Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal shared a release date of March 20, 2020. Folks at Bethesda quickly caught on to the Isabelle ...
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Does Not Have Any 3rd-Party DRM, Including Denuvo
But the lack of DRM has the knock-on effect of preventing Bioware from offering a preload period for PC players ... of video game piracy by, they hope, pushing back the release of cracked versions ...
TweakTown29d
Piracy can reduce sales revenues by 20%, a sizable loss for publishers and developers
The study is called Revenue effects of Denuvo digital rights management on PC video games ... The characteristics of a game cannot explain its likelihood of being cracked. This explains why ...
Take-Two Boss Calls Borderlands Movie “Disappointing,” but It Sold Games
The Borderlands movie may have been an absolute critical and financial failure at the box office, but it still benefited the series.