GOG (Good Old Games) are hoping to provide a steam like alternative with their GOG Galaxy platform, and their hardline stance of no DRM isn’t going to be changing. Those users who have accounts with Valve’s Steam service likely know the story by now. You buy the title, install the game and sure there’s.

After over a year of the game being out, Maxis has finally released the update that will allow players to play SimCity in offline mode. Due to the chagrin of everyone ever, given the rather disastrous launch, SimCity has until now been subject to online DRM where you had to be online to be.

As I recently reported, SimCity will finally be getting an offline mode. According to a Lead Engineer, this took about 6 months work to rework significant parts of the game’s architecture. When writing on the official SimCity blog, Simon Fox wrote that the oft-requested offline mode and local save file usage took a great.

That’s right. Both EA and Maxis said it wasn’t possible, but the next update is bringing offline play to SimCity. This was revealed by Maxis’ general manager Patrick Buechner, who made an official post on the official SimCity website. Unfortunately we weren’t given any real indication of when this might be, Patrick just promised.

Shuhei Yoshida from Sony admitted that the public outcry and backlash Microsoft endured over the Always Online DRM of the Xbox One was ‘a very useful source’ for the company when it was finalizing it’s own DRM and user ownership plans. During an interview with the well respected Famitsu magazine, Shuhei Yoshida (who is.

There’s no getting away from it – Xbox One will change the way we play and buy games. Microsoft’s changes to the policy of game ownership, trade ins, online required and so on is complicated – and so this guide will help you understand how you play games on the Xbox One, trade games.

Sony has confirmed, only a day after their conference at E3 2013, that they will not enforce any pre owned DRM, but the decision for third party games will be down to publishers. CEO Jack Tretton appeared on GTTV and addressed various questions concerning the PS4, and eventually made it to the hot topics pre-owned.

  Sony have assured gamers once more that there will not be any plans for an always-online requirement for their new Playstation 4 system. Although this was suggested previously in interviews and presentations, Sony have now gone completely on record, and ruled it out. “Did we consider it? No, we didn’t consider it,” Says.

Most of you have probably seen the Twitter posts from Microsoft creative director Adam Orth, which told haters of always online DRM to “deal with it.” Microsoft have issued an official apology. If you haven’t seen our original article on the comments he made, you can find it here. The jist of it though,.

EA has improved the server capacity for SimCity 5, and is also attempting to clear the air with an apology – with a free game. EA has now said that SimCity 5 ‘s servers have now improved significantly, with their capacity being increased by 120%. They have also said that people are experiencing 80%.