A quick visit to any of the Reddit gaming subreddits will quickly show you an unpleasant picture. That is, Techland is abusing DMCA claims to take down mods for Dying Light. Two Redditors, /u/drogean2 and /u/Descatusat, uploaded a mod to…
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GOG – Gamers Are Not Criminals | Good Old Games Takes Stand For Gamers
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…
SimCity – Offline Update Finally Released
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…
SimCity – Offline Mode Took 6 Months Work, Claims Engineer
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…
SimCity – Finally Getting Offline Mode With New Patch
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…
Sony Admit MS Backlash Was Very Useful
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…
Xbox One Guide For Game Ownership & DRM
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…
Sony’s Jack Tretton Says PS4 Pre Owned DRM Is “Up to third parties”
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…
Sony Re-Affirms Always-Online Requirement Is Not Present In PS4
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,…
Microsoft Officially Apologises for Orth’s “Deal With It” Comments on Always on DRM
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…
SimCity 5 Servers Improved – Latest News on the State of the Game
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…