[Link] DRM Breaking Games Again, This Time Due To New Intel Chip Architecture

Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com

We were just discussing how Denuvo's inability to renew one of its domains suddenly prevented lots of paying customers from playing several of their paid-for video games.

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[Link] A DRM Error Made Major Single-Player PC Games Unplayable

Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com

Over the weekend, online forums were flooded with reports that numerous video games on PC were not launching. Gamers narrowed the problem down to an issue affecting Denuvo, a DRM solution used by some publishers. 

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[Link] Indie dev finds that Linux users generate more, better bug reports

Read: 26/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com

An indie developer has found an interesting observation: Though only 5.8% of his game's buyers were playing on Linux, they generated over 38% of the bug reports. Not because the Linux platform was buggier, either.

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