Most of you already know that Ubisoft has some incredibly draconian DRM, since a lot of their games require that you keep a connection going with their servers at all times as you play the game. Well, what happens when those servers go offline? On Tuesday, February 7th, Ubisoft will be moving its servers,...

Ubisoft is a company that is notorious for releasing PC games laden with DRM. It seems that there is no length they won’t go to in order to keep paying customers from enjoying the games that they purchased. However, they’ve made a bold move that has left more than a few people scratching their...

Over the years Ubisoft has become the poster child for DRM. Time and again this company has released titles containing restrictive software that does little more than irritate paying customers, and at times render legally-purchased games useless. Over the last week, there has been an outcry surrounding the...

If you’ve recently purchased a copy of Driver: San Fransisco for the Xbox 360, you might have noticed something strange. You might have discovered that your Uplay Passport didn’t actually include a code to unlock multiplayer functionality in the game. That’s right, Ubisoft’s grand...

I can’t think of a gamer I know that actually enjoys knowing that their software is locked down with DRM. All too often the player’s rights are abused because the publisher is worried about pirates. The funny thing is that rarely does it actually deter such people, and only serves to harm the...

If you’ve ever purchased a game with SecuROM, you know full well why DRM sucks. There’s nothing quite like having to jump through hoops to reinstall a game just because you reformatted or upgraded your computer. Unfortunately there are some games that are worth putting up with the DRM, which...

I’m sure that you guys remember a couple of months back when people were raising such a big stink over Spore. It wasn’t so much an issue with the game itself, but rather with the DRM which EA chose to infect protect it with. You see, EA knew this was going to be a popular title, and they wanted...

DRM sucks. I doubt that there are many people out there (that don’t work for a company which uses such security measures on their products) that would disagree with me. Yes, I understand that it is the industry’s reaction to piracy, but most of the time, they end up putting restrictions on the...