Used video game sales are a problem for many publishers. After all, a company like GameStop can sell a used copy of a game for 5 dollars less than a new copy, and keep all the profits: the publisher doesn’t see a single cent out of a used game purchase. Publishers have come across a...

The use of dedicated servers has been a bit of a godsend to online gaming. After all, by having everybody connect to a central machine, you can be assured that that machine’s connection to the internet will be stable and that that machine can indeed handle running the game for everybody else....

When it comes to popular music and video games there’s always going to be some issues involving licensing. After all, different tracks are produced and licensed by different companies, and while it might be more convenient to have one artist provide all the songs for a game, that would get a little...

I’m not going to lie, when I was listening to Ubisoft’s big E3 press conference I couldn’t help but be impressed by them. They seemed to be having such a good time in making and playing all of those different games, and I really wanted to play them. The only thing that’s been keeping...

Ubisoft isn’t doing itself any favors when it comes to explaining why it needs its draconian DRM. In an interview with GamesIndustry International, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot revealed that around 7 percent of people who play their F2P games ever end up actually purchasing any premium content....

Yesterday we told you about another problem in the Ubisoft DRM model, where it was revealed that due to a bad browser plug-in from their Uplay service could leave your computer vulnerable to attack, where it gave an attacker the ability to make your computer run any sort of executable that they wanted. The...

When patch 1.0.3 was released, many people who had bought the game online after the patch was applied found that they were stuck in the first act and could only level till 13. At first it was thought to be a problem with the patch, until it was revealed that it was intentionally done by Blizzard so that...

Yesterday, we reported that Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3 was going to be delayed until December 4th for North America. And while that is still the case, it looks like that December 4th date is only for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game. It turns out that the PC version of Far Cry 3 will be delayed even...