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Mass Effect official forum has details of copy protection being used in upcoming PC port of Mass Effect. According to the Technical Producer Derek French, Mass Effect will use SecuROM and require online activation in order to play.
Mass Effect uses SecuROM and requires an online activation for the first time that you play it. Each [...]

Here’s something interesting: According to Mark Rein, CEO of Epic Games, 40million pirates have tried to play UT3 online using an invalid key.
If those 40 million players actually paid the full price, it would have been nearly $2 billion more in Epic’s pocket book. That is more than the quarterly sales results from Nvidia or [...]

The Steamworks SDK is now available to game developers and publishers worldwide. Press release below:
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source),
today announced the release of the Steamworks Software Development Kit (SDK).
Steamworks is a complete suite of publishing and development tools that offers PC [...]

In an interview with PCPlay Magazine, CEO of Crytek; Cevat Yerli has revealed that they longer will remain PC exclusive. The rampant piracy of Crysis and the high-development costs have forced the german developer to this decision. Full quote below:
Cevat Yerli: We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem [...]

The 3D programming guru John Carmack sat down with PC Perspective to discuss games programming related matters. Carmack shared his opinions on Ray Tracing, Multi-GPU systems as well as upcoming sparse voxel octree technology and id Software’s very own Tech 6 engine. here’s a snip:
PC Perspective: Let’s just jump right into the issue at hand. [...]

Continuing the Tim Sweeny Talks PC Gaming Interview, TGDaily inquires about Unreal Engine 4.0. Here’s a snippet:
TG Daily: Let’s talk about your game visions for the future and the next Unreal Engine? Where is EPIC going with the Unreal Engine 3.5 and 4.0?
Sweeney: The Unreal engine is really tied to a console cycle. We will [...]

BioWare corp, the developer behind great RPGs such as Knights of the Old Republic and Neverwinter Nights, sat down with Rob Wright of Tom’s Games to discuss their upcoming PC port of Mass Effect, the FOX news lesbian scene controversry, as well as what they think about the PC platform in general. Here’s a snip:
TG: [...]

With everyone throwing their two cents about piracy nowadays, it was just a matter before Stardock said it’s fair share too. One of Stardock employees made a post regarding Piracy and their recent RTS Sins of a Solar Empire:
Recently there has been a lot of talk about how piracy affects PC gaming. And if you [...]

Recently, Epic Games has a lot to say regarding PC gaming, but in doing so, epic always went the wrong way. We either got dimwitt console producers with stupid haircuts bad mouthing PCs or clueless and sub-par console ports . Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, creator of Unreal engine and arguably one of the [...]

After the closing of Iron Lore Studios to due financial burden, THQ’s creative director Michael Fitch had a few things to say about PC game piracy. Fitch made a post at Quarter to Three Forums regarding Piracy and how it has made developing PC games a “freaking nightmare”, Fitch also shoots at all the ignorant [...]