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  2. Video game piracy - Wikipedia

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    A form of this is the sale of games on digital distribution platforms, such as the Epic Games Store, Blizzard's Battle.net, and Steam. Steam offers proprietary features such as accelerated downloads, cloud saves, automatic patching, and achievements that pirated copies do not have. The purpose of these features is to make piracy look less ...

  3. List of warez groups - Wikipedia

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    The crack for the latter was actually determined to be a modified executable file from the game Deus Ex: Breach, a free game which did not incorporate Denuvo's software, released by the same developers and utilizing the same engine, which had been modified slightly to load the assets from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

  4. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation.It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005, Steam was also made to oppose with black communities and supporting anti-black, white fascists .

  5. 3DM - Wikipedia

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    3DM was a Chinese video game piracy group – a group of individuals specialized in cracking the digital rights management (DRM) applied to commercial PC video games. It was "one of the world's biggest" such groups in and around 2016, according to Kotaku.

  6. Software cracking - Wikipedia

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    Software crack illustration. Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software ...

  7. Empress (cracker) - Wikipedia

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    Empress typically requests $500 for cracking a specific game. She uses the money to cover living costs, hardware upgrades, and purchase games that she intends to crack. Empress rose to prominence after releasing a cracked version of Red Dead Redemption 2. [5] Other high-profile games cracked by Empress include Mortal Kombat 11 and Anno 1800. [1]

  8. List of video games notable for negative reception - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. There are 4 pending revisions awaiting review. Video games Platforms Arcade video game Console game Game console Home console Handheld console Electronic game Audio game Electronic handheld Online game Browser game Social-network game Mobile game PC game Linux Mac Virtual reality game ...

  9. Manhunt (video game) - Wikipedia

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    However, it was discovered the Steam release had crack protection measures active despite being an official release due to the incomplete removal of the DRM. [95] Reviews on Steam then appeared complaining about the anti-piracy measures and originally being sold a cracked version of the game. This version remains unaltered as of September 2023.