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Spore, Mass Effect PC to Require Validation Every Ten Days

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:47:55 +0000

BioWare technical producer Derek French has said that the PC versions of both Mass Effect and Spore will make use of copy protection that will require online validation every ten days in order for the... Read more...

Legislation to Require ESRB Play Entire Game

Mike Brown — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:02:03 +0000

Direct from the "It sounded like a great idea at the time" files comes the latest development in video game ratings legislation. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) is currently attempting to move the Truth in Video... Read more...

PS3 to require 'adaptor' to use PSOne, PS2 memory cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:36:30 +0000

Sony's PlayStation 3 will play "thousands" of PSOne and PS2 titles, the company has claimed, but if players want to carry over saved games, they'll need to obtain a memory card adaptor first, the Sony... Read more...

Vista x64 to require digital signatures for many drivers

Michael Stanclift — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:53:05 +0000

With little fanfare, Microsoft just announced that the xX64 version of Windows Vista will require all kernel-mode code to be digitally signed. This is very different than the current WHQL program, where... Read more...

Half-Life to Require Steam

Marcel Klum — Sun, 07 Sep 2003 09:17:20 +0000

It appears that Valve will soon be replacing the WON ID system of user authentication that Half-Life has used since the very beginning with Steam. Here's some quotes from Valve's Erik Johnson yanked from this... Read more...