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The much-hated and controversial video game DRM tech Denuvo has seemingly been completely and utterly cracked thanks to a new technique created by crafty pirates and modders. And now that the once impossible-to-defeat DRM has been bypassed, Borderlands<\/em> publisher 2K is fighting back with Denuvo\u2019s help and reportedly implementing new 14-day online check-ins for games on PC.<\/p>\n As recently reported by Tom\u2019s Hardware<\/em>, on April 27, a large Reddit thread tracking which games using Denvuo DRM still needed to be cracked or bypassed officially hit zero. (This list tracks games that don\u2019t require an online server connection, not MMORPGs and other games that do.)\u00a0 What that means, effectively, is that according to Denuvo modders and hackers, the DRM tech is no longer able to stop pirates from downloading and installing games for free. This milestone for hackers is largely thanks to the MKDev collective and modder DenuvOwO. It was these people who created the hypervisor-based bypass (HVB) that installs a kernel-level driver to bypass Denuvo\u2019s DRM checks.<\/p>\n Technically, Denuvo is still in the game, but it isn\u2019t functioning as it should, and pirates can play without paying. And there is already some evidence that bypassing Denuvo has led to performance improvements in titles like Resident Evil Requiem,<\/em> which might push some people to use the bypass even if they bought the game legally. We saw this in a previous Resident Evil<\/em> game when hackers bypassed Denuvo in 2021.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s debatable whether DRM circumvention is completely bad, as video game preservation relies heavily on cracked games to keep them playable long after the publisher moves on or delists a title, there\u2019s no question that if you make, publish, and sell video games, this isn\u2019t the news you want to hear about the DRM software you rely on to stop piracy. So, expectedly, some publishers as well as Denuvo itself are reportedly fighting back.<\/p>\n As reported by Pirat Nation and Tom\u2019s Hardware,<\/em> 2K Games has apparently begun adding 14-day online check-ins to some of its PC games. The check-in has apparently been added to NBA<\/em> 2K25, NBA 2K26, <\/em>and Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns.<\/em> These games now reportedly use a \u201cfixed offline authorization token\u201d that expires after two weeks. Once that happens, the game will not be playable until you connect to the internet and let the game ping Denvuo to get a new token. Pirat Nation and hackers are claiming this new countdown isn\u2019t properly disclosed on the games\u2019 Steam Store page or in each title\u2019s respective EULA.<\/p>\n Kotaku<\/em> has reached out to 2K and Denuvo, but didn\u2019t hear back before publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The much-hated and controversial video game DRM tech Denuvo has seemingly been completely and utterly cracked thanks to a new technique created by crafty pirates and modders. And now that the once impossible-to-defeat DRM has been bypassed, Borderlands publisher 2K is fighting back with Denuvo\u2019s help and reportedly implementing new 14-day online check-ins for games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7152,7150,4962,7151],"class_list":{"0":"post-7277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-cracked","9":"tag-denuvo","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-fully"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}