Ubisoft's biggest launch in years is a 13-year-old game — and pirates beat its DRM before it even shipped

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sold 3 million copies in a week and set an AC record on Steam. it also got cracked up to a month early, by a… Aliteq Diego Santos · Gaming Editor

The remake earned an 85% on OpenCritic — the highest-rated Assassin's Creed since the 2013 original — and topped the Steam premium chart over Palworld and EA's College Football 27. There's a…

The comeback: Ubisoft's safest bet is its own back catalog

Denuvo is the anti-piracy tech publishers bolt onto big PC releases. For Black Flag Resynced it failed before launch — a playable cracked build circulated up to a month early. But this wasn't a…

The DRM story: Denuvo lost, and the 'win' is scary

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