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Empress (sometimes stylized EMPRESS) is a video game cracker who specializes in breaking anti-piracy software. While the true identity of Empress is unknown, she refers to herself as a young Russian woman. [1] [2] Empress has also released cracked games under the moniker C000005. [3] Empress is known as one of the few crackers who can crack Denuvo.
FIFA 15, released in September 2014, was the first game to use Denuvo. [5] 3DM, a Chinese warez group, first claimed to have breached Denuvo's technology in a blog post published on 1 December 2014, wherein they announced that they would release cracked versions of Denuvo-protected games FIFA 15, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Lords of the Fallen. [6]
They cracked Resident Evil 7: Biohazard only five days after its release, at the time the shortest amount of time taken to develop a crack for a Denuvo DRM-protected game. [21] They also cracked Mass Effect: Andromeda, [22] only ten days after its release. In July 2017 the warez group SKIDROW criticized the methods used by CONSPIR4CY to crack ...
The group also announced that it would quit cracking games for a year, [1] and later claimed it had defeated Denuvo's technology. [4] In 2017, Japanese game developer Koei Tecmo won a lawsuit against 3DM in a Chinese court. 3DM was sentenced to $245,000 U.S. dollars in damages, and to cease distribution of pirated versions of Koei Tecmo's games ...
A similar problem where Capcom had added additional DRM atop Denuvo had affected Devil May Cry 5 for Windows, and after Capcom's official update that removed Denuvo and its DRM, Devil May Cry 5 ' s performance was improved. [77] Capcom released a patch for Village later that July that, among other changes, altered how the game used Denuvo. [78]
On June 22, 2006, Razor 1911 started releasing games again. They have been releasing games fairly consistently ever since, and as of 2010 are among the most prolific groups at cracking new releases. [5] On April 1, 2011, Razor 1911 "cracked" the TV show 101% on the French TV channel Nolife, inducing many unwanted "bugs" and behaviors in the ...
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In July 2020, the group released an up to date crack for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne for PC, a game protected by Denuvo Anti-Tamper, a protection widely known for being hard to crack. [8] Paradox had members such as D3stY (d3zxor) and Genius specialized in dongle reverse engineering and patching for hardware dongles such as Rainbow Computer ...