Denuvo expands into anti-cheat protection

Denuvo, currently the most hated name in videogame DRM, has plans to expand into a new form of gaming protection: anti-cheat. The company’s cheat protections are scheduled to launch soon, but we don’t know what games will make use of it or exactly what sort of measures it will take. A press release from Irdeto, the parent company of the DRM-maker, says “Denuvo’s Anti-Cheat technology, which is soon to be launched as a full end-to-end solution, will prevent hackers in multiplayer games from manipulating and distorting data and code to gain an advantage over other gamers or bypass in-game micro-transactions. This will prevent dilution of the value of the game for the user and the game studio.” This comes along with the announcement that Irdeto is joining the Esports Integrity Coalition, a group of partners ranging from ESL to Intel which aim to stop cheating, match-fixing, and doping in esports. The release notes specifically notes that esports-connected cheating “can distort virtual in-game economies and can be used to manipulate or bypass in-game micro-transactions” - fields Denuvo has some experience in.