Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight cracked within hours, as its Denuvo DRM bypassed soon after launch

Here we are again. The eternal battle between leakers, pirates and software houses is as old as time, but whereas once, inserting the much-hated Denuvo DRM into your product would allow you a few safe weeks without your new game appearing as a torrent all over the interpipes, that ship has very definitely sailed, full of pirates, far out to the high seas.

For a game that, while admittedly a lot of fun, is around 13 hours long, to cost £80 to play it three days “early” is one thing, but combined with the issues that the DRM can bring to your system, it can make things a lot less palatable.

However, for the sake of the game not landing in the hands of the masses for free, companies still sometimes think it is worth it, even if it does affect the people who are actually handing over real money for the game.

That is a lot less easy to swallow for buyers when, mere hours after the Deluxe version appeared in its three-day exclusivity period, the Denuvo safety method has been bypassed, albeit seemingly with a Hypervisor crack rather than a bog-standard one. Yet at least.

As one post on Reddit put it:”So, first they used Denuvo so games wouldn’t get cracked at all, then they started using it just to delay cracks for a few months so they could secure launch sales, now the only goal is making sure the game doesn’t get cracked before release, and they still can’t even do that lmao”

It’s just not good. For anyone.

While a Hypervisor bypass potentially leaves your PC at risk from nefarious types, and nobody could ever tell you it’s safe, at this stage, it feels more like a middle finger from the pirates and crackers to companies who continue to insert Denuvo into their code. certain crackers want to make it perfectly clear that Denuvo, in its current form at least, is compromised.

This hack is not the same as the leaked version of Subnautica 2 or Forza getting into the wild; it’s much more technical than that. But nevertheless, it is a bypass, and there is already proof out there, which we obviously aren’t going to point you at, of the hacked version working.

At the moment, it seems like there is no fail-safe method of preventing PC piracy, which doubtless Sony could state as a reason for pulling out of single-player gaming on the format.

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