Resident Evil 9 Day One: Denuvo Cracked in One Hour, 320,000 Concurrent Players Crush the Entire Series

Several markers lit up on today's gaming map at once — here's what each one says.

Steam Freebie: Alone Available for Free for a Limited Time

The shooter-strategy game Alone: Highway Bridge Community Rooftop Garden has gone live on Steam's free game program. Originally priced at ¥62, the offer runs until 2:00 AM on March 5 or while supplies last.

Cracked Within an Hour of Launch: RE9's Five Layers of DRM Mean Nothing

Renowned cracker KiriGiri announced that their team has successfully bypassed the Denuvo encryption on Resident Evil 9: Requiem using hypervisor technology, with support for both AMD and Intel processors — setting a new record for the fastest Denuvo crack ever. Digging deeper, RE9 had stacked a full five layers of protection: Steam's base protection, Denuvo, Capcom DRM, VMProtect, and SteamStub. All of them fell within an hour of release.

Red Desert Unlock Time Revealed: 6:00 AM Beijing Time on March 20

The Xbox Store quietly updated the Red Desert product page, showing the game will unlock simultaneously across multiple time zones on March 19 — which translates to 6:00 AM Beijing Time on March 20.

RE9 Peaks at 320K Concurrent Players — Triple RE8's Numbers

Step back and look at the data, and it gets even more impressive. Resident Evil 9: Requiem launched on February 27, and by the time of this writing, its peak concurrent player count on Steam had surpassed 320,000 (320,056), making it the highest-ever launch peak in the Resident Evil series. For context: Resident Evil 4 Remake peaked at 168K, and Resident Evil Village at 106K — this one is literally three times the latter.

First God of War Live-Action Still: The Nordic Wilderness Feels Right

Amazon Prime Video has released the first official still from the God of War live-action series, giving us our first look at the live-action Kratos and Atreus. Visually, the aesthetic closely matches the Nordic wilderness atmosphere established in the 2018 God of War reboot — Kratos sports his iconic red markings, thick beard, and finely crafted leather armor, while a young Atreus holds a longbow with focused intensity.