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Maniacal
Dec 22, 2008, 10:27 PM
http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hellforge/EA-Games-to-release-DRM-free-titles-on-Steam

EA Games to release DRM-free titles on Steam

by Sol Invictus, Level 31
Last updated at December 22, 2008, 1:15 am


As some of you who use Steam may have just discovered, Electronic Arts has officially caved in to popular demand and joined Valve's digital distribution system Steam and along for the ride are a few major games like Mass Effect, Dead Space, Spore and Red Alert 3.

Seeing as how Rockstar manhandled the recent release of Grand Theft Auto IV by embedding countless DRM procedures into the game, EA Games has decided that it will not make the same mistake and has instead opted to remove the SecuROM protection from the games that it will be releasing on Steam.


The full list of games available on Steam include:
- SporeTM
- Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack
- Warhammer® Online: Age of ReckoningTM
- Mass Effect®
- Need for SpeedTM Undercover
- EA SPORTS FIFA Manager 2009

Further games will be made available in the coming weeks:
- Mirror's EdgeTM
- Command & ConquerTM Red AlertTM 3
- Dead SpaceTM

leonel
Dec 23, 2008, 03:53 PM
Aw damn if I had known that, I would have waited on Spore! But then again I was suckered in with the hype.