Hi-Fi Rush is ditching Denuvo in January, and it'll become unplayable if you don't grab the latest patch

The power volition necessitate "significant changes" to the game's underbelly

Hi-Fi Rush is ditching its Denuvo anti-tamper bundle arsenic portion of developers' Tango Gameworks modulation to moving nether caller owners Krafton. A caller spot has been released swapping logos to bespeak that power successful management, and you'll request to instal it earlier mid-January if you privation the crippled to enactment playable.

Krafton, of course, bought up Tango aft the studio's erstwhile genitor institution Microsoft announced plans to unopen it down backmost successful May, alongside Redfall developers Arkane Austin and Mighty Doom creators Alpha Dog Games.

Cue Hi-Fi Rush spot 10, released earlier today. It makes nary changes to the crippled bits of the game, alternatively chiefly handling the admin of crossing retired aged steadfast logos successful favour of Krafton ones.

There is, however, 1 cardinal wrinkle it's good worthy you being alert of. The spot has removed Denuvo's arguable anti-piracy/DRM bundle from the game, with enactment for it acceptable to extremity successful afloat arsenic of January 16th. As a effect of that, Tango marque wide that grabbing spot 10 by that day is mandatory, arsenic "significant changes" made to Hi-Fi Rush's "internal strategy structure" successful the Denuevo removal mean that the game'll nary longer tally without this latest spot installed aft that point.

"Please enactment that adjacent aft Denuvo is removed, the game’s ain anti-tampering features volition stay progressive and volition not impact mean gameplay," Tango added, conscionable successful lawsuit you were wondering if the information guards were being permanently dismissed from Hi-Fi's door.

In our reappraisal of the bushed enactment romp, Hirun Cryer dubbed it "a fantastic cocktail of rhythm-based caput banging and action-packed platforming". "The combat strategy is amazingly heavy and malleable for immoderate benignant of subordinate and meshing it mildly into the philharmonic bushed without putting unit connected the subordinate is simply a deft touch," helium continued. "Its penning and characters mightiness permission a small to beryllium desired, particularly erstwhile compelling communicative beats are truthful painfully overlooked, but that doesn’t halt the full bundle from being a certified banger."