Denuvo sues alleged cracker voices38 over 26 games
Denuvo has sued an anonymous game cracker known as voices38 for releasing cracks that strip its protection software from PC games.
The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, according to Video Games Chronicle in a report published on 18 September 2026. Denuvo accuses voices38 of bypassing its anti-tamper technology, code added to games to stop unauthorised copies from running, on at least 26 titles. In practice, that software checks that a copy is legitimate before it lets the game start, and a crack is designed to get around that check.
The filing names Resident Evil Requiem, Stellar Blade, Black Myth Wukong, 007 First Light and Pragmata among the affected games. The list also includes Hogwarts Legacy, Sonic Frontiers, Assassin's Creed Mirage, Mafia: The Old Country, Doom: The Dark Ages and Dead Space Remastered.
Denuvo is seeking damages under the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, a US law that bars breaking digital locks that control access to copyrighted works. It is also seeking an injunction, a court order, that would bar voices38 from circumventing Denuvo Anti-Tamper in any past, present or future game. That wording covers the games already named and any Denuvo-protected game released later, if the court grants it.
The case does not stop at those 26 games. After Denuvo compiled its list, voices38 released further cracks for games including Persona 3 Reload and Star Wars Outlaws. Those two titles sit outside the 26 counted in the complaint.
The defendant is identified only by the handle voices38. No real-world name is given in the material reported so far. Tom's Hardware described voices38 as an anonymous cracker accused of bypassing Denuvo's protections across 26 games.
For context, other pirates have used hypervisor-based bypasses, a technique that runs a game inside a hidden software layer to fool its checks, to crack Denuvo-protected games on the day of release. Irdeto promised a countermeasure to that technique, as reported by TorrentFreak on 31 March 2026.
What makes this stand out for players is how visible the dispute has become. Protection software usually stays in the background. Here it is the subject of a federal complaint with a long list of familiar titles attached.
