In the gaming community, refers to a prominent "scene" group known for releasing cracked versions of PC games.
Jill Valentine didn’t deal in cracked software. She dealt in cracked doors, shattered windows, and the permanent kind of silence that followed a well-placed 9mm round. That was before.
Carlos swallowed. “What if I never did?”
“HOODLUM. RUN. THE LICENCE. HAS. EXPIRED.”
The HOODLUM release provided a stable, DRM-free version of the game after Capcom officially patched out Denuvo. While the release was a "clean" crack, the group noted in their NFO (information file) that they typically do not provide separate updates, often leaving that to other scene subgroups like "anomaly". October 1, 2020.