Online multiplayer games have become huge online ecosystems with millions of players across the world. As this has grown, competitive integrity has emerged as o ...

Cheaters apparently aren't prospering in Battlefield 6. EA's latest large-scale military shooter has been one of the best-selling games of 2025 so far, in a way that has actually challenged Call of ...

Kyle has a degree in Film, Television, and Cultural Studies and has loved video games for as long as he can remember. He's owned every PlayStation, dabbled with the occasional Xbox, and even owned a ...

Kernel-level anti-cheat software is a contentious issue among gamers. It’s a solution for rampant cheating in online games, but some players see the powerful software as a huge overstep on the PCs ...

Software that can see opponents through walls. Aimbots that can lock onto other players automatically. Tools that can boost characters’ stats to the max. The world of online game cheats is ...

In this Dark Reading interview from Black Hat USA 2025, Dark Reading senior news director Rob Wright speaks with Sam Collins and Marius Muench from the University of Birmingham about their research on ...

Valve is ensuring better transparency is coming from developers using kernel-level anti-cheat software, as it must now be flagged on the game's Steam store page. While the use of kernel-level ...

Staff members at a neighbourhood committee in Wenzhou, China, were caught trying to outsmart the facial-recognition ...

Something to look forward to: Anti-cheat tools used by game studios have repeatedly sparked controversy among players. Now, Valve is requiring studios to be transparent, clearly stating when and how ...

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 on PC has several different cheat codes that you can use to give yourself an easier time, but using them isn’t the most straightforward task. Here’s a quick guide on how to ...

The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.