In the past decade, big competitive online games, especially first-person shooters like Activision-Blizzard’s Call of Duty and Bungie’s Destiny 2, have had to massively scale up their operations to ...

For as long as there have been video games, there have been people willing to find ways to cheat. Hobbyists have long dedicated themselves to finding vulnerabilities in games, often with the goal of ...

At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we’ve written before, this is software that runs with more elevated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 launches this week and as players fight to save the world from Vladimir Makarov’s machinations in the single-player campaign, they’re bracing themselves for the next ...

There’s a new trend in game shows lately, where getting the wrong answers can be rewarded as much as getting the right ones. First, there was the flawed but entertaining Bullsh*t The Gameshow, and now ...

Red Dead Redemption cheats and cheat codes can make your Wild West adventure a smoother (or more chaotic) ride — depending what sort of cowboy you are. The following list can pad your wallet and ...