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 ...

EA announced its latest salvo in the endless cat-and-mouse battle of PC gaming cheat detection on Tuesday, and the effort prominently features one term sure to raise a red flag for some users: “kernel ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. This report comes from Call of Duty content creator LunchTime, who used social media to share that four Call of Duty cheat providers confirmed to have ...

Most gamers remember the excitement of discovering a cheat code in a game back in the 1990s and early 2000s, entering in a wild string of controls that would make you invincible, get extra abilities, ...

You can activate cheats in GTA 5 to gain invincibility, powerful new weapons, and more. To activate cheats in GTA 5, you can use your in-game cellphone, the command ...

When Steven Spohn wants to play a video game, he boots up the computer and puts on a baseball cap that allows him to use head movements to input keyboard presses. Attached to the hat is a piece of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...