Gaming
Game security, anti-cheat systems, platform integrity and the wider gaming industry. Reporting and analysis on how games stay fair and where they break.
GOG vs Steam: 30-Day Refunds vs 2-Hour Limit [2026]
Two philosophies define PC gaming’s digital storefronts in 2026, and they could not be more different. Steam, run by Valve, is the 125,000-game behemoth that most PC gamers…
College Football 27’s $150 Pay Wall Gone in 72 Hours [2026]
Electronic Arts spent less than three days undoing a monetization decision that took months to build. EA Sports College Football 27 launched in early July 2026 with paid…
CD Projekt Rebrands to Red After $25M GOG Sale [2026]
CD Projekt is no longer just the parent company behind CD Projekt RED – as of June 23, 2026, it is CD Projekt RED. Shareholders at the Polish…
ShadPS4 Setup: 117 PS4 Games Playable, 12 Steps [2026]
ShadPS4, the open-source PlayStation 4 emulator, crossed 32,000 GitHub stars in July 2026, less than three years after its first commit. Its June 1, 2026 release, version 0.16.0,…
Best Cloud Gaming Service 2026: 5 Apps, $0 to $44/Mo
Buying a new gaming PC or console got a lot more painful in 2026. DRAM and GPU prices have climbed for a year straight, and even the cheapest…
Amazon Luna Kills Game Ownership, $0 in Refunds [2026]
Amazon has spent the past three months quietly dismantling the one feature that used to separate Luna from every other cloud gaming service: the ability to actually own…
Embracer Group Splits in Two, Profit Craters 68% [2026]
Embracer Group confirmed on May 20, 2026 that it will break itself into two independently listed companies, spinning off a new entertainment business called Fellowship Entertainment onto Nasdaq…
Xbox Shipments Sink 22%, Head Toward Zero by 2027 [2026]
Global console shipments are on track for their steepest single-year drop of this hardware generation, and Xbox is absorbing the worst of it. A new forecast from S&P…
Legion Go vs Steam Deck: $599 vs $789, 4x the Pixels [2026]
Two of the handhelds that defined the modern PC gaming category launched within weeks of each other in late 2023: the Lenovo Legion Go on October 31, and…
PS Plus Jumps to $19.99 as Sony Eyes a Third Hike [2026]
Sony has raised PlayStation Plus subscription prices for the second time in three years – and the company is already signaling that a third increase could follow. The…
