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.
Control Resonant Hits 90% Score as Pirates Back It [2026]
A cracked PC copy of CONTROL Resonant spread across piracy forums in the days before Remedy Entertainment’s official launch window this month, and the reaction inside those same…
Prince of Persia Free on Switch: 4 Days Left [2026]
Nintendo Switch Online members can play all of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown for free this week, no purchase required, through a limited-time Game Trial that Nintendo…
Xbox Patent Would Trade Ads for 15 Minutes of Play [2026]
A newly published Microsoft patent application has gamers asking an uncomfortable question: could watching an ad become the price of finishing a boss fight without a pause? The…
GTA VI’s $79.99 Price Ignites Overhyped Debate [2026]
Grand Theft Auto VI has a release date, a price tag and a single-player-only format. What it does not have, seven weeks out from launch, is agreement on…
Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2: 62,980 Yen [2026]
Nintendo pulled the wraps off its Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition hardware at Tokyo Game Show this week, and the photos are the clearest look yet at…
Persona 6 Hits Switch 2 as 4th Platform, No Date Set [2026]
Nintendo’s September 9, 2026 Direct spent barely three seconds on it, but the moment still landed as one of the week’s biggest gaming stories: Persona 6 is coming…
Steam Deck Hits $500, Valve Confirms Deck 2 Coming [2026]
Valve is still building a Steam Deck 2, and the memory crisis squeezing the rest of the PC hardware market has not knocked the project off course. That…
Twitch Hits 8.6B Hours as Kick Grows 36.7% [2026]
Twitch says viewers watched more than 8.6 billion hours of gaming content on the platform between January 1 and September 1, 2026, according to the company’s first State…
Nintendo Wins $4.5M Pirate Judgment, Says It’s Not Enough [2026]
A U.S. federal court has ordered a Nintendo Switch piracy operator to pay $4.5 million in damages, one of the largest default judgments Nintendo of America has secured…
Zelda 40th Switch 2 Sells Out, Scalpers Hit $800 [2026]
Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition Switch 2 console vanished from preorder queues within hours of going live, and by the week of September 25, 2026, resellers…
