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.
Double Fine Cuts 23 Jobs, One Quarter of Its Staff [2026]
Three weeks. That is how long it took for Double Fine Productions to go from celebrating its freedom from Xbox to laying off nearly a quarter of its…
Steam Deck LCD vs OLED: $399 vs $789, 1.5x Battery [2026]
Valve quietly discontinued the Steam Deck LCD on December 19, 2025, and by mid-February 2026 every remaining unit had sold through. Three months later, on May 27, 2026,…
Winlator Setup: 18K GitHub Stars, 12 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Winlator has quietly become one of the most-searched Android gaming tools of 2026. The free, open-source app bundles Wine and the Box86/Box64 CPU translators into a single APK,…
DLSS vs FSR: Nvidia Wins 48% Blind Test [2026]
Nvidia’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR have spent six years chasing the same goal: rendering games at a lower internal resolution, then using an algorithm to reconstruct something that…
Xbox Prices Jump 50% in Europe, 33% in the US [2026]
Microsoft’s Xbox price hike is no longer a US-only story. When the company first announced higher prices for Xbox Series X and Series S consoles back in June,…
CS2 Dedicated Server: 12 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Counter-Strike 2 remains the most-played game on Steam for a third consecutive year, regularly clearing over a million concurrent players and touching an all-time concurrent peak of 1,862,531…
Meccha Chameleon Malware Hits Steam’s 15M-Seller [2026]
Meccha Chameleon sold 15 million copies in under a month this summer, becoming 2026’s fastest-selling PC game. In late July, it also became a live case study in…
ZeniMax Cuts 379 Jobs, Its Own Union Fights Back [2026]
Microsoft’s Xbox division cut 379 jobs across two ZeniMax entities in July 2026, and more than half of them came from the studio behind Elder Scrolls Online. What…
Papaya Gaming Loses $719M Lawsuit Over Bot Fraud [2026]
A federal judge has ordered Papaya Gaming to pay $719 million to rival Skillz after a jury found the Tel Aviv-based mobile gaming company secretly used bots to…
Steam Deck vs ROG Ally X: $210 Cheaper, 1.6x Battery [2026]
Valve’s 27-May-2026 price hike pushed the Steam Deck OLED to $789 for the base 512GB model, closing much of the gap to ASUS’s flagship Windows handheld. The ROG…
