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.
Steam Machine vs PS5: $400 More, Fewer FPS [2026]
Valve’s living-room PC finally has real reviews, real benchmarks, and a real price tag attached to it, and none of the three are quite what the “6x Steam…
Mario Kart Tour Shuts Down After 7 Years, No Refunds [2026]
Nintendo has confirmed that Mario Kart Tour will end service on September 29, 2026 at 11:00 p.m. Pacific time – roughly 8:00 a.m. CEST on September 30 –…
God of War Laufey Dated for 2027, Kratos Sequel Next [2026]
Sony Interactive Entertainment turned a routine San Diego Comic-Con panel into the biggest God of War news cycle since Ragnarök‘s 2022 launch. On July 24, 2026, Santa Monica…
Halo Campaign Evolved Scores 81, Lowest in 25 Years [2026]
Halo: Campaign Evolved has settled into an 81/100 on Metacritic, the lowest aggregate score any mainline Halo campaign has posted in the franchise’s 25-year history. The remake’s review…
Xemu Setup: 80% Xbox Compatibility, 12 Steps [2026]
The original Xbox launched in November 2001 and Microsoft stopped making it in 2005, but the console’s library is more playable today than at almost any point since.…
Steam vs Epic Games Store: 30% vs 12% Cut [2026]
Steam charges developers up to 30 percent of every sale. Epic Games Store charges a flat 12 percent, and waives its cut entirely on a title’s first $1…
Xbox Down 15 Hours: Second Outage in a Week [2026]
Xbox was down for roughly 15 hours on July 26-27, 2026, in the most disruptive outage Microsoft’s gaming network has suffered all year – and the second Xbox…
Valve Admits Steam Machine Price Ran $300 Over Plan [2026]
Valve just confirmed what Steam Machine buyers suspected the moment the $1,049 price tag appeared: the console cost more to build than the company wanted, and the number…
OBS Studio vs Streamlabs: Free vs $27/Mo, 2-3x RAM [2026]
Two names dominate almost every “how do I start streaming” search: OBS Studio and Streamlabs. Both let you capture your screen, mix webcam and audio, and push a…
melonDS Setup: BIOS Required, 13 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
melonDS just passed 4,884 GitHub stars and shipped its first major release in nearly a year – v1.1, out November 18, 2025, with DSi Speak-to-Text Processor (DSP) high-level…
