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.
PSN Outage Delays $1M Esports Final, Sony’s 7th [2026]
PlayStation Network went dark for thousands of players on July 24, 2026 – and this time the collateral damage reached beyond frozen matchmaking screens and locked digital libraries.…
Dota 2 Match-Fixing Probe: EWC Prize Pool Down 90% [2026]
The Esports Integrity Commission provisionally suspended two members of Dota 2 team PTime on July 14, 2026, over suspected match-fixing during the Esports World Cup in Paris –…
Rust Dedicated Server: 12 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Rust remains one of Steam’s most-played survival titles in 2026, with SteamCharts recording roughly 130,000 concurrent players at the time of writing and an all-time peak of 259,646…
Nintendo Tariff Lawsuit: Sony Sued, Stock Falls 4% [2026]
Nintendo told a federal judge this week that its customers have no legal claim to a share of the tariff refunds it may soon collect from the US…
EU Clears $55B EA Buyout, BioWare Down to 100 Staff [2026]
The European Commission cleared the path on July 23, 2026, ruling that the Saudi-led, $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts “would not raise competition concerns.” For EA as…
Heroic Games Launcher: 3 Stores, 12 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Heroic Games Launcher has become the default answer for anyone who wants their Epic Games Store, GOG, and Amazon Games (Prime Gaming) libraries in one place without running…
PlayStation Portal vs Backbone One: $250 vs $100 [2026]
Sony raised the price of the PlayStation Portal from $199.99 to $249.99 on April 2, 2026, a 25% increase that Sony attributed to “continued pressures in the global…
id Software Cuts 136 Jobs, Doom DLC Ships Next Day [2026]
Microsoft’s July 2026 restructuring of Xbox has landed hardest on a single studio: id Software, the 32-year-old Texas developer behind Doom and Quake. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining…
Unity 7 Unveiled: Shaders 90% Faster, Ships Q1 2027 [2026]
Unity Technologies used its Unite Seoul developer conference to reveal Unity 7, the company’s next major engine generation, on July 21, 2026. The timing matters: GDC’s 2026 State…
Switch vs Switch 2: $339 vs $449, 10x the GPU Power [2026]
Nintendo will raise the price of the Switch 2 from $449.99 to $499.99 on September 1, 2026 – a $50 hike the company has already confirmed in an…
