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.
Playnite Setup: 5+ Stores in 12 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Playnite is a free, open-source game library manager that pulls Steam, Epic, GOG, EA App, Battle.net, and entire emulator ROM collections into one interface, so you stop opening…
EmuDeck vs RetroDeck: 3,479 vs 1,225 GitHub Stars [2026]
Steam Deck owners chasing retro emulation face a decision that barely existed a few years ago: hand the job to EmuDeck’s script-based configurator, or install RetroDECK’s single, sandboxed…
ROG Xbox Ally X20 Drops Forced $2,000 AR Bundle [2026]
ASUS spent Computex 2026 showing off the ROG Xbox Ally X20 as the flagship handheld gaming PC of the year: the first OLED screen in the ROG Ally…
Valve Erases Steam Machine’s 4K/60 Claim in 24 Hours [2026]
Valve spent June 25, 2026 quietly rewriting its own marketing history. Four days before the Steam Machine’s official June 29 launch, the company deleted a promise it had…
PS5 Emulator Race: 3,818 Stars as Sony Stays Silent [2026]
Three separate PS5 emulator projects have gone public within the same week, an unusually compressed timeline that has turned a niche corner of the emulation scene into one…
ScummVM Setup: 325+ Games, 15 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Thousands of classic point-and-click adventure games from the 1990s and early 2000s simply will not run on a modern PC. The original executables were built for MS-DOS, Windows…
Heroic vs Lutris: 3 Stores vs 346K Games [2026]
Linux gaming no longer means choosing between one launcher and total silence from the rest of your library. Two open-source projects now dominate the conversation: Heroic Games Launcher,…
Assassin’s Creed Hits 3M as Ubisoft Axes Barcelona [2026]
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced just became the best-selling launch in franchise history. Days later, Ubisoft laid off the Barcelona studio team that helped build it. The two…
Xbox Exclusives Return as Hardware Revenue Sinks 33% [2026]
On June 7, 2026, at its annual Games Showcase, Xbox did something it had spent more than two years telling players it would never do again: it promised…
33 Years On, 3DO’s Comeback Collapses in Days [2026]
In late June 2026, a British-Turkish entrepreneur named Işık Şekercigil announced on LinkedIn that his newly relaunched publisher, Empire Interactive, had acquired “the trademark and select intellectual property…
