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.
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…
Bazzite Setup: 6 Editions, 13 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Bazzite is the Linux gaming operating system that turned “install SteamOS on anything” from a hacky workaround into an officially supported, one-click download. Built by the Universal Blue…
ROG Xbox Ally vs Steam Deck: $599 vs $789, Same DNA [2026]
The ROG Xbox Ally and the Steam Deck OLED are two of the most-searched handheld gaming PCs of 2026, and for the first time, they’re built on strikingly…
EA Goes Private: $55B Buyout Set to Close Aug. 4 [2026]
Electronic Arts is about to stop being a public company. In an SEC filing dated July 30, 2026, EA confirmed that every regulatory approval needed to complete its…
Boosteroid vs GeForce Now: €8.97 vs $19.99, No Cap [2026]
Two cloud gaming services now sell the exact same pitch – rent a gaming PC in a data center, stream your own Steam or Epic Games Store library…
Flycast Setup: 5 Sega Systems, 12 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Flycast is the emulator quietly running underneath a lot of other tools you may already know. When RetroArch loads a Dreamcast game through its “Flycast” core, or when…
