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 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…
MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ vs ROG Xbox Ally X: 41% Faster [2026]
MSI’s newest flagship handheld went on sale 23 June 2026 with a price tag that stopped reviewers mid-sentence: $1,799 for the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, nearly double…
Tencent Gaming Stock Sinks 7%, Worst Drop Since 2025 [2026]
Tencent shares suffered their steepest single-day drop in more than a year on July 22, 2026, sliding as much as 7.1% intraday before closing down 7.05% at HK$440.60.…
Sony’s Disc Exit Threatens $7.2B Used-Game Market [2026]
Sony said in July 2026 that new PlayStation games would stop shipping on physical discs starting January 2028. Three weeks later, Wall Street put a number on what…
Xbox Cloud Gaming Goes Free: $0, 1-Hour Sessions [2026]
Microsoft has begun letting Xbox Insiders stream games they already own for free – no Game Pass subscription, no credit card, just a short block of ads before…
Unreal Engine vs Unity vs Godot: Free, 5%, or $2,310 [2026]
For the first time since GDC began tracking the question, more developers now call Unreal Engine their primary tool than Unity. The 2026 State of the Game Industry…
