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.
Esports World Cup Leaves Riyadh for Paris: $75M [2026]
The Esports World Cup opened its third edition on July 8, 2026, in a city its organizers never planned to use. For two years the tournament was synonymous…
Riot Vanguard Bricks $6K Devices, Goes Optional [2026]
Riot Games spent the first half of 2026 rewriting the rules for Vanguard, the kernel-level anti-cheat driver that runs underneath Valorant and League of Legends – and player…
Batocera 43.1 Setup: 200+ Systems, 12 Steps [2026]
Most emulation tools install on top of an operating system you already run. Batocera does the opposite: it replaces your boot process entirely, running straight from a USB…
Dolphin Emulator: GameCube & Wii in 4K, 12 Steps [2026]
The Dolphin emulator is the rare piece of software that Nintendo went to court to stop – and it is still here, still free, still open source, and…
Discord IPO Stalls at $8.5B, Below Microsoft’s $12B [2026]
Discord filed confidentially for a U.S. initial public offering on January 6, 2026. More than six months later, the most-anticipated Discord IPO of the year still has no…
Palworld 1.0 Hits July 10: 32M Players, $30K Suit [2026]
After nearly 30 months in early access, Palworld 1.0 arrives on July 10, 2026, closing the book on one of the most improbable success stories in modern gaming…
Xbox Layoffs: 3,200 Jobs Cut, 4 Studios Divested [2026]
On Monday, July 6, 2026, Microsoft confirmed the deepest and most consequential round of Xbox layoffs in the platform’s 25-year history. New Microsoft Gaming chief executive Asha Sharma…
Roblox Age Verification Wipes $6.7B, Stock -18% [2026]
Roblox spent the first half of 2026 doing something almost no consumer platform ever does willingly: it built a wall in front of its own front door. Since…
Batocera vs RetroPie vs Recalbox: 200+ Systems [2026]
Retro gaming has never been bigger, and in 2026 the question is no longer whether you can turn a Raspberry Pi, an old laptop, or a modern handheld…
RAM Prices Up 89%: AI Memory Crunch Hits Gaming [2026]
The price of a single stick of RAM has quietly become the most volatile number in PC gaming. Over the past year, RAM prices have exploded – some…
