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.
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…
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…
