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.
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…
Lutris Setup: 8 Stores in 12 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, the EA app, Ubisoft Connect, Humble Bundle, and Amazon Prime Gaming: PC gamers who buy from more than one storefront now juggle…
PC Gaming vs Console Gaming: $11.1B vs -19% Drop [2026]
Two numbers sum up the state of gaming hardware in mid-2026. Steam just posted $11.1 billion in gross revenue for the first half of the year, its best…
Rockstar Games Hit: ShinyHunters Steal 78.6M Records [2026]
Rockstar Games has confirmed a data breach after the extortion group ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 78.6 million records from the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption…
Steam Posts Record $11.1B, Old Games Drive 79% [2026]
Valve doesn’t publish official Steam financial statements, but independent analytics firm Alinea Analytics estimates the platform generated $11.1 billion in gross revenue during the first half of 2026…
Xbox Game Pass vs PlayStation Plus: $22.99 vs $19.99 [2026]
Microsoft and Sony have spent the past nine months on parallel journeys: both raised prices sharply, both faced subscriber backlash, and both ended up walking part of it…
