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.
12TB Steam Leak Exposes Valve’s Half-Life 2 Files [2026]
A roughly 12 TB archive of old Valve development files surfaced online over the weekend, and by Sunday it had a name: the Steam2 Teraleak. The dump traces…
Sony Emails 12M PSN Users: Games Licensed, Not Owned [2026]
Sony spent the last two weeks of August 2026 reminding twelve million PlayStation Network users of something most of them had never actually read: the fine print governing…
Unity Erases 2023 Meltdown With $546M Quarter [2026]
Three years after a pricing blunder nearly tanked the company, Unity Software closed the books on its best quarter as a public company. The engine maker behind roughly…
Cyberleek Leaks GTA 6’s Lucia Prologue: 4.5 Min [2026]
A leaker known online as Cyberleek has posted what several outlets are calling the first major story spoiler from Grand Theft Auto VI, a roughly four-and-a-half-minute clip that…
Netflix Shuts Oxenfree Studio, Down to 1 of 6 [2026]
Netflix confirmed on Thursday, August 13, 2026, that it is closing two of its internal video game studios, Night School Studio and Moonloot Games. The cuts leave Next…
Samsung Hits 1,100Hz Odyssey G6, Needs AI to Get There [2026]
Samsung used its Gamescom 2026 keynote in Cologne to unveil a 1,100Hz gaming monitor, the fastest refresh rate any manufacturer has announced to date. The catch, reported first…
Unreal Engine 6: Epic Tops Unity 42% to 30% [2026]
Ten weeks after Epic Games used its State of Unreal keynote to reveal Unreal Engine 6 and ship Unreal Engine 5.8, the numbers are starting to tell a…
EA Confirms Iron Man Leak: Motive Game Trailer Real [2026]
An unfinished internal trailer for Marvel’s Iron Man, the long-dormant project from Electronic Arts and Motive Studio, leaked online on Friday, August 28, 2026, and spread fast across…
Steam Deck Price Hike Triggers 82% Sales Slide [2026]
Valve’s Steam Deck just lived through the worst sales stretch in its four-year history, and the company did it to itself. Three months after raising prices on every…
GTA VI’s 26-Minute Netflix Reveal Outshines Leak [2026]
Rockstar Games did something it has never done before: it handed its biggest reveal in over a decade to a streaming service instead of its own YouTube channel…
