In the past decade, big competitive online games, especially first-person shooters like Activision-Blizzard’s Call of Duty and Bungie’s Destiny 2, have had to massively scale up their operations to ...

What exactly is a kernel panic?: Basically, this is one of the lowest level crashes that Mac OS X can experience. It's a dead-end hang for the kernel -- the crucial center of Mac OS X that handles ...

Valve is ensuring better transparency is coming from developers using kernel-level anti-cheat software, as it must now be flagged on the game's Steam store page. While the use of kernel-level ...

EA announced its latest salvo in the endless cat-and-mouse battle of PC gaming cheat detection on Tuesday, and the effort prominently features one term sure to raise a red flag for some users: “kernel ...

Activision Blizzard is currently facing serious ongoing allegations of harassment and mistreatment of marginalized workers. To learn more, please visit our timeline as well as our in-depth report on ...

Activision has unveiled its big, new approach to squashing hackers in Call of Duty: Warzone and Vanguard, and it's a two-pronged system called Ricochet Anti-Cheat. The first stage is a series of ...

In context: Nothing can ruin a multiplayer game faster than rampant cheating, so it's no surprise that developers go to great lengths to devise ways to mitigate it. One controversial method is to ...

More importantly, I wish that all of these increasingly intrusive 'anti-cheat' systems would provide an OFF switch, for the many players who simply don't need cheat protection - and could happily live ...

Why it matters: When it comes to online multiplayer gaming, nobody likes a cheater, not even cheaters. Whether using external software to enhance their performance or just to troll other players, ...

Riot Games has deployed kernel-level drivers in its latest game, Valorant. The drivers are intended for anti-cheat services, but they may make some longtime enthusiasts nervous. Share on Facebook ...