My PCMag career began in 2013 as an intern. Now, I'm a senior writer, using the skills I acquired at Northwestern University to write about dating apps, meal kits, programming software, website ...

There aren’t enough cheat codes in video games today. There was a time when cheat codes were one of the ultimate prizes in gaming. One of your friends would learn about one and share it amongst your ...

The whole purpose of cheating, one would think, is to gain an unfair advantage. Formerly passed on scraps of paper in classrooms up and down the land but now readily available online for the masses to ...

Most gamers remember the excitement of discovering a cheat code in a game back in the 1990s and early 2000s, entering in a wild string of controls that would make you invincible, get extra abilities, ...

To better understand the video game cheat gray market, SAN Senior Producer Brent Jabbour spent two weeks learning to cheat.

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

For as long as there have been video games, there have been people willing to find ways to cheat. Hobbyists have long dedicated themselves to finding vulnerabilities in games, often with the goal of ...

The giant tech conglomerate Tencent and Chinese authorities collaborated to shut down what the police described as the “world’s largest” operation dedicated to selling video game cheats. This isn’t ...

Here are 10 reasons why video games are dirty cheaters. I love video games. You love video games. But sometimes they hurt us. Video games do plenty of cool little tricks to help us feel immersed and ...

In this Dark Reading interview from Black Hat USA 2025, Dark Reading senior news director Rob Wright speaks with Sam Collins and Marius Muench from the University of Birmingham about their research on ...