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Riot's Vanguard, Easy Anti-Cheat, and BattlEye all run with kernel-level access on tens of millions of PCs, and attackers have been quietly repurposing that trust to disable security software since 2022.
2026's wave of shutdowns at Bungie, Ubisoft, Nintendo, and Warner Bros. reveals that live-service economics only work at a scale most studios never reach.
Google Stadia tried to replace console ownership and burned billions failing. GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming succeed by solving a distribution problem instead — and that distinction explains why cloud gaming's economics finally add up.
After years of demos, conversational AI characters are now shipping in real, playable games. Here's which titles have it, how it actually runs, and why half the industry still hates the idea.
Steam Deck price hikes, MSI's dedicated-GPU handheld, and an Xbox-branded Windows device show the handheld gaming PC market splitting into distinct products for distinct buyers, with prices now ranging from $573 to $1,699.
A European petition with 1.29 million verified signatures asked the EU to force publishers to keep purchased games playable. The Commission said no to a legal mandate — and the delisting pace hasn't slowed.
A GDC 2026 demo showed an NPC improvising an unscripted response in real time. The same week, 52% of developers said they view generative AI negatively. Here's why both are true.
Kernel-level anti-cheat gives publishers the visibility to catch cheaters, but 2026 has produced a steady stream of vulnerabilities proving that Ring 0 access cuts both ways.
The market is on track for $17 billion in revenue in 2026, but the two biggest platforms are getting there by capping usage and bundling into existing subscriptions — not by winning gamers over to streaming as a standalone product.
62% of new RPG and adventure games now feature AI-powered NPCs, up from just 8% in 2024. But most of that adoption is AI-assisted writing locked in at build time, not live runtime generation — and the gap between those two approaches is the entire story.
DLSS 4.5 and FSR4 have both moved to transformer-based machine learning models this year, and the resulting jump in image quality now outweighs what a straight silicon upgrade delivers. That has quietly rewritten what "upgrading your GPU" actually means.
Generative AI now touches roughly one in five new Steam releases. But the games that get caught using it undisclosed are losing awards, refunding sales, and watching their Steam scores crater — and developer sentiment on AI is falling, not rising.