is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Electronics Arts (EA) is launching a new kernel-level anti-cheat system for ...

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 ...

The old adage that cheaters never prosper clearly didn't take online PC gaming into account, because things like aimbots and other sketchy tools continue to be a big problem. Fortunately, game ...

Gerardo is a marketing major and copywriter with over 4 years of experience. He fell in love with gaming as a toddler when his maternal grandmother bought him a Nintendo NES. Ever since then, he ...

Kernel-level anti-cheat software is a contentious issue among gamers. It’s a solution for rampant cheating in online games, but some players see the powerful software as a huge overstep on the PCs ...

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 ...

Battlefield 6 has been officially revealed. EA spelled a lot of the beans as part of the worldwide multiplayer gameplay reveal event, which also featured hours of live gameplay from hundreds 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 ...