As PC gaming’s war on cheating rages, EA explains why it’s making its own anticheat: ‘Cheat developers have increasingly moved into the kernel, so we need to have kernel-mode protections’

EA is moving away from its longtime anticheat partner Easy Anti-Cheat in favor of an internally developed kernel-level anticheat software. The software, which the company is simply calling “EA anticheat,” will be implemented first in Battlefield 2042 when Season 6 arrives in October. The decision follows in the footsteps of other major game studios that…

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It’s messed-up and weird that CS:GO is just gone

Valve has launched Counter-Strike 2 as part of which it has mothballed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the latter being arguably the most popular competitive game in the world and definitely the most popular on Steam. From CS2’s first announcement Valve has been clear that this was the next step for the series, going so far as…

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Xbox Insider Release Notes – Beta (2310.230924-2200)

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Beta ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…

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