As frustration with Marathon cheaters intensifies, Bungie says improvements to its 'zero-tolerance policy around cheating' are underway: 'This is an area that we will continue to invest in'
August 5, 2026
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As frustration with Marathon cheaters intensifies, Bungie says improvements to its ‘zero-tolerance policy around cheating’ are underway: ‘This is an area that we will continue to invest in’

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Marathon just completed its second full week since the rollout of its Ranked competitive mode, and despite the mind-boggling complexity of its holotag system, its players have been confronting a simple problem: When a game has ranks, players will cheat to climb them. Since its launch, reports of Ranked cheaters have become so prevalent that…

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Browsing the Steam Workshop’s 50 million mods just got better thanks to a redesign that loads faster and works better on mobile and Steam Deck

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Last week, Valve rolled out a refresh for the Steam storefront that made the whole thing look quite a bit nicer than it used to. This week, the Steam Workshop is getting a similar treatment: An update to the UI designed to make browsing Workshop content quicker and easier. “The Steam Workshop remains a heavily…

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Keith David proves he can make anything sound incredibly cool as he delivers a dramatic reading masterclass in an ad for Starfield’s latest DLC

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Keith David has some big-time sci-fi videogame credits to his name, like Fallout, Halo, Mass Effect, and Destiny 2. But this may be his most impressive role yet: Making me think that Starfield sounds pretty damn cool. David’s dramatic reading in the new “This is Starfield” trailer, marking the long-awaited release of the Free Lanes…

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Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite reviews are in, but these second-gen Windows-on-Arm chips still aren’t grabbing me as a PC gamer

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There’s been a decent level of buzz around Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite chip for a while now. That’s for good reason. It popped up on Geekbench last month, beating its x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance, and early tests beat out AMD, Intel, and Apple in power. Now we’ve finally seen it…

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Intel’s new Nova Lake CPU claimed to have superior IPC performance to AMD’s next-gen Zen 6 as rumour mill goes into overdrive with talk of higher core counts and an APU with a massive iGPU

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Rumours around Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake CPUs have multiplied rapidly in recent days. Highlights include an IPC performance advantage over AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 chips, a core count upgrade for some models, and a massive APU variant to take on AMD’s Strix Halo or its successor. First up, those IPC claims. IPC refers to instructions…

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