In the ‘80s and ‘90s, video game cheat codes were a hot schoolyard commodity. They were the baseball cards of an increasingly digital generation. The sounds of players trading digital secrets might’ve ...

Cheating in video games is as old as the genre itself. Giving oneself an unfair advantage in Total War: Rome Remastered may not be very honorable, but who needs virtue when a horde of barbarians is ...

Last week, the video game giant Riot Games revealed that hackers had compromised its “development environment” — where the company stores its source code — with a social engineering attack. While the ...

The newest, PS3-based incarnation of the Game Genie doesn’t share much of a lineage with the original line of similarly named, cartridge-based cheat devices nearly ubiquitous in the 8- and 16-bit eras ...