Most gamers remember the excitement of discovering a cheat code in a game back in the 1990s and early 2000s, entering in a wild string of controls that would make you invincible, get extra abilities, ...

To better understand the video game cheat gray market, SAN Senior Producer Brent Jabbour spent two weeks learning to cheat.

Here are 10 reasons why video games are dirty cheaters. I love video games. You love video games. But sometimes they hurt us. Video games do plenty of cool little tricks to help us feel immersed and ...

Software that can see opponents through walls. Aimbots that can lock onto other players automatically. Tools that can boost characters’ stats to the max. The world of online game cheats is ...

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 ...

In this Dark Reading interview from Black Hat USA 2025, Dark Reading senior news director Rob Wright speaks with Sam Collins and Marius Muench from the University of Birmingham about their research on ...

While it's fun to break a game with cheats, there are some video games with hilarious anti-cheat punishments to combat this.

You will need to mod Baldur’s Gate 3 to get cheats and console commands on PC. There are currently no direct in game cheats in the game. The PC version can use ...

For as long as there have been games, there has been cheating. In Norway, for example, archaeologists discovered a 600-year old wooden dice carved without the numbers “1” or “2.” Nicknamed the ...