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Cheating in online multiplayer games has become a structured, professional ecosystem, bolstered in recent years by the introduction of generative AI. Cheat subscriptions, boosting services, and in-game economy manipulation have made the cheating market worth around $8.5 billion globally. One cheat developer in 2021 was found to have made an estimated $77 million providing a cheat service for a single game. 

Curve Games has announced a major new publishing partnership with independent developer Wayfinder Studios for Wyldheart, the highly anticipated co-op action RPG, in a deal that represents the publisher’s largest investment in recent years.

VaultN, the infrastructure trusted by the games industry's leading publishers and retailers to orchestrate digital distribution at scale, announces the launch of VaultN Payments & Wallet - an embedded B2B payments, treasury and compliance feature built in partnership with global payments platform Paysafe. 

HYPERTUNE, a COMPREADY company, today announced the public release of its Gaming Performance Engineering platform, built on Intel'sⓇ Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) SDK. By combining Intel's trusted performance technologies with its proprietary validation methodology, HYPERTUNE helps gamers safely unlock more performance from supported Intel-based PCs through a guided, validation-first optimization experience. 

Mintrocket is delighted to announce that DAVE THE DIVER has surpassed 10 million sales across all platforms (PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and mobile) since its initial early access launch in October 2022.

"What Getting My Time Back Taught Me About AI in Development"

This is a press release posted alongside our usual editorial content. TIGA, the trade association representing the UK video games industry, has urged the Government to enhance the Video Games Expenditure Credit (VGEC) in the Autumn Budget as part of a strategy to drive economic growth. TIGA’s proposals include enhancing …

Indie game developers from around the world with unpublished games are being invited to enter a competition to secure one of up to ten spots in a special Indie Stars expo at Game Republic New Horizons in October. The entries will be selected by an expert panel of games media and the Indie Stars showcase itself will take place at the Riverside Stadium on 15th October, host venue for the main conference and expo event in Middlesbrough.

We Are Collider – the go-to experiential agency for gaming brands including Amazon Games, Red Bull and Riot Games – has launched Sonar: an AI-powered gamer profiling tool designed to supercharge audience strategy in the gaming world.  

Dubai returned to Gamescom this month with its biggest pavilion yet, led for the first time by the Dubai Films and Games Commission (DFGC) under the umbrella of Dubai Media Council. Dubai arrived in Cologne carrying one idea it has decided to make its own: good gaming.