is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Electronics Arts (EA) is launching a new kernel-level anti-cheat system for its PC ...

The old adage that cheaters never prosper clearly didn't take online PC gaming into account, because things like aimbots and other sketchy tools continue to be a big problem. Fortunately, game ...

Gerardo is a marketing major and copywriter with over 4 years of experience. He fell in love with gaming as a toddler when his maternal grandmother bought him a Nintendo NES. Ever since then, he ...

Electronic Arts is determined to keep cheaters at bay. The company has developed a kernel-level anti-cheat system for PC that it will deploy alongside FIFA 23 when the game arrives on September 30th.

Kernel-level anti-cheat software is a contentious issue among gamers. It’s a solution for rampant cheating in online games, but some players see the powerful software as a huge overstep on the PCs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kris Holt is a writer who covers video games and word games. So, if you’re so inclined, you should be able to get Overwatch 2 ...

Going forward, when you submit a new game to Steam, if your game installs a client side, kernel mode anti-cheat, you will need to fill out this new field. We will be going through old games and ...

I'm not giving a random company (especially one with such poor reputation as EA) kernel level access to my computer. Companies get hacked, and there is no guarantee that such a low level of access won ...

In context: Nothing can ruin a multiplayer game faster than rampant cheating, so it's no surprise that developers go to great lengths to devise ways to mitigate it. One controversial method is to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Battlefield 2042’s next season starts in October, and when it arrives, cheaters and others ...

Fortnite is making Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and IOMMU settings mandatory for PC players soon, as a new level of anticheat.