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Activision cites data claiming cheating in games is an $8.5bn industry; 69% of online multiplayer studios consider cheating "a significant or very significant problem"

GamesIndustry.biz says Activision's Team Ricochet is treating cheating like a major business, citing estimates that the market reaches $8.5 billion. A survey of 250 multiplayer studios found 69% see cheating …

News GamesIndustry.biz · 1 day, 3 hours ago
Gamescom issues apology for initial response to hardware thefts: "It did not show the people affected the empathy they deserve"

GamesIndustry.biz reports that Gamescom has apologized for its first response to hardware thefts affecting indie exhibitors, saying it failed to show enough empathy. The organizers are now reviewing security for …

News GamesIndustry.biz · 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Asymmetric Phase Coding Video Watermarking

A new training-free video watermarking scheme embeds an Ed25519 signature into the chroma phase spectrum, aiming to close the white-box forgery hole in symmetric watermark systems. It verifies offline with …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 3 weeks ago
Report: 13TB of Steam data leaked after users access 'publicly accessible endpoint'

A massive Steam data leak has exposed roughly 13TB of files after users accessed a publicly reachable endpoint. The cache reportedly includes beta builds, screenshots, and pre-release material tied to …

News Game Developer · 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Indie devs and publishers hit in Gamescom equipment thefts

Thieves hit Gamescom’s Indie Arena and business area, stealing laptops and Steam Decks from smaller exhibitors. The losses landed hardest on indie teams and publishers already juggling demos, build machines, …

News Game Developer · 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Rockstar Games 'heartbroken' by Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks

Rockstar Games says it is "heartbroken" after a massive Grand Theft Auto 6 leak exposed early development footage and assets. The studio is now dealing with the fallout from one …

News Game Developer · 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Rockstar responds to GTA 6 leaks – "This is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game after all this time"

GamesIndustry.biz says Rockstar is trying to steady the ship after the GTA 6 leaks, calling the breach heartbreaking and promising the game is nearly finished. The studio also pointed to …

News GamesIndustry.biz · 3 weeks, 6 days ago
A New Type of Adversarial Examples

Researchers have proposed a new class of adversarial examples that keep a model’s answer unchanged while making the input look very different from the original. The work adds negative variants …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 4 weeks ago
Report: Take-Two subpoenas Microsoft and Discord in bid to halt extensive Grand Theft Auto VI leak

Take-Two is moving to choke off a widening GTA VI leak tied to an entity calling itself Cyberleek, which may have access to a playable build. The company has subpoenaed …

News Game Developer · 1 month ago
Rockstar hit with more leaks as GTA 6 gameplay and assets appear to circulate on social media

GTA 6 gameplay clips and assets are circulating again, with a hacker group posting daily leaks that appear to include mechanics, a map, and footage from a playable build. Rockstar …

News GamesIndustry.biz · 1 month ago
FBI arrests man accused of using Steam games to drain victims’ crypto wallets

FBI agents arrested 21-year-old student Zyaire Wilkins over allegations that he used fake Steam games to spread malware and drain victims’ crypto wallets. Prosecutors say the scheme infected thousands of …

News TechCrunch · 2 months ago
HP Anyware is being sunset: A practical guide for postproduction teams

HP Anyware is being phased out for new customers, with support for its Trust Center and Trusted Zero Clients ending Oct. 31, 2026. For studios and post teams, that turns …

Official Unity · 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Grand Theft Auto V cheat service gets hacked, exposing thousands of gamers

A cheat-service breach exposed usernames, hashed passwords, and other player data tied to Grand Theft Auto V. For devs, the interesting part is less the cheat scene itself and more …

News TechCrunch · 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cert-LAS: Toward Certified Model Ownership Verification for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Layer-Adaptive Smoothing

A new arXiv paper tackles a practical problem for teams using text-to-image diffusion models: proving ownership even when a suspect model has had watermark signals damaged or stripped. Cert-LAS uses …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Rockstar Games affected by data breach, "limited amount of non-material information" accessed

Rockstar Games has confirmed a data breach involving a third-party service, with claims of financial and player data being accessed. While they assert that the impact is limited, the potential …

News GamesIndustry.biz · 5 months, 1 week ago
An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) offers game developers a robust method for securing communications and data. This interactive introduction dives into the mathematics behind ECC, including point addition and scalar multiplication, …

Blog growingswe · 6 months, 3 weeks ago