Cheat codes were a common element of retro classic gaming, but they've largely disappeared. These 7 are excellent examples of ...

Connor Hogg has been playing video games since Rugrats Search For Reptar on the PS1. He spends a lot of time overthinking everything he plays and itching to write about it, whether that means ...

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, ...

Jay (He/They) is a fiction writer and high school teacher. He has a Bachelor's degree majoring in English and a Master's in Creative Writing. When he's not writing, he's either gaming (on the Destiny ...

Zainab is a writer, cinephile, and gamer—though that ranking depends entirely on the day’s mood swings. When she’s not writing for Game Rant, she’s probably ugly crying over Dostoevsky (or multifandom ...

For as long as there have been video games, there have been people willing to find ways to cheat. Hobbyists have long dedicated themselves to finding vulnerabilities in games, often with the goal of ...

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 ...

While some responded negatively to what they derisively called a “cheat mode,” director Naoki Hamaguchi defended the new options in a recent interview with Automaton. “Personally, I like to try many ...

The big picture: Researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick in the United Kingdom estimate that roughly 80 websites selling cheats for online video games generate between $12 million ...

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 ...

Unlike cheats in multiplayer games, cheats in singleplayer games aren't always malicious. In fact, they can be an extremely useful tool to break the game and test the limits of how over-the-top it can ...