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 ...

The innocent cheat codes of the Nintendo 64 era are child’s play compared to the highly sophisticated bots and game hacks of today’s mobile and online gaming era. Technology has revolutionized ...

The theft of the game maker's legacy anti-cheat’s source code could help hackers develop better and less detectable cheats.

But one thing the old and new Game Genies share is the ability for a determined, patient hacker to create their own cheats by diving in to the vagaries of the hexadecimal code.