The mobile game advertisements that pop up all over social media platforms may promise better, more complete games than they actually deliver. Researchers at Penn State studying these "fake games"—or ...

If you’ve been on social media recently, you’ll be familiar with adverts showing off what are ostensibly “fake mobile games.” These are often titles that show a character shooting at a numbered object ...

In many instances, the game featured is a one-off joke but nonetheless looks enticing from what we can see. In other cases, the fake video game is pivotal to the plot. We learn more about the game's ...

For the second week in a row, Activision is coming under fire for their use of generative AI, but this time for a much stranger reason. Over the weekend, followers of Activision’s Instagram page ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

The term “fake news” is everywhere these days. After gaining steam during the 2016 US election, it’s become a catch-all phrase used by people from across the political spectrum. Yet “fake” stories—or ...

The fake game, called DeTankZone, promised to let players drive NFT tanks to battle others and earn "rewards," presumably cryptocurrency or other NFTs. But the game was a front for the malicious ...

Nintendo's been slamming down its Switch 2 ban hammer a lot since the handheld's launch. A majority of players being sent to Ninty's jail have reportedly attempted to use flashcarts like the MIG ...

I like playing poker. Let me rephrase that: I like playing fake poker, in videogames, so I'm always on the lookout for a new fake poker game. The tricky bit, maybe the impossible bit, is that I want ...