For 29 years, classic SNES platformer Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest has held a secret - a hidden cheat code that had never previously been revealed to the world. But now, it's finally gone ...

Cheating in video games has changed dramatically over time, and there are stigmas about it now that simply didn't exist two decades ago. I can't really fault the change, either. Cheating nowadays is ...

Anthony is a writer who's worked in the games industry for four years. He's a competitive gamer with a soft spot for retro titles. Anthony enjoys speedrunning a few titles, but Simpson's Hit & Run is ...

Gabriel has been playing games since he was a kid. Loves most RPG games, platformers, and innovative indie games, and can talk for hours about how the first Fallout is the greatest game ever. He ...

In the '90s, cheat codes—Big Head Mode, anyone?—dominated video games. Now, in gaming's prestige era, everything is earned the hard way. What gives? Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire ...

Imagine Dark Souls with cheat codes. You'd get to Ornstein and Smough, input a command on the controller that made you to 10,000 damage per strike, reducing them to nothing more than a joke as you ...

The easiest way to describe Heretic is to call it a medieval version of Doom. The game shares a lot of similarities with the father of first-person shooters, including its HUD layout, gory graphics, ...

For as long as video games themselves have existed, so too have cheat codes, because no matter how easy a game might be, there’s always someone who wishes it were a little bit easier. And cheats are ...