Valve has announced that it is now mandatory for game developers to explicitly declare whether their game(s) use any anti-cheat technology in kernel mode, in a new Steamworks Developer post. Steam ...

It holds the highest privileges in the system, meaning it interacts directly with hardware, controls all system resources, and can override restrictions that apply to regular user-level programs.

Steam now has a new section on its store page for developers to disclose if they are using anti-cheat tools. Going forward, if developers release a game that has anti-cheat tools that work at the ...