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Awesome Game Security Wiki

Curated knowledge companion for awesome-game-security — a large resource list spanning offensive game hacking and defensive anti-cheat research.

Site: gs.awesome.rip · Repo: gmh5225/awesome-game-security

This wiki synthesizes the README categories, AI agent skills, and selected project descriptions into topic overviews and concept pages. Prefer the wiki for navigation and mental models; use the README → description/ → archive/ path when you need a specific repository.

Start here

Page	When to open it
Getting-Started	First visit, how the project is organized
Overview	Domain map and topic routing
Categories	README section index with link density
Skills-for-AI-Agents	Install Cursor / Claude / Codex skills
Contributing	How to add links and improve this wiki

Topic overviews

Topic	Covers
Anti-Cheat	EAC, BattlEye, Vanguard, detection layers
DMA-Attack	PCIe DMA, FPGA, IOMMU, attestation
Game-Hacking	Escalation from usermode to DMA
Windows-Kernel	Callbacks, HVCI, PatchGuard, BYOVD
Reverse-Engineering	IDA/Ghidra, DBI, deobfuscation
Graphics-API	Present hooks, overlays, capture
Game-Engine	Unreal, Unity IL2CPP, Source, Godot
Mobile-Security	Android / iOS, Frida, root / jailbreak

Concepts & entities

• Concepts — shared technical topics (DMA, HVCI, IL2CPP, …)
• Entities — notable research repos called out from descriptions

Scope & ethics

Resources here support security research, defense engineering, and education. Many offensive techniques are documented because defenders need the same threat model. Do not use this material to cheat in live multiplayer games or violate applicable law or game ToS.