Gaming: Latest Best VPN For Gaming In 2026

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Anonymity can be some seriously useful armour when it comes to online gaming, particularly if you're at all concerned about toxic elements within a gaming environment that might use nefarious methods to kick you offline. The primary reason for using a VPN for gaming is to protect against potential DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. If someone can find your real IP address, via voice chats or logs, there is a chance someone could hit you with a flood of traffic over your connection and knock you offline. By masking your actual IP address with a VPN they have no direct pathway to you and will end up bouncing off the VPN's own servers.

It's also possible that your ISP will specifically throttle gaming traffic at peak times through traffic shaping. Internet service providers, such as Comcast/Xfinity, AT&T, and Spectrum in the US, and BT and Sky in the UK, are reported by gaming communities as throttling during high usage times. A VPN has the potential to get around any kind of traffic shaping by encrypting your traffic. This stops the ISP from snooping on your data and telling whether you're gaming or not.

Source: PC Gamer