This is one of those things that's not absolutely impossible, as there's a handful of examples with games having vulnerabilities. So "technically" the answer is yes.

However likelihood isn't any greater than any other online activity.

If you're using the internet in general there's no reason to avoid multiplayer games because you imagine there might be greater danger there, it's just a nothing burger.

Yes, especially in older games with custom servers that you download mods/skins/etc from automatically as you load in.

Not so much in newer games.

Yes, you can. There are many examples of games with remote execution vulnerabilities.

If there's a specific vulnerability in a game that's getting exploited "in the wild", you'll hear about it.

For example, that's why Dark Souls (original version) no longer has multiplayer available.

If you're worried about a virus spreading because your computer was talking to a computer with a virus like you would have to worry about in real life, that's not how computer viruses work.

The only way to get a computer virus is if the attacker can already run code on your computer, like if you run a program they made or some other program has a bug that lets them run code.

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Yes, you can. There are many examples of games with remote execution vulnerabilities.

Yes. I believe even in Dark Souls 1 online part, there was a RCE thing they had to patch on the servers out.

Absolutely, just play older CODs (even in singleplayer) and you'll find out the hard way.

You can. All Peer-Peer games have this potential.



To be fair, even loading a single image has that potential, as Virus code can be embedded into an image these days.

It's amazingly clever how they do it, but also eye opening. The code for the virus is split and spread across the image, so as the image loads, the part sections of the virus are also loaded. Doing this avoids detection from AV's, because it's not loading the whole code at once.

I was just playing MW3 from steam download and after 10 hours someone told me I was a bad host I said sorry I'm on Wi-fi. they RCE kicked me off the game.