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Nintendo bans Splatoon 2 greyhat who begged it to address the hackers and exploits destroying the game
I'm not gonna lie, watching my kid and his cousin play Splatoon 2 on said cousin's shiny new Switch made me reaaaalllly want to...
Riders of Icarus is turning players into bounty hunters with rewards for exposing exploiters
If you're tired of watching exploiters and cheaters wreck your favorite MMOs, maybe give some attention to Riders of Icarus, where Nexon is putting...
Black Desert has banned another batch of almost 600 speedhackers and botters
Good thing Black Desert kept that banhammer from the Hystria bans handy because it needed it again this week - in fact, it looks...
SMITE says it’s banned or suspended 20,000 toxic players in season five alone
Toxic players, beware: Hi-Rez may not be talking to its Hand of the Gods players, but it's cracking way down on SMITE miscreants. The...
CCP banned over 1800 EVE Online botters in January alone
If you've been paying any attention at all to EVE Online over the past few months, you know that the playerbase's anger over the...
Black Desert banned 647 cheaters over the last month, mostly fish botters, which is a thing
Thinking about cheating in Black Desert? Probably not; cheaters are hiding out in the bowels of the internet trading hacks with the other script...
Destiny 2 once again denies misidentifying cheaters in latest ban wave
When Destiny 2 launched on PC just two weeks ago, the cheater ban waves began. Players revolted, arguing that they hadn't been cheating and...
Bungie now says it’s unbanning Destiny 2 players ‘banned in error’
Remember how yesterday Destiny 2's community was all freaked out about account bans they believed were being caused by use of overlays from programs...
Bungie denies Destiny 2 community claims that third-party apps are triggering PC permabans [Updated]
We've updated with Bungie's latest statement at the end of this post.
It's a classic case of he said, she said: the MMO edition.
Following yesterday's...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tops 2.3M concurrency, bans a fraction of that
Here's a fun game that we play around the Massively OP office: A troublemaker will come in and loudly proclaim, "You know what's a...
Fortnite deals with cheat detection false positives, breaks half a million concurrent players
Cheating is bad in online games; we can all agree on that. Having anti-cheat software usually raises some questions back and forth, but the...
Overwatch deals with ‘ban bug,’ publishes Zarya comic
Here is a fun bug indeed: Overwatch has a glitch that's been accidentally slinging seasonal bans at players who did not deserve them. It's...
Overwatch: Fan designs an awesome Thai character, competitive bans start soon
Overwatch's next great character isn't a product of Blizzard's labs at all but the imagination of a masters student who whipped up a Thai...
EVE Evolved: How much toxic, antisocial behaviour should MMOs tolerate?
The EVE Online community is aflame this week after alliance leader gigX was permanently banned for making threats of real-life violence against another player...
EVE Online political betrayal results in record-breaking theft
The EVE Online twitterverse exploded late last night with the news of a political twist so enormous that it's become the largest recorded theft...
Notorious EVE Online player banned for threatening to cut off someone’s hands in real life
Yes, you've read that headline correctly. It's been an insane day for EVE Online, as players awoke to the news that powerful military alliance...
The Elder Scrolls Online recaps the big events of E3 while players get hit with surprise bans
If you're fond of The Elder Scrolls Online and have managed to tear yourself away from Morrowind for a few minutes, you probably already...
Heroes and Generals orders a tactical strike on cheaters
The World War II MMO Heroes and Generals is fighting more than just the Nazis this week. The team announced that it was performing...
Legendary pokemon are teased for Pokemon Go as a new anti-cheat measure auto-bans bots
Remember how last summer was all about Pokémon Go? That's probably not going to happen again this year, but the team behind the game...
Black Desert GM punishes a player with a writing assignment
The hard part about being a GM has to be when you're dealing with a certain brand of player. You know the sort; they're...
