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Amazon says it’s cracking down hard on Throne & Liberty bots

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If you dip into any online discussion about Throne and Liberty, especially in regard to its population, it invariably shifts toward discussing the purported...
Yeah, that makes sense.

Old School RuneScape elevates its fight against botting, hits back against fake Varlamore leaks

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Bots continue to be a constant source of conversation and presumption among the players of Old School RuneScape, particularly as Jagex made changes to...

Lost Ark warns cheaters following ‘major ban wave’ of bots and RMT accounts

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Last week was apparently a bad time to be a botting or RMT account in Lost Ark, as Amazon Games whipped out its banhammer...

The Stream Team: Taking a return trip through Book of Travels

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It's been quite some time since MOP's Chris made his first personal foray into the tiny multiplayer online world of Book of Travels. Now...

Wakfu releases HD graphics overhaul, briefly delays single-account server launch

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Turn-based isometric sandbox MMORPG Wakfu is in the midst of a bit of a renaissance right now: For starters, Ankama has been working on...

Book of Travels heralds a content update with new locations, events, and a death system ‘that isn’t the end’

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Recently we reported on Book of Travels' latest patch and how it marked Might & Delight's continued effort to fix the game first and...

Book of Travels releases another small fixer-upper patch as it goes on sale for its second anniversary

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Back in May, Book of Travels developer Might & Delight claimed in a dev blog that it was almost ready to shift focus from...

War Thunder details vehicle marker adjustments and bot fighting efforts in latest dev blogs

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Two of the latest dev blogs to come out of War Thunder are extremely game-specific, but then that would make sense, especially for those...

All hail Glorbo: The WoW community baited and trapped AI scrapers with a Reddit prank

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As the editor of this very real website with very real paid humans who every damn month has to deal with scrapers and bots...

Albion Online faces DDoS attacks presumably over a recent anti-botting update

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It looks like Albion Online is being targeted by some angry digital racketeers if word from Sandbox Interactive is to be believed. Over the...

Lawful Neutral: How might the so-called AI revolution affect the MMO genre?

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This article has been rolling around in my head since ChatGPT rocketed into the public awareness a few months ago, and just in the...

Book of Travels continues to apply bug fixes and general gameplay updates

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The patching, polishing, and bug fixing continues for tiny multiplayer online title Book of Travels. The game's two latest patches continue developer Might &...

Could an AI bot do a better job as a games company CEO than an actual human?

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That headline's not an idle question: Chinese gaming company NetDragon decided to give it a try. Last August, NetDragon, which runs multiple MMOs including...

Lost Ark deploys a giant bot banhammer with a huge impact on concurrency

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If you noticed a rather dramatic dip in Lost Ark's active playerbase numbers this week and wondered what happened, first of all, nice catch....

Lost Ark admits it’s been ‘fighting a war against bots’ since launch, banning millions of accounts

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Have you spotted a bot or two in Lost Ark over the past few months? If so, you're definitely not alone. Amazon admitted on...

Lost Ark begins blocking VPNs to help servers struggling with bot-laden queues

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If you're on certain Lost Ark servers, you might have noticed that the queues aren't really going away, even in the middle of the...

Massively Overthinking: Bots in MMOs – but not the bad bots

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A while back on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a provocative thread about bots - no, not those bots. Essentially, the Redditor asked whether...

New World bans botters, begins testing winter event, plans unpopular endgame gear system

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Christmas -- or some variation thereof -- is coming to New World as the game's first holiday. Yesterday, Amazon announced that it was putting...

New World’s latest problem appears to be… scores of fishing bots

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Huh, something's fishy around New World. Looks like some bad players are angling for an edge by employing bots because they'd flounder otherwise. But...

Jump into a mech and blast some ‘bots in Galahad 3093’s open beta

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Fans of MechWarrior and BattleTech should have Galahad 3093 on their radar, especially since the upcoming online shooter is launching a one-week open beta...

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