cheaters
Blizzard sues alleged Overwatch clone, bans World of Warcraft cheaters
Gone are the days when Chinese companies could get away with ripping off games left and right: Blizzard is going after another one of...
Fortnite patches battle royale, adds BattlEye anti-cheat measures, and sues cheaters
Are you one of the 10M people who've dipped into Fortnite's battle royal mode? Or perhaps one of the 500K who played concurrently this...
Fortnite cracks down on cheaters, banning ‘thousands’
Smack talk all you want, but cheaters aren't lasting long in Fortnite. In fact, apparently "thousands" of miscreants have been banned already.
Earlier this week,...
Black Desert censures Pearl Abyss Taiwan employees found cheating
Let this Black Desert story be a lesson. Actually, no, let it be two lessons: Don't cheat, and definitely don't cheat if your job...
Worlds Adrift introducing anti-cheat measures sooner than anticipated
It's best to read the latest letter from the Worlds Adrift development team with a slightly exasperated tone of voice. After all, the developers...
Blizzard is changing Battle.net accounts in Korea to combat Overwatch cheating
The business model for Overwatch in Korea is very different than it is here in the USA, which means that there will be at...
Blizzard cracks down on Overwatch aimbot cheaters
OK, cheaters, listen up. You're jerks, you're ruining the game for everyone, you're wasting developer time, which means you're wasting everyone's money, you're not...
Niantic’s banhammer smashes Pokemon Go GPS spoofers and botters
Bye, Pokemon Go cheaters.
Niantic confirmed in a blog post last night that it's cracking down not just on the cheat apps but on the...
Overwatch banwave crashes into cheaters
For some of Overwatch's cheaters, August 1st could be the date that lives in infamy.
From the sound of it, it looks like Blizzard triggered...
The Division subtracts 30,000 cheaters from its playerbase
Cheaters are not wanted in The Division. They're not wanted in any game, really, but Ubisoft is taking a harder line against cheaters by...
Overwatch racks up 7M players, bans 1500 of them
It's been a little over a week since Overwatch launched, and in that short time Blizzard's new team shooter has become a bonafide success...
Elder Scrolls Online permabans scores of cheaters
There are few things more aggravating in online games than to clearly see people use hacks to cheat their way into riches and power,...
Black Desert: Business model research, Daum addresses hacking complaints
Red Fox Insights analyst Jake Parmley has a piece on Gamasutra today about Black Desert's business model that confirms what you might already suspect:...
The Division exploits send it ‘heading for catastrophe’
It's hard not to understate how bad the situation is in The Division right now. Over the last few weeks, stories and reports have...
Blade & Soul adjusts anti-cheater measures, says server transfers are in the works
NCsoft is making a few changes to its anti-cheater software in Blade & Soul and says that its efforts to combat sneaky behavior are...
Dark Age of Camelot is coming down hard on cheating
If you're going to play Dark Age of Camelot, here's a bit of friendly advice: Don't cheat. We're not talking about relationships (you shouldn't...
Dark Age of Camelot shuts down radar cheaters
With the three factions of Dark Age of Camelot locked in a perpetual state of war with one another, widespread cheating has a seriously...
DayZ associate producer talks cheaters and how to stop them
DayZ associate producer Eugen Harton spoke to a GDC Europe crowd earlier today about how Bohemia Interactive handles cheaters in its open-world zombiepocalypse survival...
John Smedley talks smack to nearly 25,000 banned H1Z1 players
Do you like people who cheat in online games? Daybreak president John Smedley does not. After 24,837 H1Z1 accounts were banned for cheating (7,000...
ArenaNet strips, kills, deletes, and bans Guild Wars 2 cheater
Today's lesson is that you shouldn't cheat in online games. Alas, a Guild Wars 2 character had to die to provide this valuable information...
