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Tarisland turns one-month bans into 10-year bans for cheaters following player ‘feedback’
Furbish up your "well that escalated quickly" memes because that Tarisland cheating debacle from earlier this week just got much weirder and more punitive.
Yesterday,...
Tarisland temp-bans players caught cheating in the Blight Dragon speed race event
All right, who here wants to see cheaters tracked, caught, and punished? Big show of hands, great. Now who here wants to see a...
Sea of Thieves wipes out the progression of 20K players who used a Season 13 rewards exploit
There was a pretty big exploit that ran rampant in Sea of Thieves when Season 13 went live. How big? Well, it introduced 300B...
A nasty exploit has forced Corepunk devs to wipe the alpha test and reset all characters
Corepunk's current paid alpha four appeared to be going well over the course of this week, barring a few issues with the EU and...
This is not a drill: Star Citizen ship interiors can catch fire in alpha 4.0
There are more than a few things that can go wrong while piloting a spaceship in Star Citizen, but when alpha 4.0 drops, players...
Diablo IV’s recipe bug benefits seasonal players – and Blizzard isn’t stopping it
Blizzard's long been the studio that's earned the moniker "Fun Police" as it quite routinely stamped out any enjoyable quirks or non-harmful exploits that...
Old School RuneScape brings back slayer partners after a four-year absence
It's been four years since Old School RuneScape offered a feature called "slayer partners" that lets duos of players team up to grind out...
ARK: Genesis Part 2 circulates onto the Nintendo Switch
Just because you're rocking a Nintendo Switch instead of a PlayBox 360 doesn't mean you're left out of the dino-tastic fun of ARK: Survival...
Ultima Online’s New Legacy and crackdown on third-party clients have vets rioting
Ultima Online is a very old and fairly small MMORPG nowadays, but even so you probably knew that it has a thriving emulator community,...
Corepunk coming to early access on November 26th, still requires ‘significant polishing in all directions’
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen isn't the only MMO that surprised us this week with an early access release announcement. After years of troubled...
Trove warns players to ditch exploited items before they ‘lead to irreversible damage’
While PC players are surfing the waves of Trove's new Rising Tide update and its underwater biome, there's something disturbing happening just below the...
Star Citizen suspends over 600 accounts over ‘illicitly gained’ credits earned thanks to an exploit
It would appear that some mass gold duping was going on in Star Citizen recently as a result of an exploit found within the...
Why I Play: Stardew Valley is still something special
I'd been saving this for myself for weeks now. It was late Saturday when I finally decided it was time to stop waiting and...
New World is still mopping up exploits and server crashes post-Season of the Guardian
Amazon has continued shoring up New World in the wake of last week's slippery Season of the Guardian, with multiple updates this week.
For starters,...
Amazon team commits to New World and future expansions – but won’t spoil the June secret
As we noted in our Vitae Aeternum column this morning, New World drama has been mounting over the past few weeks. Amazon had delayed...
Apex Legends esports tourney is hacked mid-match, postponing the event and raising security concerns
Nobody likes to see cheaters win in an esports competition (or any competition for that matter), but a bout of cheating occurring in an...
Nightingale expounds on its roadmap and why the offline mode is a medium-term project
Nightingale has spent the better part of the week focused on clean-up after a bug ate player homes last weekend, but now it's releasing...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most unlucky MMO?
A few weeks back when Fractured Online was contending with yet another round of exploits, rollbacks, and downtime, MOP reader Gidja remarked that perhaps...
New World’s latest video talks up the benefits of mounts in Outpost Rush PvP
As players wait for Amazon to establish a new date for the launch of New World's Season of the Guardian after its unfortunate but...
Nightingale’s roadmap includes a lot more QOL than the offline mode
If you were among those grumbling at Nightingale's mini-patch earlier this week, Inflexion's latest missive ought to make you feel better - or at...
