Activision is battling the waves of cheaters hitting Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 ranked play. Its latest numbers reveal that 19,000 accounts have already been banned within a week.
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The original sextortion e-mail scam has morphed into one that exploits your relationship insecurities.
The ongoing malware campaign targeting gamers steals credentials to various online services. Activision Blizzard is reportedly investigating and trying to help those with affected accounts.
Call of Duty's Ricochet Anti-Cheat team is now making cheaters see hallucinations that mimic a regular player but are only visible to the cheating software, flagging them in the system.
GPTZero and Peerceptiv have partnered up to give professors of post-secondary students the tools they need to identify where artificial intelligence has been used to write a person's essay.
Infinity Ward has begun matching suspected cheaters together through a separate matchmaking pool. The developer is also further strengthening security on Modern Warfare and Warzone.
Activision has announced that since Call of Duty: Warzone's launch, 50,000 in-game cheaters have been banned. The firm also plans to provide a regular count on the amount of bans moving forward.
While over two decades have passed since GoldenEye 007 made its appearance on the Nintendo 64, developers from Rare have said that they considered playing as Oddjob in multiplayer mode as cheating.
With widespread cheating having impacted the online gaming experience in Splatoon 2, it appears that Nintendo is readying its response after integrity checks were discovered within the game's code.
Despite not interjecting during the investigation, Billy Mitchell has finally come out to defend himself. A new video was published, stating he has evidence to prove his records are valid.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds publisher in China, Tencent, has helped Chinese authorities arrest 120 individuals that are suspected of manufactoring cheating software for the battle-royale title.
When Epic filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit last month against a couple of alleged cheaters, it apparently didn't have all the facts - namely that one of the defendants was only 14 years of age.
Tencent has managed to gain exclusive publishing rights for PUBG in China. The company will provide local hosting, enforce local regulations, and also crack down on widespread cheating.
During this weekend's Season 3 tournament which was hosted by Ubisoft, several exploits and bugs caused some headaches for the professional players, even one to win after using a known exploit.
After introducing measures to deter cheating in 'Tom Clancy's The Division' earlier this year, Ubisoft now says it's going further, permanently banning those caught cheating on their first offense.
The search engine wars certainly just took an interesting turn. According to Search Engine Land, Google just completed a sting operation of sorts, proving that Bing is copying search results. The Bing Toolbar is used...
It's a well-established fact that South Koreans take their gaming very seriously. The country sports a thriving professional gaming industry, known as e-sports in the gaming world. The tournaments and events are held in lavish,...
"Hi, YouTube, it's me, Kiki," the teenager said to the camera as she swiveled in her chair to jazzy background music. "And today I'm going to show you how to cheat on a test -...
Microsoft is denying a recent report that suggests it deliberately included a technical loophole in Windows Vista that lets users install the OS without paying for the full priced version. In an article that appeared...
Many of today's BitTorrent trackers rely on a ratio system to ensure leechers (P2P users who download data but do not share) to a minimum. The ratio system basically tracks a user's upload and download...
Motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte has accused Asus of cheating on the 925X/915X scores. Asus 925X/915P series motherboards score a lot higher in some 3D graphics performance tests than Gigabyte's motherboards. According to The Inquirer...
Valve Software has started taking legal actions against cheating (cheat-sites, cheat creators). According to a post by Gabe Newell on the Half-Life 2 Fallout Forums. We've started taking legal action against...
Computerbase.de is a company in Germany that keeps itself busy watching the IT market. Computerbase.de posted up an article that claims an optimizer can be found in the new driver for the new ATi X800-...
ATI says that CryTek's representative told it that what Nvidia showed us in Geneva was a 2.0/3.0 path versus 1.1 path. The key message is that Shader model 3.0 and 2.0 look...
Cheating is bad, very bad, but possible with MSN Messenger games because Microsoft has managed its code in such a way it can be exploited easily if you know how to code. ...
Benchmark results cited by Apple at the launch of its Power Mac G5 desktops yesterday have already come under fire for seeming to not only tweak the Mac test system to improve its performance beyond...
Thanks Kombatant for the heads up In our recent GeforceFX 5900 Ultra story, we noticed the Nvidia board was well ahead of ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro in Futuremark's 3DMark2003 benchmark, but the...
"It has recently been discovered that the hardware manufacturer ECS has released video card drivers for their Xabre line of video cards that allow users to see through walls and alter other settings that make...
Game companies are looking to subscription fees from online players as a major source of recurring revenue in the near future, with leading games publisher Electronic Arts predicting that 400,000 subscribers will be paying about...