Tag Archives: Cheating

With the launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard, the development team also revamped its anti-cheat efforts, with a new system called Ricochet. Using this new system, over 50,000 cheaters have already been banned from this year's Warzone update, as well as Vanguard multiplayer, and the developers are continuing to find …

One of the biggest challenges with launching a free to play multiplayer shooter is keeping on top of cheaters. The problem only gets worse when a game features cross-platform matchmaking, as it introduces the problem of cheating to consoles, which are usually safe from such practices. With Halo Infinite Multiplayer …

Despite its many advantages, one of the issues with PC gaming is the fact that it can be much easier to cheat in games. While not an issue in single-player games, multiplayer titles with cheaters can ruin the experience for others. As a result, Bungie has now announced that Destiny …

Rainbow Six Siege has come a long way in its anti-cheat efforts, but it seems as though Ubisoft still can’t prevent false positive bans.

This week, the big story in esports has been the disbanding of OpTic India's CS:GO team, after Nikhil ‘forsaken' Kumawat was caught cheating at a tournament live on stage. Since then, the Esports Integrity Coalition has handed down a 5-year ban to the player and while he has the opportunity …

A few days ago, the esports world was rocked after a player was caught cheating live on stage during a tournament. Former OpTic India CS:GO player, Nikhil ‘forsaken' Kumawat tried to physically stop admins from checking his PC and then tried to quickly delete the cheat, but it was no …

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professional player Nikhil ‘forsaken’ Kumawat has been caught cheating during the eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals, causing an immediate disqualification for OpTic India. Unfortunately, the organisation has not only responded by unceremoniously firing Kumawat, but disbanding its entire CS:GO roster. OpTic India’s match against Vietnamese team Revolution was paused …

Last week, sources let slip that Nintendo’s impending cloud support was set to be an optional feature that developers can choose to indulge or forgo. While it might be difficult to see why any developer would want to opt out of cloud saves, Nintendo has revealed that the choice is …

Hundreds of YouTube videos have promptly been removed from the platform over the weekend, as a BBC investigation turned up that they facilitated promotion of an essay-writing service that enabled students to cheat. While not breaking any laws, EduBirdie was in violation of YouTube’s terms and conditions, resulting in its …

Dell took a strange turn at the unveiling of its 8th generation gaming laptops in China last week, as the company placed a rather large focus on how the laptops allowed players to cheat more easily than other products by allowing for more plug-ins to be running simultaneously. Dell Australia …

PUBG Corp has placed a great amount of effort into its latest anti-cheat methods in an attempt to quell the waves of hackers spoiling PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds for the general community. Unfortunately, a bug had caused the new measures to run a little bit haywire, banning legitimate players in the process. …

It seemed like a glimmer of hope for PUBG players last week, when the publisher announced a massive ban wave of 100,000 strong. This action was a result of a new pattern of cheats, giving illegitimate players the ability to instantly revive downed teammates and heal themselves, and now it's …

Today, PUBG Corp. took to the Steam Community forums to issue an apology over a bug that caused people to lose out on Battle Points, the game’s in-game currency system. While players are to be compensated for their loss, it seems that the more pressing issue is cheating and region …

OnePlus relished in the success of its OnePlus 5 launch with many first time users taking to social media to praise its speed, software and relatively low price. The very same day, the company has come under fire for cheating its benchmark scores and lying about the true performance. Traditionally, …

An independent research group recently levied some pretty hefty accusations at Samsung recently, claiming that the company was using software on its TVs to cheat energy  efficiency tests. This isn't the first time that Samsung has been accused of this, it was discovered that past Galaxy smartphones were capable of …

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist,” begins the poetic version of Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous statement about the cowardice of German intellectuals during the rise of the Nazi party. It's a speech that has many applications when the topic of free …

Although the hackers behind the recent data theft of infidelity website AshleyMadison.com claimed that they were doing so due to the twisted morality of the site, they also wanted to point out that the unscrupulous owners were happy to charge people to delete accounts and then not do so entirely. …

One of the more controversial aspects of the Ashley Madison ‘dating' website, was that it actually charged users to delete their accounts, a practice that many felt was exploitative. So did the hackers, Impact Team, who claimed responsibility for the site's recent hack and database thievery. With a threat hanging …

Dating sites often contain a lot more personal data on its users than your average website, so it's important they keep that information secret. That goes doubly so for sites like Ashley Madison, which purport to help their members cheat on their spouses. Unfortunately for that particular networking tool however, hackers …