Doom developer id Software hasn't had a business-as-usual kind of week. After integrating Denuvo anti-cheat into Doom Eternal last Thursday, the game was review bombed by fans who were unhappy with this mandatory post-launch inclu...

It's one thing to hear that Infinity Ward is out there perma-banning tens of thousands of Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare cheaters, but it's another thing entirely to hear that suspected cheaters are now being intentionally matched...

One of the many great features in Activision's Call of Duty: Warzone is its crossplay functionality that allows both PC and console players to lock horns in the popular battle royale title. Unfortunately, an inevitable part of PC shooter cu...

If battle royale is all about surviving, Warzone cheaters are living fast and dying young. Like Dikembe Mutombo swatting shots and finger-wagging in disapproval (I miss sports!), Infinity Ward is shutting down cheaters left and right. ...

Nintendo has applied a new patch to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The update, which is live in-game right now, appears to have only one function: the removal of the "item cloning" glitch that has been exploited by BAD villagers since launc...

[Update: As noted by Eurogamer, Crema is choosing to relax its ban policy a little following yesterday's announcement. While the developer insists every single ban implemented to date is legitimate, going forward banned players can log an a...

Respawn Entertainment has been making the authority known within Apex Legends lately. Not only was it recently reported that an amazing 770,000 cheaters have been banned from the battle royale title so far, but a new rule will also be showi...

Developer Respawn Entertainments seems to be making good on its recent promise to crack down on cheating in sci-fi shooter Apex Legends. Last week, the company announced that they have banned 770,000 players, blocked 300,000 account creatio...

Bethesda has revealed that Rage 2 will contain a bunch of unlockable cheat codes. Purchased with in-game currency, you'll be able to acquire the pre-order "He's On Fire" cheat along with a bunch of modifiers such as insta-gib, an electric b...

At the weekend, Valve announced that they had made a mass sweep of player accounts within their mega-popular multiplayer title Dota 2. In all, over 17,000 player accounts were reset for trespasses such as cheating, or being re-sold or alt-a...

Very minor spoilers aheadEveryone remembers the Mexico section of the original Red Dead Redemption, right? Really padded and drawn-out? Well, despite the locale not making a return in Rockstar's sequel, Red Dead Redemption 2, some canny pla...

In a surprise update, The Evil Within 2 has scored a new difficulty mode and cheat codes. If players link their game to a Bethesda.net account, they'll unlock the "AKUMU" difficulty option and various cheat codes that enable things like inf...

Epic Games, developer of globally-popular battle royale title Fortnite, are suing two individuals who advertised and demonstrated cheating software through videos uploaded to their YouTube channels.Brandon Lucas had attracted millions of vi...

According to statistics revealed by developer Bluehole and the Korean PUBG Cafe board, Battle Royale instigator PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has banned a whopping 13 million users since June 2017.The majority of booted players were kicked ...

Cheat codes are a lost art in the modern era of gaming. Along with unlockable costumes and other cosmetics that used to be free, developers have monetized “cheating” with loot boxes, crates, and other microtransactions wher...

There was a time where it was up to individual server moderations to ban their own users, but when matchmaking and unified PC storefronts took off it became the wild west. Valve has been attempting to combat cheaters for years with its VAC ...

Over on the official Steam page for Battle Royale pioneer PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, a community update reports that arrests have been made as part of developer Bluehole's continuing efforts to crack down on in-game hacking and/or cheat...

PUBG Corp. has been testing out some brand new anti-cheat methods for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on test servers for the last week or so. Whether through test results or because of fan outcry, the developers have taken to the Steam forum...

While PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds did manage to release in 2017, the game didn't suddenly shed all of its problems. Upon release day last month, there was a problem with the BP (or battle points) system for the game's reward crates. A lot...

South Park: The Fractured but Whole has a way of deflating the spirits of shortcut-takers. There's a rudimentary puzzle early on where you're supposed to find a keycode by looking through Cartman's diary. It's memorable enough in that...

As you probably already know, after a surprise announcement at the Tokyo Game Show, Final Fantasy IX is now out on PlayStation 4.  You may have also noticed that this release of Final Fantasy IX comes with some built-in cheats. Th...

I want to preface by saying I don't hate any of you. It might feel that way when you watch the poorly made video I took of a brand new enemy in Super Mario Bros. 2 that was discovered by a couple of clever ROM hackers I found on Twitter, bu...

Those too lazy to get up and go play Pokémon GO the way it was intended have turned to third-party software to roam the game and collect monsters, without needing to physically move. Niantic has devised an interesting punis...

While we've seen people do all kinds of amazing things over the last few months with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, behold, an effective God mode, no longer working within the limitations of mortal men. The Accio Master Code, cre...

Last year, Blizzard decided to take a German programmer by the name of Bossland to court for "copyright infringement." Its claim was that Bossland's cheat program, Watchover Tyrant, demonstrated unfair competition and was in violation of th...