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China has no chill about game cheaters: Eve Online bad actors might go to space jail News Oct 19th, 2018

China has no chill about game cheaters: Eve Online bad actors might go to space jail

Data mined from the game's Chinese test server show, um, interesting incentives to behave in this region

Epic has started suing YouTubers for promoting and selling Fortnite cheats News Oct 17th, 2018

Epic has started suing YouTubers for promoting and selling Fortnite cheats

Brandon Lucas frequently cheats in-game and sells cheats on a website

PUBG Corp faces community backlash having region locked its game News Oct 8th, 2018

PUBG Corp faces community backlash having region locked its game

Users still facing issues

Report: Around 13m Playerunknown's Battlegrounds accounts have been banned News Oct 3rd, 2018

Report: Around 13m Playerunknown's Battlegrounds accounts have been banned

Not 13m players, though

Blizzard axes some Overwatch third-party apps News Sep 21st, 2018

Blizzard axes some Overwatch third-party apps

Specifically, tools that "impede on the competitive integrity"

GTA cheat distributor blocked from selling software Take-Two claims cost it over $500,000 News Aug 20th, 2018

GTA cheat distributor blocked from selling software Take-Two claims cost it over $500,000

Judge refrained from charging damages that the allegedly-unemployed developer could not afford

Ubisoft axes 1,300 Rainbow Six: Siege players in one week over cheating News Jul 30th, 2018

Ubisoft axes 1,300 Rainbow Six: Siege players in one week over cheating

Follows patch to remove exploit from the game

Tencent and PUBG are not messing about with cheaters and hackers News Jul 12th, 2018

Tencent and PUBG are not messing about with cheaters and hackers

People arrested for making and selling hacks photographed by police

Ubisoft outlines further anti-cheat measures for Rainbow Six: Siege News Jul 9th, 2018

Ubisoft outlines further anti-cheat measures for Rainbow Six: Siege

Infrastructure being tested and new features added to make the game cleaner

Adware smuggled in a hack infects over 78,000 Fortnite cheaters News Jul 4th, 2018

Adware smuggled in a hack infects over 78,000 Fortnite cheaters

“If something is too good to be true, you’re probably going to need to reformat your PC”

Microsoft is trying to patent anti-cheat machine learning tech News Jul 3rd, 2018

Microsoft is trying to patent anti-cheat machine learning tech

Not yet granted, but the big M is the latest firm to employ AI to crack down on bad actors

South Korean hacker to spent a year in jail for Overwatch cheats News Jun 26th, 2018

South Korean hacker to spent a year in jail for Overwatch cheats

New national laws against online cheats have led to harsh punishments for offenders

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds puts personal item trading on hold News May 4th, 2018

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds puts personal item trading on hold

Third-party sales sites cited as reason for turning off trades

South Korean Overwatch hacker fined $9,300, another faces two years on probation News May 3rd, 2018

South Korean Overwatch hacker fined $9,300, another faces two years on probation

Just two of 13 arrested on suspicion of building hacks for the online shooter

15 arrested on suspicion of selling PUBG hacks News May 1st, 2018

15 arrested on suspicion of selling PUBG hacks

Fined $5.1m by Chinese law enforcement

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