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Blizzard to halt Overwatch matches if cheating is detected News Jul 16th, 2019

Blizzard to halt Overwatch matches if cheating is detected

Game maker says their will be harsh punishments for bad actors

Denuvo wants to stop cheaters as well as pirates News Mar 20th, 2019

Denuvo wants to stop cheaters as well as pirates

Irdeto breaks into anti-cheat solutions to combat the rise of esports and battle royale foul play

Respawn has given the boot to over 355,000 Apex Legends cheaters News Mar 11th, 2019

Respawn has given the boot to over 355,000 Apex Legends cheaters

Developer vows vigilance in the ongoing war against cheaters

PUBG Corp turns to machine learning to stop cheaters News Feb 28th, 2019

PUBG Corp turns to machine learning to stop cheaters

Over 250 arrested in China and Korea for selling hacks

Respawn has given over 16,000 Apex Legends cheaters the boot News Feb 19th, 2019

Respawn has given over 16,000 Apex Legends cheaters the boot

"Cheaters suck. If you run into one, please try and capture the evidence and let us know”

Florida man owes Take-Two over $150,000 after cheating in Grand Theft Auto Online News Feb 7th, 2019

Florida man owes Take-Two over $150,000 after cheating in Grand Theft Auto Online

Jhonny Perez hacks allowed GTA Online players circumvent the game’s economy entirely

PUBG Corp brings the hammer down on pro players and 30,000 others for exploiting radar hacks News Jan 10th, 2019

PUBG Corp brings the hammer down on pro players and 30,000 others for exploiting radar hacks

Suspended pros face a three-year ban from all official competitive play

Valve's anti-cheat system booted 600k players in December, mostly from CS:GO News Jan 8th, 2019

Valve's anti-cheat system booted 600k players in December, mostly from CS:GO

Follows online shooter's move from premium to free-to-play

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds must be fixed as developers end Fix PUBG scheme.... oh News Nov 20th, 2018

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds must be fixed as developers end Fix PUBG scheme.... oh

Scheme to mend the battle royale title is halted

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

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