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• Valve anti-cheat does not steal your browser history - Newell

  Valve has responded to accusations that its widely-used anti-cheating system, VAC, goes through your browser history and reports back to its master.

• Rust adds anti-cheat technology, bans over 4,000 players

  Rust developer FacePunch has implemented an anti-cheat measure called CheatPunch, which has already identified and kicked out a significant number of players despite launching on official servers only.

• NES Remix global contest cancelled after players capitalise on exploit

  NES Remix players have discovered an exploit affecting the game’s clock, leading to the cancellation of a global contest to promote the Virtual Console showcase title.

• Diablo 3 exploit proceeds to go to charity

  Blizzard has identified 415 Diablo 3 players who took advantage of last week’s gold multiplying exploit, and will be diverting their profits directly to a good cause.

• Max Payne 3 hackers to be sent to a "cheater's pool"

  Rockstar has set up a dedicated email address for reporting Max Payne 3 cheaters, and intends to corral them together far away from the leaderboards.

• Diablo III ban hammer to strike "in the near future"

  Blizzard would like to remind cheaters that you can be permanently banned from the game if you get caught – and since we’re talking always-on DRM, that is a serious threat.

• GT Academy round two broadsided by cheaters, results discarded

  Cheaters never prosper. And neither, it appears, does anyone else who gets caught up in their silly scandals.

• Latest PS3 firmware update bans Black Ops multiplayer cheaters

  Thanks to the latest firmware update for PS3, some Call of Duty: Black Ops players have been banned for cheating.

• Modern Warfare 2 hack on PS3 allows impossible scores

  Looks like naughty hackers struck the Modern Warfare 2 leaderboards on PS3, apparently, and implanted cheaters at the top of the lists with massive play time figures ranging in the tens of thousands of days. That’s unpossible! While Activision or Infinity Ward has yet to comment on whether the boards will be reset, it is […]

• Infinity Ward brings down the banhammer on PC Modern Warfare 2 cheaters

  A couple weeks ago, hackers started fiddling around with a gaping hole in Modern Warfare 2’s command console, and – shockingly enough – instead of immediately alerting Infinity Ward to this exploit’s existence in an effort to preserve the subtle balance of their favorite game, people started cheating. Now, though, Infinity Ward’s flushing the scum. […]

• Cheaters' Gamercards will be tagged

  Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement dude Stephen Toulouse has said that not only will cheaters’ total gamerscore be reset to zero, their gamercards will also be branded – so the fact that you’ve cheated will follow you around forever. “The bar is a little bit higher than that,” Toulouse replied when Major Nelson quizzed him […]

• CoD4 cheaters to be deadalised by Infinity Ward

  Infinity Ward comms boss Rob Bowling’s confirmed by Twitter that a patch is on the way to “elminate the cheaters in COD4 on Xbox 360.” It’s Cheat Week, clearly. Only last night, Nelson reset some Gamerscores on filthy Gears 2 cheater accounts. Do you cheat at Call of Duty 4? You reign of terror is […]