Neowin News Feed for: Cheating

Battlefield 6 forces gamers to enable Secure Boot on Windows 11/10 PCs

Usama Jawad — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:50:01 +0000

EA has made it mandatory for gamers to enable Secure Boot in order to dive into Battlefield 6, which can be a major headache for those who are not tech-savvy. Read more...

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Activision bans over 19,000 accounts for cheating in Black Ops 6, with help from AI

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:20:01 +0000

Activision is battling the waves of cheaters hitting Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 ranked play. Its latest numbers reveal that 19,000 accounts have already been banned within a week. Read more...

No, your partner didn't cheat on you. Well, at least, when this email said so

Martin Hodás — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:02:01 +0000

The original sextortion e-mail scam has morphed into one that exploits your relationship insecurities. Read more...

Beware, cheaters: Malware campaign targets Call of Duty players using third-party apps

Martin Hodás — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:08:01 +0000

The ongoing malware campaign targeting gamers steals credentials to various online services. Activision Blizzard is reportedly investigating and trying to help those with affected accounts. Read more...

Call of Duty anti-cheat update makes cheaters "hallucinate" decoy opponents

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:16:01 +0000

Call of Duty's Ricochet Anti-Cheat team is now making cheaters see hallucinations that mimic a regular player but are only visible to the cheating software, flagging them in the system. Read more...

GPTZero and Peerceptiv partner to sniff out AI-written submissions

Paul Hill — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 19:18:01 +0000

GPTZero and Peerceptiv have partnered up to give professors of post-secondary students the tools they need to identify where artificial intelligence has been used to write a person's essay. Read more...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone cheaters will now play against each other

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 06:54:01 +0000

Infinity Ward has begun matching suspected cheaters together through a separate matchmaking pool. The developer is also further strengthening security on Modern Warfare and Warzone. Read more...

50,000 Call of Duty: Warzone accounts have been banned for cheating as of today [Update]

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 07:44:01 +0000

Activision has announced that since Call of Duty: Warzone's launch, 50,000 in-game cheaters have been banned. The firm also plans to provide a regular count on the amount of bans moving forward. Read more...

Rare developers: It's definitely cheating to play as Oddjob in GoldenEye 007

Boyd Chan — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:14:01 +0000

While over two decades have passed since GoldenEye 007 made its appearance on the Nintendo 64, developers from Rare have said that they considered playing as Oddjob in multiplayer mode as cheating. Read more...

Anti-cheat system discovered laying dormant in Splatoon 2

Boyd Chan — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:30:01 +0000

With widespread cheating having impacted the online gaming experience in Splatoon 2, it appears that Nintendo is readying its response after integrity checks were discovered within the game's code. Read more...

Former Donkey Kong world record holder Billy Mitchell releases official statement

Timi Cantisano — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:48:01 +0000

Despite not interjecting during the investigation, Billy Mitchell has finally come out to defend himself. A new video was published, stating he has evidence to prove his records are valid. Read more...

Tencent helps arrest 120 PUBG cheat creators in China

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:16:01 +0000

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds publisher in China, Tencent, has helped Chinese authorities arrest 120 individuals that are suspected of manufactoring cheating software for the battle-royale title. Read more...

Target of Epic's Fortnite cheating lawsuit is apparently only 14

John Keefer — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:32:01 +0000

When Epic filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit last month against a couple of alleged cheaters, it apparently didn't have all the facts - namely that one of the defendants was only 14 years of age. Read more...

Tencent promises to crush Chinese cheaters in PUBG

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 12:36:01 +0000

Tencent has managed to gain exclusive publishing rights for PUBG in China. The company will provide local hosting, enforce local regulations, and also crack down on widespread cheating. Read more...

For Honor Season 3 Tournament won by a player using known exploits

Dreyer Smit — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 15:10:02 +0000

During this weekend's Season 3 tournament which was hosted by Ubisoft, several exploits and bugs caused some headaches for the professional players, even one to win after using a known exploit. Read more...

Ubisoft: Those who cheat in 'Tom Clancy's The Division' will now be banned on first offense

Andy Weir — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 08:58:01 +0000

After introducing measures to deter cheating in 'Tom Clancy's The Division' earlier this year, Ubisoft now says it's going further, permanently banning those caught cheating on their first offense. Read more...

Microsoft stealing Google search results to improve Bing [Update]

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:09:17 +0000

The search engine wars certainly just took an interesting turn. According to Search Engine Land, Google just completed a sting operation of sorts, proving that Bing is copying search results. The Bing Toolbar is used... Read more...

South Korea rocked by Starcraft cheating scandal

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:48:01 +0000

It's a well-established fact that South Koreans take their gaming very seriously. The country sports a thriving professional gaming industry, known as e-sports in the gaming world. The tournaments and events are held in lavish,... Read more...

Students Share Cheating Methods on YouTube

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:34:33 +0000

"Hi, YouTube, it's me, Kiki," the teenager said to the camera as she swiveled in her chair to jazzy background music. "And today I'm going to show you how to cheat on a test -... Read more...

Microsoft: Using Vista Loophole Is Cheating

Steven Parker — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:44:47 +0000

Microsoft is denying a recent report that suggests it deliberately included a technical loophole in Windows Vista that lets users install the OS without paying for the full priced version. In an article that appeared... Read more...

BitTorrent flaw allows ratio cheating

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:28:42 +0000

Many of today's BitTorrent trackers rely on a ratio system to ensure leechers (P2P users who download data but do not share) to a minimum. The ratio system basically tracks a user's upload and download... Read more...

Gigabyte accuses Asus of cheating

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:21:54 +0000

Motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte has accused Asus of cheating on the 925X/915X scores. Asus 925X/915P series motherboards score a lot higher in some 3D graphics performance tests than Gigabyte's motherboards. According to The Inquirer... Read more...

Legal action against cheating

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:33:25 +0000

Valve Software has started taking legal actions against cheating (cheat-sites, cheat creators). According to a post by Gabe Newell on the Half-Life 2 Fallout Forums. We've started taking legal action against... Read more...

Ati caught cheating ? (Shock, Horror!)

Tue, 18 May 2004 08:18:27 +0000

Computerbase.de is a company in Germany that keeps itself busy watching the IT market. Computerbase.de posted up an article that claims an optimizer can be found in the new driver for the new ATi X800-... Read more...

ATI Accuses Nvidia of Cheating

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:14:35 +0000

ATI says that CryTek's representative told it that what Nvidia showed us in Geneva was a 2.0/3.0 path versus 1.1 path. The key message is that Shader model 3.0 and 2.0 look... Read more...

MSN Messenger game cheating

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:47:58 +0000

Cheating is bad, very bad, but possible with MSN Messenger games because Microsoft has managed its code in such a way it can be exploited easily if you know how to code. ... Read more...

Apple accused of cheating over G5 benchmarks?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:28:04 +0000

Benchmark results cited by Apple at the launch of its Power Mac G5 desktops yesterday have already come under fire for seeming to not only tweak the Mac test system to improve its performance beyond... Read more...

Nvidia Caught cheating, again?

Tom Warren — Thu, 15 May 2003 02:01:42 +0000

Thanks Kombatant for the heads up In our recent GeforceFX 5900 Ultra story, we noticed the Nvidia board was well ahead of ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro in Futuremark's 3DMark2003 benchmark, but the... Read more...

Removing The ECS Cheating Drivers

Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:02:15 +0000

"It has recently been discovered that the hardware manufacturer ECS has released video card drivers for their Xabre line of video cards that allow users to see through walls and alter other settings that make... Read more...

Online gaming's cheating heart

Marcel Klum — Sun, 09 Jun 2002 08:35:39 +0000

Game companies are looking to subscription fees from online players as a major source of recurring revenue in the near future, with leading games publisher Electronic Arts predicting that 400,000 subscribers will be paying about... Read more...