That's one way of dealing with cheaters.

Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind Apex Legends, says that they will soon begin to implement a new method of anti-cheat in their still fairly popular battle royale title. Unlike many other methods of anti-cheat, this one aims to issue softbans against known cheaters.

In short, this means that people who are detected to be cheating will be matched up only against others who have been found to be cheating. These people will not be matched up against those who are legitimate players. That is, of course,...

Though it's only been out for about a month now, Apex Legends has already amassed over 355,000 bans courtesy of Easy Anti-Cheat. This announcement came from the latest "Respawn Check In" on Reddit.

The team at Respawn made sure to inform the community about this in addition to some other details about what they're working on. Some of these details include further measures they're taking against cheating, what they're doing about spammers, how they're tackling crashes, and more. Let's start things off by looking at that tasty news about those...

Today, the Playerunknown's Battlegrounds team provided a letter from the developer that talks about their ongoing anti-cheat efforts. Their letter covers a wide range of anti-cheat related topics such as how they have improved their cheat detection methods to their increases in taking legal action against cheaters.

The devs note that try to "maintain a much higher level of security than other games." Despite the devs saying that this is a "quick update" on their anti-cheat measures, it's actually quite the in-depth look at what...

Epic Games, the studio behind a little game called Fortnite, just announced that they have bought the company, Kamu, behind the anti-cheat software that is appropriately called Easy Anti-Cheat.

Fret not, however, because developer Kamu says that they will continue to work with other developers and other game engines for their anti-cheat solutions. Epic's Tim Sweeney also offered up his own thoughts on this new acquisition.
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Yesterday, the PUBG Corp. announced that some innocent players got caught up in some false positives for their anti-cheat. As a way of apologizing, these users have been unbanned and given a little compensation in the form of 20,000 BP to spend in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
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Yesterday, the PUBG Corp. announced that some innocent players got caught up in some false positives for their anti-cheat. As a way of apologizing,...

A Steam announcement from PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds says that on April 25, 15 suspects were arrested for developing and selling various hacking and cheating programs that affected PUBG. They went on to say that some of the programs sold also included malicious code that was used to steal user information.
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A Steam announcement from PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds says that on April 25, 15 suspects were arrested for developing and selling various hacking...

A recent update for Playerunknown's Battlegrounds was rolled back this morning at 3AM due to a few unforeseen issues. Specifically, the update was rolled back due to "some compatibility issues" that came up.

According to the tweet, the team said that the update was for the game's anti-cheat. They note that "despite its effectiveness in blocking cheats," they made the decision to roll back the update on the live servers....

A recent update for Playerunknown's Battlegrounds was rolled back this morning at 3AM due to a few unforeseen issues. Specifically, the update...

The latest update from the PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds' development team again promises to introduce stricter anti-cheat measures.
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The latest update from the PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds' development team again promises to introduce stricter anti-cheat measures.
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Cheating in Fortnite Battle Royale seems to be a problem. At least, that's what I hear from people on the Internet. Specifically, that's what Epic Games is telling us since it's not like I go around talking to people about Fortnite Battle Royale.

But yeah, cheaters! They suck. Epic knows this. Fortnite community person, Nathan Mooney, explains what's going to happen with Fortnite Battle Royale anti-cheat.
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Cheating in Fortnite Battle Royale seems to be a problem. At least, that's what I hear from people on the Internet. Specifically, that's what Epic...