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Overwatch 2 Will Start Banning People Who Team Up With Cheaters
3.2.2023
Blizzard announced in a February 1 update blog that it’s taking a new, more aggressive approach to Overwatch 2 cheating. The developer will no longer ban just cheaters themselves—though it boasts already wiping out “over 50,000 accounts that we found to be cheating since the launch of Overwatch...
First Team To Clear Challenging New Final Fantasy XIV Raid Gets Caught Cheating
1.2.2023
A Final Fantasy XIV raid team had their world-record achievement revoked after they got caught using tools developer Square Enix considers a form of cheating. Read more
The World's Biggest Chess Site Is Popping Off So Much, Fans Can't Play
24.1.2023
The halcyon days (if there ever were any) of the covid pandemic can still be felt today with the resurging popularity of online chess. However, the world’s largest chess website has become a victim of the king’s game’s success because its servers are struggling to meet the game’s online...
Rocket League Players Found The Optimal Way To Cheat
12.1.2023
Rocket League’s stalwart players have had enough. For over a week, fans have been complaining that the game—it’s soccer with screaming, customizable cars—is being terrorized by a bot trained with machine learning, and that developer Psyonix is doing nothing to save them from it.Read more
Xbox Automatically Banned 4 Million Accounts For Cheating Or Botting In 2022
15.11.2022
Microsoft recently published an Xbox transparency report that offers some details on how it moderated its online services during the first six months of 2022. According to the publisher’s report, most enforcements were “proactive,” which means that Xbox issued a ban (in most cases) before anyone...
Marvel Snap Players Have Bot Paranoia (And They Might Be Right)
27.10.2022
If you’ve spent any time at all playing the new hit mobile card game Marvel Snap, you’ve probably wondered whether the person on the other side of the virtual board was human or not. And you’re not alone. The game doesn’t make it clear when you’re playing against a real person, and as a result...
Hans Niemann Suing For $100 Million Over Chess Cheating Allegations
21.10.2022
Hans Niemann, the chess grandmaster at the centre of cheating allegations—which you can catch up on here—has filed a suit in a Missouri court suing world champion Magnus Carlsen, his chess app Play Magnus, the website chess.com, chess.com’s Daniel Rensch and streamer Hikaru Nakamura for $100...
Pro Poker Cheating Scandal Takes Weird Twist After Crew Member Caught Stealing Chips
10.10.2022
As the fuss following the accusations of cheating against poker player Robbi Jade Lew somehow still rumble on, an investigation by the casino in which the game took place has revealed an employee dipping into Lew’s stack as the brouhaha went down. He took $15,000, before later being caught.Read more
Chess Pro Accused Of Cheating Defiant After Competing In Tourney With Extra Security
6.10.2022
Two days after Chess.com released a 72-page report detailing Grandmaster Hans Niemann’s repeated history of online cheating on its website, the beleaguered pro is now, much to everyone’s surprise, competing in 2022's U.S. Chess Championship. And while the internet has cracked plenty of jokes...
Leading Chess Site Asked Top 100 Player Unmasked As Cheater To Confess (And They Did)
5.10.2022
On Tuesday evening, The Wall Street Journal published a high-level overview of a report produced by Chess.com, all about Hans Niemann, the player suspected of cheating at the Sinquefield Cup against reigning five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. (Possibly, the internet has repeatedly...
Report: Chess Grandmaster From Anal Bead Conspiracy Accused Of Cheating In Over 100 Games
4.10.2022
Hans Niemann, who sparked the internet’s favorite anal bead meme last month after beating chess world champion Magnus Carlsen in a stunning upset, is now accused of cheating in over 100 online matches, according to a new unprecedented 72-page report by Chess.com. The world’s most popular website...
'Call The Cops!' Fishing Competition Turns Into Frenzy After Cheater Caught Stuffing Fish
4.10.2022
If you thought last month’s chess grandmaster anal bead conspiracy saga was the worst thing that could happen to a competitive sporting event, I’ve got some bad news for you. The rollicking world of competitive sports fishing now has an oh-fish-ial controversy of its own after competitors at...
The Entire Call Of Duty Community Just Got Punked
3.10.2022
I am now convinced that “female Call of Duty streamer” is the hardest job in the world. Nadia Amine is one of the fastest growing Call of Duty: Warzone streamers on Twitch, and there’s been a ton of controversy on social media about her meteoric rise. If you search her name on YouTube or Tiktok...
Pro Poker Rocked By Cheating Scandal Where Winner Repaid $269K To Loser
3.10.2022
Accusations of cheating in live games are quite the thing at the moment. While chess is embroiled in the most peculiar of cheating allegations, it now seems the world of poker is having a turn. After an extraordinary moment in a live-broadcast high-stakes cash game, people are accusing poker...
Chess Players Are Convinced That The Anal Bead Controversy Is Causing More Online Cheating
29.9.2022
Remember the anal bead cheating controversy? As much as I’d like to forget, it turns out that a lot of people are still thinking about it. Some chess players have reported an uptick of computer-aided cheating in Chess.com matches ever since the story about Hans Niemann broke. One player has dubbed...
Chess Champion Breaks Silence On 'Anal Bead' Cheating Controversy
27.9.2022
After nearly a month of anal bead memes and chess drama, world champion Magnus Carlsen has finally opened up about his stunning defeat to 19-year-old grandmaster Hans Niemann and his shocking stunts that followed in the aftermath. Long story short: He thinks Niemann is a cheater, over the board...
Chess Champion Ratchets Up Cheating Drama By Resigning In Just One Move
19.9.2022
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen was supposed to play Hans Niemann, a 19-year old he previously implied was a cheater, in the Champions Chess Tour 2022 today. Instead, he resigned after making just one move, reigniting the embers of a scandal that’s consumed the chess world this month....
Billy Mitchell Says His Doctor Won't See Him Because Of Donkey Kong Cheating Allegations
8.9.2022
I think we can all agree that whether or not Billy Mitchell cheated at Donkey Kong that one time is basically the most important event in all of human history, and must be forensically dissected until the heat death of the universe. But in the latest round of the ongoing battle between this famed...
Call Of Duty: Warzone Dipshits Won’t Stop Accusing Twitch’s Top Female Streamer Of Cheating
26.8.2022
Nadia Amine is currently considered “one of the fastest growing female streamers” in Call of Duty and Warzone. But her skill and visibility as a female Warzone player comes at a heavy cost. Regardless of how many Tiktok videos she uploads of herself kicking ass at Warzone, gamers won’t stop...
F2Pool co-founder responds to allegations it's cheating the Ethereum POW system
9.8.2022
The response comes after researchers in Israel alleged the mining pool has been manipulating Ethereum block timestamps to obtain higher mining rewards