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How Cheating Spreads in Online Games

Computer scientists have determined that multiplayer online gamers who have friends who cheat are more likely to become cheaters themselves. So likely, in fact, that the team behind a new study on the issue believes it can create an algorithm to identify them. In other words, the new research demonstrated that cheat...

23 December 2011
10:02 GMT

Creativity May Favor Cheating

According to the conclusions of a new study by Duke University researchers, it would appear that people who display more creativity are also more likely to cheat on their significant others than their less-creative peers. One possible explanation for this could be that creativity also allows individuals to rational...

29 November 2011
10:52 GMT

1,600 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Cheaters Are Now Banned

Infinity Ward's creative strategist, Robert Bowling, has revealed that more than 1,600 players of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 have been banned after cheating or using exploits to their advantage within the game.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 had the most successful entertainment launch of all time, but with t...

21 November 2011
05:06 GMT

Wife Caught Cheating with 'Find My Friends'

A guy who got his wife a new iPhone 4S says he caught her cheating after installing Find My Friends on the device without her knowing.He shares his story with the people at MacRumors where he sent the pictures displayed left (email screenshot).“I got my wife a new 4s and loaded up find my friends without her kn...

17 October 2011
04:00 GMT

Call of Duty Elite Will Help Find Modern Warfare 3 Cheaters

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the new first person shooter from Activision, has a variety of security measures in-place to prevent and detect cheaters, chief among which being the new Call of Duty Elite online service, as it's going to help the developers at Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games track down chea...

28 September 2011
08:01 GMT

Cheating and Quitting Still Big Problems for FIFA Games, EA Says

FIFA 12, the newest installment in Electronic Arts' long running soccer simulator, is getting ready to be released soon, but EA does admit that there are still areas where improvements are needed, including the prevention of cheating or when players quit because they're losing in a match.FIFA 12 has been ea...

27 September 2011
15:51 GMT

Treyarch Says It's Hard to Stop Call of Duty Players from Cheating

The yearly releases of the Call of Duty series are a big event for the world of gaming and one of the biggest draws is the multiplayer mode, which is quickly becoming one of the most popular for those playing both on home console and on the PC. And it seems that as the popularity of the series has grown as the dev...

12 July 2011
17:41 GMT

Crysis 2 Cheaters Will Be Eliminated, Crytek Promises

Crytek, the developer of the recently released Crysis 2, has promised that it will eliminate all of the cheaters currently running amok in the game's online mode. Crysis 2 was launched last week and it seems that there were quite a few problems with it, prompting the developer to release a patch before the we...

31 March 2011
03:40 GMT

Odds of Cheating a Partner Tied to Voice Pitch

Scientists were recently able to determine that both men and women rely on analyzing the voice of their mate in order to assess the risk they are subjecting themselves to in regards to being cheated on. Men with lower voices and women with higher-pitched ones are often considered to be the ones most likely to cheat o...

7 March 2011
08:53 GMT

AMD Bashes NVIDIA Over Alleged HAWX Antialiasing Cheat

If you've thought that such a serious jab as the one NVIDIA threw AMD's way a while ago (with benchmark cheating claims involved) was not going to have any repercussions, then think again, since we're witnessing somewhat of a “driver cheating pinpointing” competition between the two GPU man...

1 December 2010
04:05 GMT

15,000 Halo: Reach Cheaters Get Their Credits Reset by Bungie

Halo: Reach, this year's biggest Xbox 360 exclusive, has broken quite a lot of records and, according to Xbox Live charts, is quickly becoming the most played online title, which, sadly, means that a lot of people tried to cheat the system and get special things.If you've been playing fair and square though...

4 October 2010
04:45 GMT

ESPN Fantasy Football Vulnerabilities Enable Cheating

A security researcher has identified multiple vulnerabilities on ESPN's Fantasy Football website, which enables players to make unauthorized changes to their opponents' teams.In fantasy sports games like Fantasy Football, the participants build virtual teams by drafting real players at the beginning of a se...

23 September 2010
05:15 GMT

Economically Female-Dependent Men Tend to Cheat

Apparently, the more economically dependent a man is on his female partner, the more likely he is to be unfaithful to her, a new study that will be presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, implies.Women of the other hand, the more they depend on their male partner economically t...

16 August 2010
11:03 GMT

11 Professional Starcraft Gamers Involved in Match-Fixing Scandal

16 people have been indicted with rigging games and placing illegal bets in the match-fixing scandal that has recently taken place in the Korean pro-gaming Starcraft community. While the South Korean law somewhat protects the identities of people involved in on-going legal investigations, the little information revea...

18 May 2010
09:36 GMT

Cheater’s Diet: Lose Weight by Cheating Smart

It is already common knowledge that the most challenging part of dieting is having to accept that it comes with many restrictions. Researchers say it’s precisely knowing we can’t have something that makes us want it more, which is why we should approach dieting from a different angle: stop trying to play ...

4 August 2009
15:21 GMT

Call of Duty 4 Will Eliminate Cheaters Through New Xbox 360 Patch

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was one of the biggest titles to appear at the end of 2007, introducing at the same time a new prestige and critical acclaim for the first-person shooter, which hadn't really brought the house down in terms of originality up until then. The team at Infinity Ward created a solid ex...

29 April 2009
03:04 GMT

Unfaithful Women Have Higher Hormone Levels

According to a new scientific study, women who naturally produce more estrogen than others are more likely to see themselves as being attractive, and to behave more like men in romantic relationships, changing partners often and even cheating on their current one. Psychologists say that this type of behavior may be r...

14 January 2009
04:09 GMT

Men Can Tell When They're Cheated On

A new scientific study, aimed at finding out exactly how relationship dynamics work when it comes to cheating, has revealed that men are better than women at detecting when they are cheated on, while women don't figure this out that often, but, instead, are better at hiding their infidelities. The survey was con...

31 October 2008
05:10 GMT

Bungie Announces Title Update 2 for Halo 3

Bungie has confirmed that Title Update 2, which is basically the second update to the Xbox 360 game, introduces new Achievements to Halo 3. There are also a few changes that are made to the game itself, other than adding Achievements.The people at Bungie say that they are adding better online support, with rarer occu...

10 September 2008
21:01 GMT

The Biology and Psychology of Cheating

When Hollywood stars or politicians have extramarital affairs, the whole world rumbles. However, were we to look into human biology, anthropology and sociology, we would see that the monogamous human comes off as a very weird notion. Monogamy was invented for a sense of order and as to make a profitable investment, n...

15 May 2008
02:46 GMT

Weekend Reading: Analysis of Cheating - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Games tend to be some tough bunches of pixels that can drive you completely mad with their zany, difficult levels/monsters/whatever. Ostracism and torture in the medieval times were nothing but little angels compared to the hell of pressing, for the hundredth time, the "retry" button. What does the regular gamer do i...

18 April 2008
20:06 GMT

Why Would Anyone Cheat on Such a Hottie?

I think you could say that some ladies out there really have it all: good looks, money, a successful career and a famous (also young and good-looking) husband. But apparently, even a world-famous hot singer, married to one of England's top football players of the moment can't breathe easy and get on with he...

20 February 2008
09:36 GMT

Watch Out for Tournament Scam, You Can Lose Real Money!

There are a lot of official tournaments and competitions organized by game developers or serious gaming networks. These will probably have no problem in giving you the exact cash prize they have promised or offer a full refund if something goes wrong. Unfortunately, there are a ton of other competitions organized in ...

19 February 2008
07:01 GMT


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