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Overwatch 2 Adds ‘Voice Transcription’ Feature to Tackle Toxic Players
Overwatch 2 has predominantly gotten off to a fairly positive start with the community with a lot of interesting new features and general character tweaks. With that being said, however, it’s still a long way from being perfect with various balances and bug fixes still being applied to try and,…
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Dead By Daylight Removes Disconnection ‘Time-Out’ Penalties (For Now At Least)
With Halloween fast approaching, I think it goes without saying that horror gaming titles are undoubtedly going to see a little mini resurgence over the coming weeks and particularly so in regard to Dead by Daylight. – While it might now be over six years old now, it’s still hard…
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Call of Duty RICOCHET Cheat Detection Looks to Apply ‘Invisibility Cloak’ to Legit Players
With the launch of the new RICOCHET cheat detection system earlier this year, while it certainly hasn’t provided the magic bullet solution (nearly) everyone was hoping for in regards to stopping cheaters on Call of Duty (Warzone or Vanguard), it has at least represented something of a solid step in…
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FIFA 22 Players Report 1,000 Day Ban For Using ‘No Loss’ Glitch
Following the release of FIFA 22 earlier this month, there are clearly a lot of people already investing a lot of time (and money) into building their new ‘Ultimate Team’ and competing against other players in the brand new season. As you might expect, however, there will always be those…
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Twitch Will (Sort Of) Start Telling People Why They’ve Been Banned
Twitch is certainly a platform that has never been shy in throwing the ban hammer around and has even done it, on more than a few occasions, to some exceptionally big names on the platform. One of the biggest criticisms the streaming service has had since its creation around 10…
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Twitch Warns Bans Might Extend to Off-Platform Activity
Since the start of the year, Twitch has certainly kicked their efforts into a new gear in order to attempt to remove toxic or abusive members from their streaming platform. Such moves have, of course, seen mixed success and reactions from the community on the whole, but overall, I think…
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Warzone Ban Wave Hits 60,000 Accounts With More to Come!
I really love Call of Duty Warzone, but it’s hard to deny that one of the most significant issues facing the game at the moment is cheating. – It is perhaps something more than a little coincidental that I just happened to be playing it with my friends only yesterday…
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Reports Emerge of Hundreds of PC Destiny 2 Accounts Already Being Banned
Bungie Squashes Rumours Blaming 3rd Party Software Destiny 2 made it’s final and long awaiting PC launch on the 24th of October. It has, however, emerged that within the first 24 hours, hundreds of accounts have already been banned. In a report via PCGamesN, many REDDIT sub feeds have emerged stating…
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Niantic Now Permanently Banning Pokemon Go Cheaters
Niantic, the company behind the global hit mobile game Pokemon Go, have announced that they will be issuing permanent bans to any players who are found to be violating the game’s terms of service. There are a number of ways that people can break the ToS of Pokemon Go, these…
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CS:GO Players Being Permabanned Due to AMD Hardware Glitch
If you are one of the millions of CS:GO players out there and also use AMD hardware, then you should read this or risk getting permabanned. Yesterday there was a big and anticipated update to CS:GO that added seven new community maps in competitive matchmaking and a lot more. That in…
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Reddit Launches New Harassment Rules
Reddit is banning a handful of its worst communities. “Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content on an open platform,” “We want as little involvement as possible in managing these interactions but will be involved when needed to protect…
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Professional CS:GO Players Caught Cheating and Banned
A shadow has been cast on the professional CS:GO gaming community as three players have been caught cheating in competitive play and received VAC bans last week. The outed players are Hovik “KQLY” Tovmassian, Simon “smn” Beck and Gordon “Sf” Giry. Professional players or at least semi-professional, have been banned before, but…
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LoL Update Sees New Map Introduced
Many months ago I was introduced to a jaw-dropping statistic. According to their own data, Riot Games will see a minimum of 4 million users logged in to their League of Legends client at any one time, worldwide. This really helped put into perspective how big games were really becoming globally.…
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