A common question about the video games cheat business is, “How big is it?” Or “How much is it worth?” For a seemingly simple question, finding a satisfactory answer can be tricky. Much of the work done on this to date massively underestimates its value because it only looks at certain aspects. For example, it focuses only on what cheat developers and vendors make from selling cheats. Or it only considers FPS games, rather than include the MMO’s and Mobile games that suffer t

A battle of AI vs AI is already underway. What about the future?

Introduction Video games have always had their share of cheating — from simple exploits, speed hacks, and boundary clipping to more complex tools like aimbots and wallhacks. But as artificial intelligence grows more powerful and more accessible, cheat developers are adopting AI techniques to make cheats smarter, subtler, and critically, harder to detect. At the same time, game developers and anti-cheat systems are employing AI to keep up. What we’re witnessing has been refer

The battle against cheating is often compared to a game of cat and mouse, with the cheat developers as the mouse, and Game Security the...