Enlarge / Hey, where’d everybody go? (credit: Chaos / Activision) Players caught cheating in Call of Duty can now be punished with a penalty that makes them unable to see their opponents, a new anti-cheat mitigation feature that Activision calls “cloaking.” Cheaters that are subject to a cloaking penalty will find that “characters, bullets, even […]
Enlarge / Maps this detailed can take up a lot of hard drive space. For years, players have complained that ballooning game download sizes are clogging up hard drives and Internet bandwidth. In a recent interview with streamer TeeP, Call of Duty: Warzone Live Operations Lead Josh Bridge admitted that the game’s massive file size […]
Enlarge / Taking the leap. (credit: Activision Blizzard ) A group of developers at Call of Duty: Warzone developer Raven Software are walking off the job to protest what they see as unfair treatment of members of the quality assurance team who were let go unceremoniously late last week. In a public statement , the […]
Enlarge Call of Duty ‘s comprehensive new anti-cheat system includes a potential olive branch for security-conscious players: it can’t access your PC’s private files, or so Activision claims. Announced Wednesday via the Call of Duty blog , the developers’ new suite of cheat deterrent tools (called the Ricochet Anti-Cheat initiative) includes the kernel-level driver for […]
Enlarge (credit: CHUYN / Getty Images) Criminals have been hiding malware inside publicly available software that purports to be a cheat for Activision’s Call of Duty: Warzone, researchers with the game maker warned earlier this week. Cheats are programs that tamper with in-game events or player interactions so that users gain an unfair advantage over […]
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Activision lawyers diving into action to issue copyright notices for leaked footage. Activision is using DMCA takedown requests to try to suppress leaked footage of a new Call of Duty: Warzone map that hit the Internet yesterday. Copies of the leaked footage, which comes as part of a celebrity-filled promotional […]