The next time you find yourself in an online match of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and you see someone doing something that is obviously cheating, pray for their digital souls because Infinity Ward may soon swing its mighty ban hammer at them.
In an effort to keep the games clean of hackers, Infinity Ward has decided to impose 5,000 days bans on anyone caught doing “something bad,” according to Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling.
“Player Banned for 5000 days?! Yes. If you see this message, it means you’ve been Permabanned (for something bad),” Bowling tweeted.
While it is technically a “temporary” ban of 5,000 days–or 13 and a half years–it is being called a “permaban,” and rightly so. Bowling did not specify exactly what will earn you a thwack with the might ban hammer, but some have already felt its cold embrace, as evidenced by the picture above posted by MP1st.com.
Few things can ruin a game experience faster than someone that cheats at an online game. It is a fact Infinity Ward knows well, and the developer is not alone. Earlier this year EA dropped the hammer on hundreds of cheaters as well.
So in other words, this holiday season, consider Infinity Ward to be like Santa. And not the jolly, happy old man that brings toys, but the other Santa that knows when you’ve naughty.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.