Today's News:
* EVO recently released the full list of games and changes for this year's EVO 2023 event. The games announced for main stage tournaments are Street Fighter 6, Guilty Gear Strive, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Tekken 7, The King of Fighters XV, Melty Blood: Type Lumina, Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate, and Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. In regards to changes for this year's event, only the Top 6 fights will be aired instead of the previous Top 8 format in order to cut back on the length of the Grand Final stream over issues with matches for certain games going well past their allocated times.
Link:
https://twitter.com/EVO/status/1628212520120094720 ,
https://www.destructoid.com/evo-2023...-stage-lineup/
* For those interested, Nintendo announced they will be holding a special Nintendo Direct episode on March 9 focusing on their upcoming Super Mario Bros film. This Direct will also feature the final new trailer for the film.
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66j31wFLB_s
* Capcom announced that they have recently started development for a free VR DLC pack for their upcoming Resident Evil 4 Remake game for PS5 and Playstation VR 2 headset.
Link:
https://twitter.com/BIO_OFFICIAL/sta...09614843559937 ,
https://www.destructoid.com/resident...l-reality-dlc/
* Valve announced that they recently perma banned over 40,000 accounts from their DOTA 2 game via a "honeypot" trap that was specifically designed to catch players who have been using cheats for the game. It was also stated that this trap would not have been accessible to those who have been playing the game normally so there was no potential false positive cases from those caught.
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Originally Posted by Destructoud
Valve confirms it has permanently banned over 40,000 accounts associated with a known cheat in Dota 2. And it did so by creating a trap laid specifically just to lure users of that specific cheat out.
In a blog entitled “Cheaters Will Never Be Welcome in Dota,” Valve outlines how exactly this came to be. The company doesn’t name the cheat or what it did, but does confirm that the software was able to access information used internally by the Dota 2 client that “wasn’t visible during normal gameplay.”
Though fixing the cheat was important, Valve also decided to remove those using the cheat from the active playerbase. So as soon as the studio understood the methodology behind the cheat, Valve issued a patch that created a honeypot. A section of game data inside the client would never be read during normal gameplay, but it could be read by the cheats.
As you might imagine, this cordoned-off area created a ledger of users who were using the exploit. Valve says it has “extremely high confidence” that every ban was “well-deserved.”
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Link:
https://www.dota2.com/newsentry/3677788723152833273 ,
https://www.destructoid.com/valve-do...honeypot-news/