10 GENIUS Ways Video Games Fought Cheaters

The Call of Duty franchise has certainly come up with its fair share of clever methods for dealing with cheaters, but Activision has truly outdone themselves with their latest gambit.

The publisher recently announced an update to their Ricochet Anti-Cheat software which governs all contemporary Call of Duty games.

The update added a new anti-cheat mechanic which introduced "hallucinations" to multiplayer games - fake invisible enemies cloned from actual players in the game.

While in no way affecting play for regular players, these digital phantoms would instantly trigger cheating mechanisms like aimbots, in turn outing cheaters without any room for doubt whatsoever.

As traps to catch cheaters go, that's incredibly smart and creative, and should certainly leave even the most doggedly determined Call of Duty cheats quaking in their military booties.

Simply banning cheaters is one thing, but completely obliterating the very foundation of their cheating is another, to ensure that they can't help but reveal their dirty little secret.