Game Hacking

INTRODUCTION

A common misconception in the world of online gaming is the idea that the only game you can play is the one in the title. In fact, game hackers enjoy playing the game that hides behind the curtain: a cat-and-mouse game of wits between them and the game developers. While game hackers work to reverse engineer game binaries, automate aspects of game play, and modify gaming environments, game developers combat the hacker-designed tools (normally referred to as bots) using anti-reversing techniques, bot detection algorithms, and heuristic data mining.

As the battle between game hackers and developers has progressed, the technical methods ...