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Tuesday September 28th, 2004


Electronic Arts Inc. has contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software into the game Medal of Honor Pacific Assault™ developed by Electronic Arts. We will soon be opening a section on our website to support PunkBuster™ for Medal of Honor Pacific Assault™.

Wednesday June 30th, 2004



The cost of hacking on PunkBuster servers has just gone up significantly. PunkBuster now computes Hardware GUIDs for various pieces of hardware on players' systems while playing on PunkBuster servers. We use multiple private one-way hashes so that no serial number information for individual computers can be determined by admins or anyone else who may try to obtain this information from a Hardware GUID (and as always, no personal information of any kind is examined, stored or transmitted by PunkBuster). When players raise a violation that corresponds to hacking or interfering with PunkBuster's normal operation, we now (in addition to Global PB GUID bans) are Globally banning the new Hardware GUIDs across all games supported by PunkBuster (including games supported in the future). So punks who are determined to cheat so badly on PB-enabled servers that they try to hack PunkBuster may now need a new computer in addition to a new cdkey in order to return to PunkBuster servers. As with previous PB GUID Global bans, the new Hardware GUID bans are permanent and will not be lifted. As always, players who are affected by these Global bans will still be able to play on non-PB servers. Honest users should never "test" hacks that claim to interfere with PunkBuster. We have successfully tested this new feature set over the past few weeks for a few supported games and will be rolling it out to all supported games over the next few days and weeks. Additionally, PunkBuster servers will be updated to signify whether kicks for Global bans are for PB GUIDs or the new Hardware GUIDs.

Wednesday April 21st, 2004





NovaLogic, Inc. has contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate our PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software into the online game known as Joint Operations™: Typhoon Rising™ which is slated for release in May of this year.

Friday April 2nd, 2004



Ubisoft has contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate our PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software into the online game known as Far Cry™, developed by Crytek.

Monday March 29th, 2004



Ubisoft has contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate our PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software into the online game known as Splinter Cell™: Pandora Tomorrow™ which is to soon be released worldwide.

Wednesday March 10th, 2004


Electronic Arts Inc. has contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software into the game Battlefield: Vietnam™ by Digital Illusions. We will soon be opening a section on our website to support PunkBuster™ for Battlefield Vietnam™.

Saturday January 24th, 2004


Activision has contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software into the game Call of Duty © by Infinity Ward.



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