If you’re like me, you’re getting a little frustrated with EA’s most recent mega-shooter, Battlefield 3. The game is rife with glitches, and although it’s still an incredible online gaming experience, there’s enough cheating, clipping, and interface problems to make me want to hang up my assault rifle for good (or, god forbid, go over to that other mega-shooter…). My frustration, however, abated a bit when I read the recent news that  BF3 developed DICE has hired an anti-cheating expert specifically to address its cheating issues with online play.

Reported on Gamespot yesterday, Dice has recently creted a position in their studio that is wholly concerned with counter-cheater measures in both current and future titles. If you’ve recently picked up the Multiplayer game, you will notice that many players on XBLA use clipping to crawl beneath the actual level, use modded consoles or trigger switches to “lag out”. Cheating is even more prevalent in the PC version of the game (which is always the case). There’s nothing more frustrating than spawning with your team and immediately being killed by some douchebag spawn camping beneath the floor. Bullets pour out of a rock and you sit, staring at your screen, and watching the spawn counter tick down so it can happen all over again. Read more about Battlefield 3 Developer DICE Looks For Anti-Cheating Expert

R ole-playing games are a special classification of escapist fantasy, for a special niche audience of gamers. Sure, you can pick up a copy of Call of Duty and slog it out for hours with friends and complete strangers. However, the narrative is only as long as it takes to finish a multiplayer map, and the payoff is in the K/D spread, or the item unlocks. Battle gaming is a sitcom, easily digestible in small, convenient chunks. Likewise Civilization, Starcraft, and other simulator games put you in the driver seat, but the only narrative arch is what you find in dominating other civilizations. The payoff is in their destruction, and when you’re finally king, it’s time to start over with a different group. Read more about The Four H's: Type-casting RPG Gamers