Can Video Game Cheating Be Prevented?

October 1, 2007 By BRIAN BERGSTEIN and MATT SLAGLE, AP Technology Writers Can Video Game Cheating Be Prevented? (AP)

Visitors try out the beta version of the computer game "World of Warcraft" presented by Blizzard at the Games Convention GC, Europe's leading fair for interactive entertainment, in Leipzig, eastern Germany, on the press preview day in this Aug. 23, 2006 file photo. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz)

(AP) -- Some players give themselves the ability to magically see and shoot through walls. Others find a way to fly, making them nearly impossible to defeat.

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