Tencent cracks down on cheats in world’s top-selling videogame

The PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds video game is seen in this illustration photo November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration

Tencent Holdings Ltd is going after the cheaters that infest PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds as it prepares to bring the world’s top-selling game to China. 

Ahead of its debut this year, the biggest gaming company on the planet has enlisted Chinese police to root out the underground rings that make and sell cheat software. It’s helped law enforcement agents uncover at least 30 cases and arrest 120 people suspected of designing programs that confer unfair advantages from X-Ray vision (see-through walls) to auto-targeting (uncannily accurate snipers). Those convicted in the past have done jail time.