With more than 15 years of service, PunkBuster is considered to be a veteran game utility in providing anti-cheat solutions in the video game industry. Developed by Even Balance, Inc., they often work directly with game publishers and developers to integrate this tool into their game's engine.

Thus, it no longer requires installation as it usually comes packed with the game you downloaded. It supports popular mainstream games including Far Cry 3, Medal of Honor, America's Army: Proving Grounds, and various Battlefield game series such as Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Battlefield Hardline, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Bans game cheaters

PunkBuster's anti-cheat system supports tons of major proprietary game engines from well-known game developers such as Electronic Arts Inc., Ubisoft, Sony Online Entertainment LLC, and many more. This small effort started in September 2000 when issues of online cheating are massively growing. Dozens of titles, millions of players, and hundreds of thousands of cheaters have proven its monitoring, detecting, and banning capabilities.

Its memory scanning technology works like an antivirus program as it objectively scrutinizes your computer system for any potential cheating program. To be specific, it usually looks for aimbots, map hacks, and any other utilities that could possibly give you an unfair advantage by breaking the rules of a multiplayer game. In fact, it doesn't mind if you cheat on single-player games.    

With its auto-update feature, rest assured that you always have the latest database of known cheat tools in the game industry. This will come in handy as the methods of cheaters constantly change over time. Furthermore, it deeply checks your system to see if you’ve modified game files. Once PunkBuster-enabled game detects anything suspicious it can give you a warning or worst, you can be permanently banned.

Top-tier anti-cheating solution

With a decade and years of experience in the anti-cheat business, PunkBuster is undoubtedly leading the industry in maintaining fair play in various multiplayer games. The memory scanning technology that it provides is extremely strict and sensitive. On top of that, its database is automatically updated with the most recent cheating method to prevent any hacking that could give a specific player an unfair advantage.