As many will have heard, Activision plans to release a new online subscription/social network aimed at Call of Duty fans. To make this service worth your money, Beachhead - the company behind CoD: Elite - have promised to stamp out cheating and hacking. Call of Duty: Elite promises to add a layer of human defence against hacking, by having somebody researching individual cases of hacking and cheating. Whether it works, remains to be seen.

Call of Duty: Elite will also add other new and exciting, if not slightly unoriginal features, that will allow users to track their own and other players' stats, clan details and other tidbits of information.

"We have dedicated staff focusing on that from an architectural standpoint, making sure nothing we design is exposed, and we're also making sure that we're securing the events and competitions that will eventually become part of the service."

"If we just built a platform and a technology, all those edge cases would still exist," added Activision digital boss Jamie Berger.

"That's why we have to have this big administrative team there to add the human level of understanding, and assessing individual cases. No machine will be able to tell if another guy cheated in the game. We need people to arbitrate."

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