{"id":63413,"date":"2018-10-19T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/19\/yes-i-cheat-at-video-games-its-half-the-fun-stephanie-munro\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:36:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:36:19","slug":"yes-i-cheat-at-video-games-its-half-the-fun-stephanie-munro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=63413","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I \u2018cheat\u2019 at video games \u2013 it\u2019s half the fun | Stephanie Munro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming is hardly the Olympics. If you can find small ways to enhance your performance (and your enjoyment) I\u2019m all for itIf you\u2019ve ever thrown your console controller across the room, you\u2019ll understand when I say that some games are worth a bit of cheating.Like Ezio Auditore of Assassin\u2019s Creed ascending the Sistine Chapel, downloads of dodgy software for the all-conquering Fortnite continue to rise. Fortnite\u2019s developer, Epic Games, is suing one person for selling cheats to the hugely popular game. But I wonder whether cheating at video games is really anything to feel bad about. While downloading unverified cheat programs and exposing yourself to malware is not something to encourage, there are wider and greyer areas of game manipulation that deserve consideration. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/oct\/19\/cheat-video-games-gaming-performance\" target=\"_blank\">Yes, I \u2018cheat\u2019 at video games \u2013 it\u2019s half the fun | Stephanie Munro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming is hardly the Olympics. If you can find small ways to enhance your performance (and your enjoyment) I\u2019m all for itIf you\u2019ve ever thrown your console controller across the room, you\u2019ll understand when I say that some games are worth a bit of cheating.Like Ezio Auditore of Assassin\u2019s Creed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}