A story broke earlier this year about Game Center being hacked, so you could submit any score you like for an iOS game of your choice. Well now we’ve had word direct from Rovio that the Angry Birds scores have been hacked along with it.
So if your top score is nowhere near the best, read on for some consolation.
Responding to a request for the highest score on Angry Birds, a spokesperson for Rovio said, “The task is quite impossible, as there are over 20 hacked scores in GameCenter. Our producers evaluated that the real high scorers are somewhere between 30 and 40 in the top lists.”
So if your score is languishing low down the table somewhere, there’s a very good reason.
Game Center itself being hacked isn’t anything new: back in January a hack called HackCenter broke on the Cydia store, that let you do just that. But even so, seeing the extent to which people are lying about their scores is a bit dispiriting.
One of our favourites, Pinball HD on iPad, has clearly been hacked. We’ve spent countless hours on The Deep table, yet our score of 30 million is still way off the top score of over 2 billion.
Does your favourite game have a hacked high score? And should more be done to stop these cheaters? Let us know in the comments below.
