Niantic punishes Pokemon GO cheaters by giving them useless monsters

The Pokemon GO activity is bound to rise in the next few months, as weather warms up and players are more inclined to go on long walks. So, it's no wonder that the popular AR game is landing in the news more often the past few weeks. After giving us Adventure Week, which helped us tremendously in raising our buddy Pokemon, Ninatic now appears to be focusing on cheaters.

TheSilphRoad, the leading website for everything about Pokemon GO, reported that “huge numbers” of bot accounts are now getting “shadowbanned”. This usually means that someone is banned from accessing ...