It was recently reported on Major Nelson’s blog that Microsoft has found and delt with a new batch of cheaters. Their offense? Using an exploit within Gears of War 2 to artificially boost their Gamerscores. Their sentence? A Gamerscore of 0.

This isn’t the first time Microsoft has had to step in to thwart cheaters in their attempt at a high Gamerscore. If you’ve been with us since March of last year, you’ll recognize a similar case.

Major Nelson also assures us that if you use ethical methods of obtaining your achievements, as in no cheating or glitching, you have nothing to worry about; your Gamerscore will not get reset accidentally.

You play as a white hat (otherwise known as good guy) hacker who’s decided to take on a totalitarian regime all by his onesies, breaking into their computer systems and trying to find out what’s really going on inside the tiny little dictatorship.  The deeper in you go, the more difficult the systems are to hack, and the more you find out about the little country.

The biggest problem I have is that the puzzles are spectacularly difficult after even a few rounds–it took me three or four tries to solve the last puzzle on the tutorial level, which should say something about the game itself.  But if you want a real brain-buster of a puzzle game, then you’ll get everything you ever wanted and then some out of Exploit.

If by any chance you were worried about starting of poor in Fable 2, here is your chance to potentially make millions utilizing nothing more than the XBLA title Fable II Pub Games, which is 800 Microsoft Points.

Apparently, a glitch has been found that allows you to trick the computer into thinking you are betting 600 gold when in reality you are only betting 60, increasing the margin of profit ridiculous amounts.

The above embedded video will detail just how you go executing this trick but you better move fast because I sense a patch on the horizon.