AviaGames Accused of Secretly Using Bots to Beat Mobile Gamers

Cash-gaming app maker AviaGames Inc. and its founders were targeted in a class-action suit by players who say they were deceived by secret “bots” that tilted the odds on the company’s platform.

“Avia users collectively have wagered hundreds of millions of dollars to compete in these games of ‘skill’ against what Avia says are other human users,” says the complaint filed Friday in US District Court for the Northern District of California. “However, as it turns out, the entire premise of Avia’s platform is false: Instead of competing against real people, Avia’s computers populate and/or control the games with computer ...