Even Balance (the guys behind PunkBuster) have been contracted by Activision to implement their anti-cheat technology in Call of Duty: World at War.

Activision has contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software into the game Call of Duty®: World at War™ developed by Treyarch. Activision and Call of Duty are registered trademarks and World at War is a trademark of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.

Definitely some good news.

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The guys over at WiiHD have apparently confirmed through Treyarch’s community manager that the Wii version of Call of Duty: World at War will only feature two-player offline co-op, not the four-player online co-op featured in the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 editions.

As for a reason why the Wii won’t be getting 4 player online coop, JD claims that they opted for more impressive visuals, and in the process had to sacrifice the feature set. The specifically cite DX9 shader tech for the impact on online play.

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out for Nintendo Wii owners.