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While some Xbox Live users are still left without the paid-for online service after having updated their consoles to the latest, admittedly sexy firmware, Nintendo 3DS users are finding that their system’s also privy to a firmware update.The update adds 3D video recording, which is pretty neat - even if it is quite low res. It also lays the groundwork for publishers to begin selling (and hopefully ... [»]
Sure, its fun to join a squad and spend an afternoon blasting away at the opposition in a game of Battlefield Bad Company 2, but for those of us who crave absolute perfection, nothing beats earning a few of those rare medals and commendations. My favourite has to be hitting an inattentive sniper directly with my grenade launcher. But, if you’ve got more ... [»]
Epic promised that Gears of War players who played previous entries in the series would be awarded, and they’ve finally spilled the juice on just what some of those rewards will be. One of the metrics for ascertaining just how much time you’ve put in to Gears of War will, naturally, ... [»]
Emphasis on “might†but it’s enough to cause a bit of a stir over on Xbox360Achievements.org, where the full list of Portal 2 Achievements is available for your perusal. There are some gems in the list which convey Valve’s tongue-in-cheek approach to the Portal series. Achievement and Trophy Whores should have ... [»]
Ahh, the lure of achievements. Many gamers this generation have been chasing the dangling carrot that is the “buh-plipppp†sound that accompanies earned achievements in Xbox 360 games. Some people though, take it a bit far. I present to you Stallion83, avid gamer and achievement whore hunter who has now amassed an impressive 500 000 gamerscore using Microsoft’s ... [»]
You know it’s a slow news day (or other writers have beaten you to the good stuff) when you have to post a story on the list of achievements for an upcoming game. What? Like you have anything better to report on.At first glance it’s just a list of achievements, but ... [»]
With today’s earlier announcement that Xbox Live South Africa has finally gotten a solid release date, gamers are pretty jubilant.Now that the unicorns have ridden away on their magic rainbows, and the pixie dust has settled, let’s take a look at the benefits and deficits of local Xbox ... [»]
Lots and lots of Halo Reach news today! The first, and probably most important bit of news for fans is confirmation from bungie that the game has gone gold. That’s right, bungie’s final(?) Halo game is finished. “Assuming things go well in certification, that means the only things standing between you all and ... [»]
The guys over at College Humor may not be able to spell humour correctly but they do come out with some awesome videos.The latest is an imagination of what real war would be like if achievements existed in real life.The language is bleeped out but still a little rough for work so be warned.See more ... [»]
With Red Dead Redemption coming out in the not to distant future now it looks like Rockstar are hard at working finalising the important aspects of their upcoming Western… the achievements. Red Dead Redemption will include 48 Achievements (Trophies) with 13 of them being secret and the other 35 listed below. ... [»]
Stephen Totilo from Kotaku has been chatting with some Windows Phone 7 guys from Microsoft about the gaming ability of the upcoming mobiles and how they will interact with our current Xbox Live experience. The entire article is a nice read for all those who are interested but the key points ... [»]
Dictionary: a·chieve·ment – n: The act of accomplishing or finishing.Dictionary: tro·phy – n: A prize or memento received as a symbol of victory.Lazy-Dictionary: a·chi·o·phy – n: A prize received when accomplishing a symbol of victory…or something like that, I have never really tried to define one of my own words… so give me some slack. A few ... [»]
I received a tip last week from a regular reader about a local cheater in our midst, but seeing that I didn’t want to falsely accuse anyone I asked for bit more information on the guy and subsequently missed the chance of naming him before he was caught.I guess it’s a credit to Microsoft that they picked up Deathtr1p’s blatant cheating in only a couple of days and have reset his once impressive gamerscore back to 0.His previous gamerscore was 134820 and the local guys picked him out as a cheater as he managed to scoop 30 000 points in a single day while not being online.What was even stupider on his behalf ... [»]
Major Nelson has just announced on his blog that the latest wave of gamerscore resets has begun.This time it seems to be specifically targetted against Gears 2 achievement hacking but by the sound of it you are going to lose all of your gamerscore if you have been caught, the score reset is going to take a bit of time ... [»]
Achievements, and by extension, trophies are a strange thing indeed. Completely worthless, the digital badges of honour make us battle through the tedious bits of games. What’s the point of them then? Absolutely nothing, but we love them anyway. We like them so much in fact that we, gamers, have unlocked a total of 2 and a half billion of ... [»]
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