Kotaku: Gamerscore

Get a 600,000 Gamerscore. Make a Silly Video.

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:00:00 EDT

Because why not? Gamer Stallion83, aka Raymond Cox, is on a quest: to be the first Xbox 360 owner to earn a gamerscore of one million. More »

Achievement Hunter Reaches Her Ultimate Goal

Owen Good — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:20:00 EDT

Last year, we profiled Kristen, the stay-at-home mom whose 165,000 Gamerscore made her the No. 5 female worldwide. She set 200,000 as a retirement mark. Monday, she reached it. Does she still plan to put the controller down? More »

World's Highest Gamerscore Reaches Half A Million

Mike Fahey — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:30:00 EDT

Stallion83 holds the Guinness World Record for the highest gamerscore in the world, and he's just reached 500,000 gamerscore points. Think you can catch up? More »

A Sneak Peek at Halo: Reach's Achievements

Owen Good — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:30:00 EDT

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Bungie's latest update features the icon art for all 49 achievements in Halo: Reach, but didn't name or provide the GamerScore payout for all of them. Still, here's what we do know: More »

I'll Take Achievement Trivia for $500, Thanks

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:30:00 EDT

Achievement Point Trivia is an iPhone app that's as self-explanatory as it gets. More »

How To "Fix" Your Gamerscore

Stephen Totilo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:00:10 EDT

Does your Gamerscore not end in a zero or a five? And does that bug you? If so, you're a little weird, but you're also lucky. There's a guy who knows how to help you out. More »

Your Final Shot at 100 Gamerscore Just for Showing Up [Update]

Owen Good — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:30:00 EST

Friendly reminder that beginning in about 30 minutes, Xbox 360 Achievements.org is staging one last run on NBA Live 07's "Online with 1,000 People" achievement. This is the last chance to do it before EA shuts down the servers on Tuesday. More »

Cheevers Try One Last Time for NBA Live Mark

Owen Good — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:20:00 EST

Achievement boosters failed back in October to claim the 100-point bounty for being signed in with 1,000 others to NBA Live 07. With servers for the game deactivating Feb. 2, they'll take another crack at it on Jan. 31. More »

Achievement Chore: She Plays For Gamerscore, Whether It's Fun Or Not

Owen Good — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

It's 9 p.m. and I've lost my fifth straight game of Madden NFL Arcade to the same person, each time by 30-0. My opponent has a gamerscore of more than 165,000. But it's not because she's good at football. More »

Do You Strive For Gamerscore Completion?

Mike Fahey — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:20:00 EDT

An interesting feature over at Gamasutra looks at the percentage of players who actually achieve a perfect Gamerscore in popular Xbox Live titles. Do you play until the last point is awarded? More »

The Mark Of A DJ Hero Player: One Gamer Point

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:00:32 EDT

1-point Xbox 360 Achievements have been done before, but they're rare. (Forza 2 has a pair.) If you play DJ Hero, prepare to gain a single point. More »

1 vs 100 Could Be Achievement Treasure Trove

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:00:00 EDT

For Xbox Live Gold members playing Microsoft's next experiment, Achievement points — lots of them — will be free. More »

The Rules for 360 Achievements (Partially) Explained

Owen Good — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Microsoft's only on-the-record guidance on how Achievements are approved came more than two years ago, and the maximums it set then have been easily surpassed. Xbox360Achievements.org says it's learned of new policies on Gamerscore ceilings. More »

Getting Those Achievements Just Right

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:30:00 EDT

Forget HD graphics. The one really new thing the 360 (and now the PS3) have brought to this generation of gaming is achievements. But how do you design them? What makes 'em tick? More »

Expiring Email Accounts Can Eat Your Xbox Gamertag

Mike Fahey — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:00:00 EST

Microsoft is investigating a problem with expiring email addresses that is causing some Xbox Live users to abandon their Gamertags and start fresh, losing any progress they've accumulated over the past few years. More »

Gamerscore Blog Team Let Go As Part Of Microsoft Layoffs

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:30:00 EST

Sorry to keep hitting you with these bad news stories. Maybe things will get happier next week. But today, things are bleak, with news now that Microsoft's Gamerscore blog team have been laid off. More »

Microsoft Retires Gamerscore Blog

Owen Good — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:00:00 EST

Gamerscore Blog, an important part of Microsoft's Xbox community outreach for several years, is being retired. Microsoft will now focus that effort through Xbox.com and the Xbox dashboard. More »

G4 Documents The Life Of Achievement Whores

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:20:00 EST

Before I got Pac-Man Championship Edition, I never understood this whole Achievement obsession. But now? Now I'm giddy with delight when I get a free copy of Time Pilot on Xbox Live Arcade, shameful when I realize I've just spent the better part of the afternoon unlocking "Smooth Operator" for 20 gamerscore points. A recent Attack of the Show profile on the life of an achievement whore brings the seedy underbelly of point fiends to light. You might think the joke is as long as the first five seconds, but they get plenty of mileage out of these ladies. More »

OXM's Achievement Reviews

Mike Fahey — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:00:48 EST

Over at the Official Xbox Magazine they've just launched a brand new feature called The Scoreboard, which takes a different approach to reviewing Xbox 360 games. Instead of reviewing the games themselves, Casey Lynch critiques the games' achievement points. The inaugural installment takes a look at Guitar Hero II, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty 4, and Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Burning Earth, listing their best, worst, easiest, and hardest achievements, and then giving a final overall score for each title. Guitar Hero II took the the low mark of this round with a 5/10, mainly because many achievements ask you to do things outside the normal parameters of the game, such as playing through a career using the standard controller. The winner was Avatar with an 11/10, an extraordinary score justified by the fact that you can get 1,000 gamerscore points in two minutes. This is just a completely brilliant idea, and I look forward to future installments of The Scoreboard. More »

Xbox Originals Are Achievement Free

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:20:17 EST

Microsoft blogger Larry Hryb takes no delight in crushing fan dreams today with an update on the recently announced plan to release original Xbox games via Xbox Live Marketplace. Apparently, some were speculating that the company would go the extra mile for the 1200 MS Point releases, adding Achievements and Gamer Score to games like Halo, Fable, Psychonauts and Crimson Skies. Sadly, Mr. Hryb writes that adding such a feature would be technically impossible for the older titles, even adding a little frowning emoticon to illustrate the seriousness of the matter. More »

Achievement Unlockedwear

Mark Wilson — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:20:11 EDT

We finally understand that whole achievement addiction syndrome. But we'd still avoid using the old rubber band trick. More »

PS3 Unreal Tournament III Sporting "Gamercard"

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:40:33 EDT

Spotted at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival in a playable demo of Epic Games' PLAYSTATION 3 version of Unreal Tournament III, the Gamercard is presumed by the eagle-eyed staff at Games Digest to be the johnny come lately equivalent to the Xbox 360's Gamertag. The "Oops, you shouldn't have seen that" feature is reported to be accessed via the SIXAXIS triangle button but is unfortunately thin on details. More »

Live Vision Cam? No, Achievement Cam

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:00:50 EST

More ideas! MTV's Stephen Totilo has come up with a novel use for that Live Vision Camera. A pretty good use at that — Having it set so it takes a pic every time you score a 360 Achievement. These photos would next appear next to your Achievements for your Xbox buddies to see. He writes: More »

The NBA 1,000 Man Achievement Rally

Mike Fahey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:42:46 EST

NBA Live 07 fans and achievement point whores everywhere are grousing over the games 100 point "Online with 1,000 people" achievement, which requires you be playing the game and connected to live with at least 999 other players doing the same. While not an impossible achievement to reach alone, Acheive360Points.com has decided to organize an event on the 10th of this month to make sure that as many people obtain it as possible. To that end they are asking NBA Live 07 players around the world to boot up the game this Saturday at 8:00 pm Eastern time and stay connected for at least an hour to make sure everyone has a chance at the elusive prize. More »

Live Player's Gamerscore Tops 100k

Mike Fahey — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:40:30 EST

Xbox Live player StripClubDj has broken the 100,000 gamerscore mark, thus heralding a new age of world peace and prosperity for all of mankind! Let the children take to the streets, singing songs of victory while carrying posters of our hero! You there! Fetch me my chisel so I might forever capture his noble visage in the purest marble! Drape across his shoulders a mantle of woven gold so that all shall know him! More »

A Service for People Who Believe Gamerscore is Equivalent to Penis Size

egauger — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:40:58 EDT

The SmackTalk is bad. This is worse. More »

Splinter Cell Double Agent To Have Hardest Tutorial Ever!

kotaku.com — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:40:59 EDT

Over at Xbox360Achievements.org, an almost complete list of Splinter Cell: Double Agent achievements has been posted up., along with descriptions and enumerations. There's 38 achievements in total, equalling (as usual) 1,000 points. More »

Ex-Gold Farmers Grind for Gamer Score

kotaku.com — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:00:29 EDT

Xbox Live's GamerScore system is the gaming equivalent of tattooing the length and circumference of your penis on your forehead. So how'd you feel about paying someone to take the tip of it and pull? More »

Sony Entitles Players to PS3 Points

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:22:30 EDT

Achievements. The Xbox 360's scoring systems awards players points for completing various challenges in-game. This points are then tallied on players Gamer Cards. Sony has devised its own point system to encourage players, called not "achievements," but "entitlements." Dan Hsu at Electronic Gaming Monthly said Sony will be dishing out "entitlements" via the PlayStation 3. Combine the motion sensitive controller, the point system, the "new" controller, Sony has not only its Xbox 360 and Wii bases covered, but also its PlayStation 2 one. Though, calling something an "entitlement" doesn't exactly inspire players to strive for something. Brian Ashcraft More »

Gamerscore King Speaks!

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:21:27 EDT

Blog K1lla's Xbox Domain interviews gamer TheGrayWolf, who currently has the highest gamerscore of all American 360 owners and is ranked third worldwide. Simply put, you don't want to run into this guy on Live. Hailing from Tennessee, the 24 year-old small businessman currently has 42,000 gamerscore points. So what's this uberplayer like? According to TheGrayWolf, More »

Vanity Gamerscores

Brian Crecente — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:00:47 EST

We received an interesting email today about Gamespot's feature on how to pump up your puny Gamerscore for Xbox Live. More »

Why Msoft Picked HDTV

Brian Crecente — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:00:24 EST

Xbox publicity machine Gamerscore has a little something something up about the HD-DVD. Don't get too excited though, it's really just something pumping up the HD and knocking down the Blue-Ray. More »

Xbox Live Friends List Updated

Brian Crecente — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:00:15 EST

When you boot up your Xbox 360 today and log in you might notice your friends list has received a minor make-over. The new Xbox Live friends list includes the Gamerscore for each of your friends. More »

An Interview With the Top Xbox 360 Gamer

Brian Crecente — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:00:42 EST

ST The King may have the highest Xbox 360 Gamerscore on the planet. Achieve360Points.com recently interviewed the man behind the 20395 point score (He's also the first to hit 20k). ST says his next goal is to wrap up all of the multiplayer achievements in Quake 4. The most challenging achievement to date, he says, was landing the No Crash Victory: Single Races in Ridge Racer 6. More »