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Cheevers Try One Last Time for NBA Live Mark
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 »Mass Effect 2 Achievements Revealed
Xbox 360 Achievements has the full list of Mass Effect 2 achievements. None are secret achievements, which means you should take the spoiler alert here seriously. More »Here's the Achievement List for BioShock 2
Ever-watchful Xbox 360 Achievements has dug up what it says is the list of cheevs for BioShock 2; there are 50 for the standard total of 1000 gamerscore, and a goodly number of them are secret achievements. More »The Most Common Achievement And Trophy Names
Not all Xbox 360 Achievements or PlayStation 3 Trophies have unique names. Many, in fact, have the same name. Gaming site Giant Bomb figured out the most common ones. More »Heavy Rain To Introduce Delayed Trophies, Solve Common Achievement Problem
In the interest of establishing a mood and not having it ruined by a Trophy alert, the developers of 2010 PlayStation 3 game Heavy Rain have been authorized by Sony to do something new. More »Performance and Mastery: Changing One's Motivation as a Gamer
Faced with a challenge, people are largely motivated by one of two processes - either the opportunity to demonstrate their talent, or the opportunity to improve it. Game genres also appeal to these processes. More »Achievement Chore: She Plays For Gamerscore, Whether It's Fun Or Not
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 »Our Tour Of Halo Waypoint, Including Surprise Avatar Awards
The hub for all things Halo is live on my Xbox 360 (and yours if you have the dashboard update preview). I'm a Level 19 Halo user, it seems. Check out my video tour, which starts with... Avatar Awards. More »The Mark Of A DJ Hero Player: One Gamer Point
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 »Classic Call of Duty Offers a Dirty Dozen Achievements
Xbox360Achievements.org, on the ball as ever, found the set of 12 achievements for the original Call of Duty, which will soon arrive on Xbox Live Arcade and will be free with Modern Warfare 2's Prestige Edition. More »Did That "Kill 1000 Kids" Achievement Make The Cut?
Playlogic has released an Achievement/Trophy list for the upcoming Fairytale Fights and that "Kill 1000 Kids" one we were told about doesn't seem to be on it. More »Meet Your GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Achievements
Rockstar Games' second downloadable expansion for Grand Theft Auto IV hits in just a few weeks. The Xbox 360 Achievements for The Ballad of Gay Tony, however, hit today. More »NBA Live Achievement Whores Fail to Get 1,000 Online [Updated]
NBA Live 07 - a game now three years old - currently has about 500 players on Xbox Live. And they need 500 more in the next half-hour for every one of them to collect an easy 100 Gamerscore. More »Here are Your Modern Warfare 2 Achievements
The achievements list for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is out already and I suppose it rates a mild spoiler alert, as some of the descriptions of each title might give away plot details. More »What the 'Cheevers Will be Gunning for in Dragon Age
Fifty achievements worth 1,000 Gamerscore total have been revealed for Bioware's "Dragon Age: Origins." No, "Goat Sex-Having" is not one of them. Spoiler alert, some descriptions may reveal game plot details. More »Brutal Legend Trophies and Achievements Deliver Heavy Metal Flu
Brutal Legend is a metal game. So it's achievements and trophies? Also metal. More »New Mass Effect Achievements Hint at DLC's Arrival
Three new achievements are now listed for Mass Effect. Totaling 150 Gamerscore, their titles suggest an arena-type mission structure, and their existence suggest its delivery is imminent. More »World at War Map Pack 3 Adds 10 New Achievements
The four maps - three regular, one zombie - being added next month to Call of Duty: World at War will bring with them 10 new achievements, one of them hinting at some unusual weaponry. More »We Didn't Have Achievements Back in the Day
But if we did, posits Gamespy's Brian Altano - in this nostalgic and disarmingly sweet take on growing up with games - they might have looked a little like these. More »That Transformers Achievement Works Differently Than Presumed
Yesterday, I reported the curiosity that is the Good Mojo Achievement in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. I extrapolated all sorts of dark things about the game's sales and Live performance. Activision has explained what I was missing. More »The Transformers Xbox Achievement We Didn't Expect To Earn [UPDATE]
Ten days after the release of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was released, I earned an Achievement in the game that suggests the game has either slow sales, low online adoption or some other peculiarity. More »