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Why Achievements are Awesome

OK, I think I get the gist of this piece. TeamTeaBag takes a look at gaming achievements on the 360, and it's hard for me to assess the tone: Either SmellyGeekyBoy (the writer)

• resents the hell out of all achievements and is parodying achievement whores OR

• knows that cynical motives on behalf of Microsoft and the developers are the reason for game achievements. But he can't help himself from collecting all of them or

• agrees completely with and loves the concept of achievements.

I think it's between 1 and 2. And for myself, I'm between 2 and 3. I look on it this way, when you get a game that you really, really enjoy, the achievements show that you got your money's worth. Hokey, I know, but for those titles that don't have a 100 percent-completion model (and for some that do) the achievements can add another reason to keep on enjoying it.

Why Achievements are Awesome {TeamTeaBag]

Also, you can get that bumper sticker via CafePress

4:00 PM on Sun May 11 2008
By Owen Good
5,826 views, 96 comments

rants

An Update Is Available For This Post

For various reasons I got up very early this morning, and decided to poke around on the PlayStation 3 for a little bit. Download a trailer or something. I power up the system and drat, system update. Ah well, I get that started and switch over to my Wii, figuring I would take Ecco the Dolphin out for a spin. I head for the Shop Channel, and there it is again. System update. With a sigh I get that going. No problem. I downloaded a show on my 360 the other day, I'll just go watch that. Let's just say I am glad the 360 controller is sturdier than my wall. It's a system update hat trick! More »

11:40 AM on Thu Nov 30 2006
By Mike Fahey
298 views, 103 comments

Latest by TheLostSkeleton: It's more than a few minutes. Yeah, installing the patch takes but moments, but what about the time you have to play the game BEFORE patch? That's days, sometimes weeks or even months, where you're left with a broken game more »

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PS3 Bluetooth Controller Issues?

Here's an issue that's been nagging me since I got my PlayStation 3 on Friday. I'm playing Resistance online, and suddenly the map will come up, or the score. I didn't hit the controls to bring these up...they just pop up on their own. Then at times I'll lose control, spin around, or sometimes even fire without wanting to. At first I thought it might be my general suckage at FPS games, but several readers have now complained about similar situations. Doesn't seem to happen when I am plugged in via the USB cable...only when I am wireless, and generally only when I am playing online. More »

1:40 PM on Wed Nov 22 2006
By Mike Fahey
35,174 views, 68 comments

Latest by n/a: ok im having trouble connenting my bluethooth to my ps3 it will connect but then once i go online with it, it will disconnect can i get some help with that more »

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The Interactive Dead Rising Map

I hate mall crowds. Wandering about my local consumer labyrinth, I find myself eternally stuck behind some pimp-strutting teens, or a long line of girls with their arms linked in an unbreakable chain, even as some hirsute cromagnon besides me loudly wheezes and smashes his feet down on the back of my Achilles' Heel, impatient at my slow progress. The effluviate mundanity of a reprehensible, stinking humanity surrounds me. "Hey baby, how's about's the digits?" a sunken chested moron says to the right of me, talking to a fat girl in a baby t-shirt languishing seductively against a trash-can, slurping at a smoothe. I hate these people so much, I just want to grab each and every one of them by the sides of their heads and continue to exert pressure until their eyes squirt onto my face like the whites of a couple of soft-boiled eggs. More »

7:00 AM on Tue Sep 5 2006
By kotaku.com
4,112 views, 3 comments

Latest by Jay: They have malls where you are, Florian? I thought it was just a bunch of pubs and green valleys, like in the Irish Spring commercials. Also, everyone wears those sweaters all the time. more »