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Achievements EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Will GTA: The Lost and Damned come to PC? Looks like it 17 A new update (noticed by GTA4.Net) for Grand Theft Auto IV on PC all but confirms "The Lost and Damned" add-on will one day be heading beyond the Xbox 360's exclusivity. The patch added Achieveme... Exclusive: Full Achievements/Trophies for Darksiders 19 We're really looking forward to Darksiders at Destructoid, and THQ apparently likes that we're looking forward to it. Both of these elements have collided to allow us to be the first ones to show... Ballad of Gay Tony adds ten Xbox Achievements 10 If for whatever reason hours worth of new single-player gameplay and multiplayer additions won't do it for you, Rockstar's added a bit more to Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony -- all new ... Assassin's Creed 2 Achievements/Trophies possibly leaked 11 Two separate sites are reporting that they have uncovered the Achievements and Trophies for Assassin's Creed 2 and they are all achievable. They also give you gamer cred or whatever and there's p... Left 4 Dead 2 Achievements confirm all campaigns 31 The Achievement list for Valve's zombie-braining sequel Left 4 Dead 2 has been revealed, bringing with it verification of the yet-to-be-official campaigns, Hard Rain and Dead Center. The Achievem... Pitchford: Easy Achievements translate to sales 31 Remember grabbing a copy of NBA 2K6 to tack a painless and extra 1,000 Gamer Points to your overall Gamer Score? You aren’t that weird for doing it. According to Randy Pitchford, significan... Have some GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Achievements 18 The release of Rockstar's much-discussed Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony is coming up this month, and naturally there are achievements for it, as one would expect. If you'd like to se... Zombie Apocalypse features MC Hammer Achievement 20 I'm well aware that this is actually not news, in fact you might even go as far as to say it is anti-news. If this post and a real news post touched the world might end. However, every Sunday at ... Play with Schafer, unlock Brutal Legend achievement/trophy 9 The Achievement/Trophy list for Double Fine's Brutal Legend hit our inbox today, and they're pretty much what you'd expect. Plenty of nods and references to heavy metal music, and general rocking... Make soldiers scream in Shadow Complex to get an Achievement 16 Epic Games and Chair Entertainment's Xbox LIVE Arcade title Shadow Complex will be here before you know it. The game is releasing August 19, which, hold on a second, isn't very far off! Time sure... Halo: ODST Achievements possibly revealed 19 Achievements for upcoming games don’t stay secret for long, especially if it has the words “Halo” or “War” in its title. Recently, Joystiq spotted what very well cou... Oh hey, look at that: Left 4 Dead 2 Achievement page! 20 Oh. What's this? A Left 4 Dead 2 Achievement page?! Really?! But Valve would never do something like this! It's not their style! Sorry, couldn't help myself there. As Chad mentioned earlier, Xbox... Team Fortress 2 achievements based unlocks are back 21 Last weekend we filled you in on a bit of a change to the Team Fortress 2 unlock system. In the recent Spy/Sniper update it had changed to a more random drop system as opposed to the achievement ... Spy/Sniper update also changes weapon unlocks 50 So the big Spy/Sniper update for Team Fortress 2 landed the other day, and while the two classes new abilities are getting rave reviews another part of the update is stirring up a bit of controve... Microsoft: Achievements sell videogames 70 It's the trendy thing right now to claim that Achievements are worthless and stupid, but according to Microsoft, such sneering hardcore gamers are in the minority. According to Stephen Toulouse, ... Thinking about hacking Gears 2 for Achievements? Think again 25 It has recently come to the attention of Microsoft that some of Xbox LIVE's shadier members are using a hack to gain precious Achievement points for Gears of War 2.The perpetrators? They're going... I KILL PXLS releases two new videogame related jams 22 I KILL PXLS has released two new videogame related singles and they're both pretty hot. The first track is called "Follow Me" and it's based on ICO. It's a dance R&B flavored jam wi... Save seamen in Velvet Assassin, unlock an Achievement 10 Achievement posts? They're so old, they are suddenly back in style again. SouthPeak Games blasted over the Velvet Assassin Achievements today, and threatened to break into Jim Sterling's house an... 2,500,000,000 Achievements unlocked, actual value still 0 46 Achievments are a funny thing. They get you nothing and yet you still want them worse then ever. What was the point of spending five hours discovering some remotely hidden section of a game? Noth... Fallout 3 'Operation: Anchorage' DLC Achievements revealed 26 Bethesda’s first bit of downloadable content for Fallout 3 is right around the corner. Operation: Anchorage is set to debut on the Xbox 360 and PC on January 27. As with most new content, O... Achievement Unlocked: Wheelman, Afro Samurai, Magic Ball, and PAA: Episode 2 11 Last week’s Achievement Unlocked was based around the lack of newly leaked Achievements or Trophies. We had our fun with some familiar titles, both old and somewhat new. This week, there ar... Achievement Unlocked: Argonauts, Dead Space, Fable II, Fallout 3, and PDZ 36 It appears as though the big holiday rush of AAA titles has finally come to a close. As a result, not many unreleased titles have Achievements or Trophies listed for them. That won’t stop A... Achievement Unlocked: X-Blades, The Maw, L4D, PoP, and LOTR: Conquest 23 Welcome to Achievement Unlocked. It's a new thing, kind of like the old Achievementoid. We'll still be bringing you the hottest Achievement/Trophy Buzz, but let’s be honest – in-game ... Want all achievements in Left 4 Dead? Buy them! 47 Yes, that's right, someone is offering their achievement whoring services on eBay. Lucky patrons of this amazing deal will get to pay a total stranger to play games instead of them doing all that... Achievementoid: Still Alive, Nuts & Bolts, Fable 2, BioShock and Rock Band 2 35 Scorewhores unite! If you love achievements or want some trophies for your Home space when it arrives in 2045, then this is the post for you. Each week we get inundated with new posts about achie... Far Cry 2's achievements encourage you to make friends 11 Seeing as how Far Cry 2 tells the story of one man trying to uncover the location of a ruthless arms dealer in strife-filled Africa, it would be easy to imagine the game as a lone-guerrilla sort ... Nab a Mercenaries 2 achievement by playing with Pandemic starting this Friday 12 One of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames' achievements calls for players to hook up with a Pandemic developer in an online co-op session. Although the achievement spreads virally like an STD -- if s... Spacecat returns with a vengeance, bringing Gears of War 2 Achievements [update] 70 Well, look who I found fishing through Destructoid’s trash bin: it’s our old friend, Spacecat! Last time, he scooped the world on the news that Mega Man 9 was in the works. Now, he ha... You get five Gamerpoints for having an orgy in Fable 2 39 When I see information about a game's Achievements, I generally skip over it. I could probably find something better to do with 30 seconds of my life than read an Achievement list. I could watch ... Sony PSN Director says all games will eventually have trophies 20 Ever had to choose between a a PS3 and a 360 version of a game, only to find yourself picking the 360 because you want to get achievements? Don't worry, you aren't alone. Sony clearly sees the ap... Check out Hail to the Chimp's Achievement list 4 Wideload Games and Gamecock will be releasing Hail to the Chimp for the Xbox 360 and PS3 next week. This is the first console-backed title from Gamecock, and it's about time the 'Cock slapped a g... RUMORTOID: Achievements for Xbox 360 version of GTA IV leaked? 47 It was only yesterday that everyone was talking about Sony's downplaying of the Xbox 360's episodic content  for GTA IV, and the common theme that kept cropping up in the story's comments wa... Score no more: MS destroys cheating gamerscores 64 It has come to light that a number of Xbox Live accounts have faced punishment for boosting their gamerscores through nefarious means. In a most cruel form of justice, those caught unlocking achi... Score no more: MS destroys cheating gamerscores 64 It has come to light that a number of Xbox Live accounts have faced punishment for boosting their gamerscores through nefarious means. In a most cruel form of justice, those caught unlocking achi... Fable 2 is talkative: Works with three XBLA games (also, tough achievements) 46 Lionhead's Peter Molyneux may be a bit of a hype machine at times, but he's certainly got some smart ideas. As part of his plan to make games "talk" to each other, it has been revealed ... The Hardcore Gamer Picture Pack: Because you aren't hardcore enough as it is 18 Xbox Live and the whole gamerpic idea is nothing short of genius, and not a day goes by that I don't think about how much I'm looking forward to the day that Sony and Nintendo finally get the mes... Another PS3 game copies achievements: Dark Sector to boast 'entitlements' 54 Love them or hate them, there's no denying that achievement points have become a big feather in the Xbox 360's cap, as well as an extra selling point for its games. I won't deny that the allure o... Tune in Tokyo: Condemned 2 achievements revealed 12 I've been going on about it for awhile to anyone who will listen, but I really can't wait to play Condemned 2: Bloodshot. The first game, while not perfect, was definitely a highlight of the earl... Trigger Heart Exelica XBLA achievements revealed 42 Finally, some XBLA news that doesn't make me want to stab someone with a rusty screwdriver. The folks over at Xbox360Achievements.org are showing off the list of achievements for the upcoming Liv... iHaloStats may be just what the doctor ordered, for Halo 3 fans 22 The pair up may be soaked in irony, but thanks to a clever programmer by the name of Kato, those of you with iPhones, and a Halo 3 fetish to boot, will be able to keep closer tabs on one another ... Team Ninja wants your achievement suggestions 37 Whether an achievement fanatic, blistering your fingers in ceaseless toil toward a gamer score displayable only in scientific notation, or simply enjoying playing, thus forsaking a banner with wh... Achievement re-locked: Is Xbox Live stealing your win? 38 Any of my recent attempts to play Call of Duty 4 are enough to tell me that Xbox Live is just a little bit frustrating at the moment, but Dan Landis over at Ripten is having an even worse time of... Achievement locked? Turok's achievement whore bait getting possible patch 38 Remember a while back we were talking about the new Turok game's list of Xbox 360 achievements? Remember that one of them, "Grab Bag," essentially rewarded you for griefing? If you can'... Turok Achievements unveiled: they're promoting team-killing now? 29 After the jump you'll find the just-released list of Achievements for the Xbox 360 version of the upcoming blood, guts n' dinos FPS Turok. Normally this wouldn't even blip on our radar of actual,... How to get 1000 Achievement points in under two minutes 63 The new Avatar game set to come out for the Xbox 360 next week is going to set records ... in rental sales. Whoever set the Achievements for this game was either extremely lazy, or just didn't gi... Feast your eyes on Mass Effect's achievements 47 Good ol' DaKing240 has gotten his hands on another list of achievements, this time for BioWare’s upcoming third-person action RPG, Mass Effect. There are 45 achievements in all, adding up... Ghost Recon Adavanced War Fighter 2 co-op collection set to hit 360 Marketplace 9 Just when you thought it was time to trade in that Xbox 360 copy of Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter 2 for Cooking Mama, Ubisoft goes ahead and announces the "GRAW 2 Co-op Collection DLC.&qu... More Achievements = higher sales, better reviews, tastier muffins 29 This piece at IGN has an intriguing look at the world of Achievements from a sales perspective. It seems that games emphasizing various levels of accomplishment (and containing a higher number of... Viva Pinata: Party Animals Achievements revealed, nostalgic, awesome 14 (Editor's Note: Look up. See that? Now that is efficient use of limited headline space! -- Nex)A thread popped up moments ago on NeoGAF -- yes, I F5 the hell out of that place -- revealing the Ac... Destructoid preview: Wordjong: where 'cheap' and 'accessible' are compliments 5 With all the recent whining from the so-called "hardcore" spectrum of gaming that casual gamers will invalidate the hobby, turning it into some kind of pixelated Hollywood doppelganger,... Prove you're hardcore: Dress your Spartan up like Hayabusa in Halo 3 42 Looking to stand out from the crowd? Go on, and find that sneaky  "I Would Have Been Your Daddy" skull in Halo 3's single player campaign. Finding this last of the 13 skulls unlock... Halo for your wang. No, seriously. 58 Already preordered your copy of Halo 3? Decorated your fridge with fan art of Master Chief? Bought a tent to camp out in while you wait in line for Best Buy to open, which you have decorated with... Microsoft launches new site for online repairs... 112 A few days ago, Microsoft launched a new site to make it easier to register and/or repair your Xbox 360. What does this mean for you? Hopefully, it wraps you in a pretty blanket that will ke... The founder of GameFAQs to step down after twelve glorious years of faqqing 24 I thought that my emotions were no longer a working part of me and that my tear ducts and vage had dried up long ago, but apparently there is some humanity left in me after all. Jeff Veasey, or &... E3 2007: Mercenaries 2 developer walkthrough will make your pants tight 23   Towards the end of the Xbox's lifespan, I had about 75 games for the console that I traded in before GameStop realized they had created a major loophole that made each game worth ... New E3 Gears of War footage is ... gone (update) 127 Now that this has been posted in the Dtoid clogs approximately five million thousand billion times, here is the Gears of War E3 trailer that Gamevideos let slip a little bit early. Hey, everyone ... Halo 3 achievement list is out: now you too can win the Halo's 26 Thanks to Xbox360Achievements.org, we now know what the achievements for Halo 3 will be. You’re probably thinking to yourself, since when did ego-boosting nerd points become news? Since n... WoW creators are addicted to achievements (as well as their own game) 5 In todays episode of the 1UP Show at gamevideos.com, some of the masterminds behind World of Warcraft spill the beans on their Guitar Hero and Viva Pinata experiences, what it's like playing ... Metal Gear Solid 4 might be good 97 Some of you may have heard of Metal Gear Solid 4 and it's possible multi-platform shenanigans, but when you watch something like this all that fades away and you just want to STFUAPMGS4. 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