Plunking down $500 isn't the only way to get ahold of an Xbox Series X this holiday. You could get lucky and win one from Taco Bell. Or, you could become such an elite video game player that Microsoft feels compelled to give you an Xbox Se...

Most of us have to play our games to get our Gamerscore. It's tough work but it's an honest living. Todd Howard, however, just has to exist to earn Gamerscore. Alongside this morning's bombshell news that Microsoft acquired ZeniMax Media, r...

The Turbo Tunnel was the end of the road for most Battletoads players. The infamous bike stage -- only the third level in the game -- was so difficult that most people never progressed past it. It was like running into a brick wall bot...

It isn't rare for developers to pack achievement names with pop culture references. That has been happening ever since the invention of achievements, all the way back to the launch of the Xbox 360 when Microsoft mandated that each retail ga...

Try as you might, you can't escape FTL: Faster Than Light – not for good. One decent run is all it takes to reel you in and remind you just how potent Subset Games' ship-managing roguelike title can be. In 2020, Subset is still breath...

Resident Evil 2 fans on Steam have waited weeks for more insight into a mysterious, unfinalized achievement. Today, we have a name and description: "Chasing Jill - Read a letter left behind by Jill." As predicted, this Jill Valentine achie...

Not long after players fire up Gears 5 next month -- assuming they go straight into the campaign and not the versus mode or the horde mode or the Escape mode -- they'll earn an achievement that nods knowingly to a well-worn gaming meme...

An earmark of the new Wolfenstein games, at least for completionists, is that they are oppressively hard. Each entry has increasingly-tough difficulty-related achievements/trophies. Wolfenstein: New Order and Old Blood requir...

I was never going to reach Pirate Legend, but that doesn't mean I can't still have fun making a dent in the sluggish Sea of Thieves achievement list. Coinciding with the game's multifaceted Anniversary Update that adds The Arena, cooking, ...

Devil May Cry 5 is good and Devil May Cry 5 is tough. This combination is about the best possible outcome for a Devil May Cry game. It's so wonderfully excellent that we awarded it a perfect 10 score. However, anyone motivated eno...

Anthem has spent a lot of time as of late underlining its endgame content -- specifically how tough and rewarding it can be. As with any live game like this, it's a priority to keep players invested after they storm through the main m...

Microsoft's rules around achievements have been mostly steadfast over the past two generations of consoles. Every game launches with 1,000 Gamerscore, with a few exceptions made along the way for day-one DLC situations. Crackdown 3 mig...

Aside from being an all-around great series, one reason Resident Evil has been so enduring is its replayability. Your first run is the warmup, then comes the real fun. The trophies for Resident Evil 2 (2019) are only going to help in that r...

Sometimes, completionists have to write off a game as a lost cause. Whether due to technical hurdles like online services shutting down, high skill-based challenges, or time-consuming requirements, achieving 100 percent completion in certai...

I'm not sure when I did it, but at some point, I marked tomorrow on my Google Calendar as "Stanley Parable Achievement." I had to remind myself what that meant earlier this week, but it eventually dawned on me that The Stanley Parable ...

It's been three years since Zack-with-the-great-hair reported that an ESRB listing for The Talos Principle on Xbox One could mean that the philosophical puzzler was about to wash up on Xbox's shores. While there hasn't been any recent word ...

Nearly 3 years later and it would appear Fallout Shelter is finally making its way to the PlayStation 4. This news comes from a leaked trophy list for the game that has shown up on Exophase, a website that lets you track your PSN, Xbox, Ste...

It's clear Arkane Studios isn't done with Prey, one of our favorite games of last year. A couple of months ago, the developer posted teaser-y images and hinted at an announcement scheduled for June 10 (the same day as Bethesda's E3 press co...

With school and travel and other games competing for our attention, it's been a while since Ray and I have sat down to play some PUBG together for fun, much less for the sake of a video. But, as you'll quickly see, the allure of emotes and ...

A dedicated Dark Souls fan has completed a run of the game's entire trilogy without taking a single hit. The_Happy_Hob streamed the nerve-wracking achievement, a year in the making, on his Twitch channel. The final moment (which contains lo...

The trophy/achievement list for Monster Hunter: World has leaked a few days ahead of the game's release, and it indicates what we probably could've guessed: It's going to take a serious time commitment to get them all. PowerPyx discovered t...

While it was announced that there wouldn't be any microtransactions in WWE 2K18 this week, a little detail escaped unchecked about a few of the achievements/trophies. While most of the achievements are just normal run-of-the-mill ones there...

Reddit AMAs with game developers always have the possibility of revealing an interesting nugget of information we never knew and a recent one with Lichtspeer developer Lichtund may have given us a most juicy bit of gossip from the world of ...

In the lead-up to October's launch of Forza 7, Microsoft will be giving out Forza 5 on Games with Gold next month. Alongside their flagship racing series comes Oxenfree on Xbox One, while 360 gamers will get Hydro Thunder Hurricane and Batt...

When What Remains of Edith Finch launches on Xbox One tomorrow, it'll largely be the exact same version that released on PC and PS4 earlier this year. The Finch story isn't a malleable one that lends itself to additional content for a...