http://www.xbox360achievements.org/ X360A.org Newsfeed Fri, 24 May 2013 18:38:03 GMT en-us X360A3160 26 achievements, 1000 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3160-Game-Added--Tour-de-France-2013.html Fri, 24 May 2013 23:38:03 GMT X360A3159 50 achievements, 1000 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3159-Game-Added--MotoGP-13.html Wed, 22 May 2013 14:45:43 GMT X360A3158 18 achievements, 400 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3158-Game-Added--Girl-Fight.html Wed, 22 May 2013 14:45:35 GMT X360A3157 12 achievements, 400 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3157-Game-Added--Who-Wants-to-Be-a-Millionaire--Special-Editions.html Wed, 22 May 2013 14:44:14 GMT X360A3156 20 achievements, 200 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3156-Game-Added--Mass-Effect--Infiltrator-(WP8).html Wed, 22 May 2013 11:36:20 GMT X360A3155 20 achievements, 200 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3155-Game-Added--NBA-Jam-(WP).html Wed, 22 May 2013 11:33:10 GMT X360A3154 20 achievements, 200 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3154-Game-Added--Tiger-Woods-PGA-Tour-12-(WP).html Wed, 22 May 2013 11:31:21 GMT X360A3153 20 achievements, 200 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3153-Game-Added--Endless-Skater-(W8).html Wed, 22 May 2013 01:24:33 GMT X360A3152 Well, that's it then. All of that build-up and anticipation was leading up to this. Rumours begone! Xbox One is here, and we know almost everything we needed to know. Almost everything. It's not called Durango, it's not Xbox Infinity and it's not just called 'Xbox '. It won't make you a cup of tea, give you a massage or fluff your pillow, and it won't directly interface with your brain by drilling through your eye socket. Although the new Kinect comes dangerously close to doing that. What can it do then? So far we know that it's an “all in one system” according to Microsoft's big cheese, Don Mattrick, with TV, movies and all of your entertainment in one place. It's what most gamers feared. The Xbox reveal was almost exclusively about what the console can do with voice recognition, streaming TV and movies. Whatever happened to the games? The sum total of games actually revealed during the event were seven if you include Call of Duty: Ghosts. We shouldn't lose heart on that front however, as Microsoft is promising plenty of game reveals for E3 2013 in a few short weeks. Oh, and it'll spin its games on Blu-ray discs. Yay! This first look was really all about Xbox One's entertainment delivery chops, with Microsoft focusing on Kinect's voice gubbins, its partnership with NFL to deliver American Football games with the full stadium experience and more of that kind of thing. Hell, 343 even took time out to announce its Halo TV series, disappointing fans hoping for confirmation of the next Halo game. Steven Spielberg's involvement did nothing to lessen our dashed hopes either. While the demonstration of Xbox One's ability to seamlessly change channels, switch between TV and movies, while chatting to someone on Skype was undeniably impressive, a lack of games and a whole litany of unanswered questions left us concerned that the Xbox rumour mill would continue to grind unabated. Thank goodness then for the post-Xbox One reveal event in London, where practically all of our questions have been answered by Xbox UK Marketing Director Harvey Eagle. Microsoft's willingness to be completely transparent with us regarding backwards compatibility, achievements, Gamertags and always-online does beg the question as to why these salient facts were left out of the reveal event in the first place. Nonetheless, we have answers now and can fill in some of the gaps for you. Firstly, not only will your achievements and overall Gamerscore carry over to Xbox One, but how you obtain your achievements will shape your gaming history to share with friends. Your Gamertag and Xbox Live Avatar will also make the jump to the new console, so there's no danger of you losing the Xbox Live identity you've been working on for the past eight years or so. This is all good stuff. Disappointingly, Xbox One won't be backwards compatible with any existing disc-based Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Arcade games, which means you'll have to maintain a working Xbox 360 to play your library of titles you've accumulated over the years. This is bad stuff. Tempering this piece of bad news is confirmation that Xbox One won't utilise DRM or always-online functionality to block pre-owned games, so any such rumours pertaining to such a feature can be consigned to the dustbin. Although, you will apparently have to pay a fee to install used games though, which goes some way to explaining EA's abandonment of its online pass scheme. We wait with bated breath to find out how much you'll have to shell out to play a used game. Xbox One is also to play host to no less than 15 console exclusives in its first year, including Forza Motorsport 5 and Remedy's potentially very exciting Quantum Break. Remedy's game is a new IP for Xbox One too, and is hopefully an indication that more new and fresh titles will arrive with the advent of the next-generation. Microsoft has already said that there'll be no less than eight new IPs coming to the platform during year one. Even CoD is turning over a new leaf with a new engine, new characters, new story and a dog (yes, a dog!) to feature in Call of Duty: Ghosts. That's what we can take away from Microsoft's Xbox One reveal today then. A glossy, understated black box with a new 1080p Kinect device, a slightly redesigned controller (we're keen to find out what the 40 design innovations are exactly), and TV, movies and more all in one place, controlled by your voice and accessed seamlessly in an instant. It'll play games too, it seems. We thought we'd be more excited for the next Xbox, but we're feeling a little cold in the wake of the Xbox One reveal. Perhaps a more in-depth demonstration of what Xbox One is capable of and the games that will come to define the platform will manage to boost our excitement, but for now we're feeling that the overall event was a rather lukewarm one. For the next few weeks then, we'll be looking ahead to E3 in June, when we hope Microsoft will finally deliver on the potential and promise of Xbox One, with a line-up of games to really get the blood pumping. After all for us - and we suspect for you too – Xbox One should really be all about the games. We just didn't get that today. Xbox One will launch later in the year. Let us know your thoughts about the Xbox reveal and Xbox One in the comments. http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3152-Xbox-One-Reveal--Our-Reaction--Opinion-and-Everything-You-Need-to-Know.html Tue, 21 May 2013 19:32:20 GMT X360A3151 If there’s anything we like here at X360A, it’s giveaways. Big ones at that. We’ve given away 35,700 Microsoft Points for a Trials Evolution HD competition before, 50,400 for a Dead Space 3 competition, and 65,100 for an Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood one, but this time, we wanted to go big. So big that it eclipses everything we’ve ever done before on this here site. “How much bigger than 65,000 can you realistically go?” you ask, “100,000?” We could do, but still we weren’t satisfied. We’ve gone much bigger this time! To mark the upcoming release of Splinter Cell Blacklist, we’ve teamed up with Ubisoft UK to give away 200,000 Microsoft Points. Well, 201,600 to be precise. That’s 2,100 Microsoft Points a day for 90 days, with the final day’s winner taking home 12,600 points. In case you were wondering, that’s enough Microsoft Points to buy 168 copies of Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, which incidentally is out this week. Starting from the 24th of May - the start of our MCM live show where Splinter Cell Blacklist will be headlining - we’ll be giving away 2,100 Microsoft Points a day until the game’s August 23rd UK release date. Yes, the word you’re looking for is wowzers! What do you have to do to be in with a chance of winning? Well, it’s fairly simple. All you have to do is watch a video on the competition launch zone and answer a question on the entry page during the competition weeks. Then all you have to do is just cross your fingers. What the video will be and what the question will be will differ from one week to the next, so pay attention to that page and to the schedule. Once you’ve entered for that stage, you’ll be in the mix for the duration of that stage, so fear not, you can just sit back and hope you’re a winner then. For the full schedule of events, check out this page here. So that’s it folks. Put this one in the diaries, you know, for 3 months! Surely the biggest competition we’ve ever done, and most definitely the longest! You'll find a link to the zone on the front page for the duration of the competition, so check back periodically. We'll let you know via here and the social media channels too, so make sure you're following us, and you can even track the winners of all the prizes in our "Hall of Fame" - which will be up after stage one, and will look something like this. The stage show starts on Friday and the competition opens officially on Saturday, so good luck, folks! Note: This is a Europe only competition, due to the region restrictions put on Microsoft Points by Microsoft. http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3151-X360A-Presents-The-Splinter-Cell-Blacklist-200-000-Microsoft-Points-Extravaganza-(EU-Only).html Mon, 20 May 2013 13:31:59 GMT X360A3150 30 achievements, 400 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3150-Game-Added--CastleStorm.html Sat, 18 May 2013 15:04:49 GMT X360A3149 25 achievements, 1000 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3149-Game-Added--Turbo--Super-Stunt-Squad.html Fri, 17 May 2013 11:44:10 GMT X360A3148 Ever wanted to see how your Gamerscore compares to the rest of the biggest achievement chasing community on the leaderboard? Course you do. Furthermore, ever wanted to see how you rank in certain genre leaderboards? See how many achievements you have from RPGs or sports games? See your completion percentage in those brackets? The answer should be a resounding yes, especially if you’re reading this post. Then, my friends, you’re in luck. Here at X360A we’re always busy beavering away behind the scenes. Whether it’s us sorting out our MCM London Comic Con stage show or whether its Aleks feeding and disciplining the server hamsters, the fact remains that we’re always working on new and cool things, and today we’re proud to announce and unveil the latest feature: the new community leaderboards. Aleks has been knee deep in stats and Gamerscore for sometime now, refining what is the coolest addition the site has had for quite sometime. The community leaderboards not only give you a wealth of stats (see below), but they’re all automated as well, meaning if you’re a regular member of the community, you don’t need to do anything, you’ll be up on there. Firstly, what constitutes a “regular member of the community”? Well, simple, it’s this: - Have 50 forum posts. - Have posted in the last 60 days. That’s nothing to regular forum goers, after all, we do have thousands upon thousands of threads of juicy and awesome content. It’s worth nothing that the requirements and such aren’t set in stone either, and we’re likely to tweak them to find the happy balance that appeases the vast majority of our huge userbase – which is harder than it sounds! To get added all you need to do is have your GT attached to your forum profile and then our crazy script squirrels will do the rest. It’s that easy. "So, what do these new leaderboards offer?" "Well, that’s a good question, Dan, you’re growing up to be a rather outstanding person, your mother will be proud… ish." The new leaderboards offer: - Your score, your rank, how many achievements you’ve unlocked, your completion percentage and your country. - The above in all 14 genres, from obscure genres like “Card and Board” and “Puzzle and Word,” to more popular genres like “Shooter” and “RPG.” - The genre leaderboards also shows your genre overall completion percentage amount! You can even click on people and see their profile from there, from their wishlists and collections, and recent games, to their maxed out games, checklists and their achievement case. This isn’t the finished product either, we’ll be adding to it and refining it from here on out. Whether it’s more stats or more integration into your user profile, we’re going to keep working on this till the end of our days. That’s not all either. Today we’re also launching our new social media links too (to Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus – for now), so you can click on these links and share your favourite stories, lists, guides, reviews and what not, with the rest of the world with little to no effort. It means you can show the rest of the world how awesome we are, thus enabling us to grow quicker and give you even more cooler things, and more importantly, it gets us closer to world domination – and yes, we’re bringing you for the ride along with us! Sorry about all the obscure animal references… I shouldn’t have written this on an empty stomach, but we hope you enjoy the new features we’ve added and we hope too many of you don’t get obsessed over your completion percentage… like me… my completion percentage for racing games is far too low! 40%!? I need to play more Forza Horizon… http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3148-X360A-Now-Has-Cool-New-Community-Leaderboards--Fresh-With-Genre-Leaderboards-Too-.html Thu, 16 May 2013 23:55:14 GMT X360A3147 20 achievements, 200 points. Submitted by: x360a http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3147-Game-Added--Angry-Birds-Rio-(WP8).html Thu, 16 May 2013 02:42:57 GMT X360A3146 10 achievements, 250 points. Submitted by: The BiggD http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news-3146-DLC-Added--Crysis-3.html Thu, 16 May 2013 02:34:24 GMT