As prevalent as game achievements are lately, it's only natural to see them being applied in new and intriguing ways. Sony is using them to stock your virtual house with shiny trophies. Valve is using them to unlock new ways to hurt people. And now, Kongregate is using them to give away actual material rewards. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 18, 2008
On Friday, Valve updated the post on their Heavy Update page which listed the new achievements for everyone's favorite minigun-wielding Team Fortress 2 class. This new update replaced all of the "Coming Soon" placeholders with actual descriptions of what the achievements would entail, thus drawing our speculation contest to a close. All told, roughly 50 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 13, 2008
UPDATE 8/15: Valve has published the full list of the Heavy's Achievements, and our contest is now closed! Look for our analysis and winner announcement soon! Valve put up a list, this morning, of the 35 new achievements that will become available in next week's Heavy Update. The official website lists only the names of the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Valve's Heavy Update site has revealed the first new unlockable weapon for Team Fortress 2's big, cuddly Heavy Weapons Guy: The "Killing Gloves of Boxing," a new melee weapon which will please pugilism patrons everywhere. That'd be pretty awesome by itself, but if you look carefully at the accompanying image pack that's included with the new site, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Though this latest update to Team Fortress 2 has taken a bit longer than Valve originally anticipated, the TF2 Official Blog dropped the news today that it will all have been worth it. In addition to new achievements and unlockable weapons for everyone's favorite gun-happy lunkhead, Valve will be releasing seven new maps, five of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Back in May, 2K Games released a most frustrating document. While it confirmed the existence of critically acclaimed shooter BioShock's port to PS3 and promised "new features and content," the press release didn't provide the foggiest idea of what that content might be. However, with E3 behind us 2K's seals have begun to crack, and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
Team Fortress 2 updates, incoming! Tomorrow: The latest in the new "Meet the Team" animated shorts will arrive. "Meet the Sniper" drops at 11am Pacific Time. Thursday: TF2 gets the Pyro Update, including three new unlockable weapons and 35 achievements for everyone's favorite unintelligible immolation enthusiast. Friday: Fire free-for-all! Literally, it's free for all. Steam will host [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 24, 2008
Now, folks, when we spoke yesterday about that leak of GTA IV through various torrent sites, we neglected to mention that one of the main requests of the iCON group was that you not be so stupid as to play while your 360 is still connected to Live. Because that would be stupid. Someone might [...]
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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