TrueAchievements news archive for November 2009

DLC
Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero DLC for December
For December, Activision are offering a wide variety of DLC. And hey, look... They remembered the first week of the month this time! December 3rd -The Fall of Troy Track Pack - "Panic Attack" - The F

Posted 14 years ago 40
Content roundup
Deal of the Week: November 30th, 2009
This weeks deal is yet another XBLA game, with a 40% discount on Sonic The Hedgehog 2, down from an already low price of 400MSP to a mere 240MSP. Xbox.com gives the following description of the game:

Posted 14 years ago 50
Industry
BBC’s iPlayer put on hold indefinitely
The following story I find interesting for the implications of what has occurred rather than the indefinitely delayed iPlayer. The BBC offers a free application to the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3

Posted 14 years ago 81
Xbox 360
Not Sure What To Get That Special Gamer?
Gaming website The Kartel has compiled a list of some top bargains for you to snap up this holiday season. Although this list isn't strictly Xbox specific, I'm sure, like me, some of you gamers play

Posted 14 years ago 42
DLC
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast - Free Fortnightly DLC
From now until April 2010, Namco will be releasing downloadable content of "customized versions of popular characters, each with different powered-up abilities" for the recent Dragon Ball: Raging Bla

Posted 14 years ago 17
DLC
Rock Band DLC for 1st December
On Tuesday, the following songs will be joining the Rock Band Store: Nirvana – 'Come As You Are (Live from MTV Unplugged)'* Nirvana – 'Lithium (Live at Reading)' Nirvana – 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' N

Posted 14 years ago 42
Upcoming
XBLA Wednesday: November 25th, 2009
Just one title hitting XBLA this Wednesday, hope it's a good one! Madden NFL Arcade - 1200 MSP Feel the excitement of the NFL with a fun, fast-paced, 5-on-5 football experience. Madden NFL Arcade for

Posted 14 years ago 34
Content roundup
Deal of the Week: November 23rd, 2009
A massive three deals this week, big discounts right across the board! The first DOTW is another half-price XBLA game, with 50% off Peggle, down from 800MSP to just 400MSP. Xbox.com gives the followi

Posted 14 years ago 44
Xbox 360
Amazon Offers Crazy Modern Warfare 2 Deal
Future college dropout NightStalkar has just given me the following information: For a limited time, you'll get 12 months of Xbox LIVE gold for $29.99 when you purchase Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Posted 14 years ago 67
Site news
Staff Restructure Complete
The investigation team is now chosen and with it all staff positions are now filled. The whole process has taken 7 weeks and we’ve received nearly 350 applications all together. I would like to thank

Posted 14 years ago 0
DLC
Are You Ready To Race With Your Friends?
Come December 1st, Need For Speed: Shift will have a free update available for download, via Xbox LIVE. The update will bring a new Team Racing mode and five new vehicles. For those of you more inter

Posted 14 years ago 18
Industry
British Intelligence Agency Recruiting on Xbox
What better way to find modern day James Bonds than through a game console? Well, that's exactly what the GCHQ think. The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency,

Posted 14 years ago 47
Industry
Ubisoft Announces Achievement Rewards
Ever wish you could get a little more buzz from your fix? For most of us, that little ba-doop and the words "Achievement Unlocked" have sufficed to feed our insatiable addiction for gamerscore. But w

Posted 14 years ago 60
DLC
Rock Band DLC for 24th November
On Tuesday, the following tracks will be added to the Rock Band Store: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “A Thing About You (live)” * Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “American Girl (live)” Tom Petty &

Posted 14 years ago 34
DLC
Resident Evil 5 DLC Announced [Updated 19/11/09]
Recently, Capcom ran a poll on their website to determine the fate of the Alternative Edition of Resident Evil 5 (Xbox 360), whether it's release should be on disc or as downloadable content. One mon

Posted 14 years ago 67
Industry
Spike TV's VGA Contenders
Spike TV has opened the polls for this years Video Game Awards (VGA) contenders. So, if you want to get your two cents in, head on over to http://www.spike.com/event/vga2009/ and cast your votes. The

Posted 14 years ago 48
Industry
Upcoming Free Xbox Live Weekends
To coincide with yesterday's release of Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm et al on the dashboard (and of course http://www.trueachievements.com/newsitem.aspx?newsitemid=866), Microsoft has announced that th

Posted 14 years ago 68
Industry
Pandemic, We Hardly Knew You
The just over 10-years-old developer, Pandemic, will be closing its doors today. As part of EA's 1,500 staff reduction, approximately 200 people who had a home at the smaller studio will be out of a

Posted 14 years ago 51
Hardware
New LIVE Features Will Be “Turned On”
Major Nelson provided a nice little nugget of information to the internet masses today, concerning the next dashboard update. With today being the big day for the unveiling of Last.fm, Twitter, and F

Posted 14 years ago 103
Industry
Achievements That Bring a Tear To Your Eye
Gaming news website ScrewAttack has posted a list of what they consider to be the seven most difficult achievements to obtain. Taking a look at the list and their respective stats here on True Achiev

Posted 14 years ago 183
Upcoming
XBLA Wednesday: November 18th, 2009
Are you ready to Dash around a Diner and get Gyromantic? Gyromancer - 1200 MSP Gyromancer is a new puzzle-RPG developed in collaboration between Square Enix and PopCap. With a blend of puzzle element

Posted 14 years ago 18
Content roundup
Deal of the Week: November 16th, 2009
This weeks DOTW is 50% off 3 on 3 NHL Arcade, down from 800MSP to now just 400MSP. Xbox.com gives the following description of the content: EA SPORTS Freestyle™ welcomes you to the fast-paced world o

Posted 14 years ago 27
DLC
Rock Band DLC for 17th November
On Tuesday, the following tracks will be added to the Rock Band Store. AFI - Beautiful Thieves AFI - End Transmission AFI - Love Like Winter AFI - Medicate AFI - The Leaving Song, Pt II Them Crooked

Posted 14 years ago 22
Video
Super Street Fighter IV - New Modes Trailer
Capcom has released a new trailer outlining four of the new modes available in the upcoming Super Street Fighter IV with one in particular bound to excite fans of the seminal and iconic Street Fighte

Posted 14 years ago 12
DLC
The Beatles: Rock Band DLC for 17th November
Often considered one of the greatest albums of all time, the entirety of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will be available for purchase exclusively for The Beatles: Rock Band next

Posted 14 years ago 35
Video
Just Cause 2: Trailer And More
For those of you that enjoyed the stunts, destruction and general mayhem of Just Cause, let me steer you toward an exclusive look at Just Cause 2. The second installment of Rico's adventures in dicta

Posted 14 years ago 9
Upcoming
Final Fantasy XIII Release Date Announced
In a surprise, and surprising, announcement today Square Enix has announced an official release date for Final Fantasy XIII. Now normally, we gamers outside of Japan don't get too excited about this

Posted 14 years ago 44
Xbox 360
Modern Warfare 2 Dominates Sales Internationally
It's starting to look like some records will be broken pretty soon. Modern Warfare 2 sold an amazing 2.4 MILLION COPIES within the first 24 hours, and a measly 1.23 million copies in the UK. In unrel

Posted 14 years ago 52
Industry
Modern Warfare 2 - Community Event
Let's face it. Modern Warfare 2 is a blast... so what could be better than playing it with some friends? Join us on Saturday, November 14th at 12:00 PM EST for a day of Modern Warfare 2 fun. With the

Posted 14 years ago 42
XBLA
Remember SEGA's Genesis Poll? Well...
Back in August, SEGA ran a poll to see which Genesis/Mega Drive game we gamers want on the Xbox Live Arcade. You might remember that originally, Earthworm Jim was included in that poll and was winnin

Posted 14 years ago 32
DLC
Upcoming Borderlands DLC Already
Just as 2K games promised, the first DLC for Borderlands has been officially announced and slated for release on November 24th. This additional content will set you back 800 Microsoft Points. This in

Posted 14 years ago 76
Upcoming
XBLA Wednesday: November 11th, 2009
This week we get a variety of different titles to keep us all entertained. To an extent, anyway! These are: 0D Beat Drop - 800MSP The fusion of "rhythm" and "puzzle" creates a completely new kind of

Posted 14 years ago 14
Xbox 360
Get Groceries... And MW2!
It looks like the UK is pretty pumped for the release of Modern Warfare 2. So pumped, that they are practically giving the game away. Grocery stores aren't typically known for great video game deals

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Industry
We've Hit the BIG TIME!!!!!!
It seems that TrueAchievements is becoming a resource amongst gaming websites. In a recent article with G4TV.com, a number of statistics were pulled from our very own database. Admittedly, we can onl

Posted 14 years ago 93
Content roundup
Deal of the Week: November 9th, 2009
This weeks DOTW offer sees a 30% discount on the Ultor Exposed for Saints Row 2 DLC, available now for just 560MSP, down from 800MSP. Xbox.com gives the following description of the content: Disgrunt

Posted 14 years ago 15
Upcoming
1 vs. 100 Season 2 Coming Soon!
Trivia buffs, get brushing up on your general knowledge! The new season of 1 vs. 100 is coming back to Xbox Live in less than a fortnight, so you had better make sure that you've got your brain screw

Posted 14 years ago 60
Upcoming
Hasbro Family Game Night Retail Disc Announced
EA and Hasbro have announced that the previously XBLA-exclusive Hasbro Family Game Night titles will all be available on a disc come November 10th: "With the holidays coming up, there will be lots of

Posted 14 years ago 68
Xbox 360
Gears of War 2 Anniversary Events Detail
Epic has detailed its plans for the Gears 2 anniversary weekend. The events begin today (Friday, November 6) to Monday (November 16). That is 10 days of gruesome chainsawing awesomeness. • All games

Posted 14 years ago 71
DLC
Rock Band DLC for 10th November
On Tuesday the following tracks will be added to the Rock Band Store: The Damned – "Smash It Up (Part II)" Kasabian – "Club Foot" And the long awaited White Stripes 3 track pack, consisting of: "Dead

Posted 14 years ago 23
DLC
Dragon Age: Origins Free Stuff
If you haven't already run to the nearest game store, knocking old ladies out of your path willy-nilly, to pick up your very own copy of Dragon Age: Origins then... DO IT NOW, and old ladies be damne

Posted 14 years ago 40
Site news
Investigation Team Announcement
The Investigations team, which is in charge of investigating user complaints into cheaters, is now looking for a new team. This team differs slightly from the others. Firstly, there is NO badge, the

Posted 14 years ago 90
DLC
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC
Activision announced today the release of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2’s first downloadable content package, as well as a free demo for the game, has hit XLBA. There are five new characters you can dow

Posted 14 years ago 19
Industry
Epic Provides Free Access To Unreal Engine 3
If you've played Batman: Arkham Asylum, Gears of War, Bioshock, Fairytale Fights, Hail to the Chimp, Lost Odyssey, Mass Effect, Mirror's Edge, Star Trek DAC, Rainbow Six: Vegas, or X-Men Origins: Wol

Posted 14 years ago 37
Industry
The Wrath Of The Microsoft Ban-Hammer
Around the end of October, Microsoft started its latest round of banning modded consoles. This round as well as the last few have seen the ban-hammer aim not only at the consoles themselves, but at t

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Upcoming
XBLA Wednesday: November 4th, 2009
Attention point & click fans! This week we get the next 3 episodes of Wallace & Gromit joining Xbox LIVE Arcade, continuing from Wallace & Gromit 1: Fright of the Bees. These are: Wallace & Gromit Ep

Posted 14 years ago 17
Site news
Content Team Announced
A couple of momentus things happened last night - NightStalkar finalized the Content Team, and we also smashed through the 50,000 registered gamers milestone on the site (congrats to Mr Freezed, our

Posted 14 years ago 145
Industry
Microsoft Sends E-mails for Rewards Program
Apparently, all of those sexual favors finally paid off and Microsoft has just sent me an e-mail saying that I got accepted into the new Rewards Program. And my parents said that my lifestyle would n

Posted 14 years ago 79
Content roundup
Deal of the Week: November 2nd, 2009
This weeks DOTW offer sees a 50% discount on the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Variety Map Pack. So, if you're a big enough Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare fan to still be playing it online, but have

Posted 14 years ago 45
Industry
The Word of the Day is Controversy
Well, I'm back with yet another tale of bad taste and worse ideas. Infinity Ward has just pulled down a "PSA" video promoting Modern Warfare 2 that preached against the evils of grenade spamming in a

Posted 14 years ago 82
Industry
Developers Choosing to Stop the Parties
Have you ever been in a team match in games like Halo or Call of Duty, and the last man alive on your team is being stalked by some 12 year old kid? Have you found yourself screaming so loud over you

Posted 14 years ago 157
Demo
Left 4 Dead 2 Censorship Comparison Video
For those of us fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to live in the "great" land down under, the upcoming release of Left 4 Dead 2 later this month will be bitter sweet. We all gasped and began waiting

Posted 14 years ago 57
Opinion
The State of TA Part 4
During one of many long waits in the Call of Duty 3 lobby… Call of Duty 3 is such an unappreciated game, the multiplayer is so much better than COD 4 and in my opinion requires more skill, I might wr

Posted 14 years ago 100
Site news
Forum re-structure
Hi all for some time now it's been felt that we have waaaaay too many forums. This is because I originally thought it would be cool to have one per game, and they get automatically get generated ever

Posted 14 years ago 115

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