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72 Hours Remain – A Charity Gaming Marathon

72 Hours Remain – A Charity Gaming Marathon

1 / August 13, 2010 11:23 am

“Just as Link made a difference in Hyrule, our goal is to make a difference in our world.” It’s Friday the 13th and for some people, a slight paranoia kicks in making them think that something bad is going to [...]

2010 Charity Zeldathon Begins

2010 Charity Zeldathon Begins

2 / July 5, 2010 4:21 pm

Back in 2008, Pablo Penton and Sean Gonzalez started Zeldathon. This year, it’s on again. Zeldathon is a 72 hour Zelda marathon that raises money for the National Children’s Advocacy Center. The NCAC is a non-profit organization that works to [...]

Digital Cowboys: Episode 147

Digital Cowboys: Episode 147

0 / March 12, 2010 10:42 am

True Achievements
This week we welcome Rich Stone, founder of www.trueachievements.com
For the uninitiated it’s a site that takes the 1000 point achievements of every existing Xbox 360 game and through the use of a clever metric and analasys of the achievements of its many thousand members works out what that achievement is really worth.
In other words [...]

Digital Cowboys: Episode 146

Digital Cowboys: Episode 146

0 / March 5, 2010 2:23 pm

Charity Gaming Marathon.
This is an account of what happened last weekend. Tony and I spent a whole day trying to get as many points as possible on a single new Xbox account. The aim was 5000. In return our community made donations to Medecins Sans Frontieres; an independent aid organization currently saving lives in Haiti [...]

Is There Any Point To Achievements?

Is There Any Point To Achievements?

7 / March 3, 2010 5:41 pm

Gone are the days where you and your buddies boot up GoldenEye and play 4 player split-screen just for fun and not earning or accomplishing anything other than guns. Gone are the days when you play through an entire game [...]