It's been another busy week. We've been partnered with Beam , announced the brand new Easter Egg Hunt community event, started taking applications for the newshound team and begun preparation for a special ID@Xbox celebration next week, but even with lots to do and a short week, we're back for episode 65 of the TrueAchievements Podcast. On this week's show, we discuss the Xbox's new self-service refunds , last Friday's epic stream where we were partnered on Beam and gave away almost 50 codes, we...
Apr 14, 2017•49 min
Welcome to episode 64 of the TrueAchievements Podcast, where this week we are joined by special guest, Ross Miller, from the Xbox One subreddit's Party Chat Podcast to talk about this week's exciting Project Scorpio spec reveal . On this week's show, we discuss all of this week's our new Beam partnership , I give my early impressions of LEGO CITY Undercover and Rich and Jack talk about their experience with Air Guitar Warrior for Kinect and their other ID@Xbox streams from the past week. We also...
Apr 07, 2017•1 hr 17 min
It's been a very busy week at TGN Towers, but thankfully Rich and Jack took a well-earned break from coding site leaderboards and Multi-Genre's , and I forced myself off my sick bed (man flu ) to record episode 63 of the TrueAchievements Podcast. On this week's show, we discuss all of this week's Destiny and Destiny 2 news, we give you the chance to win a download code for Ghost Blade HD , I share my thoughts on Episode 3 of The Walking Dead - A New Frontier , Jack starts another version of Mine...
Mar 31, 2017•53 min
Welcome to episode 62 of the TrueAchievements podcast! Unfortunately, Rich was away at the time of recording, so Jack and I stepped up our game with recording and hosting duties and invited the now semi-regular host, Mark , to come on and talk about this week's big stories and new game releases. On this week's show, we discuss the first month of TA Playlist , spending money on Clicker Heroes (guilty as charged), and Mark shares his early thoughts on Mass Effect: Andromeda , we give you the chanc...
Mar 24, 2017•1 hr 31 min
Welcome to episode 61 of the TrueAchievements Podcast! This week, Rich, Jack and I were once again joined by our Editorial Manager, Mark, to talk discuss all the latest from the world of Xbox and TA. On this week's show, Mark tells us more about our brand new monthly community event called TA Playlist , Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is getting a little bit monotonous, Rich jumps into the EA Access trial of Mass Effect: Andromeda Achievements , we give you the chance to win a download code f...
Mar 17, 2017•1 hr 32 min
It's been another packed week for new games (I feel like this is the case every week now), and we've been busy trying to play and stream as many of them as possible. On this week's show, we give you the chance to win an Xbox One download code for Wells by listening for our inconspicuous contest claxon, we share our initial thoughts on Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands Achievements and LEGO Worlds Achievements , wax lyrical over the new Middle-earth: Shadow of War trailer that dropped yesterday,...
Mar 10, 2017•1 hr
Welcome to episode 59 of the TrueAchievements Podcast, where we were this week joined by Windows Central's resident Xbox expert, Jez Corden, who kindly took some time out of his busy schedule to discuss all of this week's news surrounding Xbox Game Pass , Project Scorpio and his thoughts on Torment: Tides of Numenera Achievements which he recently reviewed. On this week's show, we give you the chance to win an Xbox One download code for Riptide GP: Renegade by listening for our inconspicuous con...
Mar 03, 2017•1 hr 38 min
It's been another busy week here at TA towers, so we've enlisted the help of our Editorial Manager, Mark, to help us go through all of this week's games, news and listener questions. On this week's show, we give you the chance to win an Xbox One download code for Subterrain by listening for our inconspicuous contest claxon, we talk some more about For Honor , Rich finally tries ReCore , we give you the low-down on this week's ID@@Xbox releases and three of us play Polychromatic to deliberately m...
Feb 24, 2017•1 hr 38 min
We've had another busy week streaming the latest ID@Xbox releases on our Beam channel , but we've also had some triple AAA goodness to sink our teeth into. On this week's show, we give you a chance to win an Xbox One download code for RWBY: Grimm Eclipse by listening for our new giveaway siren, we check out Sniper Elite 4 and For Honor , Rich finishes another game and Jack visits the Japanese version of Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto V (JP) . We also take a look at the biggest news stories from ...
Feb 17, 2017•1 hr 17 min
The big new releases begin next week when For Honor and Sniper Elite 4 hit stores, so we've been keeping ourselves busy with lots of new ID@Xbox releases, the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands beta and delving into our backlogs. On this week's show, we give you a chance to win an Xbox One download code for The Sun and Moon by listening for our new inconspicuous siren, Jack tells us why he's not a fan of hard cuts to his weapon, we share our thoughts on this week's ID@Xbox streams, we return to ...
Feb 10, 2017•49 min
In a TA podcast first, Jack put aside every version of Bioshock 2 and stopped stacking Batman games to try out the latest iteration in the Resi Evil franchise, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard , before anyone else, and we were also joined once again by our Editorial Manager, Mark, who shared his thoughts on the recently remastered Bioshock trilogy, Mafia III and Watch_Dogs 2 . On today's show, Rich shares details on an exciting new site development that should hopefully be going live later today, we s...
Feb 03, 2017•1 hr 4 min
It's been another busy week of gaming for the TrueAchievements podcast crew. We've streamed another five ID@Xbox games on our new Beam channel , Rich got hands-on time with an early build of DiRT 4 at yesterday's launch event and we've been earning lots of score to stay in GTASC. On this show, we talk about the new Xbox update that is available to some Insiders and what that means for snapped achievements and the TrueAchievements app , Rich gets wood in Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition and why I've...
Jan 27, 2017•1 hr 7 min
Welcome to the 53rd episode of the TrueAchievements Podcast, where despite the lack of any big games so far this year, we've managing to keep ourselves busy with games from our backlogs and the varied line-up of games releasing via the ID@Xbox program. On this week's show, Rich and Jack discuss in detail their impressions of the five ID@Xbox games that they've been streaming over on our Twitch channel and why we're switching things up and moving to our new Beam channel from Monday, we talk about...
Jan 20, 2017•47 min
We go through this week's biggest news announcements, what we've been playing to hopefully stay past week one of this year's GTASC, take a look at what games will be coming our way next week, and answer your questions. Links: Scalebound Has Been Cancelled New Xbox One Controller Colors Announced Elite: Dangerous Gets First Alien Contact Injustice 2 Release Date Announced For Honor Closed Beta Weekend Approaches ID@Xbox on Twitter ID@Xbox on Beam...
Jan 13, 2017•42 min
Happy new year podcast listeners! Hopefully, our double length end of year review show meant that you didn't miss us too much over the holiday period. On this week's show, we take a look at this year's Game of the Year winners , take a look at our 1 Billion achievement unlocks milestone and talk about the games we've been playing over the past couple of weeks. We also go through all of the big stories since the turn of they year, take a look at what games will be coming our way next week, and an...
Jan 06, 2017•54 min
For the final episode of 2016, Rich , Jack and I were joined by Editorial Manager, Mark , as we take a look back at all the biggest news stories, site announcements and games from the past 12 months, as well as taking a look at what's to come in 2017. Thanks for listening, sending in questions and providing feedback on the show throughout the past year. We'll see you in 2017. Links: The TrueAchievements Game of the Year 2015 2015 Leaderboards - How Did You Do? I'm Getting Too Old For This Fable ...
Dec 23, 2016•2 hr 13 min
With the holiday season now almost upon us, today's podcast marks our 50th show (excluding specials) overall, and the final "regular" show of 2016. Have no fear, however, because we will be back next Friday with an end of year special where we'll run down all of the biggest news, games and site updates from the past 12 months with a special guest. On this week's show, we get behind the wheel of the new "Blizzard Mountain" expansion in Forza Horizon 3 , discuss the fifth and final episode of BATM...
Dec 16, 2016•1 hr 13 min
We've gone ID@Xbox mad this week. Partly due to the fact that Dead Rising 4 was the only big release from the past week, but also due to our new regular Twitch streams of ID@Xbox games. On this week's show, we talk about Dead Rising 4 and some of the strange and wonderful weapon and clothing combos available, the 15 minutes 100% completion that is Energy Cycle , the brutally tough Furi , Wand Wars ' couch multiplayer and the very British humour available in Her Majesty's SPIFFING . We also go th...
Dec 09, 2016•1 hr 10 min
The rush of games has finally slowed down, which meant none of us started any new games this week - well not that we can talk about, unfortunately. Instead Rich spent some more time with Watch_Dogs 2 , Jack took a break from regional variants to play some Overcooked , and I returned to Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection before switching to an upcoming new release that's filled with zombies and photographs. On this week's show, we talk about the latest site updates, our exciting new link-up wit...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 9 min
For the first time in a few weeks, none of us have jumped into any new games this past week. Instead Rich and I have been getting some monies worth out of our recent purchases, while Jack has been playing Bioshock 2 across multiple regional releases. On this week's show, we about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered , some more impressions of Watch_Dogs 2 and Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection , the latest episode of BATMAN – The Telltale Series , Rich's new found addiction for Frozen Free ...
Nov 25, 2016•1 hr 6 min
It's another week of big releases, and we've once again forsaken our completion percentages to bring you our early thoughts on Watch_Dogs 2 and Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection . On this week's show, we talk about the two games mentioned above, Rich gets into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered , and we take a look at some of this year's Golden Joystick nominees. We also go through all of the big news stories from the past week, take a look at the games that will be coming our way next w...
Nov 18, 2016•54 min
There are only a couple of weeks to go until the release calendar returns to normality and we can finally start to get some monies worth out of our gaming purchases, but until then the TA podcast crew remain focused on bringing you opinions from all the big releases. This week is no different as both Rich and me both picked up a copy of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered . On this week's show, we talk about our opinion of Titanfall 2 after finishing the ca...
Nov 11, 2016•1 hr 5 min
With Battlefield 1 , Titanfall 2 and Gears of War 4 releasing over the past few of weeks, and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered arriving today, this week's podcast is a "super shooter special". On this week's show, we rave about the Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 single-player campaigns, Jack talks about his ongoing experience in the Ultimate Head to Head 2 contest, Rich talks about his hands-on with Watch_Dogs 2 , we go through all the big news stories fr...
Nov 04, 2016•1 hr 7 min
It's been a slower week for the big new releases, but there's still a lot to discuss as it's been a huge week for news with a certain cowboy game being announced and a short trailer showing what Nintendo has to offer next. On this week's show, we talk about Battlefield 1 , the end of the Ultimate Head to Head 2 group stage, Red Dead Redemption 2 , the Nintendo Switch reveal, our experience with PlayStation VR and all of the big news announcements from the past week. Links: Official TrueAchieveme...
Oct 21, 2016•58 min
Hello and welcome to episode 42 of the TrueAchievements Podcast. This week's show is a little bit longer than normal, but that's purely down to all of the big titles that have hit over the past week - there's so much to talk about! On this week's show, we talk about Gears of War 4 , Mafia III , Mantis Burn Racing , Battlefield 1 , the on-going Ultimate Head to Head 2 , Viral Event 2016 , and all of the big news announcements from the past week, as well as answering your questions. Links: Viral E...
Oct 14, 2016•1 hr 5 min
Hello, and welcome to episode 41 of the TrueAchievements Podcast. Unfortunately, Rich was very pushed for time when we were recording and had to sneak off halfway through, but thankfully Jack and I managed to soldier on without him and talk about him behind his back to finish the show. On this week's show we talk about the new Xbox achievements rarity integration that we added this morning, week two of Ultimate Head to Head 2 . the currently running Viral Event , what we've been playing (mainly ...
Oct 07, 2016•42 min
Before we go into get this week's show, a quick apology for not uploading anything last week. As Rich had previously mentioned he was away over the weekend, and our backup plan unfortunately didn't materialise. We hope you didn't miss us too much! On this week's show we finally get to talk about Forza Horizon 3 , our journey with FIFA 17 , BATMAN – The Telltale Series , the first round of matches in the Ultimate Head to Head 2 group stages, all the big news announcements from the past week, as w...
Sep 30, 2016•1 hr 14 min
Welcome to the latest episode of the TrueAchievements Podcast with Rich , Jack and I , where we sit down to discuss all of the hottest news and new releases from the past week. On this week's show we talk about NBA 2K17: The Prelude and how not to customise your character , the Forza Horizon 3 demo, Halo 5: Forge (Win 10) , Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 , Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 , this week's big news stories, the multi-genre system voting , next week's new releases, as well as answering your...
Sep 16, 2016•43 min
Today is a very special podcast for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because it marks our 50th show (including specials), but most importantly because we were lucky enough to be joined at the end of the show by a very special guest, Grant Orban from Playground Games, who gave us an insight in to what goes into making a game like Forza Horizon 3 . On this week's show we talk about what we've been playing this week, NBA 2K17: The Prelude , Forza Motorsport 6: Apex (Win 10) , the UHH 2 Contest , the l...
Sep 09, 2016•1 hr 12 min
Before we get into the content of this week's episode of the TrueAchievements Podcast, I'd like to say a massive thank you to everyone that tuned in during August and contributed with comments, suggestions and questions - it was our best month for downloads by quite a long way. On this week's show we talk about the Battlefield 1 beta, the joys of Professional Farmer 2017 , Rich's experience with the recently released Hue , the latest news and new achievement lists from the past week, as well as ...
Sep 02, 2016•53 min
