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The full list of achievements for Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, which launches exclusively for Xbox One in late August, have been announced.

The game, a remastered version of the groundbreaking 2006 shooter from Epic Games, will offer a total of 1250 Gamerscore points to earn. These are listed below.

The Ultimate Edition is in development at UK studio Splash Damage, in collaboration with Black Tusk The Coalition. That studio is primarily focused on Gears of War 4 for Xbox One, which launches next year.

The remaster includes all 19 original multiplayer maps, split-screen and LAN support, and all original game modes plus Team Deathmatch and King of the Hill. During a recent beta test, over one million matches were played and feedback was gathered. It launches on August 25 for Xbox One and on an unspecified later date for the PC.

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Achievements:

Prison Breakout (10)

Complete tutorial path on any difficulty

Welcome to Delta Squad (20)

Story Progression in Act 1 Chapter 1 (on any difficulty)

Cole? As in the Cole Train? (20)

Story Progression in Act 1 Chapter 6 (on any difficulty)

Yeah, Yeah, Group Hug (20)

Story Progression in Act 1 Chapter 7 (on any difficulty)

My Love for You Is Like a Truck (20)

Story Progression in Act 1 Chapter 8 (on any difficulty)

No More Favors (20)

Story Progression in Act 2 Chapter 2 (on any difficulty)

Lights, Action! (20)

Story Progression in Act 2 Chapter 4 (on any difficulty)

Taking Laverne for a Ride (20)

Story Progression in Act 2 Chapter 6 (on any difficulty)

The Biggest E-hole (20)

Story Progression in Act 2 Chapter 8 (on any difficulty)

Smell Good Too… (20)

Story Progression in Act 3 Chapter 2 (on any difficulty)

Go Time, Show Time (20)

Story Progression in Act 3 Chapter 4 (on any difficulty)

Broken Fingers (20)

Story Progression in Act 3 Chapter 5 (on any difficulty)

Lethal Acoustics (20)

Story Progression in Act 3 Chapter 6 (on any difficulty)

I Can See You! (10)

Spot 100 enemies resulting in assisted kills in Versus (social or competitive)

Raven Down (20)

Story Progression in Act 4 Chapter 1 (on any difficulty)

Fry Up With a Side of Greens (20)

Story Progression in Act 4 Chapter 2 (on any difficulty)

Know Place Like Home (20)

Story Progression in Act 4 Chapter 6 (on any difficulty)

YEEEEHAAAAA! (20)

Story Progression in Act 4 Chapter 6 (on any difficulty)

Power Up (20)

Story Progression in Act 5 Chapter 5 (on any difficulty)

Marcus? Is That You? (20)

Story Progression in Act 5 Chapter 3 (on any difficulty)

Shock Therapy (20)

Story Progression in Act 5 Chapter 5 (on any difficulty)

All Aboard! Uh… We’re Aboard! (20)

Story Progression in Act 5 Chapter 6 (on any difficulty)

A Dish Best Served Cold (20)

Story Progression in Act 5 Chapter 8 (on any difficulty)

Mercenary (50)

Complete all acts on Casual Difficulty

Classic Mercenary (50)

Complete all acts on Normal Difficulty

Soldier (50)

Complete all acts on Hardcore Difficulty

Commando (75)

Complete all acts on Insane Difficulty

Time to Remember (10)

Recover 11 COG tags (on any difficulty)

Honor-Bound (20)

Recover 22 COG tags (on any difficulty)

For the Fallen (30)

Recover all 33 COG tags (on any difficulty)

Zen and the Art of Reloading (10)

Perform 25 perfect active reloads (on any difficulty)

Zen and the Art Part 2 (20)

Perform 5 perfect active reloads in a row (on any difficulty)

Clusterluck (30)

Kill 3 enemies at once 10 different times (on any difficulty)

Dom-curious (10)

Complete 1 co-op chapter in co-op (on any difficulty)

Domination (20)

Complete 10 different chapters in co-op (on any difficulty)

I Can’t Quit You Dom (30)

Complete all acts in co-op (on any difficulty)

Don’t You Die On Me (20)

Revive 100 teammates in Versus multiplayer (social or competitive)

Always Remember Your First (20)

Finish playing a Versus match (social or competitive)

Don’t Hate the Player (10)

Finish with the highest points in a Versus match (social or competitive)

Mix It Up (20)

Win a match in every Versus game type (social or competitive)

Around the World (30)

Win a match on every Versus map (social or competitive)

Can’t Touch Me (20)

Win 10 Versus matches without losing a round (social or competitive)

Seriously … (50)

Kill 10,000 people in Versus competitive matches

THIS! IS! ANNEX! (40)

Complete 100 matches of 3+ rounds in Annex and capture 3 objectives in each match

Nub Pwn3r (30)

Win 20 rounds in Annex by shutting out the opposing team

CQC (20)

Win 25 matches in Boxes (social or competitive)

Level 5 (50)

Reach Level 5

Level 10 (10)

Reach Level 10

Level 25 (25)

Reach Level 25

Re-up (20)

Reach Level 100 and re-up

Handyman (25)

Killed an enemy with every weapon in Versus (social or competitive)

G-reader (10)

Read one full comic

Brothers To The End (10)

Defeat General RAAM in co-op on Insane without either player being DBNO

Gimme Some Skin (10)

Play one Versus Match with a Custom Weapon Skin

Better Late Than Never (20)

Win 25 matches in Team Deathmatch

Whack-A-Grub (10)

Closed all 4 e-holes around the fountain in Fish in a Barrel without any Locust fully emerging

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A seventeen year-old with ties to black hat hacking group Lizard Squad has been convicted of more than 50,000 charges related to cyber crimes in a court in Espoo, Finland.

Local media reports claim that Julius “Zeekill” Kivimaki has been sentenced for a whole range of offences, such as data breaches, online harassment, fraud, and money laundering. He will serve a two-year suspended sentence and, according to the Finnish newspaper Kaleva, has been “ordered to fight against cyber crime.” He has not been given a prison sentence.

Kivimaki has previously represented himself has a member of Lizard Squad, an online group of hackers who claim responsibility for a number of high-profile network disruptions and website takedowns.

One of Lizard Squad’s most notorious attacks was the disruptions to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, which were both knocked offline for several days between Christmas Day and New Year’s.

A massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ground both those networks to a halt, resulting in engineers at both Sony and Microsoft working during the holidays to restore the service.

During the downtime, Sky News aired an interview with Kivimaki, and he suggested he had no regrets over the attack.

“I can’t really say I feel bad. I might have forced some kids to spend more time with their families instead of playing games.”

Through its Twitter account, a representative for Lizard Squad appeared to mock those who hoped Kivimaki would receive a harsher sentence.

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Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has apologized for the drama of recent days and pledged to take “concrete steps” to improve communication and foster a better overall experience for moderators of the hugely popular site.

“We screwed up,” Pao wrote in her statement. “Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years. We haven’t communicated well, and we have surprised moderators and the community with big changes. We have apologized and made promises to you, the moderators and the community, over many years, but time and again, we haven’t delivered on them. When you’ve had feedback or requests, we haven’t always been responsive. The mods and the community have lost trust in me and in us, the administrators of reddit.”

“Today, we acknowledge this long history of mistakes,” she added. “We are grateful for all you do for reddit, and the buck stops with me.”

Pao explained that the Reddit management team will take three “concrete” steps to do better in the future. First, she pledged that Reddit will actually improve its moderator tools, “not just promise improvements.”

Second, she said Reddit has created a new position called Moderator Advocate. This person, u/krispykrackers, will act as the liason between moderators and the Reddit management team. “We’re also going to figure out the best way for more administrators, including myself, to talk more often with the whole community,” Pao explained.

And third, Pao said Reddit plans to allow moderators to default to the old version of search “to support your existing moderation workflows.” A list of instructions for setting old search as the default are available here.

“I know these are just words, and it may be hard for you to believe us. I don’t have all the answers, and it will take time for us to deliver concrete results,” Pao said at the end of her statement. “I mean it when I say we screwed up, and we want to have a meaningful ongoing discussion. I know we’ve drifted out of touch with the community as we’ve grown and added more people, and we want to connect more. I and the team are committed to talking more often with the community, starting now.”

Last week, popular subreddit pages, such as r/Gaming, r/IAmA, r/funny, r/books, r/science, r/music, and r/history, were taken private by their moderators in a deliberate message of solidarity to the site’s management. Game-specific subreddits, such as those for Fallout 4, Destiny, and Grand Theft Auto V, were also affected by the blackout.

At the heart of the issue was the dismissal of the employee u/chooter, who was known internally as Victoria Taylor, without explanation. Among other things, she coordinated Reddit’s hugely popular Ask Me Anything (AMA) ongoing feature. As part of this series, celebrities, politicians, and other pop culture figures took questions directly from fans. Barack Obama and a man with two penises were among the participants.

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Professional golfer Rory McIlroy, who replaced the legendary Tiger Woods as the star of EA Sports’ PGA Tour series, has gone down with an injury just one week before Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is set to launch.

McIlroy shared the news on Instagram, writing that he suffered a “total rupture” of the left ankle ligament and associated joint capsule during a pick-up soccer match with friends over the weekend.

The 26-year-old, who has won three out of golf’s four majors, says he has already started rehab and is “working hard” to get back on the course “as soon as I can.”

But his status for The Open next week at St. Andrews is in question. Experts say recovery time for such an injury depends on the severity of the rupture, which McIlroy did not specify in his Instagram post. A spokesperson told the Washington Post that there is a 10 percent chance that McIlroy will play next week.

This is no doubt a huge bummer for McIlory, who is the defending Open champion and current World No. 1 golfer. Whether or not his injury and time away from the game affects Rory McIlory PGA Tour, however, remains to be seen.

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour launches on July 14 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but Xbox One owners with an EA Access membership can start playing five days early.

The game was originally expected to launch in June, but was later delayed so that EA could make sure the online infrastructure will be smooth and stable at release.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was not supposed to get any new DLC this week, but that’s exactly what happened. This content, which online reports reveal to be a new outfit for Ciri, was released ahead of schedule, developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed.

The Polish studio now warns against downloading the DLC–Ciri’s Zerrikanian outfit–because it “wasn’t ready.” And, as with any pre-release software, it might contain issues that could hurt your experience.

Though The Witcher 3’s DLC campaign is taking this week off, CD Projekt Red plans to release at least three more free add-ons in the weeks to come.

Ciri’s new outfit will follow previously released alternate attire for Geralt, Yennefer, and Triss.

What do you think of Ciri’s new look? Let us know in the comments below.

In other Witcher 3 news, CD Projekt Red has announced a major patch for all versions of the game that will make a long list of substantial changes. You can read some of the key changes here, while the full patch notes are coming later this week.

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The upcoming Assassin’s Creed movie continues to add top talent to its cast.

According to Variety, Michael K. Williams, who is best known for his leading roles on The Wire and Boardwalk Empire, has joined New Regency’s Assassin’s Creed movie and will play a major role.

Interestingly, the report also reveals that New Regency and Ubisoft are planning to make at least one additional Assassin’s Creed movie. Sources told the site that Williams’ character “has a major stake in the franchise” and that, for a sequel, he will have a co-starring role alongside lead actor Michael Fassbender.

Neither New Regency nor Ubisoft have confirmed Williams’ involvement with the Assassin’s Creed movie project, but Williams basically validated the news on Twitter through a series of retweets.

The Assassin’s Creed movie starts shooting in September and is expected to hit theaters in December 2016. It also stars Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard, and will be directed by Macbeth‘s Justin Kurzel.

It is one of more than a dozen video game movie projects currently in development. Check out GameSpot’s new image gallery to learn about the others.

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