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His YouTube channel of the same name has been compared to Techmoan and The 8-Bit Guy. [3] [4] [5] Basinger is known for building, restoring and reviewing many vintage computers and reviewing mainly PC games. [6] The channel is funded through YouTube advertising, and through Patreon. [7]
Ray Cox IV, [2] known online as Stallion83, is a video game player known for his high Xbox Gamerscore, points for completing in-game challenges known as achievements.He was the first player to reach 1,000,000 points in early 2014. [3]
The Gamerscore (G) is an achievements system that measures the number of achievement points accumulated by a user with a Live profile. These Achievement points are awarded for the completion of game-specific challenges, such as beating a level or amassing a specified number of wins against other players in online matches.
TrueAchievements was designed and programmed by Richard Stone, and launched in March 2008. It was conceptualized when Richard Stone determined that the current GamerScore system devised by Microsoft was inherently unbalanced; it would sometimes appear to offer only a few points for difficult tasks in-game, and many points for somewhat trivial tasks in-game.
On February 1, 2007, Microsoft announced on their Gamerscore Blog some new policies that developers must follow related to Gamerscore and Achievements in future releases. [67] All regular disc-based games must have 1,000 Gamerscore points in the base game; the title can ship with fewer than 1,000 points, but anything added later must be free.
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The channel also contained a constantly updated ticker at the bottom of the screen, providing sports news and scores, as it still does today, per its CRTC licence requirements. There were plans to air different tickers in each region of the country and additional streams of alphanumeric data (perhaps via an alternate channel) when the channel ...
The unofficial successor is the YouTube show Game Two, financed by public-service broadcasting program funk [38] and produced by the 24/7 online channel Rocket Beans TV, which is dedicated to video game, nerd and pop culture. A similar show was "Reload"; produced for the public-service channel EinsPlus until the channel was announced to close ...