Ever wished that you could take a siesta, go to the shops, pay your bills, and generally ‘get on with your life’ while your trusty Xbox 360 awarded you gamer points automatically? Well, if you’re presently nodding enthusiastically while holding your 360 gamepad in one hand and writing a cheque to the electricity company with the other, then the xBot is just what you need – though it’s highly unlikely its creator will be prepared to hand it over.

Said xBot craftsman, one Diego Knyte (great superhero alias), cobbled together the rather bulky and ugly xBot as a way to conquer the two most "tedious achievements" on the multiplayer aspect of Rare’s first-person shooter Perfect Dark Zero: 1000 Death Match Games and 1000 Dark Ops Games. Diego describes the xBot as "an automated button pusher" and he decided to build it after physically attempting to crack the 1000 barrier and noticing that progress essentially came down to just two periodic button presses on the 360 controller. It should be noted at this point that actually winning the matches didn’t matter a jot to obtaining the achievements, just taking part in the 1000 matches was enough to see the 60, yes, 60 points (30 points for each achievement) safely added to Diego’s stockpile.

Therefore, he constructed the xBot, a hulk of metal attached to his game controller that would create and statically participate in bot-filled multiplayer games over and over while Diego went about his day. 40-to-50 hours of automated button presses later and Perfect Dark Zero’s truly mind-numbing 1000 game achievements fell to the might of the xBot, and no arthritic joints or stinging bouts of carpal tunnel needed to be carried from the cheaters battlefield as the xBot clunked to the ground like a spent and smoking MG-42.

Here’s how the xBot achieved its achievements:

1: START is pressed at the Match Start screen and the cycle begins.
2: Frag limit is reached, screen auto-returns to player review.
3: B is pressed to return to Match Start screen to repeat the cycle.
4: Goto 1

If you'd like to see 'exactly' how it's done, then click HERE for the YouTube xBot clip.

Well done, Diego, you sad, sad man.