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Wait, seriously? Yes, seriously. Microsoft's Game Room will have 56 Achievements attached to it when it finally launches next week. Hoping to entice players into its virtual arcade like Gary Glitter with a dirty van full of c...
| Jim Sterling |
Could rewarding players for playing your game make them appreciate the game less, and play worse? Chris Hecker doesn't know for sure, but his talk, "Achievements Considered Harmful?," explored the possibility. I've tried my best to summarize the talk below, but I can't say I've done it justice -- Hecker gave the headiest and most fast-paced talk I've yet heard at GDC 2010. Hit the jump for that.
| Anthony Burch |
The first piece of Assassin's Creed II DLC "Sequence 12: Battle of Forli" won't have Achievements or Trophies associated with it. A spokesman for Ubisoft Montreal confirmed the lack of Trophies last afternoon with Web site PS...
| Brad Nicholson |
Even if you’re not an Achievement whore, you may have heard whispers of a rare online Achievement for EA Sports’ NBA Live 07. One of the game’s 15 Achievements offers a sizable reward -- 100 Gamerscore -- fo...
| Samit Sarkar |
Last week's Boomshine game did a phenomenal job at keeping things as simple as possible while still being thoroughly enjoyable. This week's game does a great job of taking a similarly simple concept, but instead making it mor...
| Tom Fronczak |
Mass Effect 2 is almost a month from retail release. If I put on my space visor and squeeze my eyes shut real tight, then I can totally see the box in my hands. As a bonus I suppose, I can also see vibrant stars and neon-blue...
| Brad Nicholson |
Xbox 360 Achievements has gotten its hands on the achievement list for the Xbox 360 version of BioShock 2, and well...they look a bit familiar. Sure, there are a slew of "secret achievements" that are tied to BioShock 2...
| Nick Chester |
A new update (noticed by GTA4.Net) for Grand Theft Auto IV on PC all but confirms "The Lost and Damned" add-on will one day be heading beyond the Xbox 360's exclusivity. The patch added Achievements for the first of, uh, two ...
| Jordan Devore |
If for whatever reason hours worth of new single-player gameplay and multiplayer additions won't do it for you, Rockstar's added a bit more to Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony -- all new Achievements. Rockstar ha...
| Nick Chester |
Two separate sites are reporting that they have uncovered the Achievements and Trophies for Assassin's Creed 2 and they are all achievable. They also give you gamer cred or whatever and there's probably a few plays on words i...
| Matthew Razak |
The Achievement list for Valve's zombie-braining sequel Left 4 Dead 2 has been revealed, bringing with it verification of the yet-to-be-official campaigns, Hard Rain and Dead Center. The Achievements also make mention of bran...
| Jim Sterling |
Remember grabbing a copy of NBA 2K6 to tack a painless and extra 1,000 Gamer Points to your overall Gamer Score? You aren’t that weird for doing it. According to Randy Pitchford, significant amounts of people are buying...
| Brad Nicholson |
The release of Rockstar's much-discussed Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony is coming up this month, and naturally there are achievements for it, as one would expect. If you'd like to see what they are, you can do so...
| Colette Bennett |
I'm well aware that this is actually not news, in fact you might even go as far as to say it is anti-news. If this post and a real news post touched the world might end. However, every Sunday at the Razak domicile is Hammer T...
| Matthew Razak |
The Achievement/Trophy list for Double Fine's Brutal Legend hit our inbox today, and they're pretty much what you'd expect. Plenty of nods and references to heavy metal music, and general rocking the hell out. Of n...
| Nick Chester |
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