Microsoft today announced that downloadable games on its popular Xbox Live Arcade service will soon be able to offer more Achievement Points—those cross-game digital accomplishment trackers that are ...

In 2005 the marketing folks at Microsoft had a brainstorm. The Xbox 360 console had just been released and, to sell more games, they decided they would start doling out "achievement points." Play ...

Stardock CEO Brad Wardell believes that while achievement point systems in games, or on game platforms have been successful, there's still a lot more to come. Speaking at a demonstration of the ...

The idea of achievements is kind of an odd one when you take a step back and look at it: you get points for fulfilling certain requirements in games, and those points all add up to one meta ...

World of Warcraft certainly has a dizzying array of achievements in all shapes and sizes, covering quests, raids, and PvP. But some of the best achievements are the ones shuffled innocently away in ...

Never let a Guild Wars 2 player be called an underachiever. They take achievements in their PvE, their PvP, their WvW and probably their breakfast cereal. And with their achievements they acquire ...

Source: Xbox fan site Unscripted 360, which picked up on a "partially torn document." The official story: Microsoft rep--"We have nothing to say about these rumors or speculation." What we heard: One ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Let me start by saying that I realize I'm crazy. The obvious response to anyone ever talking about Achievements is "Why do you care? They're not worth ...

Contrarian Corner is a new feature on Insider meant to take a more critical look at some recently-released games. The average review tends to treat a game as an objective product, evaluating its ...

I bought my Xbox 360 in late 2007, during a murky period between quitting a bad retail job and starting another bad retail job, and a week before I received my first paid games journalism commission.

If a recent update to the achievement list - discovered by Xbox 360 Achievements - for Marble Blast Ultra is to be believed, new content is heading to the popular XBLA title. One of the original Xbox ...