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Microsoft Now Has Achievements For…Developers

7:00PM January 19, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

Taking the notion of institutionalised rewards maybe a little bit too far, Microsoft has begun awarding achievements to developers. More »

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This Guy Cheated To Get An Achievement (But He Did It In Style)

4:00PM October 25, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

There’s an achievement you can get in Gears of War 3 that can be earned by playing a piano 2000 times. That’s a lot of button pressing, so LEGO builder Guy Himber set to work on a less strenuous solution. More »

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How To Get Arkham City’s One-Year Calendar Man Achievement In One Hour

6:00AM October 20, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

There’s an Xbox 360 Achievement (and PlayStation 3 Trophy) in Batman: Arkham City called “Storyteller”. The description: “Have 12 murderous dates with Calendar Man.” To earn it, you have to talk to the incarcerated villain on 12 holidays, from New Year’s to Christmas. More »

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These Are Real Achievements: Not In The Face, Quit Poking Me

1:40AM October 13, 2011 | Brian Crecente

Shinobi isn’t just a wonderful throw-back to the classic, painfully hard Shinobi of the ’80s, it’s also a game with a surprisingly long, surprisingly humorous list of achievements. More »

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How To Speak Dragon: Here Are Your Skyrim Achievements

4:00AM October 6, 2011 | Evan Narcisse

We already know that the next Elder Scrolls game’s going to suck up a bunch of your time. Days, weeks, maybe even months, depending on how you play. But how much is it going spit out in sweet, sweet Achievements? More »

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The Toughest Xbox 360 Achievement You Can Get?

3:00AM October 1, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

To get the hardest achievement on the Xbox 360, Marcus Fenix had to do more than just kill a few Locust. He had to get his hands dirty. He had to put in some time. More »

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Batman Achievements Confirm New Game-Plus In Arkham City

7:00AM September 4, 2011 | Owen Good

Crack achievement investigators Xbox360Achievements.org are back in action, and they’ve sleuthed out the 50 Achievement/1000 Gamerscore set for Batman: Arkham City. More »

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Achievement List Hints At New Features In NBA 2K12

6:00AM August 29, 2011 | Owen Good

In my preview on Wednesday all I got to look at was “NBA’s Greatest” and the play-now mode of NBA 2K12. So I can’t tell you anything about an “Online Association” mode, other than the fact the game’s achievement list hints it will have one. More »

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Annihilation Map Adds Five More Achievements To Black Ops

1:00PM June 24, 2011 | Owen Good

“Shangri-La” is the new zombies map in Call of Duty: Black Ops, and it is far from paradise, as that anthropomorphic s’more (above) will attest. Available in Annihilation, releasing next Tuesday for Xbox 360, it offers five more achievements worth a cool 150 Gamerscore. They are: More »

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50% Of Portal 2 Players On Steam Haven’t Finished The Game

1:00AM April 29, 2011 | Mike Epstein

So much for Portal 2 being too short. Fans of Portal 2 may be surprised to learn that a lot of people who own the game aren’t playing it very much. More »