Taking the notion of institutionalised rewards maybe a little bit too far, Microsoft has begun awarding achievements…
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…

There's an Xbox 360 Achievement (and PlayStation 3 Trophy) in Batman: Arkham City called "Storyteller". The…
Shinobi isn't just a wonderful throw-back to the classic, painfully hard Shinobi of the 80s, it's also a game with…
We already know that the next Elder Scrolls game's going to suck up a bunch of your time. Days, weeks, maybe even…
To get the hardest achievement on the Xbox 360, Marcus Fenix had to do more than just kill a few Locust. He had to…
Crack achievement investigators Xbox360Achievements.org are back in action, and they've sleuthed out the 50…
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…

More than a year after this Madden fan's near-religious experience [NSFW language], Green Bay's Greg…
"Shangri-La" is the new zombies map in Call of Duty: Black Ops, and it is far from paradise, as that anthropomorphic…
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…
Minecraft updates to beta 1.5 today, adding achievements, weather effects, and various other improvements to…

Minecraft's next title update (1.5) will deliver a host of new features, among them an achievement system, a…

Minecraft's creator revealed on Friday that he's working on an achievement system for the PC gaming obsession. He…
Today in a very special episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenterQuiddity looks back on the achievements he would…
Achievements. Almost every major platform has them now in some shape or form, but they started on the Xbox 360 back…
Noting that a lot of people dislike achievements, Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson says he's still a fan of…
In today's Speak-Up on Kotaku, KillerIri5h notices a strong correlation between how much a player enjoys a game and…
"We're not opposed to Achievements," Nintendo's Bill Trinen told me earlier this week, even as he confirmed that his…
Valve has updated Left 4 Dead for the Xbox 360, matching the patch the PC version received last October. The better…