Neowin News Feed for: Achievements

Ubisoft updates Watch Dogs 1 and 2 to add Steam Achievements

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:24:01 +0000

Following Assassin's Creed and Ghost Recon, the Watch Dogs games have become the latest series of Ubisoft to receive an update on Steam with official achievement support. Read more...

Ubisoft stealthily adds Steam achievements to Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:08:01 +0000

The two most recently released entries in the Ghost Recon franchise now touts Steam achievement support following a quiet update from Ubisoft. Read more...

Ubisoft quietly adds Steam achievements to Assassin's Creed Black Flag and Unity

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:46:01 +0000

The now decade-old Assassin's Creed Unity and Black Flag games have suddenly been updated on Steam to receive achievement support. Read more...

Anno 1800 quietly receives Steam achievements, sparks fan hopes for other Ubisoft games

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:02:01 +0000

Steam achievements have been enabled for the city building and management game Anno 1800. The change arrived without any announcements, and it's unclear if other Ubisoft games will follow suit. Read more...

Instagram releases in-app post scheduler for creators and businesses

Justin Luna — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 09:26:02 +0000

Instagram now supports scheduling of posts and Reels within the app itself, eliminating the need to use third-party software. The platform will now also reward creators for using the app more often. Read more...

Epic Games Store achievement support begins rolling out next week

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:52:01 +0000

The Epic Games Store is gaining fully integrated achievement support and tools for developers to add the feature to their games. The initial rollout will contain Hades, Kena, Rocket League, and more. Read more...

Gears Tactics for Xbox consoles goes gold, gets new achievements

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:36:01 +0000

Set for a November 10 release for Xbox consoles, the latest entry in the Gears of War series has now gone gold, bringing a new list of achievements worth a Gamerscore of 400, and more. Read more...

Many EA games on Steam gain achievements, also syncs with Origin versions

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:02:01 +0000

Electronic Arts has pushed out achievements support for its games that it brought over to the Steam platform recently. Completed Origin achievements will also sync with the Steam version. Read more...

Epic Games Store is testing mod support for games, starting with Mechwarrior 5

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:52:01 +0000

Epic Games has updated its store to offer official modding support for games. The first title to receive the feature is Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries, with support for more games coming soon. Read more...

Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

João Carrasqueira — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:24:01 +0000

Google is slowly expanding the feature set of its Stadia service, and today, it announced that users can now see their achievements on the web, and achievement notifications will start showing up. Read more...

Gears 5 goes gold, full achievement list unveiled

Hamza Jawad — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:10:01 +0000

Microsoft and The Coalition announced that Gears 5 has now gone gold, ahead of its gamescom appearance. The full achievement list for the title has also been released in celebration of the milestone. Read more...

You can now earn money for unlocking trophies on PlayStation

Dreyer Smit — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:54:01 +0000

For many years gamers had spent days on end trying to unlock elusive trophies and achievements without gaining anything more than a virtual high-five, but this is about to change thanks to Sony. Read more...

Microsoft celebrates 2016 Xbox achievements; makes promises for 2017

Gabriel Nunes — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:00:01 +0000

Team Xbox celebrates "a Milestone Year in 2016" highlighting the main improvements made to the platform. With excitement, promises 2017 will be a special year for Xbox gamers. Read more...

Stealth Inc 2 sneaks on to the Windows 10 Store with Xbox branding

Usama Jawad — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:28:01 +0000

Stealth Inc 2, a 2D puzzle platform game bu Curve Digital has made its way to the Windows 10 Store. It carries a $9.99 price tag and numerous Xbox achievements, however, it lacks a trial mode. Read more...

Microsoft is bringing Xbox achievements to Minecraft on Windows 10

Andy Weir — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:12:01 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed that it is bringing Xbox achievements to Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition - a new version of the popular game designed for the company's new OS, which launches next week. Read more...

Microsoft unlocks achievements with Windows 10 build 10056

Brad Sams — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:04:01 +0000

In the latest leaked build of Windows 10, Microsoft has turned on achievements, a gamification technique that was made popular with the Xbox gaming platform and appears to be coming to the desktop. Read more...

Microsoft set to release a massive Xbox.com update with new profiles

Brad Sams — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:05:21 +0000

Next week, Microsoft will update Xbox.com to support a new profile feature that allows you to view your achievements and saved game clips, and a bunch more features will be included too. Read more...

Next Xbox One update brings improved Achievements

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:54:28 +0000

Microsoft has announced a new update coming to Xbox One later this year. Among the new features included is a much improved Achievements app as well as other unannounced improvements. Read more...

E3 2013: Microsoft on Xbox One's new achievement system

John Callaham — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:04:22 +0000

Microsoft has officially revealed that the Xbox One achievement system will expand to include new challenges but only achievements in games will add to a user's Gamerscore. Read more...

Wordament becomes first web browser game with Xbox Live Achievements

John Callaham — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:30:00 +0000

The game Wordament, which debuted on Windows Phone and has since moved to Windows 8 and iOS, has now launched a web browser version that's also the first browser game to support Xbox Live Achievements Read more...

Halo 4 achievements list revealed in full

Andy Weir — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:38:15 +0000

With just over two months to go before we can finally get our grubby paws on Halo 4, 343 Industries has published a complete list of the in-game achievements that players will be striving to complete. Read more...

Microsoft hints at rewards for Xbox Live Achievements

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:54:43 +0000

Microsoft has hinted that starting this fall, Xbox 360 gamers will be able to get special rewards if those players obtain certain Xbox Live Achievements in their games. Read more...

Visual Studio adds Windows Azure achievements

John Callaham — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:53:38 +0000

Microsoft has added more achievements for developers to unlock while using its Visual Studio tool application, specifically for Windows Azure programming support. Read more...

Microsoft's Visual Studio now has Achievements

Paul Ferson — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:15:16 +0000

In a rather inventive move, a group of coders have added Achievements to Microsoft's Visual Studio application in order to draw more attention to its feature-set. Read more...

Four billion hours worth of Xbox LIVE gaming achieved

Byron Hinson — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:39:20 +0000

Microsoft has released the latest batch of Xbox LIVE statistics, which show just how popular the service has become since its conception over eight years ago. According to Kotaku, it seems that on average more than... Read more...

No Achievements for Xbox Originals

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:25:55 +0000

Major Nelson has answered a pressing question regarding the recent Xbox Originals announcement. He has stamped out all hope that the games will have additional functionality like Achievements and Gamer score, first playing the "we... Read more...

Xbox Live Members Earn Rewards for Achievements

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:46:49 +0000

As just announced on GameInformer, we're launching a program in the US to reward Xbox Live members who increase their gamerscore, beginning Feb. 12. We're partnering with Old Spice to give away prizes valued... Read more...

Microsoft sets new guideline for gamerscore and achievements

Todd Tanner — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:07:02 +0000

With the ever increasing craze and excitement around Gamerscore and Achievements, we have recently worked with our publishing partners to implement some new policies for new games coming out. Here are the basic rules:... Read more...