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The game detects a player's achievement progress and shows some form of progress indicator on-screen.
Ad-chievements are achievements based on in-game product placements. They can be either advertisements in the actual achievements (like the "Ridiculously Long Lasting" achievement in Shaun White Skateboarding) or achievement earned doing something with in-game product placement (like the "Boob Tube" achievement in Alan Wake.)
Characters either begin with multiple outfits, unlock them through play, or purchase them as in-game items. These costumes are sometimes integral to play.
Apple's Game Center service brings matchmaking, achievements, and friend lists to games that choose to support it.
Arcade NEXT is an Xbox Live Marketplace promotion featuring four XBLA titles that are the first to feature a new maximum limit of achievements.
Avatar Awards are items or clothing that are unlocked for Xbox Live avatars by completing certain tasks within the game.
Avatar FameStar is a Microsoft Studios program that allows for cross-game challenges in supported Avatar games for the Xbox 360 (via Xbox Live Arcade), rewarding players with special "Fame" points (for a cross-game leaderboard) and unlockable Avatar apparel for supported games.
Launched by Blizzard in 1997, this service provides a solid online foundation to Blizzard's franchises such as the Diablo, StarCraft and WarCraft series. As a constantly evolving service, a new version, Battle.net 2.0, was released in 2010 with the release of Starcraft 2.
Block Party, or House Party in EU, is a Spring-based promotional event in which a series of Xbox Live Arcade games are released once a week in March 2010.
Caravan is a card game in Fallout: New Vegas.
Special codes or button combinations used to gain powers or advantages in a game. Generally hidden.
Games with achievements for failing. For the purpose of this concept, any kind of 'achievement' is acceptable - this includes trophies or in-game accomplishments.
An achievement that is unlocked for completing a game on a certain difficulty level, sometimes granting the achievements for all lower difficulties, and sometimes not.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
Some games feature a system where a character near death can be dazed into a 'down but not out' state; while their allies can often revive them if they reach the downed character quickly enough, their enemies can perform special, frequently gruesome, execution attacks against such characters.
This is an external application usually officially packaged with preorders or as a demo to promote soon-to-be-released games.
Microsoft's PC branch of its Live service. Lends the same functionality as Xbox Live Gold to Games For Windows games including cross-platform compatibility for achievements, friends & messages, downloadable content, and in some cases, multiplayer.
Gnomes are a race of mythological creatures, which are usually much smaller versions of humans.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
Google Play game services is a collection of gaming services for Android, iOS and the web. Features include achievements and multiplayer matchmaking.
Halo Waypoint is a downloadable application for the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 that serves as a hub for both information about the Halo series and the "Halo career" of players.
Game content that can only be accessed by, or after, playing on the hardest possible difficulty.
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
House Party 2011 is a promotion during which five Xbox Live Arcade games will be released between February 16 and March 16.
House Party 2012 is a promotional event where four Xbox Live Arcade games will be released starting February 15.
A list of games that have their own in-game graphical achievement menu. Used for showing current progress towards achievements or trophies.
Kinect PlayFit is an application for Xbox 360 that aggregates activity from specific Kinect titles to offer leaderboards, Achievements and stats.
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
Small achievements awarded within multiplayer games during match progress, Sometimes accompanied by an in-game announcer callout. Usually awarded with kill streaks, multi-kills, objective modes, etc and are sometimes compiled into a "Medal Chest" which archives awarded medals and how many times they have been awarded.
My Lego Network (or MLN for short) was a Adobe Flash and ASP.NET-based childrens' social networking site built especially for LEGO fans by the LEGO Group. It integrated standard social networking with a gaming function, where players can advance through the Ranks and exchange virtual prizes. It also had achievements related to site use, events and LEGO Universe as well as some other game connectivity.
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