Xbox Achievements Getting New Features and Options

Microsoft is rolling retired improvements and updates to its pioneering Achievements strategy for Xbox, adding things similar updated icons and animations, the quality to item your 100%-completed games, and the enactment to fell games from your database of Achievements. These changes are disposable to inner-ring Insiders today, and they'll rotation retired wider to different Insider groups and past everyone other successful the coming weeks and months.

Classic oregon uncommon Achievement unlocks volition present trigger caller icons and animations, with those notifications present matching your selected customized UI color. Meanwhile, aboriginal this period you'll summation the quality to fell immoderate crippled from your Achievement past from your profile. So, for instance, if you consciousness retroactive shame astir farming each 1,000 Achievement points successful nether 5 minutes connected the notoriously easy-Achievement Xbox 360 crippled Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Burning Earth, you tin present hide that shame. I whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium talking to myself here...

New Achievement icons for classical and uncommon Xbox Achievements.

Conversely, you tin besides present item the games you've earned 100% of Achievements for, truthful if you're, say, ace arrogant of putting successful the clip with each the guild questlines to get each 1,000 points successful the basal mentation of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (sorry, I'm talking to myself again), you tin bash that.

The Achievement strategy debuted erstwhile the Xbox 360 launched successful 2005 and was aboriginal copied by conscionable astir each different video crippled level maker, from PlayStation to Steam. We'll speech much astir this and everything other happening successful the satellite of Xbox connected Podcast Unlocked, IGN's play Xbox amusement that drops caller episodes each Thursday.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's enforcement exertion of previews and big of some IGN's play Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, arsenic good arsenic our semi-retired interrogation show, IGN Unfiltered. He's a North Jersey guy, truthful it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him connected Twitter astatine @DMC_Ryan.