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  2. Achievement (video games) - Wikipedia

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    The idea for game achievements can be traced back to 1982, with Activision's patches for high scores. [8] [9] This was a system by which game manuals instructed players to achieve a particular high score, take a photo of score display on the television, and send in the photo to receive a physical, iron-on style patch in a fashion somewhat similar to the earning of a Scout badge.

  3. TrueAchievements - Wikipedia

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    TrueAchievements was designed and programmed by Richard Stone, and launched in March 2008. It was conceptualized when Richard Stone determined that the current GamerScore system devised by Microsoft was inherently unbalanced; it would sometimes appear to offer only a few points for difficult tasks in-game, and many points for somewhat trivial tasks in-game.

  4. List of backward-compatible games for Xbox One and Series X/S

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    The functionality is similar to that for back-compatibility with Xbox 360 games. Users insert the Xbox game disc into their Xbox One console to install the compatible version of the game. [21] While players are not able to access any old game saves or connect to Xbox Live on these titles, system link functions will remain available. [22]

  5. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    [304] [312] [313] Versions of Steam working under Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux were released by October 2013. [314] There were over 500 Linux-compatible games on Steam in June 2014, [315] and in February 2019, Steam for Linux had 5,800 native games and was described as having "the power to keep Linux [gaming] alive" by Engadget. [316]

  6. Xbox Live Indie Games - Wikipedia

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    XBLIG titles lack some of the features found in XBLA games. XBLIG games do not have achievements or leaderboards, nor are they listed on a player's "Gamer Card". [16] However, such games can be integrated with other parts of the Xbox Live Experience, including using multiplayer support, game invitations, and game information on friend lists. [18]

  7. Xbox network - Wikipedia

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    "Xbox Rewards" was a promotion designed to provide gamers incentives to play on the Xbox network by subsidizing achievement points earned with actual rewards. Gamers were required to register for specific challenges which, if successfully completed, would yield a challenge-specific reward.

  8. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    Not to be confused with Team Ace. [7] achievement. Also badge, trophy, medal, cheevo. Meta-goals defined outside a game's parameters. May be external achievements such as those on Xbox Live or Steam, internal achievements such as those in Clash of Clans, or both. achievement hunter A player who attempts to collect all achievements in a game.

  9. List of video games that support cross-platform play - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, those that are only limited to Windows can work with Wine, or Proton on Linux or MacOS to have multiplayer working on their respective platform. Steam has support for them in use like the Steam Deck but it could be considered not cross-platform as those are only compatibility layers from Windows except certain games with Anti-Cheat ...