
Richard Worrall writes:
"It's not that achievements have no place in our games. Encouraging thorough and repeated play whilst fostering competition with your friends; these things are for the good. However, it is worth considering when and why they stop encouraging a second play-through and rather begin to sully the first. Does the problem lie with inappropriately conceived achievements, or is it simply the unavoidable curse of the achievement whore?"

It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.

Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.

A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.