Coolest Achievement Ever
Gotta give full props to Joystiq for picking up on this, but it's pretty cool:
"Gastronaut, the studio behind the upcoming XBLA game, Small Arms, have created the first viral achievement. Four of Gastronaut's employees will start being the only ones with the achievement. Anybody who plays against one of these four will get the achievement. In turn, anybody who plays against those people will get the achievement and so on and so forth until the whole world is...er...infected with success."
I wonder how long it'll be before Sony and Nintendo come up with their own versions of achievements? There were some rumors a while back that Sony was looking at doing "accomplishments," but that they got cut on the rush to launch their online service. I have to think that in a world where the majority of titles will be available across multiple platforms (and features and capabilities of those platforms being roughly equal), it just doesn't make sense for those guys to not have their own answer for achievements.
Prediction: we'll see announcements from at least one of these guys (my guess is Sony) before next E3 around an achievement clone. Time to go lock up those "ps3accomplishments.com" domains! ;)
Edit: Never mind - looks like someone already grabbed the domain and has it parked. ;)