Alan and Craig unlock the mysteries of achievements. It's mainly monkey brains and a music montage

00:28 Guitar Hero is put out to pasture

01:48 Google's definition of Achievements and the Fall of Man

02:45 Achievements as little challenges and not so little highscores

04:28 The highest achievement score in the world: 535,648G (Stallion83)

07:09 Achievements are everywhere. Some of them even have their own blogs: 360voice.com

08:21 Have achievements killed off cheats?: AchievementHunter.com

10:51 All achievements are not born equal: TrueAchievements.com

12:32 Why achievements work: All we have is monkey brains

15:59 How achievements help us

17:12 How achievements hurt us

19:55 The worst achievements

22:00 The best worst achievements of all time

24:50 Hi I'm Craig and I have a problem

26:03 Fast-talking music montage! If Old Games Had Achievements

28:56 Our most proud achievements

31:25 Outro: Send us suggestions at [email protected] and leave us an iTunes review!

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