When Blizzard announced the existence of Achievements in the upcoming World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion, many gamers wondered what it all meant. Today we have the answer, as Blizzard has announced that it will be creating Achievements for all its titles, which will translate over into a "Blizzard Level" across all games created by the developer.

Jeff Kaplan, lead designer on WoW, has the lowdown on how the new system will work:

"Eventually, our plans are for the Achievement system to become an account-based system. It’s basically a gamerscore... For now the points are just a WoW character score. As we graduate to that Blizzard Account system, which is right on the horizon, it will switch over to a Blizzard Level.

"Your WoW score would be just one factor that will go into your Blizzard Level. And rather than call it a ’score,’ we just wanted it to be like you’re leveling up on Blizzard games... You’ll have this Blizzard identity, and you’ll be able to see things like ’Oh, this guy was great at Diablo 3, but he never played Starcraft and he was mediocre in WoW.’ That sort of thing."

So just in case all your gaming hours already haven’t been sucked up grabbing Xbox 360 Achievements and PS3 Trophies, here’s yet another creation that can help you take your OCD to the next level. Of course, the points are all still meaningless, but that’s never stopped you before, so why should it slow you down now?