Yup, and the jokes about Couch Scouts are already flying on some news sites.
There is something oddly appropriate about this, though, given how much games have been inspired by the “achievements system” that Scouts have used for a century.
The requirements have a lot more to do with education than anything else, though. Only one of the five requirements for the academics pin involves actually playing. The others have to do with things like comparison shopping, hardware setup, evaluating the game rating system, and teaching people. The actual descriptions:
