Month: May 2010
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AH: 100K Club's Newest Addition
That’s right, another member of the Achievement Hunter community has reached this gigantic milestone in Gamerscore. avoid029 crossed the 100,000 mark playing the epic role-playing shooter Borderlands. Congratulations! On a Gamerscore related topic, Achievement Challenge 12 is now under way. Who will gain the most Gamerscore in a week? Find out next Friday!
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AH: The Most Evil Achievement Ever
So…this is probably the darkest achievement I’ve ever gotten. It’s in Red Dead…and it involves killing a poor woman. Enjoy, you sickos.
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Overlook, Overall
HaLo2FrEeEk has spherized the final Halo: Reach Beta map, Overlook – the scrollable version is spectacular, though the sphere itself might not do the beauty of Overlook justice. There are plenty of options, though – so go see!(Louis Wu 15:57:55 UTC)
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AH: Split/Second: Beat The Team & Beat The Team II Guides
Sup everybody, I’ve got two more Split/Second videos for you, the first of which is Beat the Team, which requires you to be hella fast on Construction Site in Detonator. The second one is for Beat the Team II: The Revenge, and requires you to be hella wella fast at Power Plant in Detonator. Buckle…
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AH: 100K Club's Newest Addition
That’s right, another member of the Achievement Hunter community has reached this gigantic milestone in Gamerscore. avoid029 crossed the 100,000 mark playing the epic role-playing shooter Borderlands. Congratulations! On a Gamerscore related topic, Achievement Challenge 12 is now under way. Who will gein the most Gamerscore in a week? Find out next Friday!
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Reach Beta Impressions, from CinemaBlend
CinemaBlend has posted some Reach Beta Impressions – they’re noteworthy simply because they’re positive, from a site that rarely, if ever, has anything nice to say about the Halo franchise. (The article was written by a new games writer, so that might have something to do with it…) Give it a read!(Louis Wu 13:32:58 UTC)
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Halo: Reach Beta Fails
Chris10023 sent word of a special episode of Halo 3 Fails – this one’s entitled ‘Halo Reach Fails’ and contains (surprise!) head-slapping moments from the Beta. I think every clip includes me…(Louis Wu 13:20:13 UTC)
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Hedgemony Loves Halo
A few days ago, we mentioned that Hedgemony was offering to photo-manipulate your Reach screenshot to make a cool Beta keepsake; a LOT of people took him up on it. His Tumblr collection now has 79 images in it – and some of them are EPIC. Go look!(Louis Wu 13:19:43 UTC)
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IGN’s Top 100 Videogame Villains
IGN posted a list of their Top 100 Videogame Villains – Halo characters make the list 3 separate times. (If you don’t feel like paging through the entire collection, Morpheus has posted the direct links to each Halo-related page.) (Louis Wu 13:19:08 UTC)
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Evolution of a Spartan
TDSpiral was working on a Master Chief/Spartan sketch – kept going back to it. Finally posted a series of sketches – interesting development! (Louis Wu 13:18:04 UTC)
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Fire Team Zulu Commences
FyreWulff is back with a new pair of challenges – Firefight Friday is no more, go check out Fire Team Zulu. There are two options today – Postdelta Syndrome is a Firefight Challenge on Crater (two difficulties available), while 1800CALLBUCK is a Campaign Challenge on Tayari Plaza (also two difficulties). Go play! (Louis Wu 13:16:47…
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Friday’s Fan Fiction
Only one new piece for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – there HAD been three, but two didn’t make the (pretty low) minimum quality bar. If you’re submitting content, please – be sure to read the submission guidelines first. Thanks!(Louis Wu 13:15:16 UTC)
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Phasing Over
Marcus put up a post on the Bungie Developer Blog yesterday – this is the last week of ‘content polishing’, now they’re entering a hardcore bug-squashing phase. They’re working hard to make sure Reach is everything we want it to be, come fall!(Louis Wu 13:14:29 UTC)
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AH: The Future
We’ve done it. We’ve reached the pinnacle of video games. Today I played horseshoes in Red Dead Redemption…and got an achievement for it. Enjoy.
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AH: Alan Wake drinks too much coffee!
Man I wonder if Alan Wake has a problem. Maybe we can help him by watching this video about collecting the first 25 in his game!
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AH: Alan Wake: 100% Collectible Guide – Episode Two
Here’s our guide to getting all of the collectibles in Episode Two of Alan Wake. Keep checking back for more videos in Alan Wake, as well as guides to Red Dead Redemption, Split/Second, and Prince of Persia. It’s a busy week.
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AH: Split/Second: Rigged to Blow Guide
Sup everybody, the guide for Rigged to Blow for Split/Second is available for your viewing pleasure. It covers 7 Achievements unlocked over the course of the “episode”, two of which are Secret. In case you were wondering, they are: Split/Second (Secret) Qualifier Eliminator Winner Bully (Secret) Right On Track The Time Is Right
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AH: Stranger Danger
Things are gettin’ a bit restless in the wild, wild West. Why don’t ya hunker down and watch this fancy internet video showin’ off the “Strange Things are Afoot” achievement in Red Dead. Tell ’em Jack sent ya.
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RT: Enter the Jack
I don’t know if you listen to the podcast regularly, but if you do, you probably know that Jack has had a string of bad luck lately (and by lately, I mean pretty much his entire sad life).