As of this 16th day of August, your favorite mod is officially seventeen.

I made it to level 30 in lone wolves.

I don’t know if you’ve played Soul Calibur IV yet, or if maybe you’ve seen the latest Achievement Hunter walkthrough, but let’s just say that there are assets in the game that are a little…ridiculous.

I know I’m 3 days late but I finally noticed the epic win sauce that recently ‘leaked’ on to the interwebz!http://www.bungie.net/News/Blog.aspx?mode=news#cid15149

Hey guys, I know there is a lot of negativity towards “beat a developer” type achievements, but here is your opportunity to get exactly one of those this weekend.

The “EA Moderator” achievement in Need For Speed Prostreet is up for grabs this weekend. I just got word from one of my EA contacts that you’ll find pretty much all your information in order to get this achievement right here. So, go check it out and report back here if you managed to knock down one of those pesky Moderators and grab your 25 gamerscore. Good luck and make Achievement Hunter proud!

On this 16th day of August, your favorite admin has turned seventeen.

It’s a barren wasteland. Or is it?

Today’s comic comes in response to the recent announcement regarding the future of Geometry Wars as a franchise. I won’t link it here, because then you’d read the link, and the comic would be kind of spoiled for you – and that’s not fair to you dammit. Also, Luke whipped up a fancy wallpaper for you guys too. Here’s non-wide screen, and much cooler wide screen version.

I recently had the honor of traveling to that big chunk of country north of the U.S.A. called Canada to check out EA Black Box’s new Need for Speed title coming out later this year.

Need for Speed: Undercover will be hitting next-gen systems with some improvements that gamers have been clamoring for, but I’m not here to talk about that. I’m here to talk about smokin’ hottie Maggie Q. (Click on picture to embiggen.)

Maggie has been tapped (tee-hee) to star in full-motion video sequences of Need for Speed Undercover. In the game, your character acts as an undercover officer trying to infiltrate the world of illegal street racing and take down an international crime syndicate. (How come all international crime syndicates also illegally race cars? Isn’t that sort of a red flag?)

Maggie acts as your only liaison to the outside world. The only person who knows your true secret. She, like, totally gets you, man. You’ll be running from the cops and nefarious gangsters as the story progresses. I guess there are a lot of less attractive people who could be helping you, glad to see they picked Ms. Q.

It is evident in the full-motion footage that I caught that Black Box is going for broke in this game. The FMV sequences are being directed by Joseph Hodges and being shot in Los Angeles. Real Hollywood actors for a real Hollywood “feel.” (Is real Hollywood an oxymoron?)

The majority of racers out there come with 0% plot, of course, sometimes plot really doesn’t matter (Burnout Paradise, for example) but I think the story behind NFS Undercover could be the key to the game’s success. (And Maggie Q breaks are good for the soul.)

It’s really good to see game companies going to the people who excel at story and production value to produce the plot behind their games. It’s steps like this that will drive the truly next-gen games forward. I mean, look how far we’ve come since Night Trap.

I’ve got some more info on NFS Undercover, but I’m under embargo until the 20th, so check back then for more information on the game. Also, keep your eyes peeled for some information on the achievements in the game, I’ve spoken with some of their top guys to get some cool stuff locked down for you guys. Check back soon for more.

Yes, that is two Sega CD references in a week.

Time for our third weekly update! Third time is the charm.

So today we have two neat things for you guys. Would you like to know what they are? That’s handy, because I was just about to tell you.

1. The Blog

We’ve updated our home page yet again (when haven’t we, that’s the real question) to add a new feature: The Blog. This is a brand new section of the website that aggregates journals from all of the staff members into one awesome read.

The idea for this stemmed from the original Red vs. Blue website homepage, that did act as more as a blog. However in the new days, when journals came about, the home page kind of lost the wacky fun that we would write about. No more!

You can even add the blog to your watchlist if you like, so you can get alerted any time a staff member posts a journal in the site header, so you’ll be alerted much faster than the regular watch method.


2. Moderator Nominations

This one’s more of a big deal. Our forums are in desperate need of some new staffing. Watching a TV show this week made me realise just how understaffed we are (not really, but that would have been a great epiphany).

We’re holding nominations for users who you think would be great moderators in specific forums only. For example, I could nominate Geoff as a moderator for the Television forum, and that would be his territory. However, I would never nominate Geoff, because he’s useless.

Go ahead and start voting. The deadline is Thursday at 11am Central. Wow, I feel like Ryan Seacrest already.

Happy Friday Everyone,
I’ve been looking around the internet lately (as I’m prone to do), and there seems to be a lot of confusion over the “Scorpion’s Sting” Achievement in Soul Calibur IV. Well not any more. I went ahead and threw this little walkthrough together to show you just how easy it actually is to get.

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