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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Achievement Hunter: How you can help!


    Alright folks, Achievement Hunter has been up for a couple of weeks now, and as you’ve seen, the site is growing daily. We’ve already added a ton of stuff compared to what we had at launch, and we’re still working on getting even more functionality crammed in to this badass little place on the web I call home.

    You might be asking yourself, “How can I help Achievement Hunter?” Awesome question. There are a couple of things you can do.

    1. Create walkthroughs! Feel free to create video walkthroughs or text walkthroughs. We are working on a way for you to upload video to our site, but until then, you can upload them to YouTube or some other site and post a link in the forum for the game you have done a walkthrough on. If you e-mail us letting us know about your link, we can even embed it in the forum thread for you. Awesome! Also, if you spent a lot of time working on a walkthrough, let us know, we’ll try to recognize badass users as they submit more walkthroughs.

    2. Submit news stories! Another piece of functionality we are working on is the ability for users to submit news stories to the site. Until then though, if you run across a bit of awesome news that you think would be great for Achievement Hunter, e-mail us your tips at Info@AchievementHunter.com. We’ll take a look at your info and could possibly use it in a front page post! Obviously, the better worded your email, the more likely it would show up posted in the news. Even if you just have a tip to share, feel free to drop us a line and we’ll investigate further.

    3. Send us Secret Achievement tiles! The more you look around the site, the more you might notice achievement icons that look like this:





    That is because that is a tile for a secret achievement, and we have yet to get a hold of the actual tile from Xbox.com. Here’s where you come in. If you spot a secret achievement tile that we don’t have on Achievement Hunter yet, send us an e-mail with the URL of the icon, the name of the game it is from and the achievement name, and we’ll drop it in to our enormous database of awesomeness. Please though, only submit tiles from Xbox.com.

    4. Get a job at a game company and send us achievement lists early! Okay, this one may be a bit of a stretch, but if you are out there working for a game company, drop us a line and we can work to get your achievements up on our site. We are still a very young site, so we don’t know yet what we aren’t capable of, so we’ll try anything! Marketing folks for major publishers, get a hold of us, we are open for all kinds of contests/giveaways and other awesomeness for our incredible community of users. They love free shit and we love giving it to them.

    5. Sign-up, use the site! Obviously, if you don’t have an account already, you should sign up for one. It is free and you will be connected to the family of Rooster Teeth sites that already exist. You can then do stuff like add games to your “I’m Playing” list so they’ll pop up right at the top of your page for quick access to achievement lists and walkthroughs.

    So there you have it, a few things that you can do to help out Achievement Hunter. So far everyone has been excellent and we’ve had nothing but positive feedback from all of you. Thank you for that. Expect tons of more original stuff from us, from Forced Enjoyment to Petchievements to Bikinichievements (hopefully?) to Achievement Hunter TV and more and more walkthroughs. We do this because we love it. Except for Geoff. He lost a bet.

    And he has lots and lots of crabs.


  • Halo 3 Academy’s Second Week on Bungie Favorites

    In German this is called week “Zwei” of the Halo 3 Academy’s stint on Bungie Favorites. A quick Q&A with these folks awaits you.

  • Halo 3 Hindsight Covers The Ark

    Cocopjojo provides an in depth and detailed perspective of Halo 3’s seventh chapter, The Ark…

  • Red vs. Blue Reconstruction Chapter 10 is Live

    The tenth episode of Red vs. Blue’s Reconstruction series is available.

  • Hindsight: Halo 3 – The Ark

    It’s been a long wait… but it was worth it. Over at Ascendant Justice, you can read Hindsight: Halo 3 – The Ark, a blow-by-blow discussion of one of the largest levels in Halo 3. As with all previous episodes of Hindsight, you’ll almost certainly run across tidbits you missed when you played through the level, or be shown viewpoints you didn’t consider. The writeup ties the level into the rest of the game, the other games in the series, and outside sources of canon. If you care about the Halo story, go read this. Bring a cup of coffee or two, though – it’s monstrous. Thanks, fin.(Louis Wu 20:36:17 UTC)

  • The Overlord Challenge – August Edition

    We got word from TruthPastor SBG that the August Overlord Challenge has been won by the Overlords – this time they beat Cirque D’Geezers in a well-fought match. Go read all the details at the SBG website. September’s challenge is against SBG themselves… (Louis Wu 20:30:18 UTC)

  • GTA IV “Chain Reaction” Walkthrough

    Howdy Internet,
    The Achievement Hunter assault on GTAIV continues with today’s walkthrough of the “Chain Reaction” Achievement. This one was made by Geoff, who is also posting this news article, AND referring to himself in the third person. Awesome.

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  • McBlogging the Halosphere

    A pair of pretty cool articles over at Hawty McBloggy’s place – there’s a Stick Figure Forge Fight (stop-motion animation, inside Forge – THAT’S work), and a pretty nice looking custom Heretic Grunt action figure gleaned from the eBay ocean. Go read about ’em!(Louis Wu 16:48:01 UTC)

  • HBOFFPotW

    kr-1426 stopped in to announce that the latest HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week article is up (along with last week’s, which never got announced, mostly because it was posted so late). Go read!(Louis Wu 16:44:03 UTC)

  • A new Bungie product – with a full map editor (and bots)?

    Very cool – looks like someone uploaded the acceptance speech vid Bungie sent to Edge for the Interactive Innovation Award announced yesterday. It clearly shows a lot of very, very interesting additions to Forge – might we be seeing these innovations in a release from Bungie sometime? (This could explain why some of the voice actors were recording new dialogue not too long ago…) Looks like MasterChief2829 was first in our forum with the news (and the forum has exploded with excitement over it).(Louis Wu 13:32:49 UTC)

  • X Marks the Chapter

    Dear Entire World,
    Chapter 10 of RvB: Reconstruction – or as I like to call it, “Episode X” – is now available. If you’re a sponsor, you’ll also find a very informative – or as I like to call it, “ridiculous” – bonus commentary video. Enjoy!

  • MAJOR GROUP UPDATE!!!! A LOT ABOUT TO HAPPEN SO READ

    MUST READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1THIS UPDATE INCLUDES NEW PROTIONS, HUMPDAYS, RANKS, CHANGE IN RULES

  • Legendary Crest – now for sale

    A few weeks ago, we mentioned a Legendary crest that link4044 was working on – he’s finished it. You can see pretty amazing pictures of the work on the page we set up for him – and if you like what you see… he’s selling it on eBay. Starting bid is $350, and I have to say… if I had the space, I’d be bidding. You’ve got about 2 days to decide.(Louis Wu 01:35:45 UTC)

  • Petchievements Volume 1

    Happy Friday Everyone,
    Today I bring you something a little different. Jack and I had a discussion recently about just how simple some Achievements were, and whether someone like, oh I don’t know, a dog could get one. Once the question was raised, we had only one choice – don our lab coats and get to sciencing.

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  • Dev Day

    Updates to the site today:

    1. Newest Users and Newest Sponsors on home page
    2. Mod Breakdown now shows data from all time, breakdown in percentages



  • Bionic Commando Rearmed Achievements added

    Today we got our hands on next week’s Xbox Live Arcade title, Bionic Commando: Rearmed, with all 12 Achievements for 200 Gamerscore.

    Thanks to bl00dyvalen7 for submitting the game, and 360Sync for giving us the list. Everyone have a good weekend, we’ll be back Monday starting another week of awesome Achievement videos. And play Braid, damnit!


  • Welcome Back!

    Today I’m very excited to welcome the RT Comics Year One Book back into the store. The first run sold out much quicker than we expected, and we’ve been running around like mad trying to get a second printing done. Thankfully, we were able to, and you can now buy a copy at your leisure. However, if it sells anything like the first batch, I’d recommend getting one (or 3 or 4), sooner than later, as it could sell out pretty quickly again.

    Moving on to today’s comic. It makes fun of me (big surprise). All I can say in my defense is that I went to high school in fucking Alabama. I think you understand where I’m going with this…





  • The Wizard (and the rest of the PAX schedule)


    The guys over at Penny Arcade released the schedule for PAX and one of my highlights has to be night two at 9:00pm. THE WIZARD will be showing in the Wolfman theater. If you haven’t seen THE WIZARD, you are required by my fucking backhand to see it blown up on the big screen. If you have seen THE WIZARD, you need to go too.

    Come cheer on Jimmy, Corey and Haley and boo at the bounty hunter and Lucas. Keep your power gloves off her!

    I seriously love the shit out of this movie. I had the pleasure of screening it here in Austin a few months ago and had a blast, I can’t wait to see it again.

    Oh, and some other douches are having a panel opening night at 6:30pm in the Main Theater.

    If you don’t want to see the rest of the PAX schedule, for the love of god, DON’T CLICK HERE!


  • RvB: Reconstruction Chapter 10

    RvB: Reconstruction Chapter 10 has been posted over at the Rooster Teeth website – there’s a public version, a high-res sponsor version, and a commentary version with Matt Hullum and Nathan Zellner. Washington meets the Reds, and everyone gets closer to the Meta. What didn’t you notice? Thanks to BlueNinja, who posted a note on our forum.(Louis Wu 01:13:26 UTC)

  • Forced Enjoyment Vol. 4, Part 1, Verse 2

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    I literally just got home from almost a week of visiting game companies across two countries, working my ass off to pull some really badass exclusives for Achievement Hunter, and I come home to this. Geoff has a secret desire to watch me suffer. And by “secret” I mean “public.”

    We played about 45 minutes of this game and the closest thing I could think to compare it to would be an old-school Sega CD game like Sewer Shark. Can you handle that, DOG MEAT?

    Anyway, keep your eyes here for more video updates into the realm of crab fishing. And plenty of “Geoff has crabs” jokes are coming…I promise.

    Geoff has massive crabs.