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HaloChallenges Wants YOU
Looking for ways to show off your Halo skillz? Stop by HaloChallenges, recently opened by the crew of HaloCharts. At the moment, there are 6 Firefight challenges, 1 ODST Campaign challenge, and Splatacular 2010 – a vehicular challenge that needs to be entered by July 31 – with more the way. Go explore… and get to proving yourself!(Louis Wu 14:40:01 UTC)
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Bungie Day – keep your expectations in check
For folks expecting massive reveals/gifts/whatever from Bungie tomorrow… pare back your expectations. Brian Jarrard posted a note at NeoGAF that because of internal schedules and travel, Bungie had to outsource their ‘official Bungie Day surprise’ – no word as to who. It should be something good, though! (And in unrelated news… congrats, urk!)(Louis Wu 14:26:25 UTC)
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RT: "Protect Me Cone" Shirt at the RT Store
We’ve added a Protect Me Cone shirt to the store for pre-ordering. Hope you guys like it.
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AH: Weekend Achievement Hunt
Got 4 games, 3 hosts, over 2 days. That makes for 1 awesome Weekend Achievement Hunt:
First up, the guy that just won’t quit (we thank him for that) D347h5D00r, bringing the pain with games this weekend, ‘Splosion Man going for the co-op achievements, and multiplayer madness in Singularity.
‘Splosion Man starts July 3rd at 12 Noon EST. Singularity begins July 4th, also at 12 Noon EST.
To get into either session, you can contact D34d5D00r via his AH profile here, or through his Gamertag: D34d5D00r
Next up is a new guy to this hosting malarkey seoirseM2, who needs a co-op buddy to get the co-op achievements in Crackdown ready for the sequel.
Need to get your Agency fix? Join in from July 3rd at 12 Noon GMT.
Get in contact with Gamertag: seoirsemurray to be the extra gun!
Last, but certainly not least, RoboDevil, returns looking for a Spec Ops partner in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
He’s on GMT timezone and will be available 3rd and 4th July.
Contact his Gamertag: Masked Cleric and go for the gold…. stars.
If these games don’t interest you, this weekend also has 8x XP in Gears of War 2 when playing Horde mode, you’ll also be facing 9 waves of Tickers with the 10th being Boomers in a little event EPIC call Tick, Tick, BOOM! Clever.
There’s also double XP in Transformers: War for Cybertron, so transform and roll out!
If you want to host a future Weekend Hunt, post the details in this group thread to get some frontpage attention.
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AH: Weekly Recap – July 3rd
Community
–Hulu Plus Coming to Xbox LIVE
–AHTV: Risk Factions
–GoW2 Quadruple XP
–Weekend Achievement Hunt
AH Videos
–USA vs. Ghana simulation match
Community Videos
–Invincible video guide in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands from Fragger
Achievements
-Added achievements for Beat Hazard
-Added achievements for Counter-Strike: Source
-Added achievements for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
-Added achievements for Blacklight: Tango Down
-Added DLC achievements for Defense Grid: The Awakening
-Added DLC achievements for Toy Soldiers
-Added secret achievements for Naughty Bear
-Added secret achievements for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
-Added secret achievements for N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights
Trophies
-Added trophies for Joe Danger
-Added trophies for Gundemonium Recollection
-Added trophies for GundeadliGne
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AH: Crackdown 2 Achievement Race
The time has come for yet another achievement race here on Achievement Hunter. Crackdown on Crime is a race to complete Crackdown 2, and is now open for sign-ups.
Don’t worry, our friend Jack is working hard on an orb map so that collecting them won’t be such a daunting task. There are also some video guides up already on the game page, so check them out!
Alright agents, leave your Gamertag in the race comments if you would like to participate. Sign-ups will be open until the game is released on July 6th (tomorrow). That is also when the race will start.
It’s time to crackdown on some achievements!
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RT: This week's RvB
In order to help celebrate this year's Bungie Day, our regularly scheduled installment of RvB will be airing on Wednesday morning instead of Monday night. We will then resume our regularly scheduled broadcasts.
For those of you not in the know, every 7/7 is Bungie Day. So, enjoy your remaining holiday weekend and we will see you on Wednesday.
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AH: AHWU never rests!
Hey guys, I’m knee-deep in coding this damn map for Crackdown 2, but I still managed to get an AHWU out for you! Enjoy!
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Top 10 Best Halo 3 Screenshots of All Time
Hawty McBloggy has posted what she considers to be the Top 10 Best Halo 3 Screenshots of All Time – definitely some impressive ones in there! (While you’re visiting, remember that tomorrow is Bungie Day, so your chance to submit something cool for her community project is fast coming to a close. Gogogo!(Louis Wu 11:49:47 UTC)
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Halo Custom Edition News – the HaloMaps version
Dennis Powers sent us some statistics, and some intriguing creations, all seen at Halomaps.org recently. Since January 1 of this year, almost 300 new files have been added, and they’re averaging almost 300,000 downloads/month – not bad for a 7-year-old product! Stuff you might want to look at: Noobyourmom has created a single-player campaign with role-playing elements in it – Halo Covert Ops currently has six maps (one | two | three | four | five | six) where you play as an ODST and are given a mission where you can make choices that determine the game play and storyline. Very cool! In addition, he mentioned another few maps worth taking a look at (some we already highlighted last month – this is just the new stuff):- Sandtrap Classic by Jesse
- CMT Cliff Run (beta) by CMT
- Tlmp Harbinger by Inferno and Snafubar
- Dtsp by DSalimander (custom single-player)
- Campagne2 by Ozhimer (custom single-player)
Go browse – tons of stuff! (Louis Wu 11:44:10 UTC)
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Preorder Reach, save $15
dogchow33 pointed out that Newegg is offering the standard copy of Reach for $15 off today – the $44.99 with free shipping deal is good until 11:59pm PT today, according to their weekly email flyer. If you were looking to preorder to save a little money, here’s a chance! (Louis Wu 11:42:40 UTC)
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Halo Reach: Elite Power Rangers
ElzarTheBam pointed out another video showing off modded content from Halo Reach – Elite models colored to look like Power Rangers! The video’s ridiculously long for its content, but the creator really wanted to include the entire Power Rangers theme song.(Louis Wu 11:42:00 UTC)
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HLH – a growing collection
Hedgemony continues to add new assets to his ‘shopped screenshot site – HedgemonyLovesHalo now contains over 300 images. He’s nowhere near done yet, apparently… go browse the archives for some really cool bits of Reach screenshot art! (Louis Wu 11:41:12 UTC)
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Noble Team Desktop
CaptainTony put together an understated desktop image, involving Noble Team – go check it out!(Louis Wu 11:40:53 UTC)
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Jumping in to someone else’s universe
Tobias Buckell and a number of other authors talked to io9 about why established authors take on franchise tie-in writing gigs. Buckell’s discussion focuses on The Cole Protocol and Halo, for the most part, but several of the authors involved have written Halo Universe stories. Nice read! Thanks, AngelicLionheart. (Louis Wu 11:39:44 UTC)
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Exploring what happens offscreen
Newsarama talked to Brian Reed recently about his upcoming Halo comic series based on The Fall of Reach. It appears that the series coming out this fall is just the first in a SERIES of series. There are also other details which might give you a sense for what to expect this fall when the comics begin. Thanks, Hedge! (Louis Wu 11:38:58 UTC)
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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
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