Hedgemony created a couple of ginormous panoramas from Reach – flavored by his own special brand of image manipulation. Really, really nice work. Go see.(Louis Wu 16:55:33 UTC)

Taco Power filmed an all-night gaming session, and produced a surprisingly watchable timelapse video of the event. Since Halo: Reach played a large part over the course of the night, we considered this to be Halo-relevant. Go see!(Louis Wu 16:53:04 UTC)

I went through some old Google alerts (yes, yes, I’m still catching up), and found a few articles that may tickle your fancy.

• Todd McFarlane talked to the G4 crew about the future of his company’s Halo toys.
• Fanboys vs Haters is a conversation on an Australian website about the merits and faults of Halo.
• Electronic Theatre looked at the Top Ten Combat Drops in video games. Yes, ODST’s opening drop made the cut.

Go catch up! I’m getting there myself.(Louis Wu 16:50:30 UTC)

Apologies – in the chaos of the last couple of weeks, the Fan Fiction section has languished unforgotten. (Thanks to CaptainRaspberry for the heads-up about this.) I’ve just gone through and cleared out the queue – there were three poems that had been amongst the lost material from January and early February (now resynched to their original comments), along with four new pieces. Grab a cuppa joe and get reading! (There are still seven stories that were lost but have not been re-uploaded by their writers – four of them from one writer alone! If you submitted content in January, please – check this page, and see if a story you created is on it. If so… PLEASE resubmit. Thanks.)(Louis Wu 14:55:56 UTC)

This came in last week… but slipped through the cracks. Shawn Jenkins is a huge Halo fan, and recently decked out his snowboard with the universe’s greatest supersoldier. Check it out!(Louis Wu 23:16:42 UTC)

Community
–Achievement HORSE PIG #12
–Fails of the Weak! Volume 23
–The Elder Scrolls V Gameplay Trailer
–Xbox Press Event Announcements
–The most rare Achievement Guides ever made?
–Oscar Night AHTV
–MyGamerCard Bids Farewell to the Xbox Community
–Weekend Hunt

AH Videos
-Big Bang Theory part 1 and part 2 in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
–Avengers Assemble! and Badds to the Bone video guide in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
–Female Flyers, Darkstalkers, and Weapon X video guide in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
–Disco Inferno video guide in Bulletstorm
-Total Malfunction and Pest Control act 2, three, four, and five in Bulletstorm
–Making a Bulletstorm Guide
–Rage Quit: Fable 3

Xbox 360 Achievements
-Added achievements for Crysis 2
-Added achievements for Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury
-Added achievements for Warriors: Legends of Troy
-Added achievements for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters
-Added achievements for Swarm
-Added achievements for Gray Matter
-Added achievements for Homefront
-Added achievements for Trouble Witches Neo!
-Added achievements for Portal 2
-Added Traitor’s Keep DLC achievements for Fable III
-Added Expansion Pack 1 DLC achievements for Deadliest Warrior: The Game

Windows Phone 7 Achievements
-Added achievements for Asteroids & Deluxe
-Added achievements for Deer Hunter 3D
-Added achievements for Zombie Attack 2

PlayStation 3 Trophies
-Added trophies for de Blob 2

Steam Achievements
-Added achievements for Power of Defense
-Added Turret Defense DLC achievements for ProtoGalaxy

Sometimes, fans show that ‘fanatic’ was the right word to shorten… Elnea was watching a fan-made tribute to Minecraft, The Last Minecart, and noticed a split-second view of the Master Chief about halfway through. MAN that’s watching carefully! (Pretty cool movie, all by itself.)(Louis Wu 22:49:35 UTC)

Hyokin highlighted a machinima from BlueNova Studios, called ‘We’re Not So Different‘ – pretty nicely done! Just two and a half minutes… go watch.(Louis Wu 22:46:19 UTC)

Lance Alexander let us know that the National Gaming League has partnered up with Justin.tv to produce a free live stream for the 2011 season – and the season opener, in Orlando, kicks off on March 12. Swing by to read the details! (Press release also available at PRLog.)(Louis Wu 22:44:03 UTC)

Fyrefulff posted an OUSTANDING writeup about his thoughts on the evolution of the Ranking systems throughout Halo 2-Reach. He talks about what went right, what went wrong, and the black market. No really. It’s a long read, but well worth it. Go look and offer your own thoughts!(GrimBrother One 22:37:51 UTC)

Black Six passes along word that there has been another recent update to the Issac Hannaford blog. This time showcasing some concept aret of Sword base and Halsey’s Hideaway. Go check it out!(GrimBrother One 22:35:39 UTC)

Matt, Geoff and Griffon are at Armageddon Expo in Sydney Australia. Go say hi! They will be selling and signing merch all weekend. And we have a new RT Short. Check it out.

Be sure to check Achievement Hunter for information and videos about Bulletstorm!

Well, hello there, Gentle Reader.

Do you enjoy film? Do you enjoy prizes? Do you think Dom is the nicest person ever and someone you’d love to spend an evening with?
If so, read on!
Tomorrow night, Dom, Knuckles and I are gonna be doing an Oscar broadcast AHTV. We’ll start with the red carpet because fuck you guys, I wanna see the pretty dresses. Broadcast will begin at 4 p.m. Pacific/7 p.m East not sure how that’ll work for our UK viewers…. do they still show it live somewhere for you guys in the middle of the night? Let me know in comments. I’m mad curious.

Anyway, the contest. Here’s how it’s going to work:
-I’ve linked to Dom’s profile in the beginning of this post. Step one is go there.
-Step two is to private message Dom with your pics for the Oscars. (You can find a full list of the categories and nominees here)
-Dom has assigned a scoring system to the proceedings that I’m unaware of. Perhaps we’ll run through it during the broadcast, or maybe it’s math-heavy. Then we’ll skip it.

The top three with their Oscar predictions will receive select Rooster Teeth merch. If you want to know what the prizes are, I suggest you join us for the broadcast.

As ever, the stream is located at the AHTV page embedded in our site, or conversely, check out the Ustream page. If you want to view the video or accompanying chatroom in their own individual pop up windows, those links are for that.

I’ll see you there, movie fans! I look forward to getting my ass handed to me in the head-to-head predictions against Dom.
Ze

Be sure to check Achievement Hunter for information and videos about Bulletstorm!

I just read that (and yes, I’m still on vacation, posting from my hotel room) copies of the cancelled NBA Elite 11 are now appearing on Ebay for big bucks. That got me thinking… if AH got a copy of that game, we could make the rarest Achievement Guides ever! So far I haven’t seen any copies of an Xbox 360 version, but if any of you know where we could buy one of these pieces of rare and wonderful history, let me know in the comments!

Alright dick tits, for those that didn’t get Bulletstorm this week, the community’s coming through with some gaming sessions you can get in on:

First up, yours truly is hosting a multiplayer gaming session in Blur. No specific achievements, though I expect there will be some earned naturally. Alcohol is optional, but highly recommended.
Friday, Febuary 25th at 8pm GMT.
Send a message to me on XBL for an invite: Tudor VII

Next, sylvester75 is rounding up a posse for multiplayer and DLC achievements in Red Dead Redemption.
February 26th and 27th. at 7pm EST on both days.
To get involved, send a message here on AH or to XBL Gamertag: Luigi L7

Jeph055 is next, dropping feet first into hell to go for the Firefight achievements and possibly the Vidmasters in Halo 3: ODST.
February 26th and 27th. at 7pm EST on both days.
To get involved, send a message to XBL Gamertag: Jeph055

Player number 4 is GAVINSYS, playing some Noble Map Pack to get the “You Blew It Up!” achievement in Halo: Reach.
February 26th and 27th. at 12pm GMT on both days.
To get involved, send a message to XBL Gamertag: Gavinsys

Knocking it up a notch is Spartan275, going for not only Firefight achievements in Halo 3: ODST, but also the DLC achievements in Gears of War 2.
February 25th and 26th. at 7pm PST on both days.
To get involved, send a message here on AH or to XBL Gamertag: AJN117

Getting heroic next is WildRile, who’ll be trading those hero weapons, as well as the co-op achievements in Fable III.
Saturday 26th, from Noon till 4pm EST.
To get involved, send a message to XBL Gamertag: WildRile

Going MIA next, brettbri5694 is going for “You Ate All the Chips” and other Noble Pack DLC achievements in Halo: Reach.
Saturday, February, 26 at 6:30pm Central Time.
To get involved, send a message here on AH or to XBL Gamertag: brettbri5694

We finish up with more Halo action from R4V3NSFAN, is tackling the Endure and Deja Vu Vidmaster achievements in Halo 3: ODST.
February 25th, Around 8:30pm EST.
To get involved, send a message here on AH or to XBL Gamertag: R4V3NSFAN1976

If you want to host a future Weekend Hunt, post the details in this group thread to get some frontpage attention.

It’s Fails time! Who wants a slice of cake!?

Hey guys. We’re still piling our way through Bulletstorm up here. Below are the guides for the hidden items in Acts 4 and 5.

Act 4 is first!

Act 5 is nextest!