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Cheap games at Amazon
Here’s a deal for you – Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, combined… for a grand total of $29.48. If you’re an Amazon Prime member, shipping’s free, too! (You don’t HAVE to buy those two Halo titles; there are lots of options, and the deal is buy one game for less than $20, get a second title for half-off. You can pick from games like Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2, or Borderlands, or dozens more.) Not sure how long this lasts… so buy now!(Louis Wu 01:19:20 UTC)
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Quite An Achievement (List)
Whether you love them or hate them, the Achievement system and phenomenon has become an important part of modern gaming. Xbox360Achievements.org recently held their 2010 Achievement Awards, and Halo: Reach came home with “Best Achievement List”. X360A loved the balance between Achievements spread out through the different modes, solid mission-specific Achievements, and proper balance bewteen skill vs. time investment to complete them all. Reach’s “If They Came To Hear Me Beg” Achievement was also nominated for “Hardest Individual Achievement”. Great job to Bungie for continually coming up with rewarding challenges that help extend the life of an already stellar title. (GrimBrother One 21:39:29 UTC)
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AH: Scott Pilgrim: Knives Chau DLC Achievements
Brownman shows us how to get three Achievements in the Knives Chau DLC for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
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Where’s My Classic Grifball Arcade Limited Pro Playlist?
In case you hadn’t noticed, the new Matchmaking updates that Bungie detailed last week are up. Go and grab yourself some awesome Firefight Arcade and Grifball goodness, among other nice changes!(GrimBrother One 21:06:18 UTC)
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AH: Call of Duty: Black Ops – Vehicular Slaughter Achievement Guide
We’ve gotten quite a few requests for help with the Vehicular Slaughter Achievement in Black Ops, so here you go! Hope it helps.
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AH: XBL Shoot Up some Deals of the Week
It’s all whizz, bang and kaboom on the XBox Live Marketplace this week, as a number of Arcade shooters are 50% or better off! Full list below:
- Duke Nukem Manhattan Project – 400MSP
- Space Invaders: IG – 400MSP
- Geometry Wars Evolved – 400MSP
- Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter – 400MSP
- Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter – 400MSP
- Galaga Legions – 400MSP
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Annihilation Circuit: Reach Custom Map
Get ready to start your engines and put the pedal to the metal.
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Passing the Torch
Botolf wrote up a comprehensive review of the Halo: Reach Campaign – meticulously researched, chock-full of pretty pictures and well-written text, this is worth reading. Check it out. (The only thing it’s really missing is a navigation system; if you stop reading in the middle somewhere, finding your place, if you didn’t bookmark it, is non-trivial.) And with that, I’m going to let Grim handle anything else that comes along today. (Louis Wu 12:34:26 UTC)
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Monday Comm Chatter Goodness
urk’s had no trouble finding cool Halo content for Bungie’s Comm Chatter – here’s a roundup from yesterday:- tranQ and Friends posted their second community montage.
- MLG spotlighted a few user-created maps.
- GodlyPerfection posted Lesson 44 of his Forge Tutorials – Aesthetic Noise.
- Bungie posted guidelines for Week 5 of their All Stars Contest series.
- xSoGx Grim built Jorge in Forge. No socks, though.
Go catch up! (Louis Wu 12:29:21 UTC)
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Arby ‘n’ the Chief: Low on Hearts
The latest episode of this long-running series went live a couple of days ago – Arby meets up with Claire again, and Chief indulges his less mature side. (Louis Wu 12:28:30 UTC)
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BELIEVER: Episode One
A couple of days ago, IESUproductions released a project he’s been working on for a LONG time – but the video had some issues. He’s fixed them, and re-released it; it’s worth your while to swing by YouTube and watch. A pretty nice story, told in the Halo 3 engine! (Louis Wu 12:27:56 UTC)
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Two Vids Worth Watching
bs angel sent along a couple of great vids you might want to watch – the latest episode of Halo: Reach Mythbusters is up, from defendthehouse… and Singularity, first part of a planned four-part machinima, is up from EvilChickenLord. Mythbusters is, as always, chock-full of useful and fun bits of Reach trivia. Singularity is really well-filmed, and dialogue-free. (Action is at a minimum – this one has atmosphere, not explosions.) Go watch ’em both! (If you have trouble with Silverlight, as many of us do, the actual YouTube urls are here and here, respectively.) (Louis Wu 12:26:41 UTC)
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Final Nominees Announced for G.A.N.G. Awards
We got a press release from G.A.N.G. (the Game Audio Network Guild) about the finalists for their upcoming 9th Annual G.A.N.G. Awards – but we also heard about them from Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net. (It’s great to see R.net alive!) As Narc noted, Reach is up for 4 awards this time around – Best Soundtrack, Best Interactive Score, Best Vocal – Choral, and Best Use of Multi-Channel Surround. Good luck, guys!(Louis Wu 12:25:26 UTC)
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Take a survey, win toys
Mega Bloks is giving away 25 copies of their ODST Covenant Invasion set – for a chance to win, all you’ve got to do is take this survey. (I’m sure it puts you on their email list, too…) Update: looks like TCKaos found ANOTHER giveaway – a sweepstakes this time. Enter UPC codes from Mega Bloks Halo packages, win a chance at more Mega Bloks Halo stuff. Go read about it.(Louis Wu 12:24:43 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
