FyreWulff has kicked off a contest on our forum – he’s looking for Doubles or Invasion maps that can be submitted to Bungie for inclusion in Matchmaking playlists… do a good enough job, and EVERYONE will see your work! Read his post for full details.(Louis Wu 13:29:02 UTC)

If Tyrant’s Mythic Guide (and his more recent four-player conquest) haven’t been enough to get you through the currently Weekly Challenge, CruelLEGACEY has put up his own video walkthrough. He uses almost exactly the same techniques as Tyrant does (not surprising, they’re the techniques that work), but he runs into trouble a few times in ways that Tyrant didn’t mention, so watching this can show you how to overcome some of these issues.(Louis Wu 13:27:55 UTC)

ChrisTheeCrappy stopped in last night to let our forum know that IGN’s latest Top 10 Halo Kills video (week of 1/26) is now up. Some of these are… awesome.(Louis Wu 13:15:18 UTC)

Good news for our Canadian, Australian and Kiwi fans: Red vs. Blue Revelation and Recreation are now on iTunes. We have no idea why there was such a big delay in getting the movies live. Sorry about that. I blame myself.

Not only is Wednesday the best day for Podcasts…it is also the best day for HORSE!

Enjoy Horse number 8! You can find the maps used in this video right here!

In sticking with the theme for all the videos last week, I thought it was time for another Achievement Hunter Community Race! What a Deadly Space Race is a race to see who can conquer and get a full 1,000 in Dead Space 2 first.

So, head on over to the race comments and leave your Gamertag there if you would like to participate. Sign-ups will be open until the game is released on January 25th (tomorrow) at 12 AM CST. That is also when the race will start.

Good luck!

What’s up guys! Sorry for the late entry. I totally uploaded the video and forgot to push it to the front page! My bad! Today’s AHWU is still incredibly relevant though! Promise!!!

Today seems to mark the end of the drought of new games, with plenty of good stuff lined up for the majority of the year, starting today with Dead Space 2. So to get us ready for the onslaught of upcoming games, here’s two demos to get you started:

Bulletstorm – Put it in your download queue here!
Crysis – Get access to the closed multiplayer beta right here!
Both are free to download for XBox Live Gold members, so go get it on!

Now, many games companies have been running deals on XBox Live over the past couple of weeks, and now we get a double whammy of generous deals from Rockstar Games and 2K Games. These deals start from today and will last until January 31st. Here’s the list of offers available:

Red Dead Redemption

• Undead Nightmare Collection: 1000 MSP
• Undead Nightmare: 400 MSP
• Liars and Cheats Pack: 400 MSP

Bioshock 2

• Minvera’s Den: 400 MSP
• Protector Trials: 200 MSP
• Rapture Metro Pack: 400 MSP
• Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack: 200 MSP

GTA IV

• Ballad of Gay Tony: 800 MSP
• The Lost and Damned: 400 MSP

Midnight Club: Los Angeles

• South Central Ultimate: 400 MSP

Borderlands

• Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution: 400 MSP
• Zombie Island of Dr. Ned: 400 MSP
• Secret Armory: 400 MSP
• The Underdome: 400 MSP

Mafia II

• Jimmy’s Vendetta: 400 MSP
• Joe’s Adventures: 400 MSP

Xbox Live Arcade

• Axel & Pixel: 800 400 MSP
• Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom: 400 MSP

Xbox Originals

• Max Payne: 600 MSP
• Max Payne 2: 600 MSP
• GTA San Andreas: 600 MSP

Is that enough for you guys? Because if not, I have a little something extra for those quick to read this. We’ve been given some Rift Beta codes for the PC gamers out there, thanks to @Postabargain and @365Games. Just head over to the Rift website and enter the codes below, once you’ve found the missing character. Let us know in the comments when a code’s taken:

NLQP-EYK3-KCCM-TXYM-MX?G
QZNX-L?XQ-Y7HK-T9KL-P2MC
RETD-NLCM-?PKZ-Z7P2-KMXT
N6QJ-NDG2-Y?DT-9PDE-X3X7

All codes gone, well done to the guys that got in there early!

This morning Atari and Cryptic announced that their MMORPG Champions Online has gone fully Free To Play. This means that not only is the client free to download but you can have an account an play for free. Now they wouldn’t be able to make ANY kind of money that way they use the current trend of making the service have tiers in this case being Silver and Gold (Full list of what both contain here). So go out and give this MMO a try and go and crack down on crime!

Download and account creation here!

So we get a ton of submissions each week for Fails of the Weak (so many that we’re still working through our subs from last October). However, for every submission we get we get two emails asking “how do I submit a fail?” Instead of typing the same responses over and over and over again, we decided to just cut a video showing. Check this out if you’ve ever wondered how its done.

I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been loving every second of Dead Space 2. Did you spot the neat little Easter Egg in the first chapter? If you missed it, check out this video.

Good news for our Canadian, Australian and Kiwi fans: Red vs. Blue Revelation and Recreation are now on iTunes. We have no idea why there was such a big delay in getting the movies live. Sorry about that. I blame myself.

The best of the rest.

Accepting submissions.

Prepare to be taken away.

Take a look at five of the best performances of 2010.