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Sorry for the late post. I haven’t fallen asleep, so it’s still technically Saturday.

If you couldn’t guess from the title, this week’s Deals of the Week is focused on everyone’s favourite shambling undead creature, the zombie. These tasty brains, I mean deals, start today on the XBox Live Marketplace and will be available until January 17th. With game add ons, Arcade games and Avatar items at half price or better, now’s the perfect time to practise your zombie plans.

• Left 4 Dead – Crash Course – 57% off at only 240MSP
• Left 4 Dead 2 – The Passing – Also 57% off at only 240MSP
• Borderlands – The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned – Half price at just 400MSP
• XBLA – Zombie Apocalypse – A full apocalypse for half price at 400MSP
• XBLA -The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai – Samurai price, sliced by 50% down to 400MSP
• Avatar – Borderlands Zombie Mask – Look the part for just 80MSP
• Avatar – Zombie Prop – Give your Avatar an undead playmate for 160MSP

As always, thanks to Major Nelson for the heads up!

So I don’t know how many of you have Halo Waypoint’s website on your regular visit list… but if you’re a Halo fan, you really should. As usual, there’s a Weekly Wrap-Up post that lists all the goodies they’ve posted this week (highlights from there, for me, included the Cryptum Glossary Update (really useful for this content-rich novel), the Master Chief Pyrography (Kassie’s got way more skillz than me!), and the MC Sneakers (gawjuss). There’s plenty of other stuff there, though, that doesn’t make the roundups – Chris Burke covered the World Cyber Games Holiday Heroes tournament, and (as This Spartan Life’s Damian Lacedamian) interviewed Frank O’Connor and bs angel. Mr. Vociferous returned to his Vintage Fisticuffs series, with a piece called Grand Canyon, looking back at Halo’s Two Betrayals level and a critical battle therein. (Glorious.) And Chairleg Productions (search our news for some of their past work) focused on the question “Should Games be Considered Art?” – the resulting video is a really fun 8 minutes. This is really just a small sample of what they’ve offered in the past week or so – so go explore!(Louis Wu 23:14:33 UTC)

MaxRealflugel sent word that Halo: Revolutions (last mentioned in October) is finished. This fan-created story collection has been ten months in the making, and contains art and fiction contributions from at least 15 people. We’ve put up a local copy of the PDF (29 mb) – go grab it!(Louis Wu 17:45:17 UTC)

Taco Power stopped by with word of ‘Flicker‘, his Reach montage. Definitely some nice gameplay in there!(Louis Wu 17:44:17 UTC)

Arithmomaniac… scares me.(Louis Wu 17:42:46 UTC)

Computer and Video Games has posted an article describing what they’d like to see in the next Halo title. Give it a read, and see if you agree!(Louis Wu 17:41:48 UTC)

Welcome to the first of hopefully many Weekend Hunts in 2011. So without further words to read, here’s what’s lined up for this weekend:

First up is deathreau looking for users and programs alike for all the multiplayer achievements in Tron: Evolution.
All weekend from the 7th to the 9th.
Send those messages to him here on AH to get involved, or to XBL Gamertag: DeathreauUSC

We also have jakxin going for The Sacrifice DLC achievements in the original Left 4 Dead.
Sunday the 9th from noon (no timezone given, so best to message him)
And those messages can go to him here on AH, or to XBL Gamertag: jakxin

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

We had so much success in 2010 with Easter Egg videos, I thought it only fair to show where they come from.

Literally.

I’m not sure what the point of writing anything here is….you’ve already clicked on the big image to see this week’s Fails of the Weak!

Community
–Major EA server shutdown
–Achievement HORSE #5
–10 piece Rock Band sale!
–Avatar Kinect – First Trailer
–Dead Rising 2: Case West hidden item map!
–Dark Void DLC
–Fails of the Weak! Volume 16
–Weekend Hunt

Egg Week Videos
–Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
–Dead Rising 2: Case West
–World of Warcraft
–World of Warcraft Part II
–Call of Duty: Black Ops
–2010: The Year in Gaming “Chicken” Edition

AH Videos
-Special Delivery Monster Island and Tsunami Bowl in Hydro Thunder Hurricane
–Skilful Driver and Superb Driver video guides in Crazy Taxi
–Uncomfortably Energetic! video guide in Raskulls
–Crossover Extravaganza!

Xbox 360 Achievements
-Added Bomb-Up Pack I DLC achievement for Bomberman Live: Battlefest
-Added Survivor Missions DLC achievements for Dark Void

Windows Phone 7 Achievements
-Added achievements for Pac-Man
-Added achievements for Tower Bloxx: New York

PlayStation 3 Trophies
-Added trophies for Marvel Pinball
-Added trophies for X-Men: The Arcade Game
-Added trophies for echochrome ii
-Added Online Add-On DLC trophies for Mushroom Wars
-Added Far East Tour DLC trophies for ModNation Racers

Steam Achievements
-Added achievements for Arcadia
-Added achievements for Clickr

Community
–Major EA server shutdown
–Achievement HORSE #5
–10 piece Rock Band sale!
–Avatar Kinect – First Trailer
–Dead Rising 2: Case West hidden item map!
–Dark Void DLC
–Fails of the Weak! Volume 16
–Weekend Hunt

Egg Week Videos
–Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
–Dead Rising 2: Case West
–World of Warcraft
–World of Warcraft Part II
–Call of Duty: Black Ops
–2010: The Year in Gaming “Chicken” Edition

AH Videos
-Special Delivery Monster Island and Tsunami Bowl in Hydro Thunder Hurricane
–Skilful Driver and Superb Driver video guides in Crazy Taxi
–Uncomfortably Energetic! video guide in Raskulls
–Crossover Extravaganza!

Xbox 360 Achievements
-Added Bomb-Up Pack I DLC achievement for Bomberman Live: Battlefest
-Added Survivor Missions DLC achievements for Dark Void

Windows Phone 7 Achievements
-Added achievements for Pac-Man
-Added achievements for Tower Bloxx: New York

PlayStation 3 Trophies
-Added trophies for Marvel Pinball
-Added trophies for X-Men: The Arcade Game
-Added trophies for echochrome ii
-Added Online Add-On DLC trophies for Mushroom Wars
-Added Far East Tour DLC trophies for ModNation Racers

Steam Achievements
-Added achievements for Arcadia
-Added achievements for Clickr

Sorry for the late post. I haven’t fallen asleep, so it’s still technically Saturday.

Hey guys, I want to drop something off really quick. I’ve been working away in my spare time on a Dead Rising 2: Case West hidden item map and I just completed the first major portion of it, the hidden security cameras. If you haven’t checked out Case West yet, you should, it’s a pretty awesome way to finish off Dead Rising 2.

And you can totally use this map to help pick up an achievement! I’ll be adding more later including magazines and PP stickers, but for now, enjoy!

CruelLEGACEY put together a new racetrack – Coastal Racetrack Beta is now available. It’s built on Tempest, and he’s included a ride-through video to show you what you’d be downloading. Take a look!(Louis Wu 17:39:12 UTC)