So here it is, the final installment of our inaugural Achievement Hunter: Secret Santa series. This one features me getting the Iron Man Achievement in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit. Enjoy! See you next year!

If you didn’t get a chance to see it when it was originally on the Waypoint XBL portal, check out The Long Road Home – a very cool piece that explores some of the events bridging Halo 2 and Halo 3 – now up on the Waypoint website. Lots of good story content in there, and some nice clarifications. Give it a watch! (GrimBrother One 16:02:09 UTC)

From everyone here at HBO to all of you, we hope that you have a safe and Happy New Year celebration, wherever you may be. 2010 saw the culmination of 10 years of hard work and dedication from Bungie with the release of Halo Reach. I for one want to thank them personally for the worlds they’ve created, and giving us reasons to keep gathering and discussing. 343 Industries also provided us with some very exciting Halo content in 2010, and 2011 certainly looks to continue that trend in full force. We wish them all the best of luck in carrying the torch. Happy New Year, HBO, thank you for all the ways that each of you make this community what it is!(GrimBrother One 15:44:16 UTC)

So we’ve had a good year right? Plenty of games, loads of Gamerscore and a bunch of people crossing the 100,000 mark… but who’s the best of the best?
Since we’ve come to the end of 2010, let’s see who’s at the top of the leaderboard:

1. LOWlifeSpIdE – 223,841 G
2. BrownMan – 218,455 G
3. Wallace_Suka – 202,200 G
4. kindredpoker – 182,265 G
5. TonySki – 176,040 G
6. DarkSynopsis – 171,958 G
7. Knuckles_D – 164,583 G
8. demonninja – 151,542 G
9. rawdeal42 – 150,910G
10. Lukeweizer 150,607 G

Congratulations guys, very impressive!

On the subject of Gamerscore, congratulations also to barbellious for putting in over 10,000 Gamerscore in two weeks and winning the final Achievement Challenge of 2010!

Chris10023 let us know that Episode 6 of Halo Reach Fails is up. Go and check out what could just as easily be a highlight reel of MY playing time!(GrimBrother One 15:41:08 UTC)

Thanks to CruelLEGACEY for sending along a note to let us know that his Farewell to Halo 3 Montage is up for your viewing pleasure, just as we’re also saying farewell to 2010! Go give it a look!(GrimBrother One 15:37:00 UTC)

Today’s major deal is for:

–LIMBO 1200 800MSP

AND

–Yoda Green Lightsaber 400 200MSP

Well, that’s it everybody. Hope you enjoyed the 11 day countdown to 2011. See you in the new year!

Today I continue Christmas with day four of Secret Santa and I got Geoff’s achievement that got me to ride quads for miles in the air, nail’d.

Check back tomorrow for Geoff’s video with My achievement.

We all need to recharge our creative batteries now and then… I think Luke was hoping for DD batteries. By the way, we started a new Rooster Teeth Comics group today. Go check it out!

Today’s deals are for the following series:

–Sonic the Hedgehog 400 200MSP
–Sonic the Hedgehog 2 400 200MSP
–Sonic the Hedgehog 3 400 200MSP
–Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 1200 800MSP
–Sonic & Knuckles 240 120MSP
–Sonic Adventure 800 400MSP
–Sonic Car 240 120MSP

Remember to check back tomorrow for another deal!

We all need to recharge our creative batteries now and then… I think Luke was hoping for DD batteries. By the way, we started a new Rooster Teeth Comics group today. Go check it out!

Speedruns of various campaign levels have appeared in our news feed – heck, there’s even a website devoted to collecting them – but most of these are bare runs. That is – if you don’t understand what you’re seeing, you’re out of luck. DEEP NNN stopped by with a link to a speedrun of Winter Contingency that has commentary by i6 Hitman, from 2old2play – he points out what’s important and what isn’t. Tyrant has proven, over and over again, that commentary is tremendously useful when looking at walkthroughs – here’s another example.(Louis Wu 14:42:39 UTC)

The Alpha ELite stopped in with word of a new glitch near the end of Reach’s campaign – no film, but this could yield some pretty fun footage! Give it a read.(Louis Wu 14:42:04 UTC)

jarsp was the first to let us know that the Achievement Hunter boys have posted Achievement Horse #4 – new maps, new challenges, new insults. You can, as always, download the maps yourself and give these challenges a try – great stuff! (Congrats, Geoff – 4 and 0 is a pretty impressive record!) (Louis Wu 14:40:56 UTC)

Hey guys, it is Wednesday, which means all kinds of fun things, including the new Achievement HORSE! Enjoy!

Hey guys, it is Wednesday, which means all kinds of fun things, including the new Achievement HORSE! Enjoy!

Greetings. It is time for my final video of the year for AH. Lets wrap up the collectibles in Tron: Evolution shall we?

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Hey guys, it is Wednesday, which means all kinds of fun things, including the new Achievement HORSE! Enjoy!