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!

A new year, a new Achievement Hunter community race! Race for 2011 is simple, first person to obtain 2,011 Gamerscore wins.

So, if you would like to start the year off as a champion (or loser), leave your Gamertag in the race comments. Sign-ups will be open until 11:59 PM EST tonight. That is also when the race will start.

Good luck and have some fun!

Hey folks, I hope your 2010 went swimmingly but before we cross over in to 2011, Achievement Hunter leaves you with one last Fails of the Weak! Enjoy!

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!

MelkorTheGreat stopped in with word of DWT Productions’ E.O.A. Episode 7 – the finale of the series. (There IS a set of tutorials for these tricks coming soon, but this is the last video in the ‘show ’em off’ series.) Funky Reach tricks – go watch!(Louis Wu 19:26:25 UTC)

MelkorTheGreat stopped in with word of DWT Productions’ E.O.A. Episode 7 – the finale of the series. (There IS a set of tutorials for these tricks coming soon, but this is the last video in the ‘show ’em off’ series.) Funky Reach tricks – go watch!(Louis Wu 19:26:25 UTC)

A bit later than usual, but if you swing by the Fan Fiction section, you’ll find six new pieces for your reading enjoyment. So go enjoy already!(Louis Wu 19:23:54 UTC)

A bit later than usual, but if you swing by the Fan Fiction section, you’ll find six new pieces for your reading enjoyment. So go enjoy already!(Louis Wu 19:23:54 UTC)

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!