Gaming4Others’ kilaM0Mjaro dropped us a line to announce a Halo Reach tournament being hosted with the Spirits of Fire community: “Fighting with Fairfax: Marissa’s Bunny outREACH Tournament“. The tourney will take place on December 4th and 5th, will have 2v2 and 4v4 Slayer events, and will raise money to support Infantile Spasms (check Marissa’s Bunny for more info). (Louis Wu 12:54:02 UTC)

It’s Monday. It’s AHWU. GO!

Hey guys, I don’t know if anyone noticed, but I was out of the office last week. Yup, somehow the site managed to stay up even without me here. Wild, eh?

Anyway, I was actually out of the country checking out Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit at the Criterion Games Studios in Guildford, England. Here is my report on the matter!

Community
–Free Black Ops avatar gear (ladies only)
–Call of Duty: Black Ops Community Playdate Weeked!
–Weekend Hunt
–Fails of the Weak! Volume 8

AH Videos
–Coronation Chicken video guide in Fable III
-I Am The Keymaster part 4, part 5, and part 6 in Fable III
-Zed’s Dead, Baby Undead Treasure video guide in Red Dead Redemption
-Closer Analysis parts one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven in Call of Duty: Black Ops
–I hate monkeys, Slingshot Kid, Tough Economy, and Mr. Black OP video guides in Call of Duty: Black Ops
–Just Ask Me Nicely, Eaten by a Grue, Insert Coin, and Easy Rhino video guide in Call of Duty: Black Ops

Community Videos
-The Best of All Possible Worlds act 3 in Vanquish from Fragger
–How you Doin`?, What Goes Around, Baby Steps, Graduated, and I Double Dare Ya video guide in The Sims 3 from BrownMan

Xbox 360 Achievements
-Added achievements for Two Worlds II
-Added achievements for Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
-Added achievements for Guwange
-Added achievements for The UnderGarden
-Added achievements for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
-Added Deluge DLC achievements for Crackdown 2
-Added Vietnam DLC for Battlefield: Bad Company 2
-Added secret achievements for Saw II: Flesh & Blood
-Added secret achievements for Vanquish
-Added secret achievements for Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2
-Added secret achievements for Fighters Uncaged

Windows Phone 7 Achievements
-Added achievements for Guitar Hero 5
-Added achievements for More Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima
-Added achievements for Flowerz

PlayStation 3 Trophies
-Added trophies for Power Gig: Rise of the SixString
-Added trophies for TRON: Evolution
-Added trophies for Blood Drive

Steam Achievements
-Added Expansion 3 DLC achievements for Magic: The Gathering

Interested in getting your hands on a Green MEGA Bloks Halo Wars Spartan II – but don’t want to drop any cash? Swing by the Devin-Sent page – Devin Olsen wants to give you one. For nuthin’. Sign up, he’ll pick a name on Friday, if you win (like Fiznithy did last week) you get a package in the mail. What a deal!(Louis Wu 23:34:37 UTC)

As technology advances, we discover new possibilities… and ways to embarrass ourselves.

Today’s Tag and Release feature at Bungie.net ferrets out shots marked with the ‘Headhunter’ tag… there are some fantastic pics in there. Go look!(Louis Wu 19:50:43 UTC)

Spend some alone time with the Tyrant and Mythic.

Right in the face!

Two new vids are up on Bungie’s Comm Chatter – Blame it on Halo Reach is James@War’s latest attempt to avoid responsibility for his video game addiction, and Forgetastic: Featured Maps (Ep 1) is CMNeir’s latest foray into community content highlighting. The first will make you laugh at the time spent in Reach, the second will help you rationalize the time you spend in Reach.(Louis Wu 18:02:20 UTC)

Bry put together an absolutely AWESOME video with members of the HBO community putting Pelicans and Falcons through their paces. Great camera work, and awesome squadron synchronization. Fly by and take a look!(GrimBrother One 17:41:40 UTC)

FyreWulff stopped in just now to remind you that there’s only an hour left to enter the Donations drawing of his Noble Map Pack giveaway – go drop something in the pot!(Louis Wu 17:29:40 UTC)

…the maps you take are equal to the maps you make!

Halo: Reach is a hell of a drug.

Sticky situations.

More bulls-eyes.

aloyisus pointed out that today is the 9th anniversary of Halo’s release (and, not coincidentally, the release of the original Xbox) – Happy Birthday, you old coot!(Louis Wu 15:31:53 UTC)