The Bungie Weekly Update is live – Sketch was feeling as though he didn’t have that much to share, but it’s still full of a bunch of interesting info. Swing by to give it a read! (It is, of course, also available in our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 23:14:46 UTC)

Raising the information level cap.

I’ve got a pair of L4D2 Achievement guides for you today. The first covers getting the Kill Bill Achievement….

while the second shows a good place to grab the Barrel Rolled Achievement. Happy hunting!

DEEP NNN stopped in with a bunch of links to his blog at 2old2play – he’s been building Stonehenge within Forge World. Go check out the progression!(Louis Wu 16:02:51 UTC)

Anton P. Nym just threw down the gauntlet for what looks like one of the more entertaining contests out there – he’s looking for a particular (staged) screenshot, and if you’re the first to provide it, he’ll provide 15 render minutes for your finest Halo shenanigans. Go see if you can give him what he wants! Update: Whoa. HQHB answered this challenge in under 2 hours. Insanity!(Louis Wu 14:48:55 UTC)

GhaleonEB has decided to start a blog about Forging – he’s focusing on how a map comes into being, rather than the nuts and bolts of actually building it. His opening entry is now up at Forward Unto Dawn – go give it a read! And bookmark it, because I’m betting future installments are gonna be fascinating.(Louis Wu 14:39:39 UTC)

Vulture, an entertainment blog at New York Magazine, touched on the news that Stephen Spielberg is interested in a Halo movie – although we already posted about this on Wednesday, the Vulture article also contains a run-down of what happened to the FIRST attempt at a Halo movie. Some of those facts were common knowledge before, some were new to me. Interesting read! (Please don’t get too offended by Vulture’s characterization of Halo’s novels…) Thanks, newguy2445.(Louis Wu 14:36:25 UTC)

FugitiveSoldier presented a short film of a Revenant’s misfortune on Hemorrhage… I guess those ‘seam’ issues aren’t just in fan-made maps! (FugitiveSoldier thinks it might be related to host migration.)(Louis Wu 14:35:00 UTC)

Hedgemony stopped by to say that he’s taking submissions again – and he includes an example of a recent screenshot he enhanced a bit for a fan. Dang.(Louis Wu 14:34:03 UTC)

Stephen Loftus noticed that there was a bit of non-English writing at the end of one of the entries in Halsey’s Journal (the book that comes with the Limited and Legendary Editions of Halo: Reach) – so he sent it to a friend in India, who was able to read it. (A scan of the snippet is here, if you want to see it for yourself.) You can read the email exchange between Stephen and his friend on our forum – and follow the rest of the thread for speculation about what it actually signifies. What a great little touch!(Louis Wu 14:33:16 UTC)

chris10023 let us know that Halo Reach Fails, Episode 2, is online – it had me chuckling all the way through. I especially liked the Campaign fails! Go watch.(Louis Wu 14:32:19 UTC)

Three new pieces are up in the Fan Fiction section this week – go read!(Louis Wu 14:31:55 UTC)

The latest Top Story on Bungie.net is a writeup of the Halo Humpday Challenge against Tied the Leader. Why a Top Story this time? Well, because (spoilers!) Bungie won. It’s a great read – sounds like they were some fun games. (XerxdeeJ stopped by to point out that the TTL writeup was online, as well – a fine example of graceful acquiescence.) deeJ makes a great point – it’s not so much who wins or loses, it’s that Bungie makes these happen at all. So who’s next?(Louis Wu 14:30:31 UTC)

In case you haven’t already heard, Lucafilm is converting Star Wars to 3D, making some diehard fans nervous…

Hey guys, I’m back with a couple of Psychopath guides in Dead Rising 2. Up first is the “Here Comes the Groom” guide. Aim for the crotch pig.

Up next is “Mail Order Zombrex” which is cool because the dude has an awesome trucker ‘stache and also Zombrex. Enjoy!

Time for another episode. This one is gonna be all about the new DLC that Left 4 Dead received recently! You know how this works, send in all your fun stories, opinions, and other thoughts on the DLC to atr@podtacular.com. The form appears to be missing for now, but I’ll try and get a link to that form put up on the site again. For now just use the email.

Given my school schedule I can’t give a definite recording date, but it’s gonna be in at least one week and no more than three weeks (I hope). So there isn’t a big rush to send them in. You have plenty of time to play it before the show gets recorded.

Get to it!

There’s going to be plenty of new content to buy this month, even today there’s a new Arcade game Comic Jumper as well as “The Sacrifice” DLC for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 which was delayed from yesterday. I’m sure AHWU will have you covered on the new game releases, but in terms of deals, here’s what’s on offer for the rest of the month so far:

Week of October 4th: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Stimulus Package and Resurgence Package are both reduced to 600 MS Points each.

Week of October 11th: Mass Effect 2
Overlord DLC and Kasumi: Stolen Memory DLC both reduced to 400 MS Points.

Week of October 18th: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (XBox Live Members’ Choice)
Onslaught DLC package reduced to 400 MS Points.
SPECACT Upgrade Bundle package reduced to 320 MS Points.

These may be some great deals, but unfortunately they don’t count towards the best deal currently on the XBox Live Marketplace. If you spend 2400 MS Points or more on full price Arcade games or Game Add Ons (DLC), you’ll receive 800 MS Points back for free!
For all the info on this deal, check out the Official page.

First off, got a little reminder for a competition open to all of you with an XBox Live account. Achievement Challenge 13 is currently open for sign ups, a week long race to see who can rack up the biggest Gamerscore increase. If this sounds like your kind of thing, head on over to the Achievement Challenges group to join up! The Challenge begins Friday morning at 9am GMT.

This next bit UK only!
Hunted: The Demons Forge is still a few months away, but you could be wearing this snazzy t-shirt much sooner than that.



To be in with a chance of winning, youll first of all need to live in the UK, is that clear now? Good! Now to win, youll need to keep an eye on my Twitter page @TudorVII other the next few days. Ill be putting out tweets with a few letters from a game title I tried while attending Eurogamer Expo 2010 last weekend. Each one will have the hashtag #EGXComp and Ill let you know when the last ones been tweeted. Once theyre all done, unscramble the collection of letters to form an upcoming game title that was at Eurogamer Expo and send me a message here on Achievement Hunter. The winner will be the first one who messages me with the correct answer, so make sure you’re quick.
Good luck guys, thisll be kicking off tomorrow.

Hey guys, today I bring forth another couple of achievement guides for Dead Rising 2. Today is a boss battle guide and a follow me guide! Enjoy.

Up first, the “Come on! Follow me!” achievement guide.

Up next is a very spoiler-riffic boss battle guide. Don’t click if you don’t want to know the final boss!

Non Sequitor titles for the win! Anywho, we’re back after the whirlwind of PAX Prime and the Halo: Reach launch. As such, we discuss both things, as well as some XBLA titles, Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions. But seriously, we talk a lot about Reach. Campaign (no spoilers), Firefight, Forge, Matchmaking, Achievements. All of it. Also, we’re thinking of moving recording to Wednesdays and releasing on Fridays, but want your feedback. Email us or sound off in the group forum to let us know what you think!

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