Free Comic Book Day

Evening, everyone.

Not meaning to post twice in a row about things not pertaining to the 100K Challenge, I just wanted to bring it to everyone's attention that Saturday (May 2nd) is Free Comic Book Day.

Why exactly am I bothering everyone with this?

Well, two reasons really. First and foremost, there will be free comics! Not just any free comics, but comics that have to do with video games. There will be at least a World of Warcraft comic and Gears of War comic there (those or the only two I've seen first hand thus far). Secondly, and this is a bit of a selfish plug, I'll be on hand signing copies of my new comic, The Comic Quest Showcase. I'll be there from 10am-1pm. If you stop by and say you read about the event from this blog, I'll even do a free sketch for you!

So, come on our for all the good fun stuff and free comics!

Happy gaming!

Best Buy $10 Sell

For those of you who probably don't pay much attention to the news sites like Kotaku, or to the deal-sites like cheapassgamer, I wanted to let everyone know that there is a great sale going on at your local Best Buys. Throughout the week, 100 games are on sale for $10! This sale has something from every platform, except PSP and PC. I picked some games up earlier and here was my pull:

The Bourne Conspircey (Xbox 360)
Infinite Undiscovery (Xbox 360)
Jericho (Xbox 360)
Silent Hill: Home Coming (Xbox 360)
Soul Calibur 4 (Xbox 360)
Fracture (PS3)
Hellboy: Science of Evil (PS3)
Quantom of Solace (PS3)

You should go check out your local stores to see if there is anything you may want for your collection, or at the very least, some easy achievement pointers!

Happy gaming (and shopping)!

Challenge Ahoy!

ok the new challenge is posted over at 360voice, here's all the info you need to know.

Title: 100k for Child's Play, and Sparta!!!

Winner's Reward: Bragging rights!
Duration: 14 days
Code: V3QSD3I5

Send this URL to friends so they can join:
http://www.360voice.com/join/V3QSD3I5

feel free to sign up at any time. although it will begin as soon as april 30th. members pending. so try to sign up by then.

also, since the last challenge ended, i was able to go back to my regular gaming. i have picked up two new arcade titles. Minesweeper Flags, and Penny Arcade: On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness. i also downloaded Aria, one of the community games, but for reasons unknown i have not been able to play it.

i picked up Prince of Persia for the first time in a long time to finally complete the original thousand points. i went on to play some of the Epilogue DLC, only to have that permanently freeze on the loading screen. i skimmed through some forums, apparently this is actually quite common, the quick fix is to clear the cache. until now, i did not even know you could do this. what you need to do is go to the system settings, select memory, and they hit Y. after that screen opens you tap X,X, L bumper, R bumper, X,X, and it will ask you if you want to do maintenance on you Xbox, or something along those lines. select yes, and your good to go. i wonder if this will also fix my issues with Aria, since it was a similar loading screen error on that game as well.

Survival Mode and Rewards!

While technically this has nothing do with our challenge, I felt I had the duty to report that the Left 4 Dead DCL, "Survival", has been officially posted in the Xbox Live Marketplace. Well, actually, it was put up about 3 hours ago, but I had pick to play it first or report on it first. My choice was gaming, of course.

Sadly, it offers no new achievements. I'm sort of okay with that, as I find adding more achievements to the original 1,000 a bit lack luster and unappealing when it is only for multiplayer or character based actions. I am, however, perfectly fine with adding new achievements/points when it is for an expansion, such is the case with Fallout 3 and Fable 2. Though, it should be said that with the new "Survival" mode, it does make getting the legendary Zombie Genocidist achievement a million times easier. I mean, my average survival game was 4 minutes. I averaged roughly 200 zombies per game.

In other orginization-related news, I would like to mention that I'm looking into offering "incentives" to the participants that reach certain milestones within our challenge. I need to get with the co-chairs of this committy and a few other people, but I believe I'll be able to roll out some sort or incentive program that will reward those gamers out there that are really striving for that 100K.

Well, that's all for now. Happy gaming!

it's going to be the future soon...

i know i am always talking about updates all the time, and what is to come for our site, challenge, and its members. i simply cannot help it. i like to think we are progressively moving forward. if that requires a bunch of what seem to be minute updates along the way, then so be it.

first of all, i for one cannot believe that we are already in month four. it is madness i tells ya, madness! and although some of the shiny has worn off, i think we still have good chance of making it.

a new thing that found kind of useful, and yet somewhat unnecessary is the Streak Saver from the good people over at 360voice. the idea behind it is to simply be able to sync your progress in a more manual way. i will say that sometimes the auto-sync for the site leaves something to be desired. especially if you play overnight and it crosses that "collection time" which they recommend you do not do anyway. with this handy little tool, you can simply turn on the app, let it run in the background, and it does a check for gameplay on your gamertag about every five minutes or so. plus, you can to do a complete gamertag sync at while, this is useful if you think there are any games or achievements you think you may be missing from the site. it also seems to be useful when you have just earned some points, and for reasons unknown then do not post on your blog until a day later. at least it seems to help with that issue. another benefit, offline gaming can also be added on with the click of a button without actually putting the game back in or anything. i dunno, it appears to be kind of a neat little gadget if anybody is interested.

things to come, our 100k 360voice group posting, and an update in the morning.

3 months and...

Howdy, everyone.

Just popping in for the traditional monthly update, trying to keep everyone up-to-date on all the small little details of the challenge.

First, let me thank MOtaku for all his hard work here on the blog. He has the misfortune of having to update the chart, at the bottom of the screen, on a weekly basis. Right now, it isn't too bad with just the 10 of us, but if/when we get more people in on the band-wagon, it might just get a bit more difficult. So, thanks, MO!

Anyways, onto the details!

Details for our 3rd official month:

Number of participants: 10
Total points earned since Day 1: 21,829 (+3,634 over last month)
Leaders of the pack: MOtaku- +5,750 (1st), XCinX- +4,605 (2nd)

So, we only gained a combine total of +3,634 points this month? Last month was shorter, with less new releases, and we still managed to gain +7,840 that month. Is everyone just losing interest? Not enough good games? Do we need to start offering prizes for the top player(s) each month?

That is definitely something to consider, I suppose.

Well, here's to a better month in April!

Happy gaming!