Unlock The Achievement – The Hunt Begins
Ready for another search & rescue hunt? U360 is part of a community wide scavenger hunt called Unlock The Achievement that’s set to benefit both gamers and charity alike. All you have to do is find the most “Achievements” hidden across all of the partner sites. There are 5 hidden within each partner site. Be sure to register at Unlock The Achievement so your progress can be tracked.
Good luck and godspeed to all of you happy little hunters from U360. I’ll be rooting for ya! (and no I can’t tell you where the hidden Achievements for U360 will be) But you know me…I’ll give some hints if I can. I realize it may be a heavy task to pillage so many sites. Anyway, read below for more details on the event.
Want to be part of the largest and possibly only Xbox 360 Community Scavenger Hunt? 360Sync.com announced it has teamed up with an astonishing 38 Xbox 360 community websites and magazines to launch the largest website scavenger hunt built strictly for the community. The concept, which has been in development for the past year, is nearing its public debut extravaganza.
Players (the name referring to visitors involved in the Scavenger Hunt which will give the illusion that they are playing a game of some sort) will start by visiting their favorite Xbox 360 themed website. From there, they’ll be asked to look for clues on how to find hidden “Achievements” located on each website involved. Each website will be given 5 of these Achievements, ranging in difficulty from Paris Hilton Easy to Expert Guitar Hero III Hard. As players “unlock” more of these Achievements, their progress will be tracked on leaderboards featuring Real-Time Position Changes™ and in turn becoming eligible to win prizes.
Among the participating websites and magazines, Official Xbox Magazine (OXM), Xbox360Fanboy.com and Evil Avatar headline the amazing list of websites that will be featured in the contest.
“If there’s one thing video games have trained us all to do, it’s find hidden stuff,” said Dan Amrich, Senior Editor for OXM. “This scavenger hunt sounded like a logical extension of that, so when Devin invited us to participate, we couldn’t say no. Gamers get free stuff, the sites get fresh visitors, and everybody goes away happy.”
The hunt is set to begin on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 12PM EST. At the same time, a charity package will be arriving in Tennessee to support the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. With the help of Gaming4Others, and the participating sites and sponsors, a donation of 100+ games will be wrapped up and given away to children during a party at the hospital.
Unlock The Achievement has partnered with a number of corporate sponsors, including Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Activision, Popcap, Sierra Online, Capcom, Freeverse, Chair Entertainment, TOR Books, and Hollywood Collectibles. There are over 100 prize packages waiting to be given away, as well as a grand prize that includes an Xbox 360 120GB HDD, Project Gotham Racing 4, Soldier Of Fortune: Payback, Devil May Cry 4, Call of Duty schwag, a Live is 5ive limited edition T Shirt, the complete Halo soundtrack, Uno, and 200 Microsoft Points.
“This event gives many Xbox 360 websites and blogs a wonderful chance to hold a contest for its visitors that otherwise might not have the opportunity to give things away,” said Ziff Davis Media’s Chris Pereira, better known by his alias ‘TheSmokingManX.’
April 18th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
wow this sounds like a great idea to bring our community’s together and do some good for the kids … 38 sites though? wow, thats 190 “eggs” to find …lol..
I’ll give it a shot though, good luck to those who enter
April 18th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I’m going to try this one out for sure. Cool idea and love to play hunting games like this. I’m actually doing a motorcycle ride on May 3rd for St Jude.
April 18th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
@Irish Hehe, it may be some more sites joining now…
On Monday, all will be unveiled
April 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Good luck to all you humans!
I’m out though, I quit with internet contest. XD
April 18th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
super neat-o!
April 18th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Awesome… but is Canada welcome?
April 18th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
man this is gunna be tough! but im in for it
April 19th, 2008 at 2:26 am
This looks awesome!
I hope the UK is welcome?
April 19th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Well Italy is welcome, so I guess A-N-Y-B-O-D-Y is
This should be great fun
April 19th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
woohoo for scheduled posts
it worked.
April 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am
I signed up.. This should be alot of fun not to mention helping out St Jude’s, this is a great idea…
Happy Hunting everyone!!!
PS how much bribery will it take to get the secrect locations from you deac…LOL…
April 20th, 2008 at 10:29 am
me? bribed? never!
April 20th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Ok.. I’ve been ALL over that site and cannot find the rules and regulations. It’s the first thing I read. Who makes a contest site with out having that as the first thing loaded? Sure they have an email addy.. that you have to copy and paste and then mess with to fix the at and dot… I dunno Deac, it has all the appearance of a gag or phisher site. Highly unprofessionaly done.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
@Bloody Baroness
I can guarantee you that this is not a gag. I am working on Rules and some Disclaimer pages. We also have all the prizes finalized, just waiting a little closer to announce them publicly.
Also, my contact information is on the bottom right of the site.
If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:49 am
Sorry if I offending King, I know full well Deacon wouldn’t supply us with false information and April Fools Day has already come and gone. I love things like this and was just getting fustrated that I couldn’t find information on if I would be allowed to join in or not…
April 21st, 2008 at 8:24 am
“ranging in difficulty from Paris Hilton Easy to Expert Guitar Hero III Hard.”
lol,am I the only one who caught that!
April 27th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
The egg hunt was great training for this! I started late, but I’ve been finding them