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Unlock the Achievement Hunt announced

Preview | April 16, 2008 3:25 pm
XboxAmerica is proud to be one of 39 Xbox 360 Community sites to participating in the Unlock The Achievement Scavenger Hunt. The idea has taken a year of planning to bring to fruition, but starting Monday, April 21st at 12:00 p.m. EST, the Hunt will officially begin. The concept is simple, travel to all 39 community sites and try to track down and click on the five achievements that are hidden somewhere on each site. They range for Easy to Extremely difficult placement. Anyone can play by visiting UnlockTheAchievement.com and signing up. The contest lasts from April 21st until Sunday April 27th at Midnight. I strongly encourage everyone to participate.

Prizes are still being added, but currently participants can win Xbox 360 Games, a 120 GB HDD, Microsoft Points, Limited Edition T-Shirts and Books.

This isn't about fun for just the sites and the participants, as a care package will be delivered to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee consisting of 100+ unwrapped games. This generous gift on behalf of the various Community Sites and Sponsors should help brighten the day of the Children at the facility.

Check out all the details in the release below:




Unlock The Achievement Scavenger Hunt Announced!

Launches Simultaneously with Charity Event!

Tallahassee, Florida April 16, 2008 Want to be part of the largest and
possibly only Xbox 360 Community Scavenger Hunt? 360Sync.com today 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,
theyll be asked to look for clues on how to find hidden Achievements,
located on each of 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, 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 Medias Chris Pereira,
better known by his alias TheSmokingManX.

Unlock The Achievement is not yet rated by the ESRB. Visit HYPERLINK
"http://www.esrb.org/"www.esrb.org for updated rating information.

For more information, please contact the contest manager, Devin Kofsky, by
email at DKofsky@UnlockTheAchievement.com

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About 360Sync.com

360Sync.com, headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, is one of the world's
leading Xbox 360 blogs that focuses on achievements, preview, reviews, and
contests. Founded in 2006, the blog has been featured on sites such as
Destructoid, Joystiq, Kotaku, and GameSpot. (Please dont hold that last one
against us.)

About Gaming4Others.org

Gaming4Others.org is an organization that coordinates online videogame
tournaments to raise funds for others. Common media stereotypes that portray
gamers as self-centered or anti-social are debunked as Gaming 4 Others (G4O)
demonstrates that many gamers are enthusiastically generous with their time,
money, and effort for worthy causes. G4O combines passion for gaming with
charitable action an - ideal way to allow gamers to positively impact some
of the problems existing in our global community.

About St Judes

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is one
of the world's premier centers for research and treatment of catastrophic
diseases in children, primarily pediatric cancers.The mission of St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention,
for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements

Information in this press release that involves 360Syncs expectations,
plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking
statements that are not facts and involve a number of risks and
uncertainties. In this release they are identified by references to dates
after the date of this release and words such as will, will be,
remains, to be, plans, believes, may, expects, intends, and
similar expressions. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not
limited to, sales of 360Syncs titles, shifts in consumer spending trends,
outbreaks of the Ebola virus, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the
interactive game market, 360Syncs ability to predict consumer preferences
among competing hardware platforms (including next-generation hardware),
declines in software pricing, arbitrary development of IBS (irritable bowel
syndrome), product returns and price protection, product delays, retail
acceptance of 360Syncs products, adoption rate and availability of new
hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in
technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights,
maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and
third-party developers, international economic and political conditions,
integration of recently acquired subsidiaries and identification of suitable
future acquisition opportunities, Armageddon, limitations on our ability to
issue stock and options and foreign exchange rate changes. The
forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information
available to 360Sync as of the date of this release, and 360Sync assumes no
obligations to update any such forward-looking statement. Forward-looking
statements believed to be true when made may ultimately prove to be
incorrect. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and
are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are
beyond our control and may cause actual results to differ materially from
our current expectations. Not unlike IBS.







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When do i know i found what i was looking for on the site that im searching on?
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This sounds SO cool can't wait!!
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Man thats just way to many sites. I'm not on that many in a whole year. I bet you'll have to register on each site also. That won't be any fun, and the prizes aren't worth the trouble. I could buy the whole Grand prize pack on one days pay.
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They are images that link back to the website, which tracks where they came from...
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Hey guys,

First off, you will only need to register on 1 site - www.Unlocktheachievement.com

We are going to update the homepage with better instructions, but basically, you are going to be searching for a specific image (it will be unveiled before the contest starts on Monday). Click the image, and it will unlock... whoever finds the most and ends in the top 100 wins!

Feel free to post any questions here...
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Hey guys,

First off, you will only need to register on 1 site - www.Unlocktheachievement.com

We are going to update the homepage with better instructions, but basically, you are going to be searching for a specific image (it will be unveiled before the contest starts on Monday). Click the image, and it will unlock... whoever finds the most and ends in the top 100 wins!

Feel free to post any questions here...



Registering on one site, that's not so bad. I,m not trying to be a party pooper, but the prizes for something this big and this many people and sites shouldn't be this weak. It should at least be better than that kid who got his art work messed up on his repair. So what is Xba pitching into this. Since i'm the one bitching mabe I can help!!!
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Registering on one site, that's not so bad. I,m not trying to be a party pooper, but the prizes for something this big and this many people and sites shouldn't be this weak. It should at least be better than that kid who got his art work messed up on his repair. So what is Xba pitching into this. Since i'm the one bitching mabe I can help!!!



Hmm, thats funny... I don't remember publishing the prize packages yet :D
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Quote by TK Chillin:


Registering on one site, that's not so bad. I,m not trying to be a party pooper, but the prizes for something this big and this many people and sites shouldn't be this weak. It should at least be better than that kid who got his art work messed up on his repair. So what is Xba pitching into this. Since i'm the one bitching mabe I can help!!!



Hey TK

"Prizes are still being added, but currently participants can win Xbox 360 Games, a 120 GB HDD, Microsoft Points, Limited Edition T-Shirts and Books." :D

Believe in DaKing! More to come folks....
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I was only going by the info in the news release. It does mention the gran prize to include a 120GB HDD (where is the Elite to go with it), Three lame games, a T-shirt that even I wouldn't want, the halo sound track, Uno, and 200 points. I'm sure there will be more stuff than this. Looking at the list of sponsers (activision, capcom, EA sports to name a few) I can't help but to be underwelmed.

Here's my Grand prize pack.

Costom painted Elite with live vision camera and battery packs with charger.
At least 10 A-list games
12 month XBL Gold
4000 point card
Cool custom event shirts (Zazzle.com)

I could add alot more stuff, but thats a start. Not unreasable.
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Dude ... Free Stuff >>> Buying Stuff
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Dude ... Free Stuff >>> Buying Stuff



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