Forza Horizon Goes Online

After a suggestion from a friend, I made a return to Forza Horizon which is a superb spin-off of the classic Forza franchise and spanned the day in a number of sessions that resulted in five unlocks and began with Cruise Club (20G) for completing ten online free roam challenges with Still a Noob... (10G) popping up for completing ten online races.

Just Me and the XP (10G) unlocked after reaching level 25 online and was soon followed by Noob No More (10G) for completing 25 online races.



The night ended with Wheelin' 'n Dealin' (10G) after selling an item using the Design Storefront.

4 Elements II Picks Up

A quick session on 4 Elements II resulted in a single unlock in the shape of Pick It Up (5G) for breaking 300 stones.

May 2014 Summary

May continued the fine run of centuries in 2014 and did so despite a busy month overall and puts me in good stead to beat last year's records.


May 2014 (2013 in brackets )



103 Achievements unlocked (13)
11 Games played  (3)

2001 TA points (163) 
1320 Gamerscore (135)

A spectacular start to the year continues and means the goals for the year can all be met inside the 12 month target.

Watch Dogs Shoots And Tags

An evening session on Watch Dogs saw further progress on a game that I am enjoying more and more as I play with two unlocks coming from the session beginning with Hardware Fail (15G) for shooting tires on 15 different vehicles and was soon joined by Bookmarked (30G) for tagging 100 enemies.

4 Elements II Ignites

A busy day of sorting meant only a short time for gaming so I decided to return to 4 Elements II which resulted in a single unlock in the shape of Ball of Fire (5G) for using Magic Fire 40 times.

Microsoft Taptiles Collects Stars

A quick go on Windows 8 saw a return to Microsoft Taptiles which resulted in two unlocks beginning with Forced Perspective (10G) for completing an Origins pack without rotating which was instantly followed by Astro Logical (10G) for earning 24 stars in Origins mode.

4 Elements II Solves

A busy day meant only a little time to continue the achievement streak resulting in a go on 4 Elements II and the solitary unlock of Puzzle out (10G) for solving 20 puzzles.

Watch Dogs Takes Down

After numerous delays in the last 12 months, finally Watch Dogs launched yesterday and after about an hour's play, it is is a very clever and impressive game which for me saw the opening unlock of Hello World (15G) for taking down Maurice.

4 Elements II Brings Up 500th Post

I am stunned that already I have reached 500 posts on this blog as it seems not so long ago that I first devised the Idea but all the same I am delighted that my audience has stuck with me for so long.

4 Elements II features today with a single unlock in the shape of Strive for More (5G) for making a chain of 15 or more chips. Of course had I known that May 26 was to be the 500th post, I may have created a special achievement day but with falling behind in writing it was not to be so such an idea can be saved for the 750th post whenever that may be.

Dead Rising 3 Double DLC Day

Dead Rising 3 Chaos Rising DLC ended with the unlocking of Fit to Lead (10G) for completing Chaos Rising and then up next was the beginning of the final DLC, The Last Agent with the first unlock being Out With The Bad (10G) for defeating all Bikers.

Sworn to Protect (10G) unlocked for rescuing all of the Survivors and was swiftly followed by Bag of Chips (10G) for collecting all ZDC chips.



Hacking the Hacker (10G) unlocked for finding Nelson and while exploring with him, Bootleg Operator (10Gg) popped up for collecting all Bootleg Zombrex. 


Ashes to Ashes (10G) unlocked for burning all Biohazards with Sourced (10G) following after finding the source of the military signal and fighting off Spec Ops.


Kane's Last Words (10G) unlocked for collecting all of the evidence with the session and DLC episode ending with Agent of Justice (10G) popping up for completing The Last Agent and in doing so put me on 85/88 achievements on the game itself. 

Dead Rising 3 Chaos Rising Resumes

After a break, Dead Rising 3 Chaos Rising resumes with four unlocks beginning with Hunter and the Hunted (10G) for defeating all of the Captains with Stick it to the Man (10G) popping up after destroying all of the Emergency Phones.

4 Elements II Begins

The weekly Red Stripe Sale saw 4 Elements II come up at £1.29 and was an opportunity not to miss so purchased and downloaded before a quick play that resulted in two unlocks starting with Carte Blanche (10G) for restoring a card without the use of a power-up with Each Second Matters (5G) popping up after collecting 15 chains in 30 seconds.