Wordament Hits The Web

When the game Wordament first appeared on Windows 8 in October, I never thought that come February 2013 I would be earning achievements on a third version of the game and this time it is the WEB version which saw a total of nine unlocks which began with Swipe Those Tiles (10G) popping up for completing 10 rounds.

Spin Cycle (10G) spun in for rotating the grid in a round and soon Autobiographical (20G) unlocked for finding the longest possible word in a round which was 'extinguished'.

Better Than Half (10G) popped up for finishing in the top 50% of players in a round and CH a CH IN g (10G) unlocked for finding a diagram word in a round.


Beat Your Frenemies (20G) unlocked for beating all frenenmies (I selected a random player) and Theme Word popped up for finding a themed word in a round.

Multilingual (10G) popped up for playing the game in an alternate language of which I chose Français and Sweet Sixteen (10G) for finding words which used each of the 16 letters in the grid once in a round.

January Summary

As in 2012, January has again put up a mixed start in terms of accolades and achievements but this year the main reason for the mix is that I am no longer single and also my work rota has seen me do a few weeks with little gap between five and six day runs.

This has meant that I have found little time to have a proper gaming session and rack up stacks of achivements, more so is the fact that it has taken me until the 3rd of Feb to actually get round to writing this summary.

The main success has come through play on non-retail titles such as Retro City Rampage, Minesweeper, Cut The Rope and Wordament.

January 2013 (2012 in brackets)

44 Achievements unlocked (38)
8   Games played (4)
1170 TA points* (862)
700 Gamerscore (650)

*TA points exclude losses due to score re-calculation.
All in all an improvement on last year and hopefully February will a similar improvement with more games being played and completed with no planned purchases on the horizon.

Microsoft Minesweeper Reaches the End While Cut The Rope Begins

After a lot of effort I finally unlocked Saviour of the World (15G) for completing a game on each game board and in doing so also completed the game as a whole with this being the final achievement that I needed. So Microsoft Minesweeper becomes my 18th completed game.

Cut The Rope is yet another Windows 8 game and a few early achievements unlocked beginning with Quick Finger (5G) for cutting three ropes at once and Rope Cutter (5G) for cutting 100 ropes.

Bronze Scissors (5G) unlocked for collecting 50 stars while Master Finger (15G) popped up for cutting five ropes at once.

Assasin's Creed III continues

Sequence 8 saw Connor imprisoned and also preventing the assassination of General Washington and saw the unlock of Caged Wolf (20G) and then a quick trip back to Desmond's reality and a dash around a Brazilian metro station saw Daddy Dearest (20G) pop up for completing Present-Stadium mission.

Family Guy Multiverse Madness

A lot of effort on Multiverse Madness led to the unlocking of Bunch of Chumps (15G) for successfully surviving fifteen waves of Multiverse Madness.

Assasin's Creed III Attacks The Brits While Family Guy Completes The Challenge

Sequence Seven included the pursuing of John Pitcairn to assassination and fighting the Redcoats with the Patriots which led to The Whites of Their Eyes (20G) and with a lot of help from my girlfriend on Family Guy BTTM, Big Dipper (40G) unlocked for earning 21 challenge stars the last of which came on the Sea Pirates level which took us at least 10 tries to successfully complete.

Assasin's Creed Resumes

Back to present day and a quick unlock in the shape of Criss Cross (20G) for completing the mission Present-SkyScraper, soon after with staging the famous Boston Tea Party and killing William Johnson it led to Tea is for Englishmen (20G) unlocking for completing Sequence Six.

Assasin's Creed III Sails On

Sequence 5 continued with a naval battle and a trip to Boston all leading to The Day the Templars Cried (20G)

Assasin's Creed III Goes Hunting

Next was Sequence 4 which included hide and seek and hunting animals and saw the unlocking of Heroes Are Born (20G) for completing Sequence 4 and while hunting between Seqs 4 and 5 I unlocked By Invitation Only (20G) for being invited to join a club which in this case was the Hunting Society.

Assasin's Creed III Starts 2013

After a mixed start gaming wise to 2013, I have finally begin my goal to get some games played and by use of a number generator the first on the list is Assassin's Creed III and an early unlock came in the shape of Mystery Guest (20G) which unlocked for completing Sequences 1 and 2.

How D'ya Like Them Apples (20G) unlocked for completing Sequence 3 which included infiltrating a fort and killing Edward Bradock with the help of the tribes of the Mohawks.

Retro City Rampage Continues

The Cosplayer (25G) unlocked for dressing up as one of the guest stars and Bike Bounce (10G) unlocked for knocking a pedestrian off their bike to ricochet another off a bike.



Broken Chain (25G) unlocked for reaching a multiplier chain of 99x

Retro City Rampages On

Eco-friendly Fire (10G) unlocked for hitting four people with a single shotgun blast while Master of Your Domain (10G) unlocked for dethroning GLC's high score.

Three Flings (10G) unlocked for knocking down two pedestrians with a third using the bioclaw and Big Money (10G) unlocked for matching all the cards in a single round in the Spades to Steal casino.

Tool Time (30G) unlocked for collecting all seven time machine parts

Retro City Rampage Goes For A Drive

Two quick unlocks on Retro City Rampage in the shape of Feeling Groggy (10G) for getting 'sick' on 'milk and Rocky Road Tire Crunch (15G) for running over 25 pedestrians without stopping.

Retro City Rampage Hits The Arcade

A new release hit the Xbox Live Arcade this week called Retro City Rampage and within 30 minutes play, five achievements unlocked beginning with You Broke The Law! (5G) for raising the threat level and causing a police chase.and Killabunga! (5G) for killing four green sewer dwellers.

8-Blow (15G) unlocked for blowing up 8 vehicles in 8 seconds while Pixel Me Rollin' (10G) popped up for driving 65536 pixels.


8-Bit Hydrant Overflow (30G) unlocked for putting 256 people on fire on a single life.

Doritos Crash Course Gets DLC

Doritos Crash Course received DLC for the first time in the game's two year existence and saw three quick unlocks in Hats Off To You! (40G) for launching through the magic hat in Las Vegas 5, London Bridge (40G) for surviving the collapsing bridge in London 5 and Party Pooper (20G) for popping 5 balloons without touching the ground which saw the completion of the City Lights DLC.