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Ahhh yes nothing like starting the 4th of July holiday weekend off right by having Double XP for Gears of War 2. Here is what was mentioned over on the EpicGames forum…

Starting Friday morning you’ll be receiving double XP as well as a 500 XP bonus awarded to the winning team. And to give a little extra bang to Horde we’re bringing the Ticker squad (a group of Tickers that all spawn at the same time) into full effect. They’ll be showing up a lot more throughout all the waves of Horde and they’ve completely infested every 10th wave with nothing but Tickers. So if you’ve been having trouble with Bloodmounts, this weekend is a good time to get your Horde on and get further than ever before. And don’t forget that TU4 will give you experience for every wave you beat.

The awesome double XP event will end on Monday morning on July 6th. So if you down have the game borrow it from a friend who doesn’t know about it or pick up a used one and save it for the next double XP weekend.

Games must be in good condition and your trade-in shipment valued at $10 or more

Print a shipping label and packing slip, package your games, and ship them

An Amazon.com Gift Card will be deposited into your account upon receipt of games

That’s right over at Amazon.com they allow you to trade in your games for Amazon.com credit. Which isn’t too bad if you consider some of the prices listed over on the 15 really cheap xbox 360 games. Amazon.com even allows you to check the trade-in values of your games before you send them. Some of the trade in values run the competition at a tight race…

Examples of the trade in prices:

• Xbox 360 – Trade-in Value:$16.00
  Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Game of the Year
  
• Nintendo Wii – Trade-in Value:$19.00
  LEGO Batman

• Nintendo DS – Trade-in Value:$9.00
  Pokemon – Diamond Version

One cool feature that Amazon offers is that the shipping for your used games is FREE! So even if no one will take you to the game store (GameStop, Blockbuster, etc) now you can just send out the game right from home.  Please note that the games must be in good condition, which means they must include the manual, cover art and case.  So they’re not like GameStop who allow trade ins that are just a disk.

Here is a list of what consoles & handheld devices they buy:
Console

• PlayStation 3
• PlayStation 2
• Xbox 360
• Xbox
• Wii
• GameCube

Handheld

• Nintendo DS
• PlayStation Portable
• Game Boy Advance

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I recently purchased the game Assassin’s Creed for the Xbox 360 used for only $17.99… However, I just saw it on Amazon for only $15.20 so I could have saved $2 and put it towards another used game from this list of Cheap Xbox 360 games.

When I got the game I didn’t realize that there were any Secret Achievements until I popped the game in my Xbox 360 and started playing… Well I came the list of Secret Achievements for Assassin’s Creed through friends and wanted to share it with whoever is looking for the same “secret achievement” meanings. Below is the list of achievements that are in the game.

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When it comes to my review of the Assassin’s Creed game I felt that the game design and details were really nice however, I HATE playing a game that starts out with a ton of long intro / plot movies that you can’t skip… Kind of like how the game MASS Effect was when I started to play that. After the first two major scenes in MASS Effect I was like screw this I removed the game and returned it to my friend. To me it wasn’t really worth watching the videos / movies and getting minimal game play. That’s pretty much how it was with the Assassin’s Creed game so needless to say I’ll be returning it to the gaming store (Gamestop) to trade it in for another game. Which pretty much explains why I buy alot of my games used…!