Beyond the Achievements

Going beyond the achievements whether it's gaming, movies, beer and/or anything that takes our fancy.

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We have moved!

We have moved websites. Our URL is the same but if you’ve bookmarked or have our RSS feeds then you will need to move to our new site. 

http://btachievements.com

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We have been working hard to get some episodes out for you. Take a look at our new vlog segments where each of us talk about one or two things we’ve done recently. In this episode Amber talks about Lootcrate and onesies.

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Check out Tim’s adventures as he heads out for Record Story day and shows us what it’s all about.

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Our contribution to #tabletopday

We know we’re a little late for tabletopday (ok we’re very late - almost 2 weeks late). As avid boardgames fans I asked each of the team what their favourite games were. 

Amber’s favourites at the moment are:

Pandemic

Betrayal at House on the Hill

Star Trek Catan

Whitechapel

Ben’s favourites at the moment are:

Cards against Humanity

Betrayal at House on the Hill

Settlers of Catan

Hadyn's favourites at the moment are:

Smash Up

Betrayal at House on the Hill

Fluxx in its various forms

Michelle’s favourites at the moment are:

Pandemic

Merchants and Marauders

Cluedo

Fraggle Rock game

Tim’s favourites at the moment are:

Game of Thrones - with the comment “cause who needs friends when you can slaughter everyone!”

Merchants and Marauders

What games do you love? What have we missed? 

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We went and saw Avengers 2 and put a super quick video together for you. **NO Spoilers!**

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Competition! You can win things

Thanks to the wonderful people at Devolver Digital (and Simon!) we have two games to give away.

Hotline Miami 2 - Steam codes - We have 4 codes to give away

Titan Soul - PSN NZ - We have 6 codes to give away. 

To enter, all you have to do is take a selfie (with or without your self in it), of your old retro gaming gear, tag #btagiveaway and which game you’d prefer. You can enter via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or even the good old fashioned way of an email ([email protected]) 

We’ll select 10 random winners from the entries and each of them will get a game. 

Competition closes Sunday 19th of April at 8pm so get your entries in!

Conditions:

The Competition is open to people living in New Zealand. 

You must be over the age of 16 to enter in to win Hotline Miami 2.

The competition will end Sunday 19th April 2015 at 8pm (NZ time)

Participants will enter the competition once

Beyond the Achievements team have the final say on the winners.

The prize is not exchangeable, nor redeemable for cash, nor exchangeable for another gaming platform.

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Throw back Thursday - TV Shows

I know this is very late Thursday night but it still counts as a throw back Thursday post! You'll be able to read this while at work tomorrow procrastinating. We asked you to help contribute to our post:

Might do a #tbtpost tomorrow - What was your favourite TV show when you were a child? I loved Dino Riders & Samurai Pizza cats!

We some you reply with some of your favourites. We hunted down episode 1 of each of these (linked below). Some goodies on this list. Here they are:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Jem

Denver the last Dinosaur

Samurai Pizza Cats

Ren & Stimpy

Widget the world watcher

Transformers

Swamp thing

Captain Planet

X-Men

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

Voltron

Dino Riders

Dungeons & Dragons

Thundercats

The mysterious cities of gold 

Hope you enjoy watching these and bringing back the sweet, sweet memories of these awesome tv shows. 

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The whole team gets back together one last time to have a discussion on our journey for the past year to get Beyond the Achievements up and running.

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The team get back together to discuss 2014. What happened? What are our thoughts? 30 seconds to discuss each topic.

Did we miss something? Let us know!

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We're back for 2015! On this episode Ben & Hadyn go through their top games that exist only in movies.

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Happy Holidays!

It is Christmas time and we wanted to say have a happy holidays. Hopefully you're having a safe, relaxing time. Hopefully Santa brought you some geeky, fun toys or at least some free time to play some games with your loved ones. 

We're on a break and we'll return January 11th 2015 with a new episode. 

Happy holidays!

Beyond the Achievements Crew.

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We all come together to discuss our favourite Christmas themed items, including food, presents and movies. We also have a chat about what we're most looking forward to next year.

Beyond the Achievements will be taking a break during the holidays but we will return January 11th with more episodes!

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Have a laugh at Amber & Hadyn while watching the bloopers from our Locked & loaded episode. 

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This weeks video is a Tazer the Brain segment. Michelle looks at a study that questions whether poorly structured games can cause violence and aggression.

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Celebrating the small things - Thank you!

Over the past few days, over 100 people have liked our Facebook page and over 100 people have followed us on Twitter. 

So thank you!

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We went to Beervana! See what these awesome people had to say.

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Launch party photos

As promised here are the amazing photos by Aurynn.

Facebook Album

Google Plus Album

You can check our Aurynn on twitter or at her blog.