Access Denied Prevent Roxxon from stealing the Stark Archives.	10
	Deportation Prevent the Russian separatists from deploying Roxxon Armigers.	15
	Power Outage Defeat the Crimson Dynamo.	15
	Anti-PROTEAN Destroy Project PROTEAN.	20
	Improvisation Under Fire Save Rhodey and the Stark mobile armory from the A.I.M. attack.	20

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	Coin Gobbler Final Fight™: Complete all levels using less than 18 continues.	20
	Cody-pendant Final Fight™: Complete all levels with Cody.	15
	Haggar-ed Final Fight™: Complete all levels with Haggar.	15
	Who’s that Guy? Final Fight™: Complete all levels with Guy.	15
	Locksmith Unlock everything in the Vault.	25

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	I knew we’d make it Campaign: finish Operation Aurora	15
	Retirement just got postponed. Campaign: finish Cold War	15
	It’s bad for my karma man! Campaign: finish Heart of Darkness	15
	They got all your intel? Campaign: finish Upriver	15
	Salvage a vehicle. Campaign: finish Crack the Sky	15

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I’ve gotten an influx of messages over the past couple of months from people asking to close their account. Much more than normal. I’ve been too busy with working on other MGC projects that I haven’t really followed up on these messages other than to honor their request. However, one nice user brought it to my attention that he wanted to close his account because he heard a rumor that Xbox Live accounts could be stolen by others simply by having an account at MyGamerCard.

Let me assure you that this is patently false

First, the logic part: MGC has no physical access to your actual Xbox Live account.
The only information that we even see are GamerCard information that’s also reflected on Xbox.com. We don’t know any personal information about you beyond what you tell us in your registration. All of your billing information and other private information is never provided to MGC.

Second, a word of general caution: The ONLY way someone can access your account is A) You give your Xbox Live ID and password to someone for the purposes of getting achievements for you or you trusting a site that promises ‘fr33 m$ pointz’ - or B) Someone knows your email and guesses your password. If you do mirror your Live ID email address and password, MGC uses very secure systems to protect that information, including the practice of storing an encrypted password rather than your actual one.

Thirdly, a disclaimer: You do not have to provide your Windows Live ID and/or associated password to MGC! You are required to give an email address that we can contact you, and we understand that you may only use one email address for everything. But you can always use a different password than those you set on other sites. That’s why we have to verify your GamerTag via Xbox.com - if we needed your actual Live ID information, we would have a Live ID login button that you might see on game developer sites (Rockstar, etc) where they can instantly link your GamerTag with their information. While MGC is a trusted partner with the Xbox Community Developer Program, we do not yet have that capability.

If you ever have any questions as to how your information on MGC is secured, or if you receive any correspondence claiming to be from MGC that you’re unsure of, ALWAYS let us know immediately - we’ll be glad to help!

	Top Agent Bonus for completing the game on Normal difficulty.	20
	Heroic Agent Bonus for completing the game on Experienced difficulty.	30
	Legendary Agent Bonus for completing the game on Hardcore difficulty.	40
	Gaining a Foothold Complete 3 stronghold takeovers	10
	Conqueror of Panau Complete 9 stronghold takeovers.	20

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	Kicking the tires Complete the Single Player tutorial mission.	5
	Mr. Awesome Defeat the Awesomeland End Boss	15
	Sal Defeat the Gastown End Boss	15
	Semi Slapshot Defeat the Coal Harbour End Boss	15
	Alex Alternator Defeat the Motordome End Boss	15

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	WHOMP WILY! Clear the game once.	5
	BLUE BOMBER Clear the game in under an hour.	10
	SUPERHERO Clear the game on HARD.	10
	HARD ROCK Make it to a boss room without getting damaged.	20
	HEADBANGING Defeat the 8 bosses without your helmet on.	20

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I’ve been getting a lot of messages from email providers informing me that members are clicking the Spam button on MGC’s messages, and I want to address what it means for us, and what it means for your account.

Marking messages as spam is NOT a harmless act. You’re telling your email provider that we send messages to people without a prior relationship, which is obviously untrue, since we (MGC or another respectable website) wouldn’t have your email address without you providing it. It also affects our ability to contact other members who want to activate their account or get periodic information about MGC.

We’re working on providing a more automated solution, but if you wish to close your account for whatever reason, you can do so by contacting us at userservices [at] mygamercard [dot] net. Per our agreement with Junk Mail Reporting services, all accounts using the Spam button will be permanently (and unchangeably) uninvited from our service.

Thanks for your understanding.

In celebration of the New Year, we would like to show you something you’re familiar with, in a new interactive way! Just click a game, an Avatar, or scroll through the game list to see it in action.

You may be prompted to install Silverlight - don’t worry, it’s Microsoft’s version of
Flash (crudely speaking, of course). Installation should only take a moment.

While normally it would look exactly identical to our image-based NXE GamerCard, we had to dim the lights and let a few fireworks fly for 2010!

Dynamo Matt has done an incredible job on this application. While I helped guide its direction and tweak values here and there, he’s been working for several weeks building this for MGC and getting it just right. Be sure to send him your thoughts and encouragement!

Future updates are already being planned, and over the next few months, you may see changes and additions to what may very well become MGC’s new Flagship GamerCard. As always, you can grab this from the MyGamerCard Homepage.

MyGamerCard wishes you a very wonderful New Year!

Well, seems they didn’t back down on the ‘Bad Nanny’ Achievement.

	Slaughter at Acre Fight against the prisoner at Acre	5
	Abandon All Hope Break through the Gates of Hell	15
	Sentence the Judge Defeat King Minos	25
	Lovers Torn Asunder Defeat Marc Antony	25
	The Great Worm Defeat Cerberus	25

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	Prodigy Rescue 30 or more Darwinians in the Darwinia Tutorial	10
	Fastidious Eliminate every single monster on any map in Darwinia (excluding Garden)	15
	Turning the Tide Activate the Construction Yard, begin manufacturing Armour and obliterate the Ant Infestation	15
	Savior Complete the Single Player Campaign	25
	Clear Vision Upgrade any research program all the way to level 4	10

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	Time Attack Unlock Time Attack Mode.	15
	Timeless Unlock Timeless Mode.	20
	First Gold Earn the first Gold Badge.	5
	First Platinum Earn the first Platinum Badge.	10
	First Ultimate Earn the first Ultimate Badge.	15

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Many of MGC’s members are passionate about our genre leaderboards. These pages reward those dedicated to a specific type of game - sports, first-person, party games, etc. Considering the recent release of Tinker, and the upcoming World of Goo and company, it was asked whether MGC would be dedicating a Genre category for these games.

On one hand, while the subject of this question was in regards to the smaller games (Tinker, etc - which are treated as XBLA games by Xbox), this change would affect all Games for Windows Live games, most of which are PC counterparts of Xbox 360 games and already have a genre. On the other hand, at the request of many, we have an East Asian genre for games released in that region (of course, many of those games defy genre classification anyway), including games released in other regions.

Even further, it would reduce the ‘doubling up’ on games needed to stay competitive in each genre (a potential loss for the top scorers, but a gain for everyone else). However, try not to think about whether this classification would help you, but rather whether it makes sense to separate Windows games from their Xbox counterparts.

Even if you’re not particularly interested in the genre leaderboards, please place your (relevant) thoughts here if you have them. Thanks for helping make MGC more entertaining for everyone!

	The Journey Ends (Kids) Finish the game on the Kids difficulty setting.	30
	The Journey Ends (Normal) Finish the game on the Normal difficulty setting.	30
	Friend to the Stars Earn 180 stars in the Single Player mode on the Normal difficulty setting.	40
	Wizard’s Apprentice Find 50 hidden items in the Single Player mode on any difficulty.	10
	There He Is! Find Waldo 20 times in the Single Player mode on any difficulty.	20

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	Disciple of the Osmos Complete all tutorial zones.	10
	Voyager Unlock all zones.	20
	Black Hole Sun Collapse the system in level F2-3 by feeding the Attractor.	20
	Purity Complete all Ambient zones.	20
	Gravitronics Complete all Force zones.	20

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