It finally has a more solid confirmed date, but Perfect Dark will be released on March 17th 2010 with a price of 800 microsoft points and that is more than a bargain for such a great game. Surely we should have a forum game online for those of us who have an Xbox 360?

It will be great to play against some of the great players on here. Here is the official trailer which shows the multiplayer aspect of the game towards the end.

Perfect Dark XBLA Trailer

It seems to be taking an age to come but finally we will be seeing it in the march XBLA Block Party (a bunch of games being released during march on XBLA). Its expected that it will be released for 1200 microsoft points but rumours are abound that it could potentially be 800 ms points but either way its a great bargain for such a great game. Here is a video which shows the very first level being done in what can only be described as record time. Thats enough sarcasm for now..

Perfect Dark XBLA – Defection

I can see you guys just wanting him to jump on the door at the beginning, i have a feeling they will have probably patched any glitches however.

1:02. A time that marks the new age of GoldenEye, the continual push to improve, to untie. In the good old Wouter Jansen days, there weren’t any world records that took 62 seconds (or any impressive amount of time). (jk Wouter) Bryan Bosshardt came along, and while his contributions to the game will never be forgotten, for so long his 1:02 skills lay dormant. But we are in the new era now, we’re in 2010. And today we have:
SURFACE 1 AGENT 1:02
SILO AGENT 1:02
CAVERNS AGENT 1:02

All three of these WRs represent an unprecedented level of dedication, an unbreakable determination to beat the level as fast as possible. These times require precise strafing, great reaction ability, and the willpower to hit Start again and again. In short, to get 1:02, one must be elite.

There are only two players who have 1:02 on all three of those levels. They are the top two players in the world: David Clemens and Rayan Isran. But a third man looks to push himself, to achieve what is impossible for so many. Marc Rützou recently achieved Silo Agent 1:02, after duplicating 1:03 an insane 55 times. He got Caverns before that and now has his sights set on Surface 1.

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If there were a champion of game rage, we have a serious contender.
A fellow by the name of Skarma dropped me an email describing–with no shortage of detail–his dark history with the game Gran Turismo 4. In his own words:

“I have actully gone through 7 PS2 controllers so far on just that ONE game, 6 of which I still have in my possession. The 7th I destroyed it so badly its nonexistent.”

Stuck at 99%, he finally directed his rage away from the controllers and toward the game, having “wiped the floor with it”.
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DAVID CLEMENS, ladies and gentlemen. Just two weeks after getting Extraction Perfect Agent 1:31 to complete his sweep there, he gets another untied record…for another sweep! This time it’s Pelagic II Agent 0:46, cutting another second off a level that’s seen all its records untied recently. You can watch the video here:

Pelagic II A 0:46

Incredible job, David!

David Clemens has been going at Extraction pretty hard for awhile, and he’s managed to complete an untied sweep! There are only three levels currently swept in GE/PD, so fantastic job! You can watch the video here:

David Clemens – Extraction PA 1:31

And see Dave’s commentary on the run here:

David Clemens – Extraction PA 1:31 (commentary)

Everyone knows that Takahiro Arai is the current Perfect Dark champion, passing Ace somewhat recently. Taka hails from Japan, where they eat sushi, drink sake, and do other things ending in vowels. I had reported on two other Japanese players who recently joined the ranks; let’s see how they’re doing, shall we?

Whoa, CEDRIC! This guy has climbed from 21st to 12th in just a month and a half! CEDRIC is threatening to crack the top 10 and at this rate, could even pass his fellow sake-drinker for the #1 spot! CEDRIC most recently got Duel PA 0:09 and a very impressive Defection PA 1:23! We can only hope he continues to play and move up.

Chuya Takizawa has also managed to get into the top 20, currently sitting at 19th. Chuya’s accomplishments are admittedly overshadowed by CEDRIC’s times, but he’s also moved up nine spots in the ranks, and in the same amount of time! Maybe when CEDRIC passes Taka, Chuya will leapfrog him and we’ll have a Japanese top 3!

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We’ve been following the great journey about how would it be possible to beat Cradle on the Dark LTK settings, discussing strats, testing new possibilities etc. And like if it was out of nowhere, Eddie Lovins completed the level in 1:47!!! Yeah you’ve read it right. 1:47! Props to Henrik Norgren who also completed the level in 1:45 a little later, without knowing about Eddie’s strat! How amazing is that! We really can’t do anything here but congratulate both players for their accomplishments, and also props to all the DLTK players who contributed to the strat! (read more about it here).

Eddie Lovins – Cradle Dark LTK 1:47
Eddie Lovins – Cradle Dark LTK 1:21 death

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David Clemens lowered Rayan’s untied of 1:20 on Extraction Special Agent to 1:18!! Another amazing WR by Clemens. Watch his great run here:

David Clemens – Extraction SA 1:18

Recently, a few members of the-elite turned me on to what can only be called “Puzzle Hunts.” These puzzles involve abstract, creative thinking in order to solve, every puzzle different with the solutions rarely clear! Some hunts the-elite has done:

http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/
http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/ub/garethw/main
http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~mums/puzzlehunt/

All these hunts are produced from Australia, and we thought, “We should make an American one!” The idea was tossed around for awhile without much of a result, until Infil took some initiative and got things going!

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