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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Although it may have been the coldest week in Florida in many years, that didn’t stop the rest of us from having a great time as usual in the variety of games that we play! Check out the topic (with pics!) on the boards.

http://perfectdarkelite.yuku.com/topic/15110

Adam Bozon officially beat Train Dark LTK with the time of 29:00. It’s now “official” because Rayan Isran once claimed that he beat Train DLTK a couple of years ago, but he didn’t provide proof for it. So, congrats Bozon! Only two levels to go now (Cradle and Silo)!

You can download the video here: Adam Bozon – Train DLTK 29:00. And if you are curious about what the other DLTK records are, take a look at the updated Dark LTK world rankings!

Its been nearly 10 years since we first set our eyes on Joanna Dark, and now 10 years on she is set to spring onto Xbox Live Arcade. Now we all know that Perfect Dark Zero was ok, but nothing special and in comparison against its predecessor quite frankly sucked, so when Rare announced that the original Perfect Dark was to arrive things started to look up.

Rare have already stated that the port will include updated visuals, but keep almost all of the original content that made it what it was. In addition, we have online multiplayer over Xbox Live and i am pretty sure they would be adding leaderboards for levels.  So what does that mean for the elite.net?

Well first of all it could quite potentially bring more users to this site and increase competition should these new users still have the original. Personally for me it will be interesting to see whether or not the Defection glitch is still possible, or even the Deep Sea glitch for that matter. I don’t expect that the times achieved by the many great gamers on this site can be achieved through an Xbox 360 but it will be interesting to see what can be achieved.

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