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Australia & New Zealand March 2nd 2006 Australian Prices * Xbox 360 Core System - $499.95 * Xbox 360 System - $649.95 * Xbox 360 Games - $99.95 * 20Gb hard drive - $169.95 * 64MB Memory unit - $49.95 * Advanced AV pack - $39.95 * Batterypack - $19.95 * Faceplate - $29.95 * Headset - $49.95 * High Definition AV pack - $49.95 * Play charge kit - $34.95 * Rechargeable battery pack & cradle - $49.95 * Universal Media Remote - $49.95 * VGA cable - $49.95 * Wired controller - $59.95 * Wireless controller - $79.95 * Wireless networking adaptor - $169.95 New Zealand Prices * Xbox 360 Core System - $549.95 * Xbox 360 System - $719.95 * Xbox 360 Games - $99.95 * 20Gb hard drive - $189.95 * 64MB Memory unit - $59.95 * Advanced AV pack - $44.95 * Batterypack - $24.95 * Faceplate - $34.95 * Headset - $59.95 * High Definition AV pack - $59.95 * Play charge kit - $39.95 * Rechargeable battery pack & cradle - $59.95 * Universal Media Remote - $59.95 * VGA cable - $59.95 * Wired controller - $69.95 * Wireless controller - $89.95 * Wireless networking adaptor - $189.95 VIP Premiere Pack Australia $149.95 - New Zealand $169.95 Comes with Perfect Dark Zero not the Limited Collector's Edition

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Pre-orders for Xbox 360 to begin DECEMBER 8TH 2006 Sydney, 1 December 2005 – Participating leading retailers will officially begin taking Australian pre-orders for the Xbox 360 from December 8, it was announced today. The program will allow customers to be among the first in Australia to own an Xbox 360, subject to availability at participating retailers. The Xbox 360 sold out on its US debut day last week and similar enthusiasm for the next-generation console is expected when it is released at one minute past midnight on March 2, 2006 in Australia. Pre-orders for Xbox 360 (RRP*$649.95) will be taken at leading participating Australian retailers. David McLean, Regional Director, Xbox Australia said he was excited that both retailers and consumers are putting the Xbox 360 at the top of their wish list. “We will be working closely with our retail partners during the pre-order program to best meet the anticipated high Australian demand,†McLean said. “We are on currently on track with our manufacturing plans, with enough volume to support the Australian launch. However given the unprecedented demand shown in other parts of the world we would obviously encourage keen customers to pre-order their Xbox 360.†Customers who pre-order the Xbox 360 will also be able to purchase the VIP Premiere Pack from leading participating Australian retailers – which includes discounted accessories†and leading launch title Perfect Dark Zero. The VIP Premiere Pack has a recommended retail price of $149.95* and includes: - Leading launch title Perfect Dark Zero (RRP*$99.95) - Additional wireless controller (RRP*$79.95) - Limited edition faceplate (RRP*$29.95) - Preview DVD featuring video of upcoming titles, recent Xbox 360 events and interviews with executives - Access to a Xbox 360 VIP Premiere Club website that includes exclusive content on the Xbox 360 The VIP Premiere Pack is not available with the Xbox 360 Core System. The VIP Premiere Pack will also be available from leading participating Australian retailer December 8. “The VIP Premiere Pack is specifically designed for gamers,†McLean said. “These are people who are going to want an additional wireless controller, a great game and an insider’s account of the Xbox 360.†The VIP Premiere Pack is only for exclusive use with Xbox 360. The accessories in the pack are not compatible with the original Xbox video game system. Xbox also announced Australian recommended retail pricing for Microsoft Game Studios Xbox 360 launch titles today. Perfect Dark Zero, Project Gotham Racing 3 and Kameo: Elements of Power each will have a recommended retail price of $99.95*

Xbox 360: Full Australian price list The Xbox 360 will launch on 2 March 2006 in two bundles. On launch day : more than 30 games Xbox 360 Core System will retail for AU $499.95 and will include: * Xbox 360 console * Composite AV cable * One wired controller Xbox 360 system, an upgrade from the Core offering, will retail for $649.95 It will include: * Xbox 360 console * Component high definition cable * Ethernet cable * 20GB hard drove * Media remote * One wireless controller A wide range of Xbox 360 accessories will be available on launch. The current list includes: * 20GB hard drive ($169.95) * 64MB Memory unit ($49.95) * Advanced AV pack ($39.95) * Battery pack ($19.95) * Faceplate ($29.95) * Headset ($49.95) * High Definition AV pack ($49.95) * Play charge cable ($34.95) * Rechargeable battery pack and cradle ($49.95) * Universal Media Remote ($49.95) * VGA cable ($49.95) * Wireless ($79.95) and wired ($59.95) controllers * Wireless networking adaptor ($169.95) Microsoft would release the names of the Australian launch games (and their retail prices) early in the New Year. All Australian Xbox 360 purchases will come with a Silver membership to Xbox Live. Any locals with existing Live accounts will automatically have their gamer tags and records roll over come March next year. cnet.com.au

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Perfect Dark Zero Cinematic Trailer HD Gametrailers

Carrying the Torch for Xbox 360 As executive producer for Rare's Xbox 360 titles, Jim Veevaert was responsible for making sure the console's flagship title, Perfect Dark Zero, made it to market in time; and that it justified those lofty expectations. Next Generation spoke to the man in the spotlight… Right now, his is perhaps one of the most onerous tasks in the game industry. The next generation begins next week; and it partly turns on whether or not Perfect Dark Zero is up to snuff. "It's an incredible challenge," he says. "It's been crazy the past couple of weeks. It's been extraordinary. Getting two titles out at launch is something I have never done before. Rare is not typically a launch development studio. They usually say the game will come when it's ready. This was a big thing for them to get these two games out at launch." Rare, in typical fashion, left everybody sweating to the end. Microsoft was forced to press the game before it had passed its certification; a gamble that paid off (see yesterday's story). "We have always known the rough date for when 360 was going to hit and so for us it has been a fine balance of managing the quality of the game and hitting that date," Veevaert says. Perfect history He explains the history of PDZ and how it came to represent Microsoft's hopes and aspirations. "Originally Perfect Dark was slated for Xbox. The game we had in development looked really good, but it was going to hit market around the time of Halo 2, in November 04. So we looked at it and thought about it and we saw how big it was and we decided the game could be fully realized if it was pushed to the next platform. It made a lot more sense." He adds, "There is a certain value in a game being there on day one, against a game that ships three months later and we felt that this would be perfect. Given the opportunity to make the game ready for the launch of the platform we all agreed this was the right thing to do. There's enough content in there to keep players happy for months on end, and still go back for more. " Big numbers Shortages will not be a problem for Perfect Dark Zero. Microsoft is pressing one copy of the game for every piece of hardware, with 700,000 going into the channel in the first week of launch, followed by new supplies, depending on the tie-ratio. You can't get more ambitious than a 100% tie-ratio. "I feel pretty good about the fact that Perfect Dark is absolutely the flagship game for the box," says Veervaert. "If gamers are interested in first person shooters, this will be very good for them." Veervaert's job carries him between Redmond and Rare's HQ in the tiny English village of Twycross. He explains his role, "I spend a lot of my time going back and forth to the UK. I'm on the Rare executive team, so I'm involved in product strategy - what games we are developing next, how teams are being managed, how partnerships are being managed, how budgets are being set. I spend about a week out of every month in the UK and over here I oversee four producers who work on Rare titles." He says his role is to co-ordinate, oversee, suggest, finesse and, above all, keep everyone in the loop. "The executive team works closely together to review product, make decisions collectively and decide on strategies. I spend a lot of time getting everybody updates on where we are up to and the decisions we are making. Managing the integration and relationship between Rare and Microsoft is central to my role." So what is the level of his creative input? "Sometimes teams will come back with proposals on the directions they would like to go and I'll be very active in terms of giving design feedback. I don't sit down and say 'I'm going to go ahead and design this game', but I give plenty of feedback on each of the products that go out." Next: The Halo Factor Next-Gen

Perfect Dark Zero In order to guarantee Xbox 360 launch-day availability of flagship title Perfect Dark Zero, Microsoft sent the game to manufacture before it had passed certification. It was an extraordinary gamble. The game passed certification after the disks had been pressed. If the company had waited for certification to come through before okaying manufacture, Perfect Dark Zero would not have been available at the launch of Xbox 360. Having ordered replication of the disks, Microsoft and Rare had to cross their fingers for a positive certification. If Microsoft's notoriously strict procedure - which we understand was not eased for PDZ in any way - had failed, the disks would have been trashed and the game would have been late. The certification process is the final stage a game goes through before manufacture. Microsoft's team picks through the game making sure there are no bugs, that menus all work correctly, and that there are no compatibility issues. Games that fail, even in the smallest detail, are sent back to publishers and developers for changes. The process can take days, or even weeks. Microsoft's developer Rare has been under enormous pressure to deliver two games for the launch of Xbox 360 - Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero, with PDZ the flagship title for the entire launch. Failure to make retail on November 22 would have been a sales and publicity disaster. Taking a risk PDZ executive producer Jim Veevaert told Next Generation, "Typically we go through a certification process to get a game finished and then we release to manufacturing. We took some risks and manufactured the disks over five days before certification." When asked about the risks involved he said, "If the certification had not passed, we would have had hundreds of thousands of disks on our hands. It was us taking a risk to get the game there day one and there for launch." He said, "Typically you can take upwards of 12 to 14 days to go through certification. In this case we didn't have the time, so we said 'go for it'." He said the team was confident, if not certain, that the certification would pass. "The team had been going through the game over the last few weeks to get us to a point where we felt really comfortable. Rare does a lot of work in terms of polishing the game so we felt pretty confident it was time to let it go." Microsoft has manufactured 700,000 copies of Perfect Dark Zero for the U.S. market, with a target hardware tie-ratio of 1:1. Veevaert said that figure was based on the early launch period of the hardware, and that a further run is expected in the days ahead. TOMORROW: Full interview with Jim Veevaert on Rare's launch titles and the coming of Xbox 360 Next-Gen

Perfect Dark Zero (Xbox 360 Review)

Yes the Nintendo 64 did have some very good games :P

Ya that video is like :P :P :P just have to wait to March 2006 before i get to play PDZ :(

Thats why u need the HD to play old XBox games :P

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Kameo Elements of Power X05 Trailer (QT - 6.60 MB) , (WM - 6.07 MB) One of the best looking games on XB360. X05 Cam Gameplay (QT - 34.8 MB) , (WM - 34.6 MB) Monsters and more monsters X05 Cam Gameplay HD (QT - 110 MB) , (WM - 101 MB) Monsters and more monsters Perfect Dark Zero X05 Multiplayer Cam (QT - 14.6 MB) , (WM - 15.5 MB) Duck and roll. X05 Multiplayer Cam HD (QT - 47.0 MB) , (WM - 45.8 MB) Duck and roll. X05 Cam Gameplay 3 (QT - 47.4 MB) , (WM - 49.5 MB) Just around the corner... X05 Cam Gameplay 3 HD (QT - 148 MB) , (WM - 145 MB) Just around the corner... Gametrailers

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Perfect Dark Zero (AND) PDZero Limited Edition brand new Movies X05 Cam Gameplay Video straight from X05 (QT - 29.5 MB) - (WM - 29.2 MB) X05 Trailer Operations control everything (QT - 5.5 MB) - (WM - 5.1 MB) X05 Cam Gameplay 2 Showdown at the parking garage (QT - 7.6 MB) - (WM - 7.5 MB) X05 Cam Gameplay 2 HD Showdown at the parking garage (QT - 26.8 MB) - (WM - 25.1 MB) X05 Cam Demo Take cover (QT - 29 MB) - (WM - 29.8 MB) X05 Cam Demo HD Take cover (QT - 89.9 MB) - (WM - 87.7 MB) X05 Cam Trailer 2 X05 presentation trailer (QT - 8.8 MB) - (WM - 9.1 MB) X05 Cam Trailer 2 HD X05 presentation trailer (QT - 27.4 MB) - (WM - 26.8 MB) GAMETRAILERS Click on the image below to take you to Prfect Dark Zero Microsite : web site Click on the image below to take you to Full Prfect Dark Zero : web site : FHM.com Interview What (virtual) dreams are made of... FHM chats to lithe, leather-clad agent JOANNA DARK When we peruse the honey CVs for prospective FHM shoots, we usually know pretty much what to expect. A year or so illuminating a grimy soap opera, maybe. Perhaps a couple of number one singles surrounded by a bevy of similarly fit mates. Usually gravity-defying, pendulous norks that prove beyond a doubt that God exists. So we were nothing if not impressed by the resumé of this month’s special cover star, Joanna Dark. No RADA-trained thespian antics for our lass, or weekly whittling down by smug no-marks on some prime time TV pop compo. No, Joanna’s spent the last few years schlepping around the world, first as a freelance bounty hunter and now as a Perfect Agent with the Carrington Institute, going toe-to-toe with the kind of scum the local police prefer to let slip under their radar. And (bear with us here) seeing as it’s the year 2020, she fills her spare time playing the odd, high-risk game of deathmatch – she’s a big fan of the Seattle Slayers – rock-climbing, parkour and grav boarding: a cross between surfing and skateboarding, only hovering slightly above the ground. And a bit more dangerous. But bless her, a life of bullet-dodging and taking down desperados doesn’t seem to have done much lasting damage, in fact quite the opposite, it’s left her pert, cute, and very, very bendy. As good credentials as any to qualify for an FHM shoot. Plus of course, as you can see, a couple of big guns that any man would like to get their hands on. So first up, what’s been your hairiest assignment to date? This photo shoot for sure! I had trouble hiding my flashbangs. And surrounded by men under all those lights, damn, I got so hot! At what age did you lose your virginity? You know the last man who asked me that question had to drink his food through a straw for six months. Let’s stick to business, okay… Er, sure. So talking of chaps, what do you look for in a man? Usually his weakest point – eyes, throat, groin. Cripes! How would you describe your fighting style? Keen. I’m always ready to go one-on-one. I like to improvise but I can play rough-and-ready too. Working these days as a spy, have you ever dabbled in any Mata Hari-style antics? Well, things are a little different in 2020, but poledancing lessons are standard training for all recruits these days. There was this one time where I had to infiltrate a Caribbean hideaway where they were holding an all-female beach volleyball tournament. One of the girls was there to take out the host, but we didn’t know which one. I had to get to know them personally, go undercover and… oops! I think I’ve said too much. That mission was probably classified. When you’re off killin’ do you select your undies for comfort, or for effect? You never know, you could get knocked down by a bus... …Or attacked by dropship or chased by jetpacks, yeah I know. With all the kit I have to carry, I find underwear gets in the way. I go commando. Brilliant! Describe your personal style for us… Dress to kill. So what sort of thing makes you grumpy? I don’t know… running out of ammo? Taking two shots to drop someone when one would do? Do you believe Elvis is still alive? Sure! He’s alive and singing with the aliens isn’t he? Wasn’t Roswell a failed attempt to abduct The King? The guy who first photographed Elvis took the photos of the alien autopsies, that’s no coincidence. What car do you drive? I used to drive a dataDyne G-Class, y’know the VTOL version with the dropfoils, but I lost it when I had to ram-raid my way into a target’s penthouse suite. No one ever called me subtle. I’m big into classic cars. Right now I’m driving a Porsche Carrera GT. Of course I’ve made a few modifications, but that’s classified. If you see me in the rear view mirror, get out of the way sharpish… What’s your favourite gadget? My locktopus – I take it everywhere with me. It’s great for picking locks and generally getting me in all sorts of trouble. Nice. What heat are you currently packing? My Magsec for comfort, but out of everything in my armoury, you can’t beat the Shockwave. It’s one hell of a rifle. It’s got an X-ray scope, from a click away you can see every last bone you’re about to break. Who’s the sexiest woman in the world? You’re looking at her! Okay, I’m kidding. But I’ve made the cover of FHM so I must be in with a chance! Finally, what’s your dog of choice? Why, you wanna be my bitch? Kinda. FHM

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