Huge Arsenal Update - January 6 - Hitman
Better late that never. Well in this case, it might seem too late already. You may have noticed that our arsenal page has had incorrect info for quite some time. In fact, that page hadn't been updated forsince March 2000, which is was 10 months ago! That the info that you've been seeing was what was available two months prior to the Perfect Dark release, so a lot of it was guess work as you might imagine. Well now, the arsenal page has been totally revamped after extreme procrastination. Check it out and you'll find all new in-depth descriptions of every single weapon, every single function, and their strategic uses. In addition, we've got loads of weapon pictures to display. In fact, we have 81 weapon screenshots taken exclusively for updating this weapons page, so there are loads of images to set your eyes on. Right now, this weapon section is one of the most comprehensive that you'll find anywhere.

Aside for that, we've also got more exceptional reader-submitted mission walkthroughs to present you. Here is our fourth guide for War in perfect agent, and Tony Giordano willfully wrote us a gigantic and extremely detailed walkthrough for Carrington Defense in perfect agent. Thanks to yuri for writing us this massive walkthrough for the all guns cheat, and also to Alexander Golubow for writing us a comprehensive psychosis gun guide. This is some top quality work, so put it to good use.

Affiliate News
Our beloved affiliate PDark.com has written a feature that is worthy of your attention: Perfect Disappointment. After nine months of pbeing released, the flaws are really starting to surface. Sure, Perfect Dark is one of the best games of all time, but there still are some points that could be improvement, and features that didn't meet your expectations. PDark lays it all out, take a look.

SSB Fantasy World's new layout - January 5 - Rabbit Meat
A quick update to let you know that our hosted site, Super Smash Bros. Fantasy World, has a fantastic new layout. It's been months in the making and finally has been launched in the new year. Webmaster Gideon has made some great flash components and the whole site looks very professional. I've been giving him hints for a while on the layout before he launched it and made the background for him (god, I'm such an egomaniac to mention that :) so you can be sure that this layout is very eye pleasing. Enough of my mindless ramblings, just go and check it out for yourself.

Player's Choice / Million Seller - December 25 - Hitman
The Nintendo Player's Choice are rewarded to only the mos prestigious and best of games. And is Perfect Dark going to be counted as one? You bet. Perfect Dark has sold over a milestone 1 million copies, and has been given the honorary title. Starting tomorrow, Perfect Dark will be officially crowned its title, and will start selling for a low $39.95. The chances that any single game is chosen to get the title is unlikely, but we all expected it sooner or later for PD, and it came, just like as with Goldeneye. Perfect Dark was one of the five biggest titles of 1999-2000 to get this Official Player's Choice Award. For mor einfo on other games that received this title, go to Nintendo. All in all, we can see that Perfect Dark will live long as a classic game for the N64.

Ah yes, and how can I forget. On behalf of myself and everyone who has contributed to this site... Merry Christmas! Best wishes to all.

Perfect Dark World Championship - December 2 - Hitman
Lo and behold, there finally will be the presence of a widely publicized Perfect Dark competition. Twin Galaxies, "The Official Electronic Games Scoreboard", is holding this worldwide championship. The three top finishers will receive a grand prize of $400. It's coming soon. So... you claim you really are the best PD players around? Well I suggest you enter this tournament and see how you fair out and show off your skill, you might be surprised.

Nintensity.com grand opening - November 26 - Hitman
Straight from the makers of this very website, we present to you the new project that we are about to embark on - Nintensity.com, which is dedicated to all that is the Nintendo Gamecube. Perfect Dark news has really slowed to a stop, while information circling around the Nintendo Gamecube is really a growing strength. Daily updates is what we are aiming for over there, and the same style of high quality content will be present. This site comes up after a full month of hard work, and from what you can see, it is really kicking ass. From the makers of PD64.com, check out Nintensity.com for some top notch coverage of Nintendo's next-gen console, the Gamecube.

Fantasy World's new forums! - November 22 - Rabbit Meat
Our hosted site, Super Smash Bros. Fantasy World, they have gotten themselves some great new forums. We used to have a section for them at our own forums but seeing that they are a huge site they decided to get their own forums. So click here, go and sign up and have a great time!

Gideon (webmaster of SSBFW) has been working on a cool new layout for the site which will be launched very soon. I'll be sure to let you know when he gets the new layout up and running.

PD64.com's one year anniversary!! - November 19 - Hitman
This is a word from the webmaster and original founder of PD64. Wow, this day is a true milestone in the life of this site. Exactly one year ago today, on November 19 1999, I made this site's very first update. And boy, since then its been one hell of a wild ride. I'm getting teary eyed... actually no I'm not, but I'm feeling dman proud that I managed to build a small website out of the foundations of nothing at all into one of the largest and most visited Perfect Dark websites on the internet, that has survived a full year.

Here's short and sweet overview of everything that this site has been through in a year. In November of 1999, I just thought it'd be cool to get going on a website about something that realy did capture my interest, it would be by second site at the time, it it was just a hobby anyways. Build under the original name "Perfect Dark X", I can honestly say that it was utter crap. It got close to no hits, but over time, visitor numbers gradually increased and I got around to making almost-daily updates on it. In January, while the site was running about 100 hits a day, I purchased this excellent domain name "PD64.com", and this is when everything skyrocketed - our hit numbers, our quality of content, and our industry reputation/recognition. As the months passed, and the Perfect Dark release day drew closer and closer, the excitement of it all was really blew up, no longer a hobby, but more of an obligation to run everything. Some highlight moments were when I did receive contact from from a few Rareware staff members who were on the Perfect Dark team, namely Martin Hollis (Perfect Dark Lead designer) and Leigh Loveday (Rareware PR), trust me it was quite an honor. And through this pre-release time, our update frequency went crazy, check out our news archives and you'll notice that 76 updates were made for the month of May alone. It was during this time when PD64 was receiving upwards of 4000-5000 unique visitors a day. Post-release, we remained just as strong as a new staff was hired to additionally help out, and out third ever layout (the one you see now) was build from the ground up. By now, our reputation from gamers around was one of shear perfection in a website. We are proud to have the most complete mission and cheat guides of any PD website, over 150 walkthroughs in total. So, times went on has this site continued to be a major success. Through October, we hit two major breakthroughs. We got an honorary mention in EGM Magazine (Electronic Gaming Monthly, the most circulated gaming magazine in the US) and we reached out 1,000,000th visitor mark, which was a huge milestone that few gaming sites out there have attained. Even today, this site is still scoring nicely with well over a thousand visitors a day, our forums have hit the 25,000 post point, and our reputation has yet to die down.

Originally a mere hobby, it is amazing to see the pathway that this site has gone, to becomeing one of the largest, most visited, and most reputable Perfect Dark sites on the web. Though Perfect Dark might seem outdated at this point, there is no reason that this site should not continue. And here we are, one year after our original founding, still updating.

Perfect Head Uncovered - November 19 - Hitman
If you didn't know already, Perfect Dark was originally intended to have a face mapping feature where you could use the Game Boy Camera to take a picture of yourself, and then transfer it to you game cart so that you could use your own face on your own multiplayer character. Cool huh? this was one of the most anticipated features that PD had to offer. Then in February, it was announced that the feature would be cancelled do to its certain risk for negative media response which would hurt game sales (you'd be shooting and killing images of yout friends and family, damn Columbine). Generally speaking, when a feature in a game is cancelled, it is not totally deleted, but is merely disabled to minimize the amount of bugs that occur otherwise. "Perfect Head" was the original name of the face mapping menu, and a Gameshark hacker at our affiliate dataDyneHQ has hacked into the game and has oncovered it! You can't use it, but they've taken a good load of images of what 10 Perfect Head menues look like looks like. This is definitely a very cool discovery. See it for yourself.

RareNet - Alive! - November 18 - Gump
Yes, RareNet has returned and is fully operational with a brand new twist and look! Just as things were looking "dark" (no pun intended), the site returned out of the blue! Dan explains on the site that their webhosting company went out of business, and a foreign company bought RareNet.com. So to get it back, Dan paid them a nice amount of frogskins to get it back. Now, do Dan a favor and visit this marvelous site that we have all learned to love - RareNet!

Clues on the next Perfect Dark - November 17 - Hitman
News at last! And no, I am not dead, and neither is this site, though much (well... all) of my online time is now focused on building up to the grand opening of Nintensity.com. Anyways, on to the news...

Although there has been no confirmation of anything from Rare, I think we can be pretty much sure that Rare is hard at work on an Nintendo Gamecube sequel. Known already is that Rare have received their Dolphin development kits, they displayed an impressive 3D movie of Joanna Dark at SpaceWorld (hint hint), and on their official site they are they are recruiting programmers/game designers/graphic artists for a "Perfect Dark Counter Response Unit", I think we can contrue of of all this what Rare is busy on a new PD project. Previously there have been speculations that the PD sequel would be called "Velvet Dark" or "After Dark" because Rare has registered those domain names (velvetdark.com, afterdark.com). Now, IGN has discovered that Rare has also trademarked additional names, namely "Perfect Dark Evolution" and "Shot in the Dark". No doubt that one of these has the potential to be the final name of the game, though I really doubt it, the names sound a bit cheesy in my opinion, but anything is possible. As far as things are concerned, it seems as Rare is taking precautions to occupy any ideas that they com up with just in case they might have to use them later on. Well, the name is an uncertainty, but we can be reasonably sure about that secret project being developed behind the closed doors of Rare HQ, and thats something to be looking forward to.

RareNet - Dead?! - November 10 - Gump
I think I have found out the answer to our RareNet problem. Go to register.com, type in rarenet.com. Read the legal owners of the site: "Andrew Werbicki of Lappeenranta, Finland"?? If I'm not mistaken, a month ago that said Dan O. in Cali. I'm guessing that right as RareNet's two year domain registration expired, some Finland moron registered RareNet.com before Dan could for another two years. Thats just a guess though... more as it becomes available.

Happy birthday Hitman! - November 9 - Rabbit Meat
Today, November 9th, the owner and webmaster of this site celebrates his 16th birthday! What a great age...16...learners permit. Hitman is THE man behind PD64 and has designed the graphics and layout for this site, about 90% of the content and is a great guy to know. So a big happy birthday to Hitman on behalf of myself and the other staff at this site!

Nintensity forums open - October 31 - Hitman
Just as PD64 Forums breach the 25,000 post milestone, a new interactive force is now in full swing. Nintensity Forums have opened, and are leading off comforatbly with a foundation of over 3000 total posts so far. This is where all the action seems to have moved to, so register for the forums and join in the discussion at Nintensity. The forums are are the first part of Nintensity that will be opening, the web design is still in the works, but I can assure you that it that its mind-blowing. This will be no ordinary Gamecube site when it launches.

Rarenet? - October 30 - Gump
Quick update for everyone... remember that #1 Rare site on the internet called RareNet? If anyone has any information about the whereabouts of Dan and Trevor, , email me and let me know immediately. The site has been down for almost 2 months now and I need to know what is up with the site right now. If you've never heard of RareNet, the founders originally owned RareWare.com and sold it to Rare for free, gaining tons of respect and inside connections with the company, and so on. Well, let me know! Thanks guys.

Kick ass cable internet - October 28 - Hitman
After a huge one month wait, I finally got broadband! I'm connected by RCN Cable at an ultra fast 1500 kb/sec, and I just download a full song off Napster within 12 seconds! I feel almighty and powerful now... Well I'm paying for it all with my own money, $50 a month, but its well worth it. So, how will this affect this site? Well besides not being able to get off my ass to leave the computer, I can now use my fast upload power to bring you one big shitload of Perfect Dark mp3's. Soon enough, the music page will be filled to the brim. To all you inferior 56k-ers, I laugh in your face.

From the makers of PD64.com… NINTENSITY - October 27 - Hitman
PS2 seems to be breaking the big news as it was released today. But coming in a proximately one year is a bigger, badder console which will undoubtedly be something for us Nintendo enthusiasts to drool over. As you know, the Nintendo Gamecube is Nintendo’s next-gen gaming console. This crowning of Nintendo’s achievements will be huge. While I’m foaming out of my mouth just thinking of the video gaming capabilities that Gamecube will have to offer, I’m thinkin’ why not build a website? And here it is... Nintensity.com. Don’t you just love that name? Actually I’ve had the idea of starting a new Gamecube site for months already, but only now have I started to implement my plan. The Nintensity staff includes the three core PD64 staff members, who are myself, Rabbit Meat, and Gringle, plus three other highly qualified individuals whom you may know if you are a participant in PD64 forums, who are Perfect Shot, YankeeJTC, and FuzzyAl. Everything is being built up from the foundations of GameCubeGeneration. My ambitions are huge, bigger than what PD64 (which has already seen its millionth hit) has accomplished. I envision a day when Gamecube kicks the living shit out of PS2, and I envision a day when Nintensity becomes a mainstream name to hundreds of thousands of Gamecubers out there. Big plans in the works.

And what will happen to PD64? Don’t worry, PD64.com will NOT shut down. This site has been built so strong as such a quality resource, the forums are overflowing with new posts everyday, and we’re still getting about 1500 visitors a day, so there no reason to shut down, as PD64 is still a powerhouse. Sure its over half a year after the initial release of Perfect Dark, and the formally dense flow of news has totally gone dry, so don’t expect much PD news until any button codes are released, but do expect more content to be constantly added, the next thing on my agenda is to do a massive weapons page update. There still is a lot to offer and more to improve on over here.

So, expect PD64 to stay strong. And expect Nintensity to be a growing force.

PD64.com's honorary EGM Magazine mention - October 24 - Hitman
Head on over to the news stand and pick up the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly and flip to page 259 with all of the PD codes. And on the page, lo and behold is big mention of PD64.com in the column! hell yeah, I'm so damn proud right now. And EGM isn't just any unknown gaming magazine, its the most widely purchased gaming magazine in the US, which makes our mention oh so much more honorary to us. This is awesome, and its not just the boost of hit numbers after being exposed in context, its the honor of being recognized but the big guys at the very top of the gaming element. Its all in the latest EGM, so be sure to pick it up, and thanks to Jarred Trost of CC for pointing this out to me and making the scan. Well, here we are, still as PD64, still receiving daily hit numbers in the quadruple digits, and still going strong.

Quick tactic - October 24 - Hitman
Deadeye006 in the forums discovered a method to get infinite cloaking without the use of cheats. A very cool glitch and its technically not cheating, so use it to you advantage, expecially in King Of The Hill. The strategy is right here, check it out.

Firing range walkthrough - October 24 - Hitman
Alas, finally here. This is something that has dragged on forever, but I finally sat my ass down and HTML-ized the massive firing range guide that was sent to me. Sitting in my inbox for three weeks was a gigantic and fully complete firing range walkthrough written in its entirety by a faithful fan, Chris F. In fact his guide was so complete and so comprehensive that I basically throw out all of the other partial guides that were sent to me. Everything is covered, so check out our new firing range resource to test your skill meet the ultimate goal of obtaining all gold medals.

Happy 16^th, Gringle! - October 22 - Hitman
Actually, yesterday, the 21st of October, was his 16th birthday. He's honorary position at PD64 and large contributions to this site warrant a big front page congratulatory update. So, a big "Happy Birthday" to Gringle. Wow, a defining moment in anybody's life. Plus he can now get kicks from his new-found drivers license, very cool. Well he's celebrating his 16th birthday with paintball and strippers, is there any better way?

Perfect Dark hits Japan - October 18 - Hitman
Our first big PD-related news story in a long time. As you might know, Perfect Dark has been here in America for close to 6 months. June brought on the PD releases in South America, Australia, and Europe, but PD's unveiling ot the far east didn't come until now, as Nintendo rolls out their PD campaign in Japan.Unleashed is the official Japanese PD site. Remember that the the previous name for PD set for the Japan release was "Red & Black" because "Perfect Dark" didn't translate well, but negative responses from Jap fans pushed Nintendo to keep the game's original name for them, but the official site still has Red and Black written all over it, see for yourself. Some changes were made to PD so that it'd appeal to the people there (besides the red and black theme), Rare made Joanna Dark look a little more Asian as you can see in the screenshot above. So, PD finally hit Nintendo's origins, so you'd expect some true hype and fanfare going on over there. And how do you say Perfect Dark in Japanese?