So much for a Day 1 release! Ages after everyone has finished playing Gears of War and Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties, we’re finally getting to see the retail copies roll out into shelves here. In an official press release sent out today, Microsoft India announced that copies of Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals Expansion, Flight Simulator X Expansion Pack, Viva Piñata (PC), Age of Empires III Gold (including AoE3 and The WarChiefs expansion), Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties and Gears of War for Windows will now be (finally!) available starting tomorrow.

Pity a lot of the people in India gave up waiting and bought their copies elsewhere.

The official pricelist:

Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals Expansion Pack - INR 1149
Flight Simulator X Acceleration Expansion Pack - INR 1649
Viva Piñata - INR 1649
Age of Empires III Gold - INR 1649
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties - INR 1149
Gears of War (PC) - INR 1649

Enjoy. That is, if you haven’t already!

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As we just announced some time back, during the Microsoft E3 Conference, a brand new Viva Pinata game will find its way on to the PC (and Xbox 360?) sometime later this year, we hope. Titled Party Animals, the game returns the player to the sandbox world in which cute little pinatas live, breed and (oh no) die even as we tend to this living garden of excessively sweet creatures. Although the game seems to be mini-game intensive and another attempt by MS to get more going out of the original’s success, it remains to be seen whether this can match up to the original’s charm.

Hit the jump for the streaming video / download.

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