During mid-summer, we spotted an Xbox 360 bundle on Canadian retailer Future Shop's website that included the Xbox 360 Premium console with Project Gotham Racing 3, three months Xbox Live Gold and 1250 market place points all for the same price as an Xbox 360 Premium.

The bundle never appeared in the U.S., which leads us to believe that the PGR3 bundle was an effort to correct for gains of the Canadian Dollar against the U.S. Dollar.

A revisit to Canadian e-tailers uncovers a new bundle available immediately on BestBuy.ca. The new Xbox 360 Premium keeps the same price and bundles in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and Xbox Live Arcade: Unplugged. Best Buy-owned Future Shop will sweeten the deal further this Friday by offering Splinter Cell: Double Agent for free on top of the new bundle as part of its upcoming sale.

Microsoft has made it very clear that it has no plans to drop the price of the Xbox 360 for the holiday season, but instead it may explore bundling options to make its package more enticing. With the Microsoft's competition launching a month from now , this could be the first blip on the radar for other Xbox 360 value-added bundles.