Blockbuster Canada just released their numbers for top ten video gamer rentals on the four major platforms and the newly released Shaun White Snowboard game is right in there on all platforms.
Number 6 on Playstation 3, number 10 on Playstation 2, number 6 on Xbox 360, and number 5 on Wii. Not too bad when you consider most of the game’s competition are shoot ’em up war games.
[Link: Canadian Press]
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See those blobs on the tip and tail of the snowboard? Those are weapons for “blowing away the competition” in the new Wii game Snowboard Riot from Hudson Entertainment.
Snowboard Riot is not your standard snowboarding game,” said Sabine Duvall, Vice President of Product Development at Hudson Entertainment. “A snowboarding game is a rush by itself, but when you add weapons, it becomes even more exciting. Add in online play for four people and you have the perfect game for both snowboarding and action-racing fans.”
The game looks terrible, but we saw some Oakley banners in some of the screen shots, so someone apparently thinks this thing will sell. And maybe it would be fun to shoot up the slopes. . . especially if there are freeskiers in the game.
[Link: Worth Playing]
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Oakley and Surfline.com have gotten together to create a free application for the Apple iPhone that brings Surfline’s surf report data to the iPhone for the first time.
Check swell direction. Monitor the weather. View a 2-day forecast. Get your daily mobile surf report for your favorite beaches – or search thousands of beaches around the world. And do it all from the comfort of your iPhone or iPod Touch. Download Surf Wallpapers. get the latest Surf News and read up on Oakley Team Rider bios. Every time. With the Oakley Surf Report powered by Surfline.
We’re downloading it now and will let you know how it works as soon as we can spend some time on it.
[Link: Surfline.com]
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We’re not big Final Fantasy video game fans so don’t really know how silly this sounds, but game publisher SquareEnix has just announced Final Fantasy VII: Snowboarding. It’s apparently as strange a mix to gamers as it is to us.
Japanese publishing powerhouse Square Enix has gone to every effort to make the most of its cherished Final Fantasy VII franchise in recent years, and none are more leftfield than the recently announced Final Fantasy VII: Snowboarding. . . The $3 mobile game is currently available to Japanese users on the DoCoMo network.
Guess video snowboarding is pretty big in Japan.
[Link: Causal Gaming]
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Former world champion snowboarder Chris Karol is bringing the Quantya electric motorcycle to America via his new website Shredelectric.
I have a long history in the action sports industry and I have worked with many cutting edged products throughout the years, but I have yet to be as excited as I am now about the electric motorcycles we are bringing into the U.S.,” said Chris Karol, CEO of Shredelectric.
The bikes cost more than $10k so go ahead and shred the rad, but don’t pat the dog.
[Link: Market Watch]
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We’ve been meaning to check in with Rick Alden for a tour of SkullCandy’s, Utah headquarters for a while now, but KarmaloopTV beat us to it so we don’t have to. And that’s the kind of work we like best.
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The next version of Activision’s Tony Hawk Pro Skater could ship with a new kind of controller thanks to the success of Guitar Hero, according to a story on Ars Technica.
“We believe that the extra year of development time and the opportunity for consumers to shake off franchise fatigue could contribute to better unit sales than the franchise (Tony Hawk) has enjoyed in recent years,” analyst Doug Creutz said while speaking to investors. “We also view it as highly likely that the game will include some sort of skateboard peripheral with all SKUs when it ships, given the massive success (and higher price points and profitability) of Activision Blizzard’s Guitar Hero franchise.”
At a certain point, you might as well just go outside and skateboard, right?
[Link: Ars Technica]
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Video gamers willing to shop at Target and spend five dollars more for Ubisoft’s Shaun White Snowboarding video game are going to get some pretty cool in-game extras including the Target Mountain Boarding area, according to a story on Gamespot.com.
Along with the mountain, which brings the total number of scalable slopes to five, those who purchase the Shaun White Snowboarding Target edition will gain access to bonus moves, characters, and scenery. Capping off the bundle, the Target edition will include Target Chalet, “the real-life mountainside home where Shaun and his fellow Target athletes hang out with friends and family at the annual Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado.”
Not really all that high a price to pay to support Shaun’s number one sponsor.
[Link: Game Spot]
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Did you miss us? Our Internet service provider had some trouble providing Internet service today and our site ended up down all day.
We send out a hearty “thanks guy” to Covad Communications Group. It only took their crack team of technicians seven hours to get their network back up. Amazing work.
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To launch their new “alternative sports” title Shaun White Snowboarding French Game-maker Ubisoft will spend $10 million in what Mediaweek is calling “nontraditional media buys” in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 16 game launch.
Anyone watching South Park’s first two episodes will find the game nearly impossible to miss. For the series premiere Oct. 8, Ubisoft bought out all of the ad inventory and will run three separate two-minute spots for its flagship Shaun White Snowboarding, Prince of Persia and Farcry 2 titles. The second episode will feature only ads for Shaun White Snowboarding.
They also have a string of appearances on ESPN’s shows all day on November 16 because what’s good for Shaun White is good for the X Games. Let just say this: we think Ubisoft is being tragically optimistic about how many copies of this game they’re going to sell.
[Link: Mediaweek]
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