Extreme sports video games have a long and storied history, culminating with the first Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater in 1999, which ramped the genre to superstar status. As we’ve seen, nearly every game in this series has predecessors, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater is no different. …Â Details
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And now, the best use of a BlackBerry Storm I have seen to date: Lewis Hamilton, the British Formula One driver, appears in a YouTube video controlling his F1 car remotely with Research in Motion’s touchscreen smartphone.
Here’s the backstory: A couple of Vodafone subscribers in the UK hacked a BlackBerry Storm to race a toy R/C F1 car around a homemade track. That’s what appears in the first minute or so of the video. The Storm’s built-in accelerometer lets them steer the car by tiling the phone back and forth, while acceleration and braking is controlled with buttons on the phone’s touch screen, according to Autoblog.
Once word got out and Team McLaren heard about it, they invited the fellows to the McLaren Mercedes garage, where they adapted the control system to a real F1 car…Â Details
Stoked is the fist snowboarding game to give a choice of how the gamer’s personal character can ride…Â Details
Planned for release later this month, so get those fingers warmed up. The game is supposed to have 10 play modes, 13 tricks and you’ll be able to drop in as Bucky Lasek or Omar Hassan…… yes!  More details as they become available.
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