XENDEX, a leading European mobile games developer, and I-play, Oberon Media´s publishing division and the world´s leading multi-platform casual games publisher, today announced the launch of Red Bull X-Fighters for iPhone and iPod Touch. The Red Bull X-Fighters freestyle motocross (FMX) series has established itself as the world´s leading FMX event which sees the best riders of the world pull off jaw-dropping tricks at heights of up to 40ft in the air. With Red Bull X-Fighters for iPhone and iPod Touch, gamers around the world can now experience the thrill and excitement of the series in the palm of their hands.
The game boasts 8 different locations and arenas, 64 levels, 20 gravity-defying stunts as well as various game modes that will keep fans of action sports and stunt games thrilled and excited for hours. The game puts you on center stage of …Â Details
Laird Hamilton is as tech savvy as surfers get. Here he looks at the shapes and materials that make boards great—what’s changed over the years, and what hasn’t:
With the advent of foam and fiberglass and now carbon fiber, surfboard design and technology have come a long way in the last 30 years. Some of the sports that benefited from that technology were obviously wind surfing and tow surfing.
For tow surfing, we changed the design of the boards. Normally in conventional prone surfing, to ride a giant wave you need a huge board. What we did was … Details
Team KTM UK ATV rider Paul Holmes took an emphatic hat-trick of race wins and the overall at round four of the 2009 Goldspeed EMX Quad European Championship in Latvia at the weekend.
With close to ten thousand spectators in attendance and creating an electric atmosphere at the spectacular Zelta Zirgs circuit as they basked in glorious sunshine and thirty degree heat, it was a fantastic meeting for KTM with riders taking eight of the top fifteen positions with five riders finishing in the top eight.
In a dominating display it was a text book weekend for Holmes as he set fastest time in qualifying, took the holeshot in all three motos and lead all but two of the thirty-five race laps in total, Holmes’ performance on the KTM 505 SX all the more amazing while riding with a badly injured wrist for the majority of the day…Â Details
KAHULUI – The animated “Kung Fu Panda,” the premiere of a film about a voyage to Lanai by young paddlers and live music by Na Hoku award winner Brother Noland will be offered Saturday night at Maui Community College.
The MauiFEST Hawai’i-MCC Drive-in Movie Theater series also will benefit the focus of the premiere movie, Hawaiian Canoe Club, which will receive a portion of pre-sold tickets.
Six movies will be shown:
* “Kung Fu Panda,” an Academy Award nominee for best animation of the year, features the voices of Jack Black, Jackie Chan and Angelina Jolie. The movie is about Po, a lazy, irreverent slacker panda who is a fan of kung fu. He is chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy under the leadership of kung fu guru Shifu.