Rumor: Snowboarding game coming to XBLA
by Terrence Stasse 
{ Mar 29th 2008 at 10:30AM }
The GameTap service is known for their subscription-based, unlimited game access, style of content. When you think of them, announcements of XBLA games from Scandinavian devs is not what comes to mind. Still that is exactly the case here, with the dev being Housemarque (creators of the PSN title Super StarDust HD) and the game being an "unnamed XBLA sports title." Now if those devs or the writer of the article truly knew how crazy we on the tubes are, they would have known not even to give that tidbit of news. As a check into the background of the company will reveal, the only genre of sports title that they've ever done before is snowboarding, bringing out Transworld Snowboarding for Xbox and Boarder Zone for the PC. And while their are a few rumblings that Housemarque is working on a golf game (and that is of course entirely possible) it seems likely given the company's past experience that XBLA is going to be getting it's first "extreme sports" game.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brian @ Mar 29th 2008 10:49AM
anyone else feel that amped 3 should have had multiplayer? ...... amped 2 was awesome online..... bleh
mirage @ Mar 29th 2008 11:37AM
Yes Amped 3 should have had online!!
As for the topic on hand, Transworld Snow Boarding is my favorite snowboarding game evar!!! It was not very successful for some reason but it blew Amped away! If they could bring that style of gameplay to the XBLA than it would be a must buy for me!!!
(This must be read in your best Randy "Macho Man" Savage voice for full effect!)
Axlcinema @ Mar 29th 2008 12:33PM
Ya i remember supreme snowboarding/ boarder zone by these guys, what an amazing game. Unfortunatly never got to plan Transworld because i never owned 1st xbox (mistake). but i cant wait for their next release.
Jayu @ Mar 29th 2008 12:59PM
/me wants X-Games Pro Boarder!
violenceinhd @ Mar 29th 2008 2:04PM
there, not their.
Deck @ Mar 29th 2008 2:20PM
Would love an online snowboarding game for the 360. They were always fun! Snowboarding games that is. 1080 ftw! Too bad we wont see that on XBLA :-p
todd @ Mar 29th 2008 2:57PM
ssx online would be cool, but with the limits how good can it be?
ryan @ Mar 29th 2008 4:02PM
BoarderZone was most awesome. Great sense of speed and freedom on the slopes without making things too unrealistic. I look forward to any kind of a follow-up: retail or XBLA
George Arauz @ Mar 29th 2008 7:57PM
Please no.. all snowboarding games have sucked..
Granteezy @ Mar 29th 2008 7:10PM
I would buy an xbla snowboard game in a heartbeat.
AoE @ Mar 30th 2008 9:44PM
Wow, really? This is excellent! Transworld was one of my favorite games on the original xbox, but since a sequel never came, and Housemarque didn't release another snowboarding title, I was afraid they'd moved on from the genre. This is good news indeed!